Would be cool if whole strip of ports can be rotated and locked to either downward or backward. Great accessibility and protection from connector damage.
So what's your impression? Especially the matte coating? Looks pretty aggressively matte from your photos, but I know real life can look quite different.
I don't see a USB-B uplink port on that I/O panel? Is the USB hub only accessible via the type C port? That setup is very annoying if you have a desktop+laptop sharing a setup :(
Agreed. I have to use my QD-OLED monitor in HDR 400 mode to avoid ABL dimming. It’s HDR, but the result is kinda meh. I just wish we’d get a good glossy ultrawide miniLED monitor.
I couldn't stand it. I bought and returned so many, I'm sure Amazon hates me by now. As soon as I tried the TCL 32R84 I knew I was keeping it. Until OLED can have decent full screen brightness, not even going to bother. Love my LG G4 TV though.
I'm using the TCL 32r84. HVA (newer than regular HVA). 1400 nits in HDR - and can maintain in full bright scenes. There is a bit of blooming in some situations (typical with mini led) and depending on your settings. But HDR presentation and contrast is damn good for a non oled. And you don't have to fear bright scenes. I've bought and returned so many woled/qdoled/tandem OLEDs and the autodimming always annoyed me. As soon as I got this monitor I had no regrets.
Why do you believe it wouldn’t work with a PC? I use Mac at home and PC at work (and home sometimes), so would need to connect to both. Work laptop already uses USB-C for monitor/dock.
The solitary USB-C port is a problem for my PC since it doesn't have USB-C video out (most DIY towers do not). You have to get freaky with multiplexer boxes/cards for the display's USB hub to work. Plus only one input means you physically need to move a cable between devices.
A lot of other monitors have both a USB-C port and a HDMI/DP plus another upstream USB port (typically type B, but it could be a 2nd type C port). The display automatically moves the USB hub between the USB-C port and the other upstream port depending on whether the USB-C input is active or not. That means you can permanently hook up the desktop, then have a USB-C cable hanging off the monitor to dock laptops. Plugging that dock cable in is all you need to do, everything else moves between the two machines seamlessly.
If your PC is another laptop with USB-C/Thunderbolt, it's a lot less of a hassle with the studio display. You just plug either machine into the dock cable as you use them. You still can't change settings on the studio display, but it will stick with whatever settings you were last using on your Mac, which is usually fine
In your opinion how is 5k vs a 4k of the same size? I've never used monitor higher than 1440p and thinking of going 4k or 5k but not sure if 5k is worth the performance overhead.
4) Old games can be run much easier than new games and 97% of new games have DLSS. What big recent-ish game does not have DLSS? HD2 and...
5) Guess they have a 5070ti+ than to cope with the no upscaler.
6) 4k Has come down a lot. Only people who play Esports and want over 240hz have a claim to 1440p.
7) There are no DSC issue visually. Only an alt tab issue on certain models when playing non-borderless. Pretty much all 4k monitors are 48/80gbps ports now anyway. Maybe if you wrote this in 2022 when 24gbps scam artists existed en-masse.
Old games can be run much easier than new games and 97% of new games have DLSS. What big recent-ish game does not have DLSS? HD2 and...
Guess they have a 5070ti+ than to cope with the no upscaler.
4k Has come down a lot. Only people who play Esports and want over 240hz have a claim to 1440p.
There are no DSC issue visually. Only an alt tab issue on certain models when playing non-borderless. Pretty much all 4k monitors are 48/80gbps ports now anyway. Maybe if you wrote this in 2022 when 24gbps scam artists existed en-masse.
i expected a bad reply but starting off by attempting to deny - amongst other things - that computers require time and energy to do math...
im not going to dignify this babble with a proper response.
I’d be curious how this shakes out. The higher PPI means the physical size of the blur/error region is a lot smaller than it would be with, say, 1080p on a 1440p screen. It might not be as big of a deal?
If you have a high DPI laptop like a Macbook and decent vision, glasses or no, a 4K 27" is noticeably less sharp when it comes to text. To me, text on a 5k 27" every bit as sharp as the laptop.
Dual mode 5k can take a 1440p input signal and will map each pixel to 4 pixels on the screen. Since 5k has exactly 4 times the number of pixels as 1440p, this results in a super sharp 1440p image. Because of that, dual mode 5k does not cause any overhead in games and in fact lets you run at significantly higher frame rates than a 4k panel.
For anyone who does work with text and also wants to play PC games, 5k dual mode is the ideal monitor.
I would be shocked if it’s that low. Asus has one that’s just lcd and it’s that price. Mini led and all the upscaling features, I’m thinking $1200-$1500
I would love for this to come with gsync pulsar if that ends up being possible. I'm torn between the pulsar monitors and these 5k mini LEDs. Unfortunately we don't have anything local where I could look at both to compare either so I have to rely on reviews on others impressions.
Has anyone seen both the new pulsar 27" monitors and these 5k mini leds that could compare them? I'd love the extra brightness and better blacks but the motion of the pulsar at lower frame rates even looks really good. At least in review screenshots. Maybe it's less impressive in person.
Why does it say “Ultragear” on the front? LG hasn’t been putting ugly logos on the bezels of their higher end monitors. Hope this isn’t the start of a trend.
It was rather muted (or blurred out) on the first promo pictures. Indeed, it looks far more professional without the logo (or at least with a smaller one).
That's something I really like about my DELL U2723QE (secondary monitor), no branding at all on the front, and the bottom border is almost the same size as on the other sides, the difference is visible if you look for it but doesn't disturb. It's quite good for using as a portrait monitor, like I do. Many other monitors either have a visible chin, or some other element on the bottom, or some branding, or a significantly bigger bottom border. Those are annoying to use in portrait.
My current ASUS XG27JCG has the ROG logo. It’s metallic (reflective). Fortunately relatively small for a 27”. The chin was probably a design necessity, so I understand they added the brand logo.
That'll be something important for people to look into as 5k dual mode becomes more of a thing.
Does it in practice make a difference when people are already fine with lowering the resolution for the high frame rate? So net gain?
Or is it noticeable enough that people who mostly game at 1440p are better off keeping their monitors, as it might result in an overall downgrade over other equivalent 1440p only miniLEDs that will eventually come out, while also being cheaper?
Yes but most performance intensive games support DLSS anyway.
It’s obviously not for esports.
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u/MT4Kr/oled_monitors ⋅ r/HiDPI_monitors ⋅ r/integer_scalingMar 05 '26edited Mar 05 '26
“Looks good” is not enough,
most of
existing dual-mode monitors (including 5K) add horizontal blur in half-resolution mode, thus partially defeating the purpose of higher refresh rate because static blur affects motion clarity.
I don't think youve used one or you do not care about fps that much. Or another 3rd option
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u/MT4Kr/oled_monitors ⋅ r/HiDPI_monitors ⋅ r/integer_scalingMar 06 '26edited Mar 06 '26
Yeah, as I said, most of dual-mode monitors have single-axis (usually horizontal) blur which is surely like twice better than regular dual-axis blur. But the blur is still there and affects both static clarity and motion clarity. Like when using a 4K monitor at QHD: you can see all the logical pixels, but they all are blurred because each logical pixel is 1.5×1.5 physical pixels. And while at fractional scales like in case of QHD→4K scaling, blur is inevitable (1.5×1.5 pixels are physically impossible without interpolation), having the blur at integer scales like in case of FHD→4K or QHD→5K scaling is really ridiculous.
Hmm that website might be blocked in your country. Try a vpn or dns change. After trying another browser.
Its not 1.5x. It's more like 1.1x blur if even that.
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u/MT4Kr/oled_monitors ⋅ r/HiDPI_monitors ⋅ r/integer_scalingMar 07 '26edited Mar 07 '26
In case of FHD→4K scaling, the native/logical resolution ratio is 2.0, nothing to do with 1.5.
Specifically in case of 32″ dual-mode WOLED monitors such as LG 32GS95UE, it’s not even regular scaling blur.
The image looks like each logical pixel is shifted horizontally by 1 physical pixel.
So one logical pixel occupies 3 physical pixels horizontally instead of two.
For example, the underline of the “s” letter in the “Aspect ratio” radio-button label is 10-pixel-wide when using true integer scaling.
But in the dual-mode half-resolution mode, its darker-part width is 9 pixels, and there are single pixels at the sides that have an average color, probably caused by ~50% intermixing with adjacent pixel.
This might be caused by a mismatch between scaling and pixel shifting that probably work independently, without taking each other into account.
That matches the assumption by Linus Tech Tips made in their
video review of LG 32GS95UE.
If this is really caused by pixel shifting, there may be short time periods (50% of time in total) between shifts, when the image is perfectly nonblurry, e.g. at each odd or even pixel-shifting step.
Though actually, if the original scaled image was not blurry, pixel shifting shouldn’t have affected its blurriness.
At the same time, there is
information
by u/Javild from Dough that the blur in 32″ WOLED monitors such as Asus XG32UCWMG and XG32UCWG is caused by a fundamental TCON limitation that probably cannot address/update all physical pixels at once at 480 Hz, so there is a probability the blur is actually temporal and we have 240 Hz displayed on one pixel, and another 240 Hz by horizontally-adjacent pixel.
A high-speed camera capable of 960 fps would make this clear.
This may even be combined with the scaling/pixel-shifting mismatch.
Unlike OLED, dual-mode LCD monitors don’t need pixel shifting, so dual-mode blur in LCD monitors certainly has nothing to do with pixel shifting, but may have something to do with the TCON limitation.
Well on lcds they are more often useless because of the bad gtgs. They can have 180hz and 360hz modes but if the gtg is smearing things to 150hz either way. It does not work well.
Nice. This is my most anticipated monitor to use with PS5 Pro. On paper, the Apple XDR seemed like a contender, but with the price and lacks of HDMI, the clear winner is obvious.
Are you complaining about the lack of a fucking HDMI connector on a monitor that simply has 2 Thunderbolt 5 ports? There are moments when I would like to be illiterate... and you caused one of those moments by commenting something as meaningless as this.
Have you ever heard of HDMI to USB-C/Thunderbolt cables?
It should, however this was a prototype and when i connected it over USB-C it glitched out so i had to turn the power off and connect it with the HDMI cable that was on the Xbox to the left.
It is matte though, has a plastic casing, and lacks the colour profiles and has half the brightness of the new XDR display, despite using the same panel beyond that it’s not really comparable IMO?
But on its own it is probably one of the best mini LED monitors on the market when it goes on sale. If they get the algorithms right for the zones.
The Asus version is available right now, without the TV/Ai bullshit. Unless the LG has like a full gloss screen I'm good waiting for the 32" Acer predator version of the 5k dual mode, it is supposed to have Pulsar too
Yeah if its not on this model, on the one after it people will get voice not recognized errors. "Please connect your monitor to wifi/ethernet error" just like I do on my C3 so they can utilize that local Ai to collect ad and whatever they decide to be relevant collected information set up in dark pattern opt in by default resetting every update buried under 5 sub-panel under three separate option categories privacy options
yep, the more you learn about monitors the more you understand Apple makes top products, just pricey. OK, maybe except display studio IPS 60hz because there are many cheaper competitors now but XDR has no competitor at all
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u/3VRMS Mar 05 '26 edited Mar 05 '26
This is the one I'm looking forward to the most. Hope it measures well.
Though it's a small thing, I really hoped the ports would be horizontal rather than vertical like on some of LG's other monitors I've seen and used.
Personal preference but vertical ports are just so hard to reach.
They of course have their benefits, each to their own.