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4k ultra 1 4k 4k

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how do you decide between 4k and ultrawide why not both

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introducing the lg 5k ultrawide

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historically there have been mostly two

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different pixel counts for ultra wide monitors

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2560x1080 which takes your standard 16x9

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1080p monitor and stretches it by a

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third and 3440 by 1440 which does the

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same thing to a wqhd monitor both of

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them have an aspect ratio of 21x9

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except it's not actually 21x9 it's more like

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21 and a third by nine so

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64 by 27 but i guess that didn't sound

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as sexy on the marketing materials and also i guess it's easier for people to

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understand 21 by nine since most people are pretty familiar with how 16x9 looks

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so that means that visualizing 21x9

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isn't as much of an uh stretch of the imagination as calling it

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seven by three would have been anyway none of that is the point all of that

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stuff pales in comparison to the beast that we've got today

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this ladies and gentlemen is lg's 34

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wk95 uw i think the wk is for work like

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work in it because this thing boasts over 11 million pixels that are so close

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to each other that if you tried to pass your body between them you would have to

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go through one cell at a time it is a

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lot of pixels and yet lg still doesn't call this resolution 5k they call it

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5k 2k because they already make a 5k

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monitor which has 3 million more pixels all in the vertical direction

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so ima cho even though there are 5 000 horizontal pixels here really this

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is more like a 4k ultra wide something that we've never seen before and a true

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5k ultra wide should have a resolution of something like

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6820x2880 but let's not get ahead of ourselves here because 5k 2k is plenty

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sweet as it is its pixel density of 163

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pixels per inch is almost exactly the same as a 27 inch 4k monitor putting it at

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apple retina levels from a reasonable viewing distance of 21 inches which

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means you will be blown away by the crazy sharp text assuming that is that

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your pc can actually drive this many pixels

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so if you're plugging the monitor into the displayport port man i wish they had

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come up with a different name for that on your 10 series NVIDIA or rx 400

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series or newer AMD graphics card then you are

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golden if you're relying on the HDMI 2.0 ports

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then you are basically sol you'll be capped at 3440 by 1440

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since even though 3840x2160

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is available you can select it that is a 16x9 aspect ratio meaning it is

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squishville so say no to HDMI

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as for if you're using the Thunderbolt 3 port probably on your laptop that's

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where things get really interesting because when we reviewed the lg 5k ultra fine we

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learned that while it worked perfectly at full resolution with our 2016 macbook

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we could only get about four and a half of those k's on a Windows machine the

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reason was that the available Thunderbolt 3 chipsets at that time only

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supported displayport 1.2 which doesn't

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have nearly enough bandwidth for 5k at 60 hertz it only worked on the macbook

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because apple cleverly used the capacity from the chipsets of two side-by-side

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ports to push all those pixels through but that changed ostensibly in early

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2018 when Intel released a new Thunderbolt 3 chipset called titan ridge

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that supports displayport 1.4 which can

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handle full 5k at 60hz or even 8k at

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30hz off of a single port so uh okay

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that's great Linus how do i know if i have a titan ridge

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good question if you want a one cord solution to

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connect your laptop to an external display and potentially even charge it

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at the same time what you need is both a

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2018 model laptop that has the new titan ridge Thunderbolt 3 implementation you

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can check with your manufacturer to find that out and a discrete GPU since titan ridge

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isn't designed to work with Intel's integrated graphics

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and even if you have all that there's still no guarantee that it will

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charge your laptop so if you're a Windows user and a one

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cable laptop docking feature is a big focus for you

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be sure that you've got a compatible machine or you will be disappointed oh

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and by the way you can wipe that smug latte mustache

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smirk off your face's 2018 macbook users because currently mojave has a bug

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preventing this monitor from working properly for you too

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the good news is that once these little details are ironed out

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this thing will not disappoint its color accuracy is fantastic out of the box we

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measured color differences that were on average indistinguishable to the human

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eye despite this not being a 10 bit panel thanks in part to lg's nano cell

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tech which if you're not familiar works on a similar principle to quantum dot

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but kind of the opposite so it filters out all the colors except the intended

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rg and b and its HDR capabilities are what i

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would describe as not bad

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now bear in mind that the 34 wk95 uw

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only manages a peak brightness of 600 nits while 1 000 nits is required

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imo for a true okay this makes a really

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big difference HDR experience but at the very least it does sport the

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new vasa display HDR 600 certification

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which demands 90 coverage of the dci p3

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gamut a threshold that it crosses with ease the biggest deficiency with this

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panel at least on our particular unit was

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uniformity though and it was worst along the left edge and in the corners which

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are a little darker than the rest of the display and you could also make the

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argument that given the 1500 price tag the looks of the monitor are

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clean but a little less premium than they could be

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with that said though personally i'd rather my money went towards a better

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panel and backlight solution than fancy casing for the most part anyway

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so bottom line should you buy this monitor

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i guess that depends on who you are if you're a gamer

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you're gonna find this thing pretty hard to drive like especially in triple a

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titles and i would strongly recommend a higher refresh rate lower resolution

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alternative but if you specifically want large format

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and very high resolution the 34 wk95 uw really is a best of both

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world solution that does a reasonable job of justifying its 1500 price tag so

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go for it because the rest of the really big computer displays out there are 4k

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and even though they have a lot of pixels at this kind of size

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4k won't be nearly as sharp as this and

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for my part anyway i prefer the ultra wide aspect ratio it's kind of like

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