Samsung 49'' inch monitor (CRG9) release date 22 April and cost about 1.400£

tarsius said:
@Supertaff, thank you.



Do you know the number of dimming zones on this monitor and how they are located on the screen?

Is the monitor capable of turning backlight off on completely black vertical areas (while playing games or watching video in full screen mode with ratio < 32 : 9, for instance)?

Did you try some HDR content?

Photos of the monitor are welcomed :)
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Happy to try those requests, any idea on how to measure the dimming zones, is there an app or similar or is it more complex? Also not sure how I’d go about turning off backlight, will see if I can find a setting.

Had HDR set on one or two of the games, will try to do a comparison, with it on and off and give a view as to difference.

Will also try to post some pictures, can someone remind me how to do this. It’s Been a long while since I posted pictures
 
Has anyone cleaned their screen yet, I have today and its not a bad screen to clean. I use 2 microfibre cloths, 1 damp with water and the other dry, plus a strong flash light to make sure you get all the smears(I'm quite fussy).
 
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Supertaff said:
Happy to try those requests, any idea on how to measure the dimming zones, is there an app or similar or is it more complex?
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You can playback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfT51RV8zs fullscreen, for instance, record the video and then share it with us :)

Supertaff said:
Also not sure how I’d go about turning off backlight, will see if I can find a setting.
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I hope the monitor can do these automatically (maybe with just some minor tweaks in monitor settings).
 
I have mine being delivered on Tuesday. Will be moving from three Asus pg279q's to this. No more bezels. Just have to sell the old three now. Anyone have any idea how much they are worth?
 
Hi guys, I have this monitor only 2 days, but here are my thoughts:
1. It is really a monster monitor :D
2. Colours are pretty good on this VA panel (my Sony TV 55XE9005(X900E) is VA too and has very nice colours and little bit more vibrant/juicy)
3. a) Freesync is working good with low FPS too (CS GO, Metro Exodus), but V-sync must be ´ON´ (the option ´adaptive´ in my Nvidia control panel is missing, thats why I set it to ´ON´)
b) I was testing it in G-Sync Pendulum and had some blinking on low FPS (in games not, or not noticable), with Free Sync ´Standard Engine´ less blinking than with ´Ultimate Engine´ (cca 1x per 10-15 sec)
4. Most of games are stretched on both sides (cca 1/4 - 1/5 of screen left and the same on right ), I dont know if this kind of fish eye can be fixed somehow (propably only with different FOV), but it is not so bad, why I am focused mostly on center of the screen and the good thing is that my view is filled with picture and thats the reason why it is so immersive.
5. Really ideal for working - with activated ´Eye saver´ the picture looks like on e-book reader devices, maybe little bit too dull, but for work with text ideal
6. the most important part, HDR:
a) after activating HDR in Windows, the picture quality for f.e. desktop wallpaper (and for all not HDR content) turns to dull (colours are no more so vibrant), that why I turn it on only before I start the game
b) Local Dimming: It is really an edge-lit monitor (not FALD) and has only 10 or max 12 vertical dimming zones. With the above link (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jfT51RV8zs) I was not able to see the dimming zones on fullscreen in youtube, but I noticed these zones in Metro while loading map. When the screen is black a you have the mouse cursor in the middle, the backlight is actived for whole vertical line. I was expecting bad image quality in games with this kind of local dimming, but I was amazed, cause It doesnt look bad, it looks really nice. That means, if on picture in game is something really bright f.e. on top, the textures on the bottom in this vertical line are not bright too/not so affected with bakclight. Of course, on my Sony TV with FALD (6x8=48 dimming zones) it looks much better, mainly the balacne between light and dark areas. After all I am really satisfied with this panel. I have to do some more tweaking for sure, cause I have it only 2 days, but I recommend it, if you want to have such a huge UW screen. On the ohter side, there will be more options with FALD in the future (Asus, Acer, AOC - 21:9), but these panels will cost more than 2000 for sure. I had a really good deal on this one for 950 Euros and thats the main reason why I bought it.
 
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I think, you have to enable HDR in Windows to test dimming zones in your internet browser. But I'm not sure, since had no experience with HDR monitors.
 
Hopefully getting mine Tuesday, but I just wanted to share this link with current owners. Apparently running it at 100hz gives the full 10bit HDR and looks better. Personally, 120 vs 100 is not significant for me so I’ll be going 100 :)

EDIT: you can get 10bit HDR with 120hz but you gotta enable Chroma Subsampling. Folk seem to agree that the 100hz option looks much better.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidem...tion_again/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
 
Sobtanian said:
Hopefully getting mine Tuesday, but I just wanted to share this link with current owners. Apparently running it at 100hz gives the full 10bit HDR and looks better. Personally, 120 vs 100 is not significant for me so I’ll be going 100 :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidem...tion_again/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x
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Yes, I wanted to share this link too, but you was first :). I´ve tested it yesterday and I saw some improvement in color quality under 10-bit with HDR in Battlefield V. In Nvidia control panel is under 444 only ´limited´ available (Full is not listed with 444). That´s the reason why the best possible option to go is 100Hz/10bpc/RGB/Full
 
Phil2008 said:
Has anyone cleaned their screen yet, I have today and its not a bad screen to clean. I use 2 microfibre cloths, 1 damp with water and the other dry, plus a strong flash light to make sure you get all the smears(I'm quite fussy).
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I’ve used just a microfiber cloth and that seems to have been enough to remove all smears. I’m also fussy and have made a point to avoid touching the screen or letting stray particulate matter hit it.
 
Hi, so after some days of testing I have to say, that I am not so satisfied with this monitor. The reason is, that the HDR is not so good on this monitor. In comparision with my Sony 55XE9005 with FALD (48 zones) it is really bad. I dont know if FALD is the reason here and my TV has 900 nits instead of 1000 on Samsung, but the colors on TV are juicy with HDR too on the whole screen, but on Samsung with HDR are the colors little bit dull in all not so shiny areas. When the HDR is on Samsung disabled, all the colors are super shiny and juicy. I am really sad about it. There are not many options in OSD and the color menu is there with enabled HDR greyed out. On TV I am able to increase saturation, if I am not satisfied. On Samsung it is not possible. One other thing I´ve noticed is that when I enable HDR in Windows and the background become dull, all the white explorer windows are much brighter on TV than on this monitor.
 
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When you are not able to compare it as me with the TV, than you can think that the HDR is pretty good, but once you see it on TV, than you see that difference. Maybe I can tweak it somehow, but for now I don´t know how... Maybe I sell it and buy the ASUS PG35VQ, when it will be available.
 
To be honest, if you thought HDR in the absence of FALD was ever going to hold a candle to a high end screen with it, then I would suggest you didn't do your research. This is a no-brainer, and you basically shouldn't have even looked at the difference lol!

Outside of the £1800 4K 27" models, I think every PC monitor with HDR is a gimmick. Even those ones weren't perfect.

Actually, your TV doesn't have FALD... it's just direct lit with local dimming. But that just highlights how much of a gimmick Samsung's solution is.
 
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