LG Ultrafine 6K announced

[ruslan120]

Do you find a brightness imbalance between the left and right sides of your Asus screen? Seeing a lot of reports on this (this video does a good job of talking about it around the 6:33 mark):

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You posted my video

Also ordered the LG 6K, arrives Monday, expecting my first-born on Thursday but will work on a few reviews / comparisons when I have the time:

LG UltraFine 6K | Review
LG UltraFine 6K vs. Asus ProArt 6K
LG UltraFine 6K vs. Pro Display XDR

 

[Pezimak]

Will be good to see the reviews and comparisons.

 

[EugW]

You posted my video

Also ordered the LG 6K, arrives Monday, expecting my first-born on Thursday but will work on a few reviews / comparisons when I have the time:

LG UltraFine 6K | Review
LG UltraFine 6K vs. Asus ProArt 6K
LG UltraFine 6K vs. Pro Display XDR

Congrats 🎉 on becoming a father!

 

[EugW]

Hmmm… LG charged the full amount of the monitor to my credit card, even though they say it isn’t supposed to ship until November. Not just a pending hold but a full completed transaction.

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First impression by someone at Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/HiDPI_monitors/comments/1o4bvz5/lg_32u990a_quick_review

The lack of native macOS brightness control is no surprise but would remedied by MonitorControl, Better Display, or probably even HDMI 2.1.

Anyhow, that person needs some drapes.

 

[Dark-Signature]

But unfortunately, I think I have to return it. I have two Ultrafine 5k that I used for 6 years now. I was so excited about this Ultrafine 6k since I didn't pull the trigger on the Pro Display XDR. Upon mounting it to my setup. I immediately noticed the matte screen causing glares and basically unusable in my bright room. The whole screen is tinted white, and I can't see much on the right hand side of the screen because I have a window on the right. The text also is not as sharp as the 5k ultra fine because of the matte coating although it supposed to have a higher PPI.

My thoughts exactly! When I saw the screenshot, my immediate reaction was, “What a beautiful monitor image at the bottom and what a pale image at the top.”

 

[EugW]

My thoughts exactly! When I saw the screenshot, my immediate reaction was, “What a beautiful monitor image at the bottom and what a pale image at the top.”

Meh. If you like glossy that’s great, you chose well and was lucky enough to get a good Kuycon panel. In my case however, even as a 5K iMac owner, I’m fine with both matte and glossy. Interestingly my creative professional friend went with the matte ASD.

 

[EugW]

Hmmm... Given the weird angle at which this person has the bottom monitor set up, this may be a more appropriate view of the glare:

The LG 6K UltraFine matte has a hazy look to it off axis, while the 5K UltraFine glossy looks like a mirror. That is in line with my experience of my matte Huawei vs. my two glossy 27" iMacs. However, in my setup, neither is usually an issue, because I keep the blinds drawn to avoid direct sunlight.

Also, this design with the ventilation holes going all around the periphery suggests it needs lots of cooling. Does the LG 6K run hot? I thought I read that the Dell 6K runs pretty warm. Not sure about the Asus or Kuycon, although the upgraded Kuycon chassis has a ton of ventilation holes. In contrast, my 4K+ 28.2" Huawei is very thin with no such ventilation holes, and runs very cool.

 

[EugW]

BH Photo isn't expecting stock until Oct. 20, but LG.com USA has stock. None yet in Canada, to commence shipping Nov. 3.

Q&A posted. LG confirms it works fine over Thunderbolt 4, not surprisingly. (No mention of the macOS DisplayPort 1.4 DSC bug plaguing Dell and Kuycon displays but we shall see.)

Manual (USA/Canada) and software have been posted on the US site. Not on Canada site yet.

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AC adapter puts out a ton of power, at 20 V up to 18 A = 360 Watts. Holy crap!

There are various picture modes. You can also save two custom calibration modes using LG Calibration Studio. IIRC, it can use calibration tools like the SpyderX Pro (which I happen to own).

There is a black level offset level setting, which works only for HDMI. There are also two HDMI compatibility settings.

Service manual (use Chrome):

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