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LG Ultrafine 6K announced
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I had the LG 5K Ultrafine before I owned an Apple Studio Display. I never minded it being very plasticky. If it saves weight, I'm all for it and I was pleasantly surprised that the LG 6K is only slightly heavier than my 27" ASD which means that I won't have to get a new monitor arm to mount it if I decide to get it.
I haven't made that decision yet. I'll wait for it to arrive in person at local stores before I decide anything. If I get it and there are defects, I'm likely to just say screw it, I'll live with it because I won't feel like going through the trouble of returning it unless it's a catastrophic issue.
Any info on the VESA mounts for this thing? Does it take a standard mount? Does it come with a mounting plate?
For myself, as mentioned I'd be able to accept some vignetting and stuff like that. But if there is significant uneven colour caste or backlight bleed, it will go back.
Standard 100x100 mm mount spacing already on the monitor. Wouldn't the mounting plate come with the arm?
If you have a Thunderbolt 4 / DisplayPort 1.4 Mac (eg. M4 MacBook Air/Pro or M4 Mac mini), please test to see if you get HDR 60 Hz and 4:4:4 colour over Thunderbolt. There is a bug - that was fixed in 14.1 but reintroduced in 14.4 that defaults the colour to 4:2:2 over Thunderbolt 4 / DisplayPort 1.4 on 6144x3456 monitors (Dell, Kuycon) because it turns off DSC, but not on 6016x3384 monitors. DSC works fine on 6016x3384 monitors (Asus and of course Pro Display XDR).
Also, if you have an HDMI 2.1 Mac, please test if you get native brightness control over HDMI 2.1.
The VESA plate is the interface between the arm and the monitor. It's not a wall mount. My monitor arm is a clamp/peg mount anyway.
Some monitors require a special plate for it to attach to the VESA mount of the monitor arm. The LG 5K is one such monitor. The 5K comes with two back covers that snap in. One of them is attached to the desk stand. The other cover has threads for four heavy duty mounting screws.
With some displays, the mounting plate isn't included.
In the photos it looks like the mounting threads on the 6K are built directly into the body, but they could be for something else too.
I think this person got paid for this. The color performance is way worse than $2000 price tag.
I was showing the wall mount page of the service manual just because it listed the VESA mount specifications.
Ah I see. The few times I've used a VESA mount with third party displays, no additional plate from those display manufacturer was required. The only time I've had to use a custom OEM VESA plate was with an iMac 27".
Hmmm... Are you 100% sure you have the right colour profile, etc.? You results sound odd to me, and that person was not the only person who liked the colour profile. @ruslan120 also liked it... in the centre of his display... but didn't like the blue colour shift on the edges of his particular unit.
Yeah, same here. I've been rocking this for many months now and it's my favorite monitor I've ever had. None of the issues mentioned above.Cannot confirm your information! And the difference between us is that I'm sitting in front of a Kuycon G32P and working with it, and you're not
Maybe you don't like the effect of the matte surface? Colours sometimes are bolder looking with glossy displays.
LG claims 98% DCI-P3 and 99% Adobe RGB.
Oh gotcha. Makes sense why you posted that now.
When you get yours I'd be interested in knowing if it has the mount points built into the monitor. The manual you posted seems to imply that they're built in and in the photos of the back, there are four black dots that look like they're covers for mount points that would be spaced perfectly for a typical monitor arm's VESA interface.
Oh, OK. 😐 What happens when you turn on HDR 60 Hz? I'm curious to see if you get pushed down to 4:2:2.
OK, but they're not supposed to ship until November here in Canada, so I've got 3 weeks or so to go yet.
Perhaps someone else can confirm this before that.
OK good!
People in the Kuycon thread said the Dell and the Kuycon get 4:2:2, or at least they did in Sonoma 14.4 and later. Maybe Apple fixed it *again* even later, or maybe the LG is somehow treated differently. Or maybe that was just an error.
Well, that’s an unusual promotion. I checked my LG account and for the UltraFine 6K monitor, I noticed some new bundle package coupons which expire the day after the monitor is supposed to ship. I can get hundreds of dollars off… if I bundle a $4000 massage chair with my monitor purchase. 😝
Anyhow, I’m still annoyed at LG’s credit card charge policy for pre-orders. The full price of the monitor is on my latest credit card bill, so in essence LG is holding several thousand dollars hostage for nearly a month before they actually ship the monitor, assuming their November 3 ship date is accurate.
Anyhow, I’m still annoyed at LG’s credit card charge policy for pre-orders. The full price of the monitor is on my latest credit card bill, so in essence LG is holding several thousand dollars hostage for nearly a month before they actually ship the monitor, assuming their November 3 ship date is accurate.
This is LG's standard practice (at least in Europe), which we know as “cashback.” You pay the full price first, and weeks later (usually when the return period for online purchases has expired), the cashback request (for the latest generation of LG TVs, e.g., OLEDs, this was usually €200-300 for a 65“ or 77” TV) can then be processed by LG. This is doubly advantageous for the seller (LG) because your money is invested profitably before the cashback is paid out (or if something goes wrong with the application, nothing is paid out... that can happen too) and LG can be sure that you will keep the monitor/TV and not want to return it.
Yeah, sounds strange when he said the contrast and colors are better than on glossy ASD. Especially in these conditions.
Just because someone is able to upload a YouTube video and open a package does not necessarily mean that this person is also capable of evaluating a monitor properly.
It just sounds to me like someone is very enthusiastic about his new toy. However, to give him the benefit of the doubt:
Contrast on the Apple Studio Display is low, at only around 1000:1. This is normal for an IPS panel which does not use "IPS Black" type technology. PC Mag measured it at 970:1. If you want a second source, RTINGS measured the ASD at 1052:1.
The Dell 6K apparently uses an LG panel, and is an "IPS Black" panel. PC Mag measured the Dell 6K at 1521:1. This is well below its claimed 2000:1 ratio, but it nonetheless is a 57% higher actual measured contrast ratio than their measurement for the ASD. In fact, if the LG doesn't have much higher contrast than the ASD, I will be shocked. I would expect somewhere between 40-60% better contrast than the ASD. LG markets their panels as "Nano IPS Black". I don't know if this is the same thing as Dell's panel, or an updated version.
For colour coverage PC Mag's measurements are as follows:
Apple Studio Display
100% - sRGB
99% - DCI-P3
88% - Adobe RGB
Dell 6K
100% - sRGB
97.3% - DCI-P3
90.4% - Adobe RGB
I don't know if LG is bullsh!tting us or if they are doing something different with an updated panel, but LG claims that for their 6K monitor, it is 98% DCI-P3 and 99.5% Adobe RGB. I doubt that person was using Adobe RGB though.
Overall I agree with @Dark-Signature. He's probably mainly just overly enthusiastic, contrast ratio notwithstanding. Hanlon's Razor and all that...
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These monitors both use LG panels, but the first one is an IPS Black panel, and the second one is the standard IPS.
They are calibrated to the same brightness, by the people at TFT Central.
While it’s possible ASD2 will get Mini-LED, I’m not convinced it will. Apple could just go with IPS Black or similar.
@EugW the long camera exposure greatly exaggerates the differences, they won't look that far apart to the naked eye.
There have been substantial rumors of a 27" 5K miniLED for the past couple of years (reported by Ross Young)
there's just no way Apple goes with the barely better IPS black panel
There have been substantial rumors of a 27" 5K miniLED for the past couple of years (reported by Ross Young)
there's just no way Apple goes with the barely better IPS black panel