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About a year ago I started lusting after Ultra Widescreen monitors. I rock three 24" monitors and they're great, but it's honestly a bit much, the bezels are annoying, and their width gets in the way of my nice speakers, etc. There's a ton of little benefits I gave up to get the huge benefit of all that screen real estate.
The truth is I don't use it all either. I basically leave 1/2 of each side monitor unused. So the normal Ultra Widescreens are almost one and a half the width of one 24" monitor. I had a hard time deciding if that was enough or not. It probably would be without the bezels since my windows wouldn't be chopped in half.
But I was unsure so I waited, knowing the price would come down and I was getting excited about a luxury. Somehow today I came across the next level of this rush: The SUPER Ultra Widescreen:
Look at that. It's exactly twice the width of a 24" widescreen monitor. So instead of 1920 x 1080, it's right at 3840 x 1080. Instead of 16:9 aspect ratio, it's 21:9 (if I'm remembering right). It's got a pretty serious curve built in too.
That's the 49" Samsung QLED CHG90, at $1500 USD.
I'm not looking at this for gaming, and I doubt many games can even manage this. But movies are definitely starting to use this aspect ratio. I'm mainly thinking about a more sensible screen set up. Instead of three, I'd be down to one without bezels.
I'm thinking out loud but let me be clear, I'm not buying this beast. I just wanted to share it, because it's insane.
For instance, one of my 24" screens is 22.5 inches horizontal. This thing is 47 inches horizontal, including the curve. My three monitors are 57 inches across in their "turned in towards me" orientation, so that's not even really helping me out to cut down on the width. I'll likely end up with a bigger ultrawide monitor sooner or later, probably bumping up to 1440p.
Here's a video that shows it in a real world situation a little better (Skip to about 50 seconds):
And another:
Anyways, I just wasted a good hour looking at all this crap. Do any of you use an ultra widescreen monitor? What's your current monitor situation like? Does this appeal to you?
The truth is I don't use it all either. I basically leave 1/2 of each side monitor unused. So the normal Ultra Widescreens are almost one and a half the width of one 24" monitor. I had a hard time deciding if that was enough or not. It probably would be without the bezels since my windows wouldn't be chopped in half.
But I was unsure so I waited, knowing the price would come down and I was getting excited about a luxury. Somehow today I came across the next level of this rush: The SUPER Ultra Widescreen:
Look at that. It's exactly twice the width of a 24" widescreen monitor. So instead of 1920 x 1080, it's right at 3840 x 1080. Instead of 16:9 aspect ratio, it's 21:9 (if I'm remembering right). It's got a pretty serious curve built in too.
That's the 49" Samsung QLED CHG90, at $1500 USD.
I'm not looking at this for gaming, and I doubt many games can even manage this. But movies are definitely starting to use this aspect ratio. I'm mainly thinking about a more sensible screen set up. Instead of three, I'd be down to one without bezels.
I'm thinking out loud but let me be clear, I'm not buying this beast. I just wanted to share it, because it's insane.
For instance, one of my 24" screens is 22.5 inches horizontal. This thing is 47 inches horizontal, including the curve. My three monitors are 57 inches across in their "turned in towards me" orientation, so that's not even really helping me out to cut down on the width. I'll likely end up with a bigger ultrawide monitor sooner or later, probably bumping up to 1440p.
Here's a video that shows it in a real world situation a little better (Skip to about 50 seconds):
And another:
Anyways, I just wasted a good hour looking at all this crap. Do any of you use an ultra widescreen monitor? What's your current monitor situation like? Does this appeal to you?