LG Flatron 29UM65-P (29") UltraWide Monitor Owners Thread

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I'm very very close to buying this monitor but need some input from those who are using it.

YOUR BASKET
1 x LG Flatron 29UM65-P 29" WideScreen Super-Wide LED Monitor £269.99
Total : £269.99 (includes shipping : ).



I'll be using this for mainly gaming & photography with the occasional film.

Have you noticed any ghosting when gaming?
Back light bleed?
What's the colour reproduction like?
Issues with HDMI/DVI/DP?

I just need to make sure this will be 100% before I pull the plug, very excited if its as good as it looks :D

LG Flatron 29UM65-P 29" WideScreen Super-Wide LED Monitor Owners
1. Nexus18
2. Snips86x RMA'd and EOL :(
3. KiiYzOo
4. Robbsy
5. Kanifee
6. hardkore
7. uksoldierboy
8. RobertoGD

Settings
Here are some settings used by the monitor owners:

10-20% brightness is ideal (if necessary, you can go higher but I wouldn't recommend it, most definitely not higher than 50% anyway!)
Either use the cinema preset, if you find the image a bit too dark overall, you can increase the gamma via nvidia or AMD's control panel.

OR

Use custom preset with these settings:

contrast - 65
gamma - gamma 1
custom RGB values - R/50 G/50 B/51

However, every panel is different so what might work best for one might not work best for someone else.

Best site for manually calibrating:
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Good calibration test images:
http://www.smugmug.com/img/help/cali...int-1400-2.jpg
http://webtransformer.com/calibrate/...o-ICC-Full.jpg

As for response time setting, either high or medium is best. With high setting I can see inverse ghosting so have just stuck with the default "medium" setting.

This is a great site for testing the response time settings out:
http://www.testufo.com/#test=ghosting
http://www.testufo.com/#test=photo&p...uit=0&height=0

Reviews

http://en.gecid.com/disply/LG_UltraWide_29UM65-P_monitor_review_and_testing/
 
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Thanks for your reply and your review. Shame about the backlight bleed, not sure if its enough to put me off though.

Are you still using the supplied stand? Can you give me the measurements from the base of the stand to the bottom of the lower bezel? (make sense :confused:)
 
KiiYzOo said:
I was thinking more side by side, I think most of the type of monitor desk mounts that I was looking at allow for that sort of setup (if I did it that way I'd probably flip my w2363d upside down as it has a smaller bezel at the top as opposed to the bottom
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I think you're over estimating how much desktop space you need with a 29". I'd suggest trying the 29" and then if you feel you really need the 23", get a wall moutable desk arm for the 23" only - unless you can find a decent dual mount.
 
Cheers Nexus, will keep those settings and see how I get on. With any luck I'll get it tomrrow before I finish my current job and start a new one.

I'm currently waiting for an RMA on my reference 290 (purchased via MM), but will have to put it back in to test this - it would be sacrilidge not too!! :D
 
Decided to get my DSLR out after all:

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Nexus18 said:
They must certainly are :D Have you tried my settings out yet?

Also make sure you turn eco mode of and response time to high.
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I've been playing BL2 and Batman: AO and not noticed any issues at all with Eco on Low and response time on Medium.

Changed response to high, but Eco remains on Low. Not tried your settings yet, will have a play around over the weekend.
 
Nexus18 said:
At £250 :cool:, you got nothing to lose tbh! Originally when this monitor first came out, which was only a few months ago, it was going for something stupid like £350/380 iirc...

Hope you get a good one snips! Not sure if you have a proper calibrator or not but I have tweaked mine over the last few days so using these settings:

- gamma 1
- custom colour temp; R = 50 G = 50 B = 52
- contrast - 65 with a brightness of 13

Of course, every panel will be different though so these might not look as good on yours..

As I said earlier, the colours look great out of the box anyway so you might not even feel like changing settings!
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Just set colour using the above, will see how it goes. The stock setup is quite bright and harsh on the eyes. Will see how this goes and let you know!
 
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