our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by the dbrand grip and prism screen
protector you can check them out at the link in the video description so we're
here in the lg booth where they actually downplayed the kind of monitor stuff
they were showing off they were like oh yeah i don't really know if we have that much this year but some of this stuff
even though it's iterative improvements is actually
a big difference over what we've seen before so first of all we've got the
ultra wide monitor curve 49 wl95c
it's a lot cooler than it sounds so just like samsung's recent 49 inch
very very wide what are these like 32 by nine aspect ratio yeah 32 by nine aspect
ratio display it's really really wide it's curved and
it's optimized for kind of a combination i guess of productivity and or super
immersive gaming but unlike samsung's instead of being
limited to a 1080 vertical resolution
which means that the entire image looked kind of grainy lg has gone one better
and they've delivered a 5120 by
1440 resolution on this thing so the image is much much finer now this means
for gamers you're going to have a pretty hard time driving it because this is
effectively kind of a shortened 5k
monitor but frankly you won't be worried about that
anyway because it only runs at 60 hertz
but there's good news over here oh i was gonna walk out of the frame but
sure we can work with this this is the 38 gl 950 g and this is a whole other
ball of wax now i had given lg a hard time in the past for selling gaming
monitors that didn't have support for NVIDIA's g-sync and here they are their
timing's impeccable right as NVIDIA announced that regular adaptive sync
displays can run g-sync now lg's here with the g-sync module in
their monitor but that's not to say that having a g-sync module is pointless even
now because it means that you've got a very very wide variable refresh rate
window it means you've got support for adaptive pixel overdrive so you're not
going to get more or less smearing depending on the refresh rate of the
display and in this case it means because they're using the module they
can drive this thing at 3840 by 1600
which is the same as the 38 inch ultra wide that's on my desk except that
instead of 75 hertz they have nearly doubled that to 144 hertz native and it
can actually overclock to 170 now all of
that is with a nano ips panel that means 98 dci p3 color gamut coverage like this
thing is basically best of all worlds that i can really
identify oh and if you're into it it's got this reactive lighting thing that
goes on that you can either have sync up with your video or your audio or with
the download you can set it to just like some color if you want now it's not
coming anytime soon they have no pricing information for us whatsoever but uh
hey the future is now later bringing us
somewhat awkwardly and abruptly to this
thing so the only notes i have about the
ck 950 n is that there's no pricing available at
this time that's pretty much all i got i'm gonna have to wing the rest of this so this is
a weird there's a weird product okay so this is uh what what is it 3840 by uh
1600 yeah that's right it's got a webcam built into it right up there at the top
it's uh 60 hertz so you know nothing groundbreaking as far as that goes
so this is just like the monitor on my desk except that it's got a computer built
into it so it's got a ryzen 3 apu with 8
gigs of RAM 128 gigs of SSD storage
and like no os pre installed on it it seems to be like kind of a a business to
business play but it's like backwards normally you'd have the system division
slap a display on a computer and in this case we've got the monitor division
slapping a computer into a display so it's like i don't know
let me know in the comments below what is this
why do you think it exists i'd love to hear from you
there's one thing that i can tell you why it exists though and that
is the dbrand grip it's a super grippy case with precision cutouts for your
camera your fingerprint sensor it's got super clicky buttons and of course it's
d brand so you can customize the look with any of their fabulous dbrand skins
and they're also promoting their prism screen protector this thing okay it's
not actually on this phone but don't worry about that this thing is unbelievable so they've
got a cool little applicator that makes it so you get a perfect application
every time it feels really glassy from the front nothing about this demo is
staged i was absolutely dumbstructured
so check out both the grip and the prism at the link in the video description and
we will see you guys at the next ces booth
oh right i guess there's the gram there's new grams this one looks pretty
cool we're going to review it really soon our review unit's like in the mail
16x10 display