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Don't really mind if people prefer curved, and if I were to build a racing sim or something like that where immersion was the key, I might prefer that as well. But never for productivity. And neither does Samsung it seems, based on the fact that when the viewing angles are not as poor, the need for a big curve seem to go away. That said, if people prefer curved, fine by me.
So is the QN900C and I have also an email where Samsung has confirmed this. Actually getting it to work though...
QN900C has support for 4 multi view "areas" up from only 2 on the QN900B. But there seems to be some incompatability only giving me "not supported" but will try more when I have time for it.
Was able to get the Multi View working but it seems to require disabling Game Mode which also seem to break 4:4:4 which basically makes it pointless for anything text related (at least compared to an actual monitor).
There are additional "weirdness" with dithering etc that comes into play. It is doable but as a monitor nut, it would have to be better than that in order not for me to start looking into alternatives (lika a 4K side monitor). The Multi view definitely seems to be targeted at "video content" which perhaps isn't that surprising.
Just saw this yesterday, looks interesting but probably mega $$
https://www.techradar.com/pro/final...launches-with-the-pa32kcx-mini-led-pro-screen
Oh baby.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/video/news/red-weapon-and-monstro-are-now-available-at-bh
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So if you were a studio videographer and you were editing 8k video, what monitors would you use ?
I've heard the Japanese broadcasters are gearing up for 8k broadcast for the next Olympics.
What monitors are they using ?
And here I just boxed up the Neo G9 57" (almost an 8K monitor) in favor of the QN900C (an 8K TV) as I found the latter to be better in most use cases as a PC monitor, at least for me.
Thanks for the reply.And here I just boxed up the Neo G9 57" (almost an 8K monitor) in favor of the QN900C (an 8K TV) as I found the latter to be better in most use cases as a PC monitor, at least for me.
Of course, neither of them passes the "I am broke" requirement...at least not before you buy any of them
Not sure why you would want 8K on such a small monitor but I completely agree about that no sane person should invest in a 65" 8K TV as a PC monitorThanks for the reply.
I'm not denying some TVs are better monitors that actual monitors for some people. I simply want to plug in my DP cable and go. No messing around with choosing the "correct" HDMI port, setting PC mode, or Gaming mode, or making sure I'm getting 4:4:4, checking refresh rate, playing around with video drivers, or this, than, and the other thing. I'm simply not willing or able (aka smart enough) to fiddle around with TV settings.
I want a monitor, not a TV, because of above reasons.
I want 48" because I have 42.5" now and I'd like just a bit more for an upgrade. 55" probably too much.
I want Dell because they just work and have decent QC.
I want OLED cause obvious reasons.
I want 60 Hz cause that enough for me, no gaming. I'd of course love 120 Hz.
I want under $3k because I paid $1500 for my P4317Q and willing to go up to $3k.
That said, all I do now is to press the power button on the remote once a day (or twice if I don't want to wait for it to shut down on itself when the PC goes to sleep). But getting there involved quite a bit of tinkering though.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not denying some TVs are better monitors that actual monitors for some people. I simply want to plug in my DP cable and go. No messing around with choosing the "correct" HDMI port, setting PC mode, or Gaming mode, or making sure I'm getting 4:4:4, checking refresh rate, playing around with video drivers, or this, than, and the other thing. I'm simply not willing or able (aka smart enough) to fiddle around with TV settings.
I want a monitor, not a TV, because of above reasons.
I want 48" because I have 42.5" now and I'd like just a bit more for an upgrade. 55" probably too much.
I want Dell because they just work and have decent QC.
I want OLED cause obvious reasons.
I want 60 Hz cause that enough for me, no gaming. I'd of course love 120 Hz.
I want under $3k because I paid $1500 for my P4317Q and willing to go up to $3k.
In what ways do you feel the QN900C is better?
Was thinking about doing a summary of that but has not gotten around to it yet. But in short, twice the screen real estate, glossy with no grain, flat, much better viewing angles (even when sitting in the sweetspot of the Neo G9). Surprisingly enough, I found the local dimming and brightness to be better on the QN900C as well, even though the Neo G9 has more dimming zones. Some cons as well, only 120/144hz, no DP port. If you really want a curved monitor there is only one choice of course, personally, I see it as a con for many reasons but not all agree. I also see it as a big pro that even though the 65" is actualy twice as big, it actually has a much smaller fotprint, especially if you wall mount the QN900C.
It should perhaps be said that I don't really consider any of these screens to have 100% usable screen area, at least for things like text, photo editing etc. Unless you have super human vision and can push the monitors far enough away without enabling scaling, the viewing angles are just to extreme. In theory you could probably do it on the Neo G9 if you disregard any form of ergonomics but at least I would never see that extra area as anything but immersion and perhaps having a video running or similar. For work, I see the QN900 as perhaps 6k3k and the Neo G9 as 5k2k, the rest I would mainly use for a video i glance at occasionally, performance monitoring etc.
I really did not test this more than running a few games and compare them in side by side, expecting the Neo G9 to be better, so should probably let Rtings etc do a more scientific review here.
I feel the same, the Neo G9 is better here, but as there really isn't something that can drive it for the time being, I don't really value it that high.
Perhaps you misunderstood me, to me, curved screens is mainly about marketing and hide poor viewing angles. But I know that some people feel very strongly about curved monitors so I file this under personal preference, mine to be precise
One thing multiple (at least cheap monitor vs a big cheap one) has, out of the box able to run a fullscreen application without hiding the rest, is there a software solution to this ?
Power Toys Fancy Zones is what I use but you also have Display Fusion.
As I recall it, Multi View (Samsungs PIP/PBP) did not work with PC in game mode (needed for 4:4;4) which kind of made it useless for anything but video/TV.
A that could be the way.
It is good to manage windowed application, but did not find a way for being considered different monitor when it come time to fullscreen. Say have you achieved for one zone of a multi fancyzone setup to containt a youtube video after having press the fullscreen button ?
How far away are you sitting from the QN900C?
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.
Thanks, that would make one of the common scenario for me (I often have many sport events on the side monitors at the same time during the playoff season and those streaming site often have a lot of extra ads all around in non fullscreen mode).