LG to Introduce 34-inch IPS 21:9 UltraWide (Model UM95) monitor

Nexus18 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:13

Thanks mrk! Good to have you back

I don't have a calibrator or specific calibration settings so I am just using the cinema preset mode as supposedly it is the closest to a properly calibrated screen, however, I find the image to be too dark i.e. can't see enough detail in the shadows/darker areas, not sure how well this will come across:

But the parts highlighted in red are the grooves I am talking about. If I up the gamma to 1.10, they are more visible but with the completely default cinema preset setting, you can't make the parts in the red circle out at all (well you can if you look closely enough....)

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Also, you notice the darkness/gamma quite well on these forums with the black/grey stylish theme, with cinema preset, the theme is more black than the "supposed" dark grey colour

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PS. what "ratio" setting do you use? In the OSD menu.

mrk · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:19

Yeah the cinema preset seems to up the contrast in the shadows in an effort for that "cinematic" feel for movies. I don't know if the colours are accurate or not but personally I'd just leave it on default and manually adjust the OSD RIB values only as best you can. Maybe have a reference photo that you know well so can visualise the scene and will be able to tell if the colour looks a bit off.

Nexus18 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:27

Ok, will try manually calibrating by eye again

I wish calibrators were much cheaper!

mrk · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:29

They are! Though that one only works on certain LG screens

Nexus18 · 20 Oct 2014 at 18:31

Don't remind me!

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 13:59

Just had one of these from OCUK and the box it arrived in was mega beat up. Also its a July build rev 0. I'm kind of thinking I'm doomed as thats going to have none of the firmware fixes etc and has probably already been RMA'd once right?

Anyway not plugged it in yet, but my heart sank when I saw it was quite early rev0.

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 14:15

So set it up now. Some bleed on bottom right but not sure its worth worrying about. Anyone know what the firmware addressed though as I want properly functional thunderbolt dock etc and if its missing fixes thats going to annoy the crap out of me...

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 14:32

Actually I'm not sure it can be rev0? The rev0 is part of the sticker on the back that looks like it was manufactured into the sticker, not printed on it (its on the bottom right). The build date just doesn't seem consistent with that given that rev02s were being built in May, and this is a July.

Anyway will have to wait until the evening to see if backlight bleed is acceptable. My first impression is thats its ok for me, the IPS glow is definitely more noticeable!

Going to be interesting to see how well it works as a mvm for my macbook and pc.

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 15:19

Ok now a question. Is there a way to turn off the blinking standby light?

mrk · 21 Oct 2014 at 15:26

Yup, in the OSD

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 16:10

mrk said:
Yup, in the OSD

Where? There is a power LED option, but its already set to 'off'.

mrk · 21 Oct 2014 at 16:19

Ah just reread, the standby led. That is always blinking to denote standby. Manual turn the screen off?

This is normal for all modern screens iirc.

DanH · 21 Oct 2014 at 16:22

yeah I guess it is, but with the large plastic led prism it is way too bright! oh well. I guess it distracts from backlight bleed

Actually really pleased with it so far. Plugged in the macbook pro over TB and it all seems to work. New PC got delayed until tomorrow so then I can connect a pc via display port and see what 2x980gtx can do on this baby. Exciting!

Divine Pain · 21 Oct 2014 at 16:40

DanH said:
yeah I guess it is, but with the large plastic led prism it is way too bright! oh well. I guess it distracts from backlight bleed ...

Is it really that bright?? I dont find it that obtrusive :S

delpy8 · 21 Oct 2014 at 21:43

Hi guys currently thinking about getting this monitor but have a few questions, what rev should this be as a few posts back someone mentioned some fixes and what's it really like for gaming? I play planetside 2 mostly

Matson · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:58

Whats the best method to downsample from the res of this monitor on an AMD card these days?

I don't really know what the next res is on an ultrawide screen from 3440x1440. Is there anywhere you can find higher ultrawide resolutions so I know what res I would downsample from?

What do you other guys with this monitor and AMD cards do to downsample?

I did it a long time ago on my old monitor but that involved using a hacked monitor driver which I don't really want to do now.

mrk · 21 Oct 2014 at 23:26

I dabbled in downsampling but failed to get anywhere so gave up

N19h7m4r3 · 22 Oct 2014 at 00:28

Divine Pain said:
Is it really that bright?? I dont find it that obtrusive :S

I find the little bugger to be blinding at night. My computer is in my bedroom and that blinking can drive me bonkers some nights.

delpy8 · 22 Oct 2014 at 13:38

hi guys anyone know the current rev of these as Im just about to buy one

Divine Pain · 22 Oct 2014 at 16:30

If it bothers you that much then all it takes is a 2 second long press :/

I got the Rev0.1 Manufactured in August. And I got it in the first week of October there abouts. No problems from mine apart from the obvious IPS glow but that doesnt bother me during use. Someone purchased one after me and got one manufactured in July so, I dont know how that works...