@PCM2,
@Baddass
Guys, when may we see reviews of the monitor?
While not a review in the sense of other more experienced users, I can give a personal opinion on this monitor.
I’ve had mine from last Thursday, and have been using it for around 6 hours a day since then as I work from home so use it most of the day.
From a physical size perspective, it’s a bit of a beast and you will need a big desk to hold it. The monitor comes very nicely packed with reasonably good instructions on how to put it together. You need to put the back support and leg on prior to removing it from the box, then you tilt the box so that the monitor rests on the stand and from there you can remove the box from the front leaving the monitor free-standing on the floor. I managed to do this on my own, but would be easier with two people.
Once on the desk, it was then a matter of connecting up the cables, the monitor comes with two power cables, one UK, one European. One HDMI cable, One display port cable, one USB cable (to extend from desktop/laptop to USB port on monitor). Here there is a downside, the ports are hard to get at from underneath to get the correct angle to place the cables into the slots. Also there is a thin black plastic cable cover to cover all the ports and allow the cables to exit the back in one neat manner. The exit hold though is in a position that means the cables are twisted hard and seem to pull on their connections.I’ve left the cover in place at the moment, but tempted to take it off to not strain the ports.
Once all the cables where in the monitor I then connected the display port to my main gaming rig with a 1080 card inside. The monitor was instantly recognised and the correct resolution was set. The screen looks magnificent straight away, the colours are bright and rich, and the curve of the screen makes a slight twist of the head necessary to see the whole end to end of the screen, though it feels natural and you don’t get any feeling of distortion in the image. I was using a 2011 iMac as my second screen before this one so the update for me is very large, might not be for some others on this group.
In terms of games compatibility, I’ve not found one that doesn’t work. I love playing F1 2018 on this screen. X-Plane 11 works great though had to change the FoV Stettin to get the best views out of the cockpit. Far Cry 5 give so much more perspective, DCS World works great, Company of Heroes 2 works well for an old games. I’ve tested and played others and so far even with this resolution and high settings, I don’t seem to see much drop off in frame rates.
I’ve also been messing around with Premier Pro as I wanted to start to learn this now I have this monitor, well, as you can imagine with a screen of this size and resolution, video editions becomes a thing of dreams, there is so much space to have all the different panels available and to see what’s going on in your timeline. I can see me doing lots of video work on this monitor.
For normal work, I regularly have 4 windows up on the screen at one time, email, skype, word, and powerpoint and there is enough real estate and resolution to make them easy to use together on one screen if you need to parallel process multiple apps at one time which is a normal use case for me and not to have to switch apps makes life so much easier.
I also tried to use this from my works Lenovo minimum spec laptop, and again it works great at the full resolution even though it must have a basic gfx card in it. Only downside for me with the laptop is when i close the lid the laptop forgets the screen and I have to re-arrange all my windows again. I’m sure there is some software out there to fix this.
I tried connecting from my Mac Book Pro (touchbar) and as the monitor doens’t have a USB connection I tried an adapter to connect the HDMI to the USB, this has not been successful and all I get is a very pink screen with my Mac screen display pink and blurry, could be the adapter or something else, haven’t tried anything further to diagnose as yet.
I also find that the monitor doesn't seem to wake up correctly when I’ve put my gaming rig to sleep and then bring it out of sleep, i have to using the little nobble on the bottom to switch the monitor off and then back on again.
In terms of screen colours, I’m no expert here, but the colours seem very natural all over the screen, there doesn’t seem to be any changes in colours across the screen or any breakdown in pixels that I can see at this point. I’ve left the screen at it’s default setting and am yet to set different profiles for each of the three profile buttons on the bottom of the screen.
So, all in all, I’ve extremely impressed, the screen works in exactly the same way I want it too and I’m a very happy customer and at £1249 it seems an absolute bargain to me for what you get for your money.
I’m typing this on a train as I have to be away for work for a couple of days and I’m dreading having to use an office 24 inch monitor for two days instead of my 49 inch beast.
If there’s anything specific anyone would like me to test/review, please let me know and I’ll do my best to provide information.
Cheers to OCUK for the monitor, very happy customer as always
Taff
