The resolution is a real downer. With that price tag and that screen size I would expect 5040 x 2160 to be the resolution.
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Review: LG's $1500 38UC99 UltraWide Display Offers a Giant, Desk-Filling Workspace
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I've used a handful of curved displays. Right now, my primary display is an LG 34" ultrawide display that replaced a flat 34" ultrawide. I've also used dual 27" curved 16:9 displays, and briefly, a 24" one. For the most part, the benefits increase with screen size. And it really starts to shine when you start using an ultrawide display.
It's a considerably different ball game than with curved TVs, where viewing distance and suboptimal viewing angles (not everyone can have the perfect seat, for instance) negate a lot of the argued benefits of a curve. I'd go so far as to say that they're entirely different situations.
I'm a software developer, and I also do a lot of work with my photography. In both instances, the curve is more pleasant to look at (not that the flat panel unpleasant; it just seemed as though the corners were further away from my eye), with less strain over long periods of time from my eye bouncing all over the screen. Recent curved ultrawides have had more pronounced curves, as well compared to the original iterations. With a screen as large as the 38" reviewed in the original article, the curve becomes even more important IMO. A screen that big, considering how close we sit to our monitors, pretty much requires a curve.
In any case, I love my choice. The only way it'd be better would be if it was 2160p (or 2880p... drool). But that kind of pixel count is a few years off. Someday....
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I was about to buy this but decided that I would wait till they update it to 5k, thunderbolt 3, and 85 watt charging. If I'm going to be dropping 1500$ I might as well wait for something that is all there.
Since 'Unix' isn't a specific operating system, there's no menubar for which you're extolling virtues. I really hope you aren't referring to Ubuntu, or anything else using Unity, because it's terrible.
When you look at the screen, your vision concentrates on the screen and the border/edge and stand fade into insignificance compared to the actual images on the screen.OK then, if you say so
I think that's what he meant by 'no you don't'.
Personally, I don't care that much about the stand/border/frame and more about the quality of the image on the screen.
If the image is accurately (especially w.r.t colours) displayed then I'm good.
backwards looking ports, they should be facing downwards, it is totally ridiculous with all Samsung or LG monitors that the cables are running matrix style out of their backs. as always they did not properly implement sound control via usb/thunderbolt, so volume keys on the mac keyboard are useless. and i bet the same goes for brightness adjust. the upside down joystick is de-facto at LG monitors and imo it's terrible to use.
No, you don't. Very few people will run their laptop at full throttle for any appreciable amount of time. If on average you only draw 20 W, having only a 60 W power supply (instead of an 85 W power supply) is hardly a deal breaker. Charging will take about 50% longer, but that it is.
I don't mind the price of this display but I wish they had a G-Sync version. This one is Freesync only. I'm strongly considering the replacement of my almost 10 year old 30" 2560x1600 displays (I have three) with a single 38" 3840x1600 display like this one but I really want G-Sync.
With the way monitor technology has been rapidly changing the past few years with ultrawides, curves, 4K, 5K, G-Sync and Freesync I think I'm going to wait another year or so to get something that really ticks all the boxes for what I want, I feel the manufacturers are getting very close to my ideal display, this LG monitor for example would be an instant buy for me if it had G-Sync.
With the way monitor technology has been rapidly changing the past few years with ultrawides, curves, 4K, 5K, G-Sync and Freesync I think I'm going to wait another year or so to get something that really ticks all the boxes for what I want, I feel the manufacturers are getting very close to my ideal display, this LG monitor for example would be an instant buy for me if it had G-Sync.
Honestly, this is slightly overpriced. There are so many better monitors out there that are as good (if not better) and for a fraction of the price.
LG wide displays are always very low resolution. Even my phone has higher resolution than those. It looks good but the specs are trash. Don't spend money on that.
same here. I wait for the next upgrade in technology which should hopefully meet those specs and I am in.
https://www.amazon.com/LG-38UC99-Class-UltraWide-International/dp/B01MDK43N0
Seems LG is Freesync only. Sad. I have an NVIDIA GTX 1080 and I game. Sucks that they felt the need to fragment the market even further with completing monitor technologies. Should be 1 standard. Not many.
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FreeSync is based on the DisplayPort standard, requires no additional hardware, and is royalty free. NVIDIA could easily support it if they wanted.
I see now. So if I pick up that monitor for gaming, it should be fine? Do I really need g sync/freesync? Don't have it now on my Dell US3011. Game just fine. Got a GTX 1080.
These technologies provide a better experience for gaming and perhaps video. If you want to keep using NVIDIA you won't be able to take advantage of it unless they tone down their proprietary stance. Also G-Sync is supposed to be better at least because of their certification process. If you plan to stay on Green Team for the long term, it would be better to buy the latter but is usually quite a bit more expensive. FreeSync adds little if anything to the cost of a monitor.
In reality though, a curved screen gives you a less distorted view, because the curve eliminates a lot of the perspective distortion that you get when looking at a relatively large plane from up close. (As long as you sit right in front of it and about at the intended distance 'R' that it is curved around, of course.) That's the whole point of the curve, together with a more equal color and contrast because you look at a more similar angle at all parts of the screen.
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I don't see how it makes up for 25% less pixels, just by being large. There are other large screens with UHD resolution, for example the Philips 40" models. The latest 40" Philips is also curved. I don't get the 'advantage' of leaving out a quarter of the screen real estate.
What would really make a next step for large monitors, would be a screen that is curved in both axis. A partial spherical screen.
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As long as you are more or less in front of it's center, a curved screen doesn't look that distorted, even from a distance. Try it at a curved TV in an electronics store. That's because the curve is never that strong and the upper and lower horizontal edges are still straight in the horizontal plane.
The curve is very subtle, so by the time you see the curve of the screen, you're so far away from it and/or so far off the center of the viewing point, that you're wasting most of the resolution and that that and the perspective distortion has become a (much) bigger distraction.
I think that when you'd see it in real live, you'd see that (large) curved screens are better suited for multi-monitor setup than (large) flat ones, because together they look like one flat plane, while multiple flat screens, necessarily aimed at you, look like two different planes colliding in a sharp 'fold'.
I don't buy this. You don't 'see' perspective distortion, and you certainly don't want to pre-correct for it. Sure, large flat screens are distorted when projected onto your retina, but this applies to everything you see and your brain sorts it out without fuss and you perceive straight edges and flat surfaces correctly. The reverse is also true. If you look at a curved surface, your smart brain will not be fooled.