Sunday, January 8th 2023
LG UltraGear Unveils the World's First 240 Hz OLED Gaming Monitor
LG UltraGear at the 2023 International CES showed off the world's first gaming monitor with a blistering fast 240 Hz OLED panel. An in-house development by LG Display, the LG UltraGear OLED 45GR95QE is a 45-inch ultrawide gaming monitor with a 21:9 aspect-ratio, 3440 x 1440 pixels native resolution, an 800R curvature, and a surreal 240 Hz refresh rate with 0.03 ms response time. It supports both G-SYNC and FreeSync Premium to help it twiddle its thumbs while it awaits new frames from your GPU. The display takes input from HDMI 2.1, and features a high-performance DAC + headphones amplifier along with support for DTS Headphone X. For these and more, the monitor bagged a 2023 CES Innovation Award.
35 Comments on LG UltraGear Unveils the World's First 240 Hz OLED Gaming Monitor
Unfortunately, it was awful as stupidly LG put a mate finish on the screen.
It's funny, I was just commenting yesterday on some other article that I wish there were more 42-45" monitors, especially ultrawides, but that an ultrawide at 45" would need a 5120x2160....
Can we get more 27-34" models that we can put on a desk, please?
Is it too much to ask for a 5K2K 21:9 gaming ultrawide?
It's not as if the AG coating magically makes a screen usable in a room with glare, either - It just makes the experience a little bit less terrible.
Some want a 4K 27" flat, others a ultra widescreen 21:9 but with a 1440p lines (3440 x 1440), others a 32" 1440p OLED,...it's never ending.
I think having OLED 27" 1440p is what a lot on TPU asked for, it won't please anyone but it's all about pleasing the "MOST", creating a screen supply chain for each consumer's desires, impossibles.
Here that 45" screen, I don't know feels way more like a "call product", a demonstrator that only few will purchase rather than a viable LG solution..
Sitting in front of a low quality monitor is very harmful for the human body. I guess they never calculate the healthcare expenses associated with the issues.
I am on a 35" 3440*1440 (106.55 PPI) monitor and this looks good in term of characters at 100% scale. It could be a little bit sharper but this is fine.
I'm planning to switch on a 42.5" 3840*2160 (103.67PPI) because i want more work surface and i don't really like the 1440p limitation vertically especially.
I'll lose just a bit of PPI but i consider that this is fine, because the monitor will be a little farther from me.
Ideally i would prefer going for a 5k Ultrawide (5120*2160), but there aren't much on the market for now. Why ?
I think this is the best future spot for monitors and i would prefer that the brands work on this instead of going with crazy useless refresh rates.
For example this is what a 5120*2160 (5K Ultrawide) would give :
45" 123.49 PPI
48" 115.77 PPI
50" 111.14 PPI
55" 101.04 PPI
What about making a 50" VA 5120*2160 Curved 144Hz with mate plastic and with no useless RGB Rogue like feature at a correct price ?
And all this about PPI like it would mean anything without the viewing distance, I sif about 1.3/4 ft from 92ppi and unable to see individual pixels or the grid between them. Sitting like 2,1/2 ft (about the center of the R800 arc) from 82 would be about the same.
- 5120x2160 (21:9)
- 5120x2880 (16:9)
- 5120x3200 (16:10)
I mean... how many 3440x1440 one could possibly release...