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I love unboxing sweet, delicious monitors, and when Samsung Display

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offered to sponsor this unboxing of the Odyssey OLED G8, I couldn't say no. It's

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a 27 in 4K panel, which means that you

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are getting a whopping 160 plus PPI. I

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think it's around 163 or so, and that kind of pixel density is absolutely

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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

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don't think I've ever been this distracted by uh an HDMI cable, but this

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one's nice. And we've got part of our power brick. My only complaint is this

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isn't grounded. It's twoprong. Also an DP cable. We've got the bottom part of

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our stand, which is a nice aluminum silver stand. Should match most of your

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decor. Then we've got the other part of our stand. I was actually pretty stumped

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on this. They say to put it in sideways, push it down, and then lock it. And you

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know, it was a little painful to figure out, but now that I've got it, I actually really like that. I mean, it

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feels sturdy enough still. And then if you want to take it off, you just press

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on that button that says push, twist it, and take it off. We're going to do the

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old click, clack, and pull it out. Every one of these

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displays, they always claim like, oh, it's so thin. It's laser thin. It's It's

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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,

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and it's like genuinely thin. This genuinely

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looks like probably one of the sleekst um side profile monitors I've ever seen.

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swivel to

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Oh, can it pivot? So, if there's ever a point where you

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need a 4K 240 Hz 27 in QD OLED display

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and you need it to go vertical cuz you're just that spoiled, you can do it.

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As for our IO, we've got our power port here, DisplayPort, couple of HDMI,

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headphone jack, USBA, USB, and then one

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more USBA service port. One more quick note before I turn it on is uh this is

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not a traditional glossy QD OLED. It's actually got a really solid anti-glare

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coating on it. We've got studio lights cranked right at this thing and there's

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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

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instantly detected. Didn't have to actually adjust that with our HDMI 2.1

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cable. Um and then we did have to turn on HDR. That's easy enough. It's

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reporting 400 nits in Windows, but I know that this guy out of the box has an

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eco mode, and you're going to want to turn that off. There's a lot of modes.

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You probably just want original. I'm going to turn contrast enhancer from

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high down to off. I personally actually like low contrast enhancer. I like I've

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seen it on a lot of other Samsung uh display products and I'm a fan of it.

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However, it does reduce color accuracy just a little bit and throws off the PQ

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EOTF curve. So, if you are a stickler for having that be perfect and correct,

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then just set it to straight off. Um HDR tone mapping standard. Sure. Color tone

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warm one. Sure, sure. Sure. Sure. Sure. Peak brightness. Now, here, if you set

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it to high, I know that the whole screen just got dimmer, but what it's going to

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let you do is it's going to let you hit these like 1,000 nits uh peaks of like

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little pin pricks of brightness, and it looks fantastic with proper HDR content

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displayed. This is what I'm talking about. This HDR footage looks absolutely

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stunning. Not just because we shot it ourselves, but because it's displaying

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on such a color accurate monitor. Um, my only complaint now that it's turned on

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and I can kind of see it is the bezel around the edge. It's a little thick,

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but you can still get the same panel in a completely different monitor with

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different housing. Oh man, just as for HDR color accuracy, it's just solid.

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Absolutely beautiful. And that pixel density,

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it's not a massive improvement over the

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32-in 4K monitor I have at home, but 20 extra PPI is still really good. One

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thing Samsung Display actually wanted me to bring up was the fact that there's

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not another 4K 27 in nonQu display. You

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can get uh W OLEDs in 32-in 4K, but

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they're not going to hit the same pixel density. So, this is kind of it. QD OLED

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has continued to evolve a lot over the past 3 years, and new products have been

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coming out pretty consistently, both in terms of the lineup and technology.

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Okay, for the anti-glare coating, here's our light source. It's pretty bright.

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Like, yes. Okay, sure. in this blue sky. I can see it there. But like that's with

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it right up close. As soon as you take it far away, it's pretty diffused. It's

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vaser rated for HDR true black 400, which is pretty standard these days. Uh

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what I want to see though is their fancy clear MR rating because OLEDs in general

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have such fast like lightning fast 03

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millisecond greater gray pixel response times that uh this thing just maxes out

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Vasa's clear MR rating. Uh so I got to see it in action. This looks absolutely

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phenomenal. And uh one of the best parts is that not only are you going to be

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running at 240 Hz, but the latency is

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really impressive. Uh we've been testing, you know, pretty good latency

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on most of the monitors we've been running through the lab lately. Um but this one is similar to others in that

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it's close to perfect. You're only getting uh you know, like 04 or.5

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milliseconds at 240 Hz and then it's something similar when you go down to

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120. So, even if you're using this with a console, it's going to just absolutely

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kill it. And you're not going to have any kind of latency holding you back.

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And then when you whip, the nice thing about that Vasa clear rating is that

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it's such a good indicator for how quickly your pixels are going to clear up. Like, it's just instant. Like, you

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whip and it's just boom, image is there. If you screw up, it's on you. Entirely

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on you. Once you have a monitor like this, you can't blame the hardware

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anymore. Remember that color accuracy I was talking about before? Well, that's

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mostly thanks to using a top emissive

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system with the big blue emitting layer on the bottom and then a layer of

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quantum dots above that. So, you're just pushing light through the quantum dots

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to get the colors you want. With W OLED, when you want to boost brightness,

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you've got to add this white sub pixel. So, not only is that going to change the

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sub pixel layout, but it's also going to wash out the color a little bit. Don't

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get me wrong, W OLED still looks very good. I'm not trying to disparage it,

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but there's just kind of something special that I personally love about Qie

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OLED. Uh there are trade-offs like the black levels being raised a little bit

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when you've got lights actually directed to the display. Luckily for me, I pretty

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much game in a cave and so that's never an issue. But obviously everyone's use

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case is going to be a little different. And while this thing is a gaming beast,

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it's not just about that. When it comes to color accuracy, I wasn't kidding.

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This thing is pretty impressive. It's not the most amazing SDR results I've

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ever seen, but at a delta E2000 average of 1.84, it's solid. and it is very

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easily adjustable to make that even more accurate if you're looking to tinker

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past just setting it to original picture mode. And then for HDR color accuracy

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measuring delta EITP, we're getting about 4.38, which is very good. And as

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long as you don't enable the contrast enhancer, which again I'm not fully

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against the feature, um it's going to have just almost perfect tracking. That

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color accuracy is good enough for just about any professional use case. And

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this high color volume and high color accuracy is thanks basically to Samsung

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Displays QD OLED panels. They're fantastic. I'm a big fan. The first time

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I ever saw them, I was just blown away. As for the price, it is a little

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expensive. This one specifically at $1,300, but you do get that really sick

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liquid cooling system. However, Samsung Display doesn't particularly care which

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model you buy as long as you're buying one of their QD OLED panels, and you can

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find them for less through multiple other manufacturers. What a beautiful

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panel. Thanks so much to Samsung Display for sponsoring this video. I'm PLO.