***21.9 Ultrawide Thread***
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68. And that's reduced from OOB! It's on 40 now, I'll see if it has improved.
EDIT, dropped to 35 and it's still there. In a dark room, the whole left corner is glowing :/
RMA time
Well I would anyway!
I bought it from OCUK, so might be worth a call. Just as well I didn't take all the protective wrapping off :/
I'll see what I think tomorrow. It's only a problem if I have an entirely black screen, which is rare.
Any backlight bleed?
A tiny bit but nothing to get upset about.
I can't decide whether or not to RMA mine. It's going to be a massive faff taking it back and what's to say the replacement isn't worse or with dead pixels.
Unless I'm imagining it, and I don't think I am, I can see the backlight in light colours too.
Don't put up with it if it is bothering you.... Especially not for £800/900..... This is why monitors are so crap these days for issues like this because people are just putting up with it, which is essentially giving the thumbs up for them to continue to put out monitors with awful quality. It is a fault of lazy QC. If more people had voiced these issues i.e. by returning them then the manufacturers would quickly see the return rates and how much money they were losing from this so they would do everything they could in order to improve their QC etc.
Yes it is a faff having to RMA etc. but you are entitled to do so and if ocuk give you any **** about then you use your 14 CCR right to return the product for a full refund.
Yes it is a faff having to RMA etc. but you are entitled to do so and if ocuk give you any **** about then you use your 14 CCR right to return the product for a full refund.
The issue is every monitor that fails QC is a significant cost to the company as, I'm sure, not a lot of it can be reused. I've said it before, people will save £300 and take a chance and return it if they're not happy rather than spend the extra £300 on better QC.
Yup no one would spend that just for better QC but this is the problem, monitors haven't really advanced at all in terms of panel improvements, the only thing we have really improved upon over the last few years is resolution, refresh rate and g/free sync, the actual panel for IQ/colours hasn't jumped forward anywhere as much, it is still very basic/bare bones, especially compared to TVs now yet somehow, they cost considerably more money (obviously other factors have played a part in rising costs too though)
All my previous monitors purchased before this LG 29um65 were/are perfect, zero bleed, zero dead pixels, no need to go through 2/3+ monitors just to get an "acceptable" one and you also didn't see people complain as much back then about dead pixels, bleed etc. either. It is almost like manufacturers decided to drop/cut back on QC, forget about making giant leaps in panel improvements and charge a massive amount more (more so with for the "high" end monitors)
Honestly, being a monitor reviewer must be extremely boring at times as most monitors all use the same panel with hardly any real difference, only differences are generally a few features and the design.
I think the back light bleed problem that plagues pretty much every IPS monitors these days is largely down to the manufacturers trying to make slim/thin displays as well as having thinner bezels etc. as that is were back light bleed is generally coming from i.e. the chassis assembly is too tight on the panel and IPS panels seem to be more sensitive to pressure than the likes of VA and TN panels + having 32+" displays probably makes it even harder to get the panel housing "properly" fitted.
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Been doing some Googling but cant really find much on the subject; does anyone know if there has been any news regarding the G-Sync version of the Samsung 34 Ultrawide (quantum dot) monitor. I seem to remember it was originally predicted for realease this half of 2017?
WRT to split, you might find splitting them 30:70 rather than 50:50 better so the main window/forum is more centred. LG screens come with special software to allow a 3 windows snap, otherwise it's a bit fiddly. I just snap my two vertical windows, then drag them to 30:70 or so.
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This is exactly what I came into this thread to ask.
I don't see why there wouldn't due to freesync being there.
I would instal buy a quantum dot 34 ultra wide gsync.
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Skyrim is awesome in ultrawide 
Fully modded, the landscapes are very immersive.
Fully modded, the landscapes are very immersive.Yeah I can't wait to try it, but I get the feeling I'm not going to manage very high FPS :/ Was struggling to maintain constant 60 at 1080p with all the mods I had.Skyrim is awesome in ultrawide
Ive sent back 3 acer panels back same as yours and yours my friend is the worst i seen im sorry to say
would certainly rma as not sure you could get worse then that.
wow that is awful - not sure i'd accept that on a £200 monitor...