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Seriously considering replacing my Sammy 4k for one of these, review dependent 
** POTENTIALLY THE BEST GAMING MONITORS YET!! ** Acer 34" Ultra-wides
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If you hate ips glow/bleed then go VA tbh, I get very very little on the ones I've had!!
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Dont see the point of taking pictures in a dark room. I don't game in a dark room and watch movies on a 4K TV.
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I do game in a dark room.
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Bad for your eyes. 
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Dim room with bias lighting is the best. 
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4K............
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4K would bring his system to its knees
Dim room with bias lighting is the best.
I'm sure you've mentioned this before, but how are you creating your bias lighting, an an owner of a U3415W I'm sure it would be beneficial!
So I'm in the market for a ultrawide monitor, and I'm looking at one of these but a couple of things are putting me off.... the possibility of Acer's usual substandard build quality and QC issues, but more worryingly the terrible warranty and replacement policy.
Specifically, dead pixels: http://www.acer.co.in/ac/en/IN/content/dead-pixel
16 dead pixels is apparently fine in Acer's book...even on a monitor of this cost, where as 1 dead pixel would drive me insane... so i think this one's out for me unfortunately.
Specifically, dead pixels: http://www.acer.co.in/ac/en/IN/content/dead-pixel
16 dead pixels is apparently fine in Acer's book...even on a monitor of this cost, where as 1 dead pixel would drive me insane... so i think this one's out for me unfortunately.
Yeah Acer suck for QC and warranty... even though you do get certain protection under the Sales of Goods Act which many people don't realise. Unfortunately though, if you want an ultra-wide with G-Sync, there isn't any other option until Asus release their PG348Q.
Yeah that's the other one I've been looking at... from what I've read it wont be available till next year? But hey, i can wait
Yeah that's the other one I've been looking at... from what I've read it wont be available till next year? But hey, i can wait
Definitely next year at the earliest, what with the sweet time Asus take with releasing monitors! People are still waiting on the PG279Q which was announced forever ago, and there's still not even an official release date for that. I personally reckon it will be near summer for the PG348Q, and by that point we may be hearing rumblings of the next gen DP 1.3 monitors, which would certainly give pause for thought about buying the Asus.
Ideal monitor would be 144hz IPS with ULMB, 5K ultrawide so we can have high res applications but switch back down to 1440P UW for gaming while maintaining pixel scaling. For that we need windows scaling fixed and DP1.3. Make it 38" as i have about that much room.. 
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Ah as I feared, I really wanted it not to be a pile-o-crap
You can't charge a premium price for a product and not expect people to want it to be perfect.
I'm sure Acer will try and explain it away as "first bad batch" or something, my level of confidence in buying a 21:9 monitor at the moment is pretty much ZERO!
You can't charge a premium price for a product and not expect people to want it to be perfect.
I'm sure Acer will try and explain it away as "first bad batch" or something, my level of confidence in buying a 21:9 monitor at the moment is pretty much ZERO!
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