OLED TV and monitor idea!! Please help with this potential setup.

aoaaron · 18 Sep 2019 at 20:44

So guys, my plan is to run an OLED TV from my PC via HDMI and also run an ultrawide monitor, so that I use the ultrawide monitor for web browsing, and general productivity, then when I want to play a game / film / tv show, I can switch to the OLED.

My main issue is I don't know how to set this up. I'll be using the OLED 65'' from my sofa. So Ideally i'd need a long display port cable to run it around the room to my ultrawide.

then I need an adjustible stand on wheels preferably.. which can adjust the stand and height so I can use it from the sofa.

Any ideas on something I could use?

My other idea is to use on my desk a 55'' OLED wall mounted, and then somehow mount an ultrawide monitor using a monitor arm.

However I can't think of a monitor arm which could bring the monitor over the OLED and infront of me for when I use it.

I basically have the ultrawides and TVs.. but I have none of the space and I'm looking for any cool suggestions on potentially getting this to work.

tyler_jrb · 18 Sep 2019 at 20:59

You’d be better off keeping the OLED at a distance in my opinion. On a desk it’s just too close especially of that size.

I have my 55” at around 10ft. And then my monitor on a desk both controlled via long DisplayPort + HDMI cables to my pc which is in my storage cupboard for silence.

If I want to use the OLED for gaming I just enable it in nvidia control panel which keeps how I have it setup. Launch game and done.

With regards to cables I use fibre optic ATZEBE ones. Expensive but massive range and slim. Drives both screens without issue.

sideways14a · 18 Sep 2019 at 21:12

I use an expensive 5m hdmi cable for my 65" c7.

aoaaron · 18 Sep 2019 at 21:33

tyler_jrb said:
You’d be better off keeping the OLED at a distance in my opinion. On a desk it’s just too close especially of that size.

I have my 55” at around 10ft. And then my monitor on a desk both controlled via long DisplayPort + HDMI cables to my pc which is in my storage cupboard for silence.

If I want to use the OLED for gaming I just enable it in nvidia control panel which keeps how I have it setup. Launch game and done.

With regards to cables I use fibre optic ATZEBE ones. Expensive but massive range and slim. Drives both screens without issue.

hi mate. my issue is space.
basically i can't have the monitor and TV next to eachother due to desk space and I can't think of a portable stand which I can put the monitor on.

I'm aiming to sit on the sofa and then just wheel the monitor around to me and adjust it down.. dunno if something like that even exists/.

gt11 · 19 Sep 2019 at 21:22

Hi,

I have a set up similar to what you're looking for and how I get it to work is my monitor is clamped onto a small chest of drawers with an extendable arm and that sits by the side of my sofa and the monitor can easily extend to a good position in front of me. It can also be pushed well out the way for movies on the T.V which is about 8ft away. That's in a gaming room but if it was in my main lounge it may look a little odd, unless you can use maybe a coffee table on wheels or some other peice of furniture that blends better that you can clamp it to, the extendable arm costs about £30 online which can hold upto 7kg but there are stronger ones if your ultrawide needed it.

aoaaron · 20 Sep 2019 at 00:35

H
i mate, can you post a photo of yoursetup?

its a dedicated gaming/home theatre room so a slightly funky setup is fine. My main issue is actually How I can somehow fit a 55 inch TV and a monitor onto my desk. thats proving slightly more difficult.

bemaniac · 20 Sep 2019 at 10:56

Sadly you can't game in HDR on the OLED whilst you have a 2nd monitor activated and plugged into the GPU. Windows 10 disables HDR on multiscreen setups rendering having a really decent TV and a monitor together a bit pointless. I in the end stuck to 1 big OLED.

Also don't get me started on displayport and hdmi and atmos with or without gsync to the receiver problems. Last years £1000 receiver doesn't even do VRR on the oled, you gotta use toslink back to the receiver but then when gaming on the monitor you gotta rewire.

aoaaron · 20 Sep 2019 at 11:41

bemaniac said:
Sadly you can't game in HDR on the OLED whilst you have a 2nd monitor activated and plugged into the GPU. Windows 10 disables HDR on multiscreen setups rendering having a really decent TV and a monitor together a bit pointless. I in the end stuck to 1 big OLED.

Also don't get me started on displayport and hdmi and atmos with or without gsync to the receiver problems. Last years £1000 receiver doesn't even do VRR on the oled, you gotta use toslink back to the receiver but then when gaming on the monitor you gotta rewire.

I might use a hdmi switcher instead then potentially. I just want the monitor as a little browser screen.

This is all just to dodge the burn in tbh

wellibob · 20 Sep 2019 at 16:03

If your going to run very long display port cables or hdmi even, make sure they are of the highest quality possible.

aoaaron · 20 Sep 2019 at 20:12

gt11 said:
Hi,

I have a set up similar to what you're looking for and how I get it to work is my monitor is clamped onto a small chest of drawers with an extendable arm and that sits by the side of my sofa and the monitor can easily extend to a good position in front of me. It can also be pushed well out the way for movies on the T.V which is about 8ft away. That's in a gaming room but if it was in my main lounge it may look a little odd, unless you can use maybe a coffee table on wheels or some other peice of furniture that blends better that you can clamp it to, the extendable arm costs about £30 online which can hold upto 7kg but there are stronger ones if your ultrawide needed it.

Also mate have you ever tried custom resolutioning a 21:9 resolution? If so how does it look?

gt11 · 21 Sep 2019 at 01:57

aoaaron said:
H
i mate, can you post a photo of yoursetup?

its a dedicated gaming/home theatre room so a slightly funky setup is fine. My main issue is actually How I can somehow fit a 55 inch TV and a monitor onto my desk. thats proving slightly more difficult.

Hey,

I have a few pics of my set up in the link below

https://imgur.com/a/cnAHky3

The way i use it is like this,

1st of all both the T.V and monitor are physically connected all of the time.

For gaming only i use the Oled as the only display selected in the Nvidia control panel so you can game in HDR no problem but i will come back to this point in a moment.

For films and basically any other usage i leave the p.c connected to my monitor only (via Nvidia control panel) and i use LG's own app (Smartshare) to transfer films to my Oled via Ethernet (or Wifi) The app works really well and has no problem displaying 4K HDR, Dobly vision films ect..

Now after reading bemaniac's post i tried running a multi-display set up and i did manage to get the Oled to work on Gears of war 5 displaying HDR while having the monitor display the home screen for Win 10 as shown in the bottom pic, i can only assume they have fixed it? So you could still run a multi display if you preferred but i wont tbh as in the grand scheme of things i still think its less messing around with which display will show the game then which will show my browser and so on but that's just my preference.

Also I've not tried a custom res.

Hope this helps

aoaaron · 21 Sep 2019 at 11:14

gt11 said:
Hey,

I have a few pics of my set up in the link below

https://imgur.com/a/cnAHky3

The way i use it is like this,

1st of all both the T.V and monitor are physically connected all of the time.

For gaming only i use the Oled as the only display selected in the Nvidia control panel so you can game in HDR no problem but i will come back to this point in a moment.

For films and basically any other usage i leave the p.c connected to my monitor only (via Nvidia control panel) and i use LG's own app (Smartshare) to transfer films to my Oled via Ethernet (or Wifi) The app works really well and has no problem displaying 4K HDR, Dobly vision films ect..

Now after reading bemaniac's post i tried running a multi-display set up and i did manage to get the Oled to work on Gears of war 5 displaying HDR while having the monitor display the home screen for Win 10 as shown in the bottom pic, i can only assume they have fixed it? So you could still run a multi display if you preferred but i wont tbh as in the grand scheme of things i still think its less messing around with which display will show the game then which will show my browser and so on but that's just my preference.

Also I've not tried a custom res.

Hope this helps

Thats legit awesome.

I'll really need to think this through now. Havee you got the 55 inches? Do you think its useable from a desk distance of say <1 metre?

I know its a 4k screen.. I'm assuming as I'm used to viewing 1440p screens from that distance, it should't be that much of a downgrade PPI wise but I could be wrong.