Samsung is no stranger to releasing giant OLED displays that seem like they could swallow you whole. But the Odyssey OLED G9 is looking to completely take over your desk as the «world's first» 49-inch OLED monitor. I spent some time messing around with Samsung's new OLED display at a private hands-on event, where I kept asking myself if I were ready to become an ultrawide guy. And honestly, I think it's time to ditch my dual monitor setup and go wide, baby.
The Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 is a 49-inch curved ultrawide with a dizzying 32:9 aspect ratio (5120 x 1440 resolution) and 1800R curvature. The first thing you'll notice about the G9 (aside from how freaking wide it is) is how thin it is. The display is about 4.5mm thick, so even though you've got a lot of screen to look at, it doesn't take up a lot of space.
The RGB light ring in the back of the display also has a trick called CoreSync, where the lighting will match the dominant color on the screen, giving a nice ambient lighting effect, as you'd see with something like those cool GoVee light kits or Philips TVs.
The Odyssey OLED G9 is what's considered a «dual-quad HD» display which is essentially like having two 1440p monitors sitting side by side. It also uses Samsung's Neo Quantum Processor Pro chip, an AI processing chip that uses deep learning to upscale the images properly to their resolution. It is a feature on its Neo QLED line of 4K and 8K TVs like the QN90B we checked out last year.
The G9 has a refresh rate of 240Hz and a stellar .03ms response time. This makes it on par with all the current gaming OLED displays on the market right now. Seeing a game like Doom Eternal or Forza Horizon in action is a real treat, albeit it's easy to get a little
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