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

kmetek · 27 May 2014 at 18:35

how close with keyboard and all are you while playing games? streched arms range?

bakes0310 · 27 May 2014 at 18:48

Thanks mrk that looks great, cant wait to get mine.

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 19:00

mrk said:
Response time is set to high for mine but I don't have a black level or ECO mode. I do have power saving mode but it's off and greyed out as the LG calibration software controls all the OSD stuff during calibration.

Also, post pics!

Ah ok, strange that! Thanks anyway!

I will just turn eco "of" and set black level to "low".

Will do! But of course won't look anywhere as good as your photos!

PCM2 · 27 May 2014 at 19:08

Nexus18 said:
Ah ok, strange that! Thanks anyway!

I will just turn eco "of" and set black level to "low".

Will do! But of course won't look anywhere as good as your photos!

Black level is an HDMI setting. You shouldn't have that option over DisplayPort or DVI, which I assume you are using to get the correct native aspect ratio of the display. :confused:

jigger · 27 May 2014 at 19:29

Any news when the monitor will actually be in stock?

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 19:37

PCM2 said:
Black level is an HDMI setting. You shouldn't have that option over DisplayPort or DVI, which I assume you are using to get the correct native aspect ratio of the display.

Using HDMI

Don't have a display port cable and only got 1 DVI connection on my GPU which is being used for my other monitor (only has DVI and VGA)

Aspect ratio looks fine on my monitor so far with HDMI though :confused:

PCM2 · 27 May 2014 at 19:47

Nexus18 said:
Using HDMI

Don't have a display port cable and only got 1 DVI connection on my GPU which is being used for my other monitor (only has DVI and VGA)

Aspect ratio looks fine on my monitor so far with HDMI though

21:9 support was something that was added to HDMI 2.0 and wasn't there in previous versions of the specification such as 1.4 being used here. You will be seeing 16:9 stretched across the display most likely. These monitors still handle that interpolation reasonably well but things will look even better if you use DVI.

If you have a Dual-Link DVI cable (one may come with the monitor I believe) use it and you should see a difference. What is your other monitor model?

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 19:54

Ah damn! Display port work fine? If so, any particular cable I should get?

My other monitor is the Samsung Syncmaster 930BF, very old!

And I only got a HDMI cable with this monitor.

nashathedog · 27 May 2014 at 19:57

I hope overclockers get's some more um65's soon. I missed that batch and I'm sat waiting on the next, Is there any ETA info?

PCM2 · 27 May 2014 at 19:57

Nexus18 said:
Ah damn! Display port work fine? If so, any particular cable I should get?

My other monitor is the Samsung Syncmaster 930BF, very old!

And I only got a HDMI cable with this monitor.

You could use an HDMI to DVI cable for the Samsung to free up the DVI port on your GPU. But DisplayPort will work just fine, yes. Did a DP cable come with the monitor? If not any simple DP cable of an appropriate length for your setup (OcUK sell a few, some are out of stock though) will be fine.

Lartyconshayo · 27 May 2014 at 20:00

PCM2 said:
Black level is an HDMI setting. You shouldn't have that option over DisplayPort or DVI, which I assume you are using to get the correct native aspect ratio of the display.

oops yes. It was on high when I was using HDMI - on display port now and it's greyed out

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 20:00

PCM2 said:
You could use an HDMI to DVI cable for the Samsung to free up the DVI port on your GPU. But DisplayPort will work just fine, yes. Did a DP cable come with the monitor? If not any simple DP cable of an appropriate length for your setup (OcUK sell a few, some are out of stock though) will be fine.

Hmmm, I think I might have one of those lying around somewhere! If not, I'll just get a display port cable. Thanks

And nope, only a HDMI cable came

kullymontana · 27 May 2014 at 20:04

I THINK WE WILL BE WAITING TILL JULY BEFORE WE SEE THIS MONITOR IN STOCK TO BE HONEST .

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 20:08

Nope, don't have any of those so I'll just order a display port cable.

Thanks again

mrk · 27 May 2014 at 20:22

kullymontana said:
I THINK WE WILL BE WAITING TILL JULY BEFORE WE SEE THIS MONITOR IN STOCK TO BE HONEST .

Bit of a bummer for OcUK to take payment from people if July is the stock date (assumed) though isn't it

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 22:20

This is the backlight bleed on the bottom and top left.

20% brightness:

100% brightness:

Had a skim through some "dark" film scenes i.e. gravity and it rather noticeable.

What do you guys think? Replace or not?

Gerard · 27 May 2014 at 22:29

Nexus18 said:
This is the backlight bleed on the bottom and top left.

20% brightness:

http://i.imgur.com/OxuSEOSl.jpg[/IMG

100% brightness:

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Ww7eDhvl.jpg[/IMG

Had a skim through some "dark" film scenes i.e. gravity and it rather noticeable.

What do you guys think? Replace or not?[/QUOTE]

More bloody white than black if you ask me :eek:

mrk · 27 May 2014 at 22:29

What was your exposure time for that 20% brightness pic?

Here's a shot of mine with phone camera:

I don't see any noticeable backlight bleed but when moving around there is orange IPS glow which as we all know is expected of any IP screen.

Edit*
15% brightness btw (calibrated again tonight).

Nexus18 · 27 May 2014 at 22:38

Gerard said:
More bloody white than black if you ask me

I take that as a yes then

mrk said:
What was your exposure time for that 20% brightness pic?

Here's a shot of mine with phone camera:

[SPOILERhttp://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/temp/rps20140527_222738_785.jpg[/img[/SPOILER]

I don't see any noticeable backlight bleed but when moving around there is orange IPS glow which as we all know is expected of any IP screen.

Edit*
15% brightness btw (calibrated again tonight).[/QUOTE]

Both were 1/10

Yours looks perfect! :(

And yup I get that same ips glow effect when moving around, unfortunately the backlight bleed as shown in the above pics is visible even heads on :(

mrk · 27 May 2014 at 22:41

1/15s for my pic above. Hmm weird. In person mine isn't pitch black as you can still tell there's a backlight there as per the nature of WLED/CCFL backliighting. I would try getting a swap perhaps. What is your contrast set to btw too?