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

crazyswede said:
I guess it would also be nice to do if you have more than one monitor and you want the colours to match on the 2 or 3 monitors?
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I always get the hibbyjibbies when I see people with multiple monitors and there's a visible colour difference.

I always calibrated by eye, although after reading up on hardware calibration I can see how silly that is. Especially if you have tungsten lighting.
 
mrk said:
By eye... I just imagined you with your face glued to the screen chanting "calibrate calibrate calibrate" :D
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:D

If I was not diving next week I would probably have driven over and bought one. Would only been able to use it on my gaming PC and not on my Mac Pro 2008 8800GT. Would probably be nice with a new iMac in the fall as a second monitor shared with the gaming PC.
 
mrk said:
For the most accurate colours you plug in a calibration device and run the software and let it calibrate the screen. All screens are different and panels shift over time so re-calibration is recommended every few months to account for panel shift. In the CCFL days the backlight would shift and fade too but with LED backlights these days that's less of an issue.

You don't need one if you're not doing colour critical work but it's nice to have one anyway as you get the most out of a screen like this or any IPS screen really. you pay good money for a nice monitor, it deserves to be displaying accurate colours.
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Thanks, I was more wondering what this "hardware" calibration the monitor supported was.

Does it make a difference if the monitor has hardware support.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
I always get the hibbyjibbies when I see people with multiple monitors and there's a visible colour difference.

I always calibrated by eye, although after reading up on hardware calibration I can see how silly that is. Especially if you have tungsten lighting.
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That is pretty much my problem now, however...regardless of calibration I was under the impression the colour difference is not something I can negate as it is down to differences between the monitors themselves.
 
If this was cheaper and I didn't already have a 1440p monitor I would absolutely love to have one of these, but the price needs to be lower as 4K monitors cost £500.
 
pudsley said:
Thanks, I was more wondering what this "hardware" calibration the monitor supported was.

Does it make a difference if the monitor has hardware support.
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From what I've read a monitor with a hardware lut can produce higher quality colours with less or no banding Indeed I've not seen any gradient banding yet. My U2713HM had minor banding in some colour gradients by comparison.

The other big benefit is that the calibration doesn't rely on GFX card and as such doesn't need am ice profile to tell the GFX card what to send to the monitor. During the calibration process you don't need to adjust anything on the osd either as the software does all that for you them locks the osd the settings for those areas from accidental change.
 
Nexus18 said:
For some reason mine wasn't shipped yesterday.....

So won't get it till Tuesday at the very earliest :(

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Glad to hear you got a good one pudsley :)
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Sorry for the OT but....

I know that you have returned a monitor to OC and they (DPD) are due to collect my Ultra widescreen LG tomorrow for a refund.

Do DPD provide a sticky label for the outer box...?
 
Doogles said:
If this was cheaper and I didn't already have a 1440p monitor I would absolutely love to have one of these, but the price needs to be lower as 4K monitors cost £500.
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Poor TN panels with people reporting signal loss, and drops, along with electrical popping, washed out colours compared to IPS, and horrible viewing angles, not to mention graphical glitches on Macs?

Sounds like a super deal. :P There's also the scaling issues for people in windows. Doesn't seem appealing to me anymore at all.

Considering the price of an Apple Cinema display, this LG is far better, than it, other 1440p's and the TN 4K's for me. :)

I look forward to it arriving, and then I can glue my face to it, checking for pixels, light bleed, and calibrating.

mrk said:
By eye... I just imagined you with your face glued to the screen chanting "calibrate calibrate calibrate" :D
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So finally took the plunge (albeit from the rain forest) on the 34UM65. Decided the premium for the 95 wasn't worth it and as I mentioned previously for the money saved I'll keep my 1440p Samsung and have both :) -Samsung for day to day real estate and LG for games/blu rays.
Plus returning to said rain forest is easy as pie if needed.
Should hopefully be here later in week!
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Poor TN panels with people reporting signal loss, and drops, along with electrical popping, washed out colours compared to IPS, and horrible viewing angles, not to mention graphical glitches on Macs?
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I have the Samsung 28" 4K monitor and the colours do not appear to be washed out once you drop the brightness from its default of 100%, there's no electrical popping, and I'd have to drop my eye level to well below the level of the desk to have any problems viewing.
 
People who have calibrated, how much of a difference was there between your calibration and the (mostly decent) Cinema preset? If I remember correctly, the reds look a bit different between the LG and my wide gamut HP and I'm not sure which is more accurate.
 
In what apps? Wide gamut screens are pointless and useless in anything but colour managed apps like Photoshop and then only once properly configured and in the relevant proof mode based on what you are doing.

In all other apps and inputs all colours will not be accurate in accordance with sRGB.
 
Hi all.

Well i got the UM95 on Saturday. I've had a couple of days to play around with it and I must say I love it. Coming from a 1440p Dell 27 incher I was keeping an open mind about the form factor. I'd never seen such a monitor and knew I'd either love it or hate it.

More importantly all the games I play have supported the resolution natively. Even a few of the older ones work. Amazingly even Lego Marvel Superheroes, played by my 5 year old, supports the higher res natively. This was a big deal for me as I don't like black bars. I can only presume that games from now on will support the 21:9 format as it seems to be growing in popularity.

Quality wise it's absolutely fine. There were no screws in the box for the stand which caused a moments panic but they were a standard size and I found some in my toolbox. Still annoying though. So far no light bleed of any noticeable description and no dead pixels. I've not calibrated the monitor and not sure I will tbh. I'll probably get flamed by the purists here but it looks fine to me. In fact colour reproduction looks nearly identical to my U2711. My eye is not trained at all in this department so the reality is everything is probably way off but as I said, for me it looks lovely!

Lastly input lag is not an issue. I believe this panel is 5ms and frankly I don't have a clue what the Dell I had was but gameplay wise for me nothing has changed other than I can see a whole lot more of my surroundings which is a real bonus. I sit about 2ft from the screen and the edges of the LG just about reach my periphery when i sit right in front of the screen which really adds to the whole immersion thing.

So in conclusion I'm very happy. Obviously it's not a cheap option but in all honesty it's the size and form factor which does it for me. If I were coming from a 1080p screen I think the 34" 1080p variation would be amazing too though i am sure some folk will just not like the form factor. It is very different to what I thought was normal.

If you are sitting on the fence then I say sod it and jump in. If you think you want it then you probably do!!

Just discovered that currently no Blizzard games support 21:9. Doesn't really bother me but looks like, in true Blizzard style, that they don't care much about changing what they think is best.
 
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Good post bmad, mine is coming today at about 5:00pm. I have the same 27" dell monitor as you. Great monitor very impressed with it, but Im ready for something bigger:D
I was gonna wait and set it up when my new rig is built, but I think sod it and do it now. Expect pictures later tonight.
Im actually not sure if my 670 has display ports, will soon find out tonight.
 
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