LG to Samsung: Your Move - LG CES 2019
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by the dbrand grip and prism screen
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protector you can check them out at the link in the video description so we're
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here in the lg booth where they actually downplayed the kind of monitor stuff
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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
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even though it's iterative improvements is actually
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a big difference over what we've seen before so first of all we've got the
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ultra wide monitor curve 49 wl95c
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it's a lot cooler than it sounds so just like samsung's recent 49 inch
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very very wide what are these like 32 by nine aspect ratio yeah 32 by nine aspect
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ratio display it's really really wide it's curved and
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it's optimized for kind of a combination i guess of productivity and or super
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immersive gaming but unlike samsung's instead of being
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limited to a 1080 vertical resolution
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which means that the entire image looked kind of grainy lg has gone one better
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and they've delivered a 5120 by
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1440 resolution on this thing so the image is much much finer now this means
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for gamers you're going to have a pretty hard time driving it because this is
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effectively kind of a shortened 5k
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monitor but frankly you won't be worried about that
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anyway because it only runs at 60 hertz
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but there's good news over here oh i was gonna walk out of the frame but
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sure we can work with this this is the 38 gl 950 g and this is a whole other
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ball of wax now i had given lg a hard time in the past for selling gaming
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monitors that didn't have support for NVIDIA's g-sync and here they are their
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timing's impeccable right as NVIDIA announced that regular adaptive sync
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displays can run g-sync now lg's here with the g-sync module in
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their monitor but that's not to say that having a g-sync module is pointless even
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now because it means that you've got a very very wide variable refresh rate
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window it means you've got support for adaptive pixel overdrive so you're not
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going to get more or less smearing depending on the refresh rate of the
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display and in this case it means because they're using the module they
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can drive this thing at 3840 by 1600
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which is the same as the 38 inch ultra wide that's on my desk except that
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instead of 75 hertz they have nearly doubled that to 144 hertz native and it
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can actually overclock to 170 now all of
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that is with a nano ips panel that means 98 dci p3 color gamut coverage like this
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thing is basically best of all worlds that i can really
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identify oh and if you're into it it's got this reactive lighting thing that
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goes on that you can either have sync up with your video or your audio or with
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the download you can set it to just like some color if you want now it's not
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coming anytime soon they have no pricing information for us whatsoever but uh
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hey the future is now later bringing us
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somewhat awkwardly and abruptly to this
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thing so the only notes i have about the
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ck 950 n is that there's no pricing available at
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this time that's pretty much all i got i'm gonna have to wing the rest of this so this is
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a weird there's a weird product okay so this is uh what what is it 3840 by uh
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1600 yeah that's right it's got a webcam built into it right up there at the top
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it's uh 60 hertz so you know nothing groundbreaking as far as that goes
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so this is just like the monitor on my desk except that it's got a computer built
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into it so it's got a ryzen 3 apu with 8
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gigs of RAM 128 gigs of SSD storage
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and like no os pre installed on it it seems to be like kind of a a business to
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business play but it's like backwards normally you'd have the system division
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slap a display on a computer and in this case we've got the monitor division
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slapping a computer into a display so it's like i don't know
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let me know in the comments below what is this
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why do you think it exists i'd love to hear from you
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there's one thing that i can tell you why it exists though and that
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is the dbrand grip it's a super grippy case with precision cutouts for your
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camera your fingerprint sensor it's got super clicky buttons and of course it's
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d brand so you can customize the look with any of their fabulous dbrand skins
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and they're also promoting their prism screen protector this thing okay it's
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not actually on this phone but don't worry about that this thing is unbelievable so they've
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got a cool little applicator that makes it so you get a perfect application
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every time it feels really glassy from the front nothing about this demo is
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staged i was absolutely dumbstructured
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so check out both the grip and the prism at the link in the video description and
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we will see you guys at the next ces booth
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oh right i guess there's the gram there's new grams this one looks pretty
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cool we're going to review it really soon our review unit's like in the mail
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16x10 display