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CES 2021: LG Unveils First OLED UltraFine Monitor and 39.7" UltraWide 5K2K Monitor

In the market for ~40" OLED 1440p high refresh rate monitor to go with 6900xt and 3090.
 
I'll bet they saw Apple "resetting" price expectations on the Pro monitor area (with the XDR), licked their chops and decided to jump in.

I expect this thing will be $5k itself, or at least pretty close (who knows - maybe more for OLED?)

I'd love to be surprised with something more like $2499, but I'm not holding my breath.
 
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Where’s the HDMI 2.1 support? Not sure why this is not being adopted on ‘21 models; is it that much more expensive to adopt?
 
tevion5 said:
Why are monitor manufacturers so allergic to 200+ PPI? Make a pretty panel with high pixel density and high end Apple users will buy it. You could charge a lot for this. Is Apple sending hired goons around LG and Dell to stop them doing this or something? A baffling gap in the market for a few years now.

There's essentially nothing like a 6K 32" display available that isn't the crazy expensive Apple XDR. Make a regular one for $2000, it would sell like crazy. I'd buy it!

The LG displays Apple sells which are basically the great iMac panels in an LG shell look hideous in my opinion. Not sure why something like this can't exist in an Apple Cinema Display form factor.
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I literally have no idea what is going on with the display market. It is baffling. All of the best displays in the world ship with a whole Mac attached and that's not what we need.
 
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typecase said:
Wish this wasn't curved ...
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I have the 34" LG 5K2K 21:9 and it is about as wide as I'd ever want a flat monitor to be. Anything wider and the eye strain would just be too much at typical desktop distances. Either that or you'd be craning your neck to view the edges. I already find myself doing that occasionally with my 34"
 
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Love my 24" LG 4K UltraFine (186 ppi). Cannot understand, why everybody wants to buy same 4K resolution at 27" or 32". You don't see more and everything ist less sharp.
 
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cppguy said:
I would prefer a 32" 5K monitor (2880 rows). 4K at 32" is not impressive, the pixels are quite noticeable. Not horrible by any means, but disappointing in 2021. It doesn't have to be OLED, but it needs 2880 vertical pixels. I hope the next 5K iMac will be at least 30".
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not impressive:

uneven brightness at edges


impressive:

infinite contrast ratio


not impressive:

off axis color shift


impressive:

no blooming


not impressive:

blooming
 
I wonder how that new OLED compares to existing pro/reference OLEDs like the Sony BVM300. Pricing will be interesting (the Sony OLED BVM range are $$$$$).
 
This doesn't either discontinue or lower the cost of the existing Ultrafine 5K monitor, does it? I'd be crushed if it did the former. Still hoping to get one for my stepdad at some point to replace his aging Thunderbolt display.
 
ijbond said:
Love my 24" LG 4K UltraFine (186 ppi). Cannot understand, why everybody wants to buy same 4K resolution at 27" or 32". You don't see more and everything ist less sharp.
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Just you wait until you turn 50 and your eyes are old and tired.

You will be first in line to buy a larger monitor with lower dot pitch.

And then you will chuckle when snot-nosed brats make similar "I don't recognize other usage case" statements.

But until then, your opinion is vastly superior to mine. And go ahead and try to explain that to your parents. If you're lucky they will look at each other, sigh, and change the subject.
 
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I plugged a 4K LG monitor into my 2019 Mac Pro and ran Logic.

About a month ago.

It was super laggy. Frustrating. Any ideas?
 
Matthew Essex said:
My C7 OLED has just succumbed to burn in although LG are replacing the screen for £250 once the lockdown has finished.
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Have you tried the pixel refresher on your C7? I have a B7 and the screen got hit by direct sunlight for a whole day, resulting in, effectively, burn-in. A manual pixel refresh (the kind that takes hours, accessed from the advanced settings I think) fixed it perfectly.

For others worrying about burn-in, as I understood it, pixel shifting - on both TVs and monitors - is the standard defence against it, as is why OLED computer displays can exist at all.
 
kinghuang said:
I really wish that 31.5" display had the 6016 × 3384 resolution of the Apple Pro Display XDR. At 4K, it has even fewer pixels than the 27" iMac.
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LG makes the panel for that monitor. I wouldn't be surprised to see a slightly cheaper variant of it find it's way into the next iMac.
 
Aggedor said:
Have you tried the pixel refresher on your C7? I have a B7 and the screen got hit by direct sunlight for a whole day, resulting in, effectively, burn-in. A manual pixel refresh (the kind that takes hours, accessed from the advanced settings I think) fixed it perfectly.

For others worrying about burn-in, as I understood it, pixel shifting - on both TVs and monitors - is the standard defence against it, as is why OLED computer displays can exist at all.
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Yeah went through everything with LG. To be Honest I think they may be aware of a few faulty screens as they were happy to replace the screen for £250 out of warranty.
just got to Wait for the lockdown to finish so they can send the engineer out.
I’d still buy another OLED and recommend them without fail though as they are amazing screens.
 
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