At large sized ultrawide with a normal viewing distance you want the panel to have a slight curve as the horisontal lines will appear optically straight to your eyes. I'm looking at my 34" curved Mii 1440p secondary display right now and the UI appears perfectly straight to me.
Glad they are fixing the problem! Our OLED TV is absolutely amazing (identical screen to your C7). I'd never buy any other kind of TV.
I’ve been trying to get the 34" LG 5K2K for 2 months but LG seems not to deliver any in France. Waiting for my order.
I’m a big fan of 21:9 monitors. I think the 34” 5K2K is a better deal than the ultrafine. Coming from a 34” curved Dell with a lower resolution, the LG is great. My only grip is I use it with 3 separate inputs, and the toggle button to switch inputs is finicky.
I’m, uh, not sure I understand. When people get older, they tend to prefer larger text. But, no one here demanding 200+ PPI monitors is using them at their native dot pitch. They’re using them with 200% scaling, at which point text is the same size as monitors with half the pixel density.
I’m, uh, not sure I understand. When people get older, they tend to prefer larger text. But, no one here demanding 200+ PPI monitors is using them at their native dot pitch. They’re using them with 200% scaling, at which point text is the same size as monitors with half the pixel density.
I don’t know what sort of eagle-like vision I’d need to use my LG 5K at native, tiny text scaling!
To be fair, it's off to the side, so a bit further away than regular viewing distance.
Having an RGB vs the usual WRGB subpixel structure could potentially makes this panel a real deal for actual desktop usage. The 48" LG CX which many people thought to use as a desktop monitor has had trouble display crisp text on with Windows or macOS.
Yes obviously..but why not?
YES Thank you! Apple realizes that PPI and brightness are the most important things. But we are stuck in a world where manufacturers are keeping with the ugly fake metal looking plastic monitors ran at 4k.. which isn't enough pixels for 27 even, let alone 32.
Is this actually a big issue? I have a C9 and had a bank of quite large windows across the back of my house with no shades. I would cover the TV with a blanket late in the day during the months of the year that the sun would shine through. Some days I would forget and it would be in full sunlight, but it never really seemed to affect the display quality. Even so, I ended up installing shades and a motor system to control them through HomeKit and HomeBridge with a scheduler, but I've always wondered if I actually needed to (we had been planning to do something like this since moving in before getting the TV so it wasn't a big deal). The pain is trying to get the windows programmed to only close during the time of day when the sun is out there, which is only certain times of spring and autumn and but it's different for both seasons because of when the leaves come in and fall off can affect things too. I think my windows have a UV coating but they aren't tinted. It's a newer house.
Some others have made valid points about the ability to drive these displays on many devices with a single cable but there's something else that I don't think I saw anyone else touch on: panel manufacturing. I went down a rabbit hole one time about panel manufacturing and why TVs all seem to come in certain sizes like 42, 48, 55, 65, 77, etc. It's about how they can most efficiently cut the displays from their display...ummm...wafers? Not sure if that's the right word. But they make huge sheets of display and have to cut them to size and they want to minimize waste. Different factories make different sheet widths, and different displays can also have different pixel densities and that plays into it. If a new display resolution isn't very common or easily marketable such as 8K then they don't really want a part of it because it becomes so expensive to manufacture at scale that their ROI will be lower because most people won't pay the arm and leg required. I bet that's also part of why the Pro XDR is so expensive. Apple probably has to use smaller PPI display sheets, say for like a 4K 24" display (not sure if the math on that is accurate but you get the gist) and get the manufacturer to cut 32" sheets from it which is how you get 6K from the PPI of a 24" 4K. Well if the sheets are 48" wide then it might be wasteful to cut 32" if they can't fit extra ones vertically on the end (idk if this example works out) but it's a whole thing. I recommend googling it because apparently it's been too long since I read about it to remember all the details, lol, but that gives you a general idea.
I'm not sure it's a HUGE issue, and we may just have been unlucky. I only realised what had happened when I saw that the pattern of burn-in on the screen exactly matched the cross-hatching of the window frame. I bought a fabric cover for the TV after that and keep it on when the TV is off (the cover fits the set exactly, which seemed a nicer solution than a blanket!). It only affects my house in the winter months, when the sun is low and can shine directly in through that particular window.
Can't wait until the rumoured smaller Apple monitors are released.
LG CX OLED TV already supports 4K 120Hz and HDMI 2.1 available in 48” too around $1500.
