{"video_id":"tURZaUyUoOM","title":"I Once Caught a Monitor THIS BIG - Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 Showcase","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":724,"segments":[{"start_s":5.04,"end_s":10.72,"text":"an odyssey neo g9 she's a beaut","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.24,"end_s":19.6,"text":"if the samsung odyssey g9 is the mother of all gaming monitors than this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.64,"end_s":24.48,"text":"this right here is her grandma this is the odyssey neo g9 and samsung","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.88,"end_s":29.359,"text":"sponsored this video where we're gonna be taking it for a test drive it's got","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.359,"end_s":35.12,"text":"everything that you liked about the original odyssey g9 it's got a 240hz","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.64,"end_s":42.079,"text":"refresh rate high resolution g-sync freesync compatible 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seems to have taken a bit of a hey if it ain't broke don't fix it approach here that's why we're seeing the same aggressive 1000 r curve i mean look how freaking curved this thing it's absolutely incredible the same rated one millisecond response time and the same 5120 by 1440 resolution that's a great balance between being dense enough that you're not going to see individual pixels sticking out like a sore thumb but also somewhat reasonable to drive with a modern graphics card though you will be treating yourself to a 30 70 or greater in order to properly power this thing probably 30 80. but hey you treated yourself to uh to a neo g9 so you can handle it oh love the screws are already pre-threaded into the holes for me that's really nice whoops okay that setup process really wasn't that involved other than don't take the panel out of the box until you've attached the stand to it see you later box oh i forgot how heavy this boy was oh i mean everything's in here 49 inch display mini led backlight the power supply is internal it's just a lot of gear in there actually before we move around to the front the cosmetic ring is the same but the RGB lighting at the back can now synchronize with what's being displayed on screen so it can actually kind of put a glow on the wall behind the monitor that reflects what's happening in the game which is kind of cool if you're into that sort of thing also before we turn it around i feel we did a bit of a disservice just talking about the mini led upgrade because we've got displayport 1.4 that we already had that's how we run 240 hertz 5120 by 1440 with display stream compression but also now we've got HDMI 2.1 now i actually don't know from samsung's materials if we're going to be able to run full resolution with a single HDMI link but we're certainly going to try it it's also got a built-in usb 3 hub and that's about it so let's go ahead and get all that stuff plugged in cable managed cable management's pretty slick got your headphone hanger back here as well boop a little something like that although this thing is so big i don't know that i would want to reach around behind it to get at my headphones just like that love it just be careful with the cable management right because this is a height adjustable monitor so you don't want to have too much tension on these because you might end up pulling the the plugs out and with a locking connector like displayport there is the potential that you could damage your cable or the socket whoops oh my goodness it's so wide right out of the gate it fired up then but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's running optimally so if we go into our not that display settings we can see that we're actually running at only 144 hertz i don't quite know why that is yet but i promise you i will figure it out if i had to guess i would say it's because the HDMI connection is what got picked up first it's got a nipple style navigation for the menu so we're just going to go into our sources here i definitely prefer this and you can see yep it picked up our HDMI link first so it looks like that might be limited to 144 hertz still respectable but displayport is going to be a better experience i know why i didn't plug dp in on the other side uh there it is it has picture in picture and picture by picture well how handy is that so many desktop monitors don't support that anymore i can see why they do it because you could totally just have your desktop over here and then have your laptop set to another input or something like that and you know just have them have use it as two monitors it's not its wheelhouse that's not the best possible use of a display of this caliber but it's definitely there oh well there's a refresh rate toggle in the menu i can see why they would default it to 120 though because you have to have a graphics card that supports display stream compression in order to run it at 240. oh oh yeah i'm just going to unplug that HDMI cable it got confused again beautiful oh silky smooth of course that's not new let's talk mini led in the original odyssey g9 they had 10 local dimming zones which means that whenever you were moving around a bright object on a dark background say for example a mouse cursor you would see enormous halos around it and they were particularly noticeable when you were viewing them off axis now they have ramped that up to 2048 zones you are still going to see some bloom that's the cold hard truth but unlike the previous generation model now it's only going to be applicable to something like an edge case where you've got oh i don't know a black ms paint window and you're moving a white icon around on it compared to before when it was actually noticeable in content actually you know what the off axis performance is not bad either it's better horizontally than it is vertically but given that you'll normally be sitting in front of it like this i i can see why they would have tuned it that way you know what we should do we got to turn off the studio lights yeah let's let's kill them no no we're trying to make it look bad right now here comes a worst case scenario i know i know it's sponsored by samsung but people got to know what they're buying so yeah okay perfect so what you can also see here is that there's a bit of a trail behind it so you can actually see how they've tuned the reactivity of the individual zones so it's fast but it's not instantaneous this is an absolutely worst case scenario tiny white dot moving around on a black screen but people should know what they're getting that being said though you can really see the difference samsung's new panel makes on the neo g9 when you put it next to an edge lit panel like this one straight on from a reasonable viewing distance it's much harder to make out that's pretty impressive no andy i'm fairly certain that that is the dumbest idea ever he's like hey you know what be a good use case for this monitor you game on half of it and then you make the other half just white and then you don't have to get a light for your streaming that's it it would work no i do not accept it he's not serious you guys and he knows better than that man this monitor has so much dynamic range that honestly i feel like when the game plays around and makes the scene respond kind of like your eye would so if you look up at the sky this all kind of goes too dark it feels unnecessary it feels like i could just let my eye do the responding and the monitor could display pretty much all of it now a big contributor to the improvement in image quality over the last generation auto cg9 is that even though samsung doesn't have a certification to back this up they're rating the new neo g9 at 2 000 nits that is double what they rated the original g9 at and while it isn't basa certified it is vde or verbran deutscher electrotechnica institute certified so this contributes not just to greater brightness but when combined with quantum dot color this should create greater color volume than last year's model as well plus with all the local dimming zones you can see very clearly once we're looking at actual content you don't see them anymore like if we have a mouse cursor sure it's noticeable not in actual gameplay now this is a game that looks absolutely fantastic in HDR oh sorry sorry sorry sorry like is that not fantastic racing games we already did a video with the last gen one just showing what an amazing racing game experience you have with a monitor like this but the immersion is just incredible like when you're sitting a reasonable distance from it it's hard for me to host the video from here just because it reflects all the sound back at me but when you're sitting a reasonable distance from it it takes up probably a solid 80 percent of your field of view there's nothing short of going to a head-mounted display that is going to achieve that the way this does and then you don't get the resolution like it's very screen door effects still by these standards HDR is definitely working but do maternal yeah default resolution of like 640x480 not gonna look great on a display like this oh boy here we go got some performance metrics at least we got lots of FPS's hey hey that's more like it oh man this is yup very noticeably HDR for a gritty like ugly brown game it's like really pretty oh look at this that looks freaking awesome compared to the last generation odyssey g9 it's not like this is a complete game changer they both offer an outstanding HDR experience 240 hertz um essentially half of 5k right like it's 5k but it's mega ultra wide so if you already have one of those it's not like you're going to swap it out for this but if you're in the market for an immersive gaming monitor this one's got all the bells all the whistles all the kitchen sinks all those things that people want in their products for whatever reason why do people want bells whistles and kitchen sinks it's weird and you'll find the link for it down below thanks again for watching thanks to samsung for sponsoring this video and thanks to LTT Store for just having such outstanding merchandise at such fair prices who else but LTT Store would bring you a quality product like this one it's part of the racing experience"}