Where did things get to with this monitor now we're in 2024? now that you can get one for under £1200 is it worth any irritations that remain?
I have a 1440p 34" ultrawide and would like a 49" screen for sim racing
It depends on few things.
1)If you want this more for productivity like having 3 side by side screens or more then I would definitely get this. I cant live without it. To be honest its almost end game for this regards. The text is SHARP. Compared to my 27" 4k its comparable text sharpness, and to 30" 2560x1600 its just much better. Text is buttery smooth and so comfortable to read
2)If you can find one without issues, ie dead pixels, banding, sound pops, ect ect. For what its worth I think every manufacturers has issues but Samsung has a reputation for bad quality control. I think they are personally overblown and you can always just send it back and try again until you find one that's good. They did replace my panel recently when it had a fault. So their customer service is not bad but it could be slightly better. I think for a monitor it should be a replacement for replacement not take your monitor and wait 2-3 weeks for repair man to arrive and then fix it on site. I understand its a very large monitor. But it would be better if they brought a replacement and take that one for repairs. You can be without a tv for 2-3 weeks but not a monitor.
3) would I recommend this as a purely gaming monitor, yes and no. A lot of older games don't support this format and you need a beefy GFX card to play games. I don't think this generation of card is fit for this monitor specially on newer titles. The next 5090 will definitely be a better fit for this monitor. Gaming on this for me is amazing when it works, its so immersive. I honestly cant go back now to something else or another format.
4) colours are not OLED obviously but they are not bad at all. The local diming employed by Samsung is not in my opinion the best implementation. Two issues ,It can be overly aggressive and there are not enough diming zones , 2000+ zones is just not enough. It needs 4x this many zones to get a more finer control which I feel on a monitor is needed but not a on TV. Sometimes you get bad glow around certain items on a only black background. However saying this its perfectly acceptable and useable and not distracting in any way. I feel the immersion and extra space is worth it even with these limitations of the technology.
5) The stand is BIG but it is a big monitor and I feel mounting this on an arm or some other type of stand is best protocol for something this size. Currently only good monitors arms you have to import from USA as I have not seen one available here in the UK. The ergotron arm with the HD mount will require you to jam the HD tilt pivot with something to stop it from sagging downward. The arm can take the weight but the pivot cant. When I emailed them they said they are not sure if they will release a whole new arm or just a a new add on pivot for the monitor. Its an option certainly that works with some adjustment.
6) The infinity lighting on the back is near useless. Its too dim to do anything.
main issue for me are, would still prefer 3-4 inches vertical height and maybe a little wider too and QDOLED. When this thing is released in QDOLED with the adjustments I just mentioned, then I would say this is truly end game monitor. LCD technology on this thing is a SIN in 2024 and I hope Samsung release a QDOLED version of this. I have to give Samsung props for pushing the technology and trying out new things and I hope they get rewarded for this direction they are going. However this thing is not worth £2200-£2500 price range. It should be about £1000-£1300 MAX. If it was OLED then maybe can justify £1600-£1800.
hope it helps
I didn't have it for a couple of days then I could suddenly hear something when I turned my monitor off, but luckily had read about it already.