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Someone on Reddit with connections to Samsung was able to get some firmware release notes: https://www.reddit.com/r/ultrawidemasterrace/comments/1akewie/57_g9_firmware_10053/kpkgktj/ That 3-way PbP feature sounds actually really cool. It seems to support 3x 2560x2160 atm. If they were able to...

Seriously? Even on a 7000 series GPU and using DP 2.1? Does it work if you drop down to 4:2:2 or 4:2:0?

Even the Samsung CRG9 would do that and it doesn't have things like FALD backlights. I think it's the LCD being forced into a curved format and requiring a lot of rigidity that makes its plastic behave like that.

Maybe try building regions with Displayfusion? You can use it together with MS Powertoys FancyZones.

A few caveats to this. For example Vivaldi (based on Chromium) seems to limit the popout picture size to about 3/4 of the screen size. Why, absolutely no idea. Another issue is that you lose e.g YT's native video controls with chapter markers and so on. Something like this extension might work...

I hope Apple doesn't have a lock on that tandem OLED tech. I would love to see something like that end up in monitors and TVs to get around those low brightness numbers for larger window sizes.

How far away are you sitting from the QN900C? I owned the Samsung CRG9 superultrawide and the LG CX 48" at the same time and always struggled with the CX's height even at 1m viewing distance. I felt that the top 1/4 of the screen was always uncomfortable to use so I used it closer to an...

In what ways do you feel the QN900C is better?

Reducing chance for burn-in sounds like the plausible explanation. People using these as desktop monitors or playing the same game a lot are likely to cause burn-in so limiting brightness can increase lifespan, which means cost savings during the warranty period. Still sucks that they are doing...

Something like 160-180 Hz would probably be enough headroom for people like me who mainly play AAA single player titles. The only games in the past few years that I've played where 200+ fps were a reality were Doom Eternal and some Like A Dragon games. Almost through LAD: Infinite Wealth, and it...

That's been the overall problem with FALD though. Not so bad in TVs, but on the monitor side. I wouldn't mind if I had my pick of OLED vs FALD monitors in the 1000-1500 euro range, but it gets hard to justify that a FALD is worth 3000+ euros.

I'm knocking on wood because so far I've avoided the dead pixels completely, along with burn-in. Still hoping it lasts until something in the 50-55" size comes out that is an actual improvement. Brighter HDR, higher refresh rate would do it for me, but since I actually use it as a TV, I don't...

My take on the whole glossy vs matte is that I don't care as long as matte coating is not the awfully grainy type seen on some displays. I don't mind the one on my dual Samsung G70A 4K 28" IPS displays. All the other stuff are going to be more issues, but going back to 60 Hz is a tough one. If...

Absolutely. 8K would be better off marketed and designed for e.g programmers, stock traders, people managing a ton of different Excels and so on who need a lot of desktop space for work, and would probably pay for the right product, say a 55-65" Samsung ARK 8K. Instead they push it for "rich...

Scaled Resolution Editor is the best option for anything that uses DSC.

I would expect the 5000 series to silently upgrade the HDMI capabilities to match the 7900 XTX, maybe with a full speed DP 2.1 port unless Nvidia decides to nickel and dime us again. I expect the answer to the second question is no. Samsung is unlikely to have the incentive to support above 8K...

Seems like a typical bullshit review with nothing but subjective opinions almost parroting marketing material.

Yeah I'd probably just try running the pixel refresher manually and hopefully it will get rid of current burn-in instead of waiting for it to have lingered there for longer. Extra 1000h is quite a bit of time after all.

I'd go with #3. We might get 45" 5120x2160 OLEDs in early to mid 2025, so that would solve the PPI issue at least.

I think that mainly says something about how good the CX series was and how disappointing the updates to these have been in the past few years.

That's nearly two years of on time for the display. I think I checked mine after 3 years and it was like half of that. I would just turn the TV off from the remote when taking a longer break so it would run its compensation cycles if needed. I'd need to check where mine is set for SDR OLED...

That might be the best way to go about it. It will be more blurry of course but should give you some idea.

Unless you are using the 57" purely as a gaming monitor, I'd hate to lose that much pixel density. It's the same height as the 57" but much lower res. Remember that DLSS is also dependent on your native res, so DLSS Quality at 4K (or its ultrawide variants) is higher base res than DLSS Quality...

Yeah a lot of nonsense especially in phones. I currently use a Samsung Galaxy Fold 4, and it's a really chunky phone when folded, but it feels fine to hold in your hand because it's quite narrow physically, no wider than an iPhone 12 Mini, just much taller. Phones have gone to complete nonsense...

Probably because it's cheaper to make and ship because it takes less space and weighs less. We have this insane trend of displays, phones and laptops being very thin for no good reason. If you look at reference monitors, they are thick bastards with fans etc. Give me that but in a consumer...

To me it's just headroom. I'm currently playing Like A Dragon Infinite Wealth and on my 4090 that runs at 4K 120 fps with Nvidia DLAA. I could probably push it quite a bit further with DLSS and FG but what's the point if your display can't show those frames? To be fair for anything but the most...

IMO people were complaining way more about the QD-OLED pixel structure issues than anything on the WOLED TVs. At a more appropriate viewing distance of 1+ m scaling becomes even more important.

Totally agree with that. It's a real shame because those OLED TVs are pretty decent as monitors and the text quality on the WOLEDs is IMO not a problem as long as you use a bit of scaling. I can't understand why LG would remove that option other than to try to push people to buy OLED monitors...

I think a lot of people just want one display to do it all. I got the LG CX when it came out because it seemed like the best compromise at the time. I used the 48" CX for two years as my desktop monitor working from home, then moved and decided it was a good size for a living room TV and sold...

I have one of these and when I compared it to my LG CX 48" OLED TV with the same HDR video content. For darker scenes the Mac's screen performed well. It had a bit higher black levels but overall it wasn't possible to see e.g blooming. For bright scenes it definitely looked better and was able...

I expect that Samsung actually develops their own controllers and the other companies use something existing on the market which can't handle the display at above 120 Hz. The panel may be a slightly lower grade one though. I honestly wish there was some real competition in the superultrawide...

Meanwhile I did all the mitigations you mention and my LG CX 48" is still going strong without a single issue after 3.5 years. I only stopped using it as a desktop display because of its size. I went back to dual 28" 4K 144 Hz LCDs for work, and game on the CX in my living room with my ITX size...

You could just keep running games in 3840x2160, or add a custom resolution for 5120x2160. Since most games support FSR these days you could use that, even if it has a pile of issues but it might still be a better option than dropping the resolution.

Or on the flip side, it ends up being something almost no company implements just like a lot of features. We still barely have any physics based simulations in most games, it's messed up that the most advanced physics based gameplay is in Tears of the Kingdom on the Nintendo Switch. AI has huge...

I feel like every manufacturer is the same. Release a product in a kinda crappy state that is good enough that most users won't notice, then release fixes for maybe a span of a year until the cycle repeats with the next gen product being better. Samsung tends to just have the added issues of...

I'd buy one instantly if I could get it at that price. If Samsung can make money on these at those prices, then there's clearly a lot of air baked into their regular prices. Here in Finland the lowest so far has been 2099 € and my workplace's Samsung store page doesn't even offer the 57" model...

I think you are giving them way too much credit. I say it's incompetence, or management not giving display developers enough time to get things right, or to fix anything but major issues later on. TizenOS is a huge pile of crap. Years ago when I had a Samsung TV it was so bad I started using a...

It's been done years ago. Zisworks made a custom scaler hardware for a few 4K @ 60 Hz TVs, that actually had 4K @ 120 Hz capable LCD panels. The custom hardware allowed 4K @ 120 Hz, 1080p @ 240Hz, 720p @ 300Hz, and 540p @ 480Hz. I don't think the panels actually were capable of keeping up with...

The performance expectation for "great" has also become a helluva lot more demanding. We used to be happy when our LCDs could do 5ms response times, now everything is put against OLED response times so basically no LCD is "great". HDR has just made it increasingly more demanding as "oh cool...

That would be the LG Flex. Last month I saw one in a store in Japan and it looked pretty great. Would like them to make an updated version that isn't just a "curvable C2 at 2-3x the price".