so this is lg's new 40 inch ultra wide monitor it's curved supports hdr 10 and has a resolution
of 5k 2k and this monitor has been designed to truly unleash your productivity so in
this video i'm going to review this monitor and explain how it's been designed to be the perfect
productivity display so first of all let me explain what i have and how this monitor will
be great for me and then i'll explain some of the key things this thing can do if your setup
is a little different to mine firstly i run a 13 m1 macbook pro i absolutely love this computer i
can take it away from my desk to work in different locations and i can also just have it downstairs
on the sofa when i'm trying to chill now it's more than perfect to handle everything i throw
at it but it's not perfect for work ultimately there's just not enough screen space in that 13
inch display to do everything that i need so it's okay on a one-off but ideally final cut needs more
space than just that screen and then if you're trying to open up other windows whilst using it
it's just a crowded nightmare so for work a separate display is essential for me firstly it is
huge 40 inches transforms my work area i can have everything i need on one screen and not only that
still have large spacious windows to actually get done what i need to get done on the screen it's 5k
2k and has a ppi of about 140 pixels per inch so it is ridiculously super sharp so any sort
of editors out there you're going to be getting a really nice clean sharp image so i have seen some
people with the older macbook pros not having the native resolution defaulted on their screen
now on my m1 macbook pro it did have the native resolution on there so that wasn't an issue for
me so for any reason you've bought this and you don't have that native resolution then you can get
an app and fix that if you need to so the setup of this thing is actually pretty easy the stand goes
together pretty easily with this screw and the monitor just clips onto the base and that's it
on the back we have the power input two hdmi 2.0 ports a display port a headphone jack and
two thunderbolt 4 ports now these thunderbolt 4 ports are great because they allow the sort
of greatest data transfer that you can get on a mac so i can plug that into my mac not only
do i get the display and all of the ports but it also charges my mac at a pretty high wattage too
and then you can use the other thunderbolt port on the back to daisy chain another monitor so if you
wanted to have two of these and sort of double the real estate to 80 inches you can do that too and
if you're not looking to do that you can use it as any other sort of usb c data port if you wanted to
and lastly we get a couple of usb 3 ports on the right hand side of the monitor too now the display
is pretty well built it is mainly plastic but it does feel solid and secure you can
swivel the display 15 degrees either way and there is 25 degrees of tilt adjustment as
well and you also get a pretty generous height adjustment of about 4.3 inches so there's a lot
of flexibility and customizability in this now it supports hdr 10 which is really good
especially if you're looking to edit hdr photos or hdr videos however the brightness of this
isn't the highest so it's not really the best thing to get the most out of hdr movies and games
now you really notice the difference in brightness when i have my laptop open next to the screen i
think i notice if i'm using both the laptop screen and the monitor is that the monitor does look just
a little bit dull in comparison however the color space on this is great it does get 98 of dci p3
and also it can scale back to srgb as well now do be aware if you use those two modes on this
it does make the screen dimmer now i did mention earlier about this being all right for gaming
and for a monitor designed for productivity it actually handles gaming pretty well now
it is only 72 hertz so you're not gonna get that sort of ideal 144 hertz that most pro gamers want
but the response time is okay and with an input lag of only about 7.4 milliseconds this thing
actually holds up pretty well now the monitor does have support for freesync so for games that are
running between sort of 40 and the max 72 hertz it's going to be eliminating any screen tearing
that's happening and there is a black stabilizer feature that can clear up any issues you might
get with shadow detail now i think this handles all those things and motion and stuff like that
fairly fairly well now here's a little motion test video that i've done that gives you an example of
what the sort of motion blur and any ghosting that you might get on this display now this being an
ultra wide monitor does mean that it isn't the default aspect ratio for most games now some games
support the 21 9 aspect ratio so on these games we will get that extra field of view but for example
the xbox and playstation consoles don't support that so if you link one of these up to the monitor
it is gonna either stretch it or you're gonna get two black bars either side of the screen now you
can switch modes and everything using this little thing under the screen and go across to change
your input for example i can change to hdmi one and load up the xbox here you can see i've got the
black bars either side and if i go into the menu i can change some of the settings so i can change
it to have the sort of full wide aspect ratio but it is going to stretch it out so it's not that bad
and it's sort of watchable for most people however i think most people probably just like to keep it
in original now you can change the settings using this little menu that comes up
from pressing the button underneath so you've got all of your picture settings and game adjustments
and all of that stuff in there but also you have this really cool little split screen feature where
you can get two inputs and have them on different sides of the screen so for example you can do this
sort of 50 50 split which sort of puts your mac on one side and console on the other or you can have
a mac on one side and a pc on the other which that works really really well however as you
can see for the xbox that just doesn't really work it doesn't automatically switch that into
the right settings so what you can also do is you can change it so that you can go for
a 16.9 and 5.9 split which that means you will either even get a more squashed xbox or you
can change it to have it the other way around and then you get your normal ratio xbox there
but also your mac that is producing its own little bit here so you can have two things on the same
screen like that and that is a really really nice feature now to add an even crazier level to this
if you have two inputs like a mac and a pc either side of the screen which unfortunately i don't
have with a compatible mouse and keyboard you can use lg's dual control feature and you can have one
mouse one keyboard one monitor and control both the mac and the pc just by having them both on
the screen it's a really cool feature and it actually can transform a lot of people's work
being able to very seamlessly transfer one to the other now the sound the speakers are okay
they actually get fairly loud for sitting at a desk and whilst gaming i found that actually it
sounded pretty good however you can't say that they're the best speakers especially for film
and music so really if you're going to be using this for that purpose you're going to want some
external speakers to plug into this to give you an idea of what i mean here is an audio test of
my macbook speakers the monitor speakers and my edifier bookshelf speakers that i have either side
so how am i using it well firstly i like to make use of the multiple desktop feature that i have
on my mac to help me with this so i run with my laptop open and i like to use the sort of keyboard
and trackpad from that because i just find the trackpad easier for video editing and i like
having the option of having something stay on my laptop screen while switching between my desktop
so i almost have a prep workflow here where i've got sort of safari open for any research i've
got up in the corner here i've got my emails and twitter for if i have any messages i need
to respond to and then i got all my notes on the side here so i can sort of read through a script
and be able to check where i am when i'm recording so then if i do my little sort of three finger
swipe over i can switch desktops and i have final cut open here where i can sort of see a massive
timeline of everything i got a huge little preview display up here which looks really really nice
and then i got a very easy way being able to sort of skip through um all of my footage that
i've got here to be able to sort of put in the right things that i need to put in and then on
the right hand side i still have space for two big finder windows so i can easily move files between
my timeline and what's on my mac or what's on my external hard drive so it's a really really nice
little setup really efficient it means i'm not having to constantly bring up windows and stuff
like that but then if i need to sort of switch between the two and maybe um safari i can just go
across there or i can open up a safari window on the laptop screen here so i'm not even having to
use that so it's a pretty nice little setup and it really complements it by having this huge 40 inch
display on top so what are my thoughts on this monitor it is a great work monitor and if that is
your sole reason for getting this you know photo editing graphic design video editing coding even
then this is going to be a fantastic option for you it's a great piece of kit and it has fantastic
connectivity and great features too i would have liked it to be a bit brighter especially in hdr
but for sort of day-to-day use it is actually okay now if you're primarily a gamer maybe this
isn't for you but if you're going to be just doing a little bit of gaming on the side and you
want to use it for the occasional gaming then it's perfect so guys thank you very much for watching
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