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

[phiiil]

What sort of graphics card am I looking at needing for a decent gaming experience if I were to lose my mind temporarily and buy the 34UM95? I have a Sapphire HD 7970 Ghz Edition at the moment which laughs heartily in the face of everything I've thrown at it in 1920x1200 but I'm not sure how it would cope with 3440x1440. I really really can't afford to buy a new graphics card as well at the moment but I don't like playing games on lesser settings...

 

[Energize]

21:9 so that will be smaller than a 34" 16:9 monitor, it almost feels like going backwards, want to watch all your movies that are in 16:9, enjoy pan and scan or black bars again like the 90s.

 

[phiiil]

You're missing the point slightly. The increase in productivity that this extra wideness allows more than makes up for some black bars when watching TV/movies. As a professional tool I can't fault this monitor from what I've seen of it so far. Proper widescreen movies (2.35:1 or whatever) will also look magnificent.

 

[rolypolyman]

Jesus I really want to order the 29" LG UM65 but........if I new the bleed problem was fixed I would, as long as Ocuk deal with the warranty, cant trust LG. What about the AOC Q2963PM 29" Professional Super-Wide is that worth a punt?

 

[MNA24]

Hi All,

Been following this thread for a while due to the reports of bleeding issues, I've snapped a picture (pitch black room about 2 metres away) of my 34UM95 to get some opinions:



The most noticeable area is in the bottom left in the form of an orange tinge / glow, which is only ever noticeable in very dark scenes in film/games. It does seem to mostly go away when I look head on at where the glow/bleed is located. Visible glow/bleed gets worse the closer I move towards the screen. Everyday usage of my PC it's not visible or noticeable at all. I'm a little on the fence as to if I should do anything about it?

 

[rolypolyman]

That's IPS glow isn't it, not backlight bleed.

 

[MNA24]

That's IPS glow isn't it, not backlight bleed.

That's what i'm not sure of

 

[pudsley]

Does anybody own a 34UM95 and an X-Rite Colormunki?

Pretty annoyed I spent £800 on a monitor with hardware calibration, £118 on a display calibrator (as recommended here) and the two do not work together.

True Color Finder recognises the Colormunki as "i1Display Pro", try as I might I can't get it to see it as a Colormunki and when I try to calibrate I get "Failed to establish communication with the Calibrator".

I get the same bleed issues as MNA24, it's not IPS glow as distance and angle make no difference unlike MNA24 I can look straight at the corner and it's still there. I can't seem to get a decent black out of the monitor anywhere as the bleed is so heavy the center is off colour slightly. Funny how these models have the bleed in exactly the same place, heavy in the bottom left, along the top on the right hand side and a little in the bottom right.

Hoping to improve it with calibration but even that is proving pointless since I can't get the calibrator and the monitor software to work together.

 

[N19h7m4r3]

The colormunki should work, I've seen people calibrate with Spyder 4 as well.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1479950/...trawide-qhd-34-inch-monitor/670#post_22445315

calibrated my LG34UM95 today with the Spyder 4 Pro and its so much better than out of the box. Really loving this monitor!

Although the Spider 3 apparently doesn't work either.

http://forums.macrumors.com/newreply.php?do=newreply&p=19187373

A friend of mine borrow me his Spider3 color correction, but I can't use it with the True color software that comes with LG. It ask me to plug the USB (I have connected) and no luck.

 

[mrk]

Aren't you the member who had issues getting even the Xrite software talking to your system?

I've got the i1Display Pro and the Munki is the exact same probe so the selection in true colour finder should be fine as Pro, that and others elsewhere have the same probe without issue!

 

[MNA24]

I get the same bleed issues as MNA24, it's not IPS glow as distance and angle make no difference unlike MNA24 I can look straight at the corner and it's still there.

The orange tinge does go away for me when i look head on in the bottom left corner, but there is an ever so slight whitish glow which I assume is back-light bleeding, but its so slightly it doesn't bother me. It's just the orange glow i was having an issue with but i guess that's just IPS panels doing what they do.

Hoping to improve it with calibration but even that is proving pointless since I can't get the calibrator and the monitor software to work together.

I've calibrated mine with a Spyder4, it has made an improvement for me mainly because the overall brightness has been reduced.

 

[pudsley]

The orange tinge does go away for me when i look head on in the bottom left corner, but there is an ever so slight whitish glow which I assume is back-light bleeding, but its so slightly it doesn't bother me. It's just the orange glow i was having an issue with but i guess that's just IPS panels doing what they do.



I've calibrated mine with a Spyder4, it has made an improvement for me mainly because the overall brightness has been reduced.

Maybe that is IPS glow, personally I'd say that makes IPS panels poor technology, not actually sure what the benefit is when I get a better picture on a cheap 27" I bought 7 years ago.

Yes the colours are better, but the black is just, well...crap.

Anyway, to anyone thinking of buying a calibrator for this monitor steer clear of the colormunki, there are people over on Hard forum who cannot get the Colormunki to work with truecolor finder despite the fact that it has drivers and should work I've all but given up, the flamin LG software refuses to recognise it as anything other than an "i1Display Pro" which it isn't therefore it won't communicate with it.

Kept all the packaging, hopefully the Rainforest will allow me to return it.

 

[Energize]

You're missing the point slightly. The increase in productivity that this extra wideness allows more than makes up for some black bars when watching TV/movies. As a professional tool I can't fault this monitor from what I've seen of it so far. Proper widescreen movies (2.35:1 or whatever) will also look magnificent.

As a professional I find that multiple smaller monitors that fit within one's field of view are much better for productivity. Due to the nature of window positioning and the number of applications that will change window size sporadically and work better in maximized mode.

 

[mrk]

Multiple monitors will never offer 1:1 colour between each display even post calibration simply because all panels are different and can only be matched to a certain amount as close as possible - For photo editing it makes sense then to work on a single large display but where portrait images are concerned dual screens with one in pivot portrait is better.

I don't miss dual displays, 34" 1440p @ 21:9 is the way forward, productivity improvements depend on the user and their usage but for me it's better all round and calibrating and working with one big display is the biggest bonus. That and multiple screens can't beat this:

 

[pudsley]

Aren't you the member who had issues getting even the Xrite software talking to your system?

I've got the i1Display Pro and the Munki is the exact same probe so the selection in true colour finder should be fine as Pro, that and others elsewhere have the same probe without issue!

I did bitch a lot about the software because I had no end of problems with it.

The Colormunki software always worked with the calibrator I just could not get the LG True Color Finder to talk to it. X-Rite must have done something to this probe (firmware update maybe? though it does look identical to the more expensive i1Display Pro). The LG help manual actually shows them selecting "Colormunki", this probe simply will not communicate when selected as "i1Display Pro".

Even thought maybe I'd caused the issue by installing the Colormunki software first even though I had stripped it out. So I plugged the monitor and probe into two other systems in the house and installed true color finder, same result, unable to communicate with calibrator.

I had another issue whereby I could not get the True Color Finder to initialise but I found that to be that the True Color Finder does not support triple monitors, remove one and any combination of two monitors works fine.

Anyway, whatever the issue is I can only find people who cannot get the colourmunki to work with True Color Finder therefore it's pointless pulling my hair out over it, all is well as it seems the rainforest will refund the unit, I'll pickup a Spyder 4 Pro for the same price which quite a few people have used on this monitor.

Of course when I return the unit I will probably find out it's an issue with the monitor itself and by "Calibrator" it meant the monitor calibrator, still I can';t enable the calibrator in the monitor OSD, it stays off and if I try to turn it on it tells me to run the software and that will enable it.

 

[Tephnos]

I would honestly just get the i1. The spyder is absolutely awful at black levels.

 

[Rofflay]

I was looking at one of them they are £179! But i noticed something a bit cheeky here someone bought one and used DSR over the software haha? I only need to use it once to check out gamma and color temp and maybe take a reading or two, No LUT or nothing on the monitor i have.


Would someone even rent it? Loan with deposit? I can't say i would be overly enthusiastic myself about loaning one unless i rented them like a shop or something.

 

[Energize]

Multiple monitors will never offer 1:1 colour between each display even post calibration simply because all panels are different and can only be matched to a certain amount as close as possible - For photo editing it makes sense then to work on a single large display but where portrait images are concerned dual screens with one in pivot portrait is better.

I don't miss dual displays, 34" 1440p @ 21:9 is the way forward, productivity improvements depend on the user and their usage but for me it's better all round and calibrating and working with one big display is the biggest bonus. That and multiple screens can't beat this:

I prefer standard multiple standard monitors for photo editing because aside from the fact that SLR images are 3:2 which is more suited to a 16:9/16:10 display, I can have a grid of photos on one display while actually editing photos on the other in Light room for example, while on the 3rd display I can be managing the files that have been output. The difference between two monitors that are the same model is negligible for all intents and purposes and doesn't really matter with such a setup anyway.

 

[mrk]

^ I was the same but really, the grid on one side and the Lightroom window on the other of the 34" 21:9 and the edit space and view space is near enough the same as on a 27" 1440P monitor. My setup with one of the 34UM95 was almost exactly the same as how I had it with a 27" 1440P and a 24" 1920x1200 in portrait mode. The only difference is that photos in portrait mode are smaller since I don't have a portrait monitor on the side any more.

Btw for those Colormunki issues, what version of True Color Finder was being used? Mine says version 3.1.3.

 

[mrk]

^ I was the same but really, the grid on one side and the Lightroom window on the other of the 34" 21:9 and the edit space and view space is near enough the same as on a 27" 1440P monitor:

Spoiler

(^Just with a 4 or 5 grid width to give more priority to the develop window, I didn't span it across fully in that pic).


My setup with one of the 34UM95 was almost exactly the same as how I had it with a 27" 1440P and a 24" 1920x1200 in portrait mode. The only difference is that photos in portrait mode are smaller since I don't have a portrait monitor on the side any more.

Btw for those Colormunki issues, what version of True Color Finder was being used? Mine says version 3.1.3.