I love unboxing sweet, delicious monitors, and when Samsung Display
offered to sponsor this unboxing of the Odyssey OLED G8, I couldn't say no. It's
a 27 in 4K panel, which means that you
are getting a whopping 160 plus PPI. I
think it's around 163 or so, and that kind of pixel density is absolutely
stunning. What have we got in the box? This is actually a really nice HDMI cable. Ultra high speed, so it's 2.1. I
don't think I've ever been this distracted by uh an HDMI cable, but this
one's nice. And we've got part of our power brick. My only complaint is this
isn't grounded. It's twoprong. Also an DP cable. We've got the bottom part of
our stand, which is a nice aluminum silver stand. Should match most of your
decor. Then we've got the other part of our stand. I was actually pretty stumped
on this. They say to put it in sideways, push it down, and then lock it. And you
know, it was a little painful to figure out, but now that I've got it, I actually really like that. I mean, it
feels sturdy enough still. And then if you want to take it off, you just press
on that button that says push, twist it, and take it off. We're going to do the
old click, clack, and pull it out. Every one of these
displays, they always claim like, oh, it's so thin. It's laser thin. It's It's
so thin. You're not going to believe how thin this thing is. And then it's got like this giant control box on the back,
and it's like genuinely thin. This genuinely
looks like probably one of the sleekst um side profile monitors I've ever seen.
swivel to
Oh, can it pivot? So, if there's ever a point where you
need a 4K 240 Hz 27 in QD OLED display
and you need it to go vertical cuz you're just that spoiled, you can do it.
As for our IO, we've got our power port here, DisplayPort, couple of HDMI,
headphone jack, USBA, USB, and then one
more USBA service port. One more quick note before I turn it on is uh this is
not a traditional glossy QD OLED. It's actually got a really solid anti-glare
coating on it. We've got studio lights cranked right at this thing and there's
like zero glare. So, let's see what it's like when it's turned on. All right, that was easy. We've got uh 240 Hz
instantly detected. Didn't have to actually adjust that with our HDMI 2.1
cable. Um and then we did have to turn on HDR. That's easy enough. It's
reporting 400 nits in Windows, but I know that this guy out of the box has an
eco mode, and you're going to want to turn that off. There's a lot of modes.
You probably just want original. I'm going to turn contrast enhancer from
high down to off. I personally actually like low contrast enhancer. I like I've
seen it on a lot of other Samsung uh display products and I'm a fan of it.
However, it does reduce color accuracy just a little bit and throws off the PQ
EOTF curve. So, if you are a stickler for having that be perfect and correct,
then just set it to straight off. Um HDR tone mapping standard. Sure. Color tone
warm one. Sure, sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Peak brightness. Now, here, if you set
it to high, I know that the whole screen just got dimmer, but what it's going to
let you do is it's going to let you hit these like 1,000 nits uh peaks of like
little pin pricks of brightness, and it looks fantastic with proper HDR content
displayed. This is what I'm talking about. This HDR footage looks absolutely
stunning. Not just because we shot it ourselves, but because it's displaying
on such a color accurate monitor. Um, my only complaint now that it's turned on
and I can kind of see it is the bezel around the edge. It's a little thick,
but you can still get the same panel in a completely different monitor with
different housing. Oh man, just as for HDR color accuracy, it's just solid.
Absolutely beautiful. And that pixel density,
it's not a massive improvement over the
32-in 4K monitor I have at home, but 20 extra PPI is still really good. One
thing Samsung Display actually wanted me to bring up was the fact that there's
not another 4K 27 in nonQu display. You
can get uh W OLEDs in 32-in 4K, but
they're not going to hit the same pixel density. So, this is kind of it. QD OLED
has continued to evolve a lot over the past 3 years, and new products have been
coming out pretty consistently, both in terms of the lineup and technology.
Okay, for the anti-glare coating, here's our light source. It's pretty bright.
Like, yes. Okay, sure. in this blue sky. I can see it there. But like that's with
it right up close. As soon as you take it far away, it's pretty diffused. It's
vaser rated for HDR true black 400, which is pretty standard these days. Uh
what I want to see though is their fancy clear MR rating because OLEDs in general
have such fast like lightning fast 03
millisecond greater gray pixel response times that uh this thing just maxes out
Vasa's clear MR rating. Uh so I got to see it in action. This looks absolutely
phenomenal. And uh one of the best parts is that not only are you going to be
running at 240 Hz, but the latency is
really impressive. Uh we've been testing, you know, pretty good latency
on most of the monitors we've been running through the lab lately. Um but this one is similar to others in that
it's close to perfect. You're only getting uh you know, like 04 or.5
milliseconds at 240 Hz and then it's something similar when you go down to
120. So, even if you're using this with a console, it's going to just absolutely
kill it. And you're not going to have any kind of latency holding you back.
And then when you whip, the nice thing about that Vasa clear rating is that
it's such a good indicator for how quickly your pixels are going to clear up. Like, it's just instant. Like, you
whip and it's just boom, image is there. If you screw up, it's on you. Entirely
on you. Once you have a monitor like this, you can't blame the hardware
anymore. Remember that color accuracy I was talking about before? Well, that's
mostly thanks to using a top emissive
system with the big blue emitting layer on the bottom and then a layer of
quantum dots above that. So, you're just pushing light through the quantum dots
to get the colors you want. With W OLED, when you want to boost brightness,
you've got to add this white sub pixel. So, not only is that going to change the
sub pixel layout, but it's also going to wash out the color a little bit. Don't
get me wrong, W OLED still looks very good. I'm not trying to disparage it,
but there's just kind of something special that I personally love about Qie
OLED. Uh there are trade-offs like the black levels being raised a little bit
when you've got lights actually directed to the display. Luckily for me, I pretty
much game in a cave and so that's never an issue. But obviously everyone's use
case is going to be a little different. And while this thing is a gaming beast,
it's not just about that. When it comes to color accuracy, I wasn't kidding.
This thing is pretty impressive. It's not the most amazing SDR results I've
ever seen, but at a delta E2000 average of 1.84, it's solid. and it is very
easily adjustable to make that even more accurate if you're looking to tinker
past just setting it to original picture mode. And then for HDR color accuracy
measuring delta EITP, we're getting about 4.38, which is very good. And as
long as you don't enable the contrast enhancer, which again I'm not fully
against the feature, um it's going to have just almost perfect tracking. That
color accuracy is good enough for just about any professional use case. And
this high color volume and high color accuracy is thanks basically to Samsung
Displays QD OLED panels. They're fantastic. I'm a big fan. The first time
I ever saw them, I was just blown away. As for the price, it is a little
expensive. This one specifically at $1,300, but you do get that really sick
liquid cooling system. However, Samsung Display doesn't particularly care which
model you buy as long as you're buying one of their QD OLED panels, and you can
find them for less through multiple other manufacturers. What a beautiful
panel. Thanks so much to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. I'm PLO.