The Art of Curvature: A Deep Dive into the LG OLED 42-in Flex Monitor

As I gazed upon the sleek design of the LG OLED 42-in Flex monitor, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. The monitor's curved shape seemed to beckon me, inviting me to explore its capabilities and limitations. With a gentle touch, I adjusted the curvature to my liking, finding that 35 degrees was perfect for me. However, I soon realized that the curvature wasn't the only aspect of this monitor that set it apart from others.

The motorized panel, which allows for smooth adjustments to the curvature, is truly a marvel of modern technology. With a simple drag, I could adjust the curvature to my heart's content, exploring its effects on the viewing experience. However, this feature comes at a cost – the monitor's price tag is significantly higher than that of non-motorized panels, making it a significant investment for any consumer.

One of the primary concerns I had with the LG OLED 42-in Flex was its gaming capabilities. As someone who spends hours immersed in games, I knew that the monitor needed to deliver exceptional performance and response times. Happily, the monitor's HDR mode is off by default, but I'm pleased to report that it still delivers excellent picture quality. The motorized panel also features a 1ms response time, making it well-suited for fast-paced gaming.

In terms of burn-in protection, the LG OLED 42-in Flex has implemented a range of measures to prevent this issue. Pixel shift and pixel sweep technologies work together to repair any potential burn-in issues, ensuring that the monitor remains free from ghostly imprints. This is particularly reassuring, given the monitor's high refresh rate of 120Hz.

As I continued to explore the monitor, I couldn't help but think about its value proposition. While it may not be the most affordable option on the market, the LG OLED 42-in Flex offers a unique combination of features that make it an attractive choice for those seeking a high-quality gaming experience. The motorized panel, while expensive, provides a level of flexibility and convenience that's hard to find elsewhere.

In recent years, I've had the opportunity to work exclusively with Ultra-wide panels, which have become my go-to choice for display needs. However, as I delved deeper into the world of 42-inch monitors, I found myself drawn to the LG OLED 42-in Flex. Its large size and high-quality display made it an attractive option for those seeking a bigger screen without sacrificing too much in terms of mobility.

In fact, one of the primary benefits of the LG OLED 42-in Flex is its ability to bridge the gap between monitor and TV technology. By offering a 16:9 aspect ratio and a high refresh rate, this monitor provides an excellent viewing experience that's well-suited for both gaming and general use. The C3 OLED panel itself is also noteworthy, providing a level of brightness and color accuracy that's hard to find in other displays.

While I'm excited to put the LG OLED 42-in Flex through its paces, I do have some concerns about its long-term viability. Microcenter, which supplied this monitor for our review, mentioned that many units have been sitting on shelves for months or even years without moving. This raises questions about the market demand and the monitor's overall value proposition.

As I concluded my time with the LG OLED 42-in Flex, I couldn't help but feel a sense of appreciation for its unique blend of features and capabilities. While it may not be the most affordable option on the market, this monitor offers a level of quality and flexibility that's hard to find elsewhere. Whether or not it will prove to be a worthwhile investment remains to be seen, but one thing is certain – this monitor has left an indelible mark on my perception of what a high-quality display should offer.

LG OLED 42-in Flex: A Long-Term Review

As I begin my journey with the LG OLED 42-in Flex, I'm eager to explore its capabilities and limitations over time. With a focus on long-term performance and reliability, I'll be putting this monitor through its paces, testing its mettle against some of the toughest gaming content out there.

My plans for the next few months involve putting this monitor through a series of tests, from fast-paced games to extended periods of use without turning it off. I'm particularly interested in examining how the pixel shift and pixel sweep technologies perform over time, as well as whether or not burn-in issues arise.

In addition to exploring the technical aspects of the LG OLED 42-in Flex, I also want to delve into its overall value proposition. As a consumer who's spent years working with Ultra-wide panels, I'm eager to experience the benefits and drawbacks of this monitor. Will it prove to be an ideal choice for gaming enthusiasts, or will it fall short in some critical areas?

As I continue my review of the LG OLED 42-in Flex, I'll be sharing my thoughts on its performance, features, and overall value proposition with you. Whether or not it will prove to be a worthwhile investment remains to be seen, but one thing is certain – this monitor has already left an indelible mark on my perception of what a high-quality display should offer.

A Word from Microcenter: The Monitor's Place in the Market

Microcenter, which supplied this monitor for our review, mentioned that many units have been sitting on shelves for months or even years without moving. This raises questions about the market demand and the monitor's overall value proposition. While it's difficult to say whether or not this is a widespread issue, it does highlight the importance of considering the monitor's place in the market.

The LG OLED 42-in Flex may be an attractive option for those seeking a high-quality gaming experience, but its price tag is undoubtedly a barrier to entry for many consumers. As I continue my review, I'll be exploring whether or not this monitor offers enough value to justify the investment.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys J2 sense here and we're at Micro Center here in Tustin California as you guys know is our local store um today I well last time we were here I talked about the fact that I wanted to kind of change up my monitor setup at work and at home and I sort of showed you guys what I wanted to do with that before we get over there and kind of show you again if you've missed that video and get it back to my studio and set up I wanted to show you the monitor section cuz I feel like this area of people's setups and builds don't get enough love and if there's any place in the world you could possibly go to see how every month monitor looks next to each other it's going to be microsite the vonic x24k LED projector is the world's first projector designed for Xbox consoles featuring screen sizes up to 120 in Native refresh rates up to 240 HZ built-in Harmon Card and speakers and low latency gaming modes the x24k gaming projector from vsonic delivers a truly customizable experience for both gaming and HDR Cinema to see our full length video covering features and user experiences follow the links in the description below so the cool thing about the store here in Tustin this is a modernized store what I mean by that is it has Chang like where I'm standing right now used to be the original like build your own and where the pre-builts and stuff for but it's all been redesigned and remodeled so a lot of the store designs might be a bit different but the more modern stores will be like this where they have every single monitor like skew that they sell out on display and then it's also like separated by brand so for instance over here at the very very end of this kiosk we've got the alien wear endcap which has not just their monitors but their desktops there um over here we got Dell a lot of people don't know Dell actually sells monitors remember the Dell ultr Sharps were one of the very first like professional grade monitors you can get for like video editing and and Photoshop and stuff they got the Asus wall over here so everything from the Asus lineup to the Rog lineup remember Rog is technically a different brand with Asus so they're all on display um this is the pg42 uq uh we had this mon monitor actually actually no this is different this one's very thin see this is what's nice about this is you can come over here and kind of like touch and feel and look at these monitors now the only downside is the fact that they're all sharing a split signal as you can see so that sometimes can degrade some of the quality um but at least gives you an idea of what it size looks like what its base is like um just how it looks in person they're all going to be in like a display mode which is usually like super Dynamic very bright poppy colors and contrast and stuff um but it's better than just kind of looking at it in the box right so we got curd monitors this is the one that we used to have right here this is the PG 38 uq no I had the 42 uq but this one's like way fatter than the other one so you can see that right from the front in like an image you can't tell but from the side you can see how much fatter this monitor is versus the other one so let's take a look at uh the other side I'm curious what the LG panels have on display because the panel I'm looking at for working home now isn't actually an LG panel but it Bridges the gap between TV and monitor which I think is starting to become blurry these days in terms of that crossover Tech making it so that you can have larger format screens without all of the compromises you have to make with a TV so let's look over here so you can see all the LG monitors are on display um obviously your g-sync monitors your free sync monitors they're probably mostly going to be freesync LG tends to really kind of lean into freesync more than g-sync I mean although a lot of freesync panels these days are validated for g-sync um um but whether or not it's official right cuz that's an Nvidia owned thing or whatever um uhoh their maffy has expired another really popular brand you tend to hear about these days is Acer uh Acer's been around for a long long time not just with desktops but obviously with panels so it's just nice to be able to see everything um on display now yeah like I said when it comes to the quality of what you're viewing obviously with there a split signal like this and all of them being in kind of like their store mode or super bright Dynamic modes it's not going to give you the best representation of what the panel looks like but you can see things like off Vie access like whether or not it's going to start to invert colors or you know that's more of a TN thing most of these panels these days are all IPS or even VA um VA is kind of bridges the gap between TN and IPS but IPS cost has come down so much now almost even cheap panels these days tend to be IPS um but you can kind of get an idea of maybe this uh curve is a little bit too much for you is a th000 r curve too much is a 700 r curve just right that maybe you decided you thought you wanted a curve panel and now you don't just by looking at it so the nice thing about having all this stuff on display is the fact that you're not just guessing by looking at an image you are actually looking at it yourself speaking of looking at it let's go look at what I got my eyes on my th000 R curved eyes so the audio video aisles here at Micro Center they may not be like Magnolia centers at Best Buy and stuff but they have a pretty good selection of different types of TVs so this is a LG OLED Evo C3 um this is what is the size this probably like an 85 in or 86 in something like that or that says 77 that could be a 77 might be 83 it's hard to tell in a big open store right but again everything's on display so you at least get an idea of what it looks like um you get an idea of its thickness which I think is really important when it comes to TV shopping right cuz you could rotate the TV a little bit and you can actually see now the depth you can see the layout of the input for like the hdmis uh or even output for like Arc Channel or whatever and see like how close can you get it mounted to your wall you going to have any sort of issues with trying to put a a TV or a vesa mount on or TV mount or Vasa mount on this and get it mounted up where you need it to I've actually had quite a few TVs caused me a problem in the past because I wasn't paying attention to where the cable inputs and outputs and stuff were and were interfering with like different mounts I had so it's kind of nice to be able to see that speaking of mounts as you can see if you need a wall mount for a monitor a TV a flex Mount doesn't matter they've got full motion mounts the whole deal oh and they're on display right here I didn't even realize this so you can actually see the mounts on display which is kind of nice I think these are the kind of things that most people forget about with their setups especially if you're building a game room or something it's probably going to be a TV in there but here's what I'm looking at this is the lg42 LX 3Q 42-in class OLED it's a 4K HD Smart LED TV it's an OLED even though it says LED it's OLED but um it's basically it's kind of like built upon the flex panel that we've seen on LG's gaming panels and even the Corsair Xenon which is an LG panel as well the difference with this is actually 4K so I've been using the Cor a Zenon Flex for a while ever since it came out in fact mine's an engineering sample so it's got a little bit of quirks with it because it's not a full retail sample but mine's an ultra wide not a 16x9 and for resolution sake I kind of want to go back to 16x9 um it is curved just slightly I don't know what the arc rating on the curve is it doesn't really say I forgot this one is adjustable it doesn't have the pop out handles this is the motorized one but uh the fact that I can have both The Best of Both Worlds and with it being 4K the text will be sharp the problem with having the 1440p ultra wide 42 in I think it's 42 in that I have now is at 1440p the teex starts to look a little blocky so I'm looking forward to getting the OLED depth of color as well as the uh the sharpness to go along with it it is extremely pricey though at uh two grand it's extremely pricey at two grand however this is going to replace um at home anyway this is going to replace the Soundbar and such that I'm trying to get rid of uh because it has built-in speakers here the downside with it all the electronics and guts of the TV are in a separate base whereas the panel is just the panel and it's got wiring built in through the mechanism to to control the panel so that means you can't like wall mount it basa mount it or anything like that it has to use its base and be on the stand um in terms of inputs and outputs though if we look we've got multiple um HDMI on here 1 2 3 4 HDMI so I'm going to have to make sure I have a high-speed HDMI cable I'll probably pick one up while I'm here just to make sure I have the right one one because running 4K up to what is it 120 HZ needs a high-speed HDMI like display port would be best but because it's technically a TV HDMI is all you're really going to find on it but because of the fact that they have so many of the built-in gaming features and functions now with all of the high-end processors and the TVs now you don't have the input lag and latency you have gaming modes which actually turn off a lot of the post-processing stuff the built into a TV to get rid of any sort of that input lag um and I it's just kind of right now the only way you can get larger than say a 32in TV or or monitor or an ultra wide monitor is you have to go TV so stuff like this exist to sort of bridge the gap which really makes it good uh for both worlds but at this price though this is where people immediately going to be like that's ridiculous and that's why I'm going to use it now to see whether or not it truly is ridiculous the downside is I want two of them because I want one for home and because the base and everything's attached to it I don't think I'm going to be able to fit two of these boxes in my car because we have three people in the car and I can't pull the seats down in the back damnn I wish I had my roof rack on the car now you imagine this all strapped out on the roof okay so I grabbed the flex we're going to take this to the car see if I can even fit two of them if I can I'll grab two of the flexes I think a lot of people are familiar with the C3 the flex is really designed as a gaming TV so I'm really excited to see how this does considering the fact that you know uh Jeremy here at the store was telling me like a lot of people don't even come look at it for the use of gaming so that's why I'm really excited to try it out is it a product that LG should have never made or is it literally like an unsung hero that people don't even consider because the price itself is so high and ridiculous like I this has to be Dual Purpose like I think people using this would have to be using it as a TV as well having maybe a console hooked up to it having your your set top box hooked up to it your computer literally being one thing to to provide for everything it's two grand is a lot of money though we may not even fit one nailed that I should have brought the truck well maybe through a little bit of uh creative Tetris and maybe some unsafe people riding on the roof of a car on the freeway in Southern California uh shout out if you saw that and honked at us uh we didn't really do that so don't think that anyway we got it back to the studio so here it is uh we're going to kind of do a quick unboxing and then we're going to talk about why maybe people aren't buying this panel like honestly this panel is is neat but uh it's very unpopular in the sense of sales numbers so let's just kind of get through the unboxing it's like suction cing itself suction cing suctioning ction suctioning okay it's basically going to have all the same crap like You' expect with the TV so you got your remote control in that bag you've got your um the power cord is actually built into the panel it doesn't unplug you've got these two panels which I'm not entirely sure what they're for yet they're little plastic covers haven't figured that out yet we'll take a look in a sec um remember this is not able to be Vasa mounted or anything so I'm not too sure what these are for but there they are so I got two of those made a comment to LG a long time ago and again it's important to note this is not LG sponsored in any way um Microcenter sponsored this video but I made a comment to LG a long time ago I'm like you guys should make OLED TVs that have all the specs and stuff we want out of a monitor and they were like oh no no no we probably would never do that sure guys anyway um so as you can see it's fully assembled already nothing to put together no vase amount because of the fact that the base and everything is part of the thing it doesn't come apart right so here's the power cable as you can see it's like hardwired into the TV just dangling out um oh I guess those panels maybe go right here yeah they go there to cover any of the cables okay that's cool all right let's get it out of here um I've already showed you guys the connectivity and stuff oh something else that it also includes uh in that little package over there is IR sensor extension cable so that you can uh actually put the IR sensor somewhere else if you want maybe under the desk or something so if you want to work the remote from somewhere else I'm not sure why but here it is right here so it's the IR extender cable which is kind of neat I guess if you need it and then it's just got a USB a to USB a we should hook two USBS to itself I what happen if we did that charge of charger that's just because there is a USB hub kind of built into this sort of um all right let's get it out of the box okay um so obviously there's no swivel on this at all and you do get a few degrees of tilt adjustment like maybe 10 down and five up at the best not much and if you take a look at the back you can see it has this this wire channel built in they do give you extras of these little plastic covers one that can go there one that can go here um that way if you are running an coax seal to this for whatever reason maybe from a set top box or something has a land port for Wired land it also has wireless built in and then we've obviously got our four hdmis as you can see right here one of them is an arc channel so if it's hooked up to a receiver or something you can send the cuz it does have web OS built in which is nice because if you're going to use Netflix or Hulu any of that sort of stuff Apple TV then if this one even has Apple TV some of the LG panel TVs don't have Apple TV and some do it's really weird and some have HBO Max and some don't it's really weird or just max now they call it um and obviously we have our USB hub right here as I mentioned and then we have two USB inss so this would just be for like plain Media or whatever as a USB in device so there's that there's nothing entirely too crazy about it oh also to this right here these are LED strips so these light up and they give you some functions to be able to connect them well not connect but just have it respond to the colors happening on the screen kind of like those immersive LEDs like you'd find on Big Picture panels on the wall um kind of hard to see and how far away it is and how big the screen is uh anyway you can also make it react to sound or you can just give it kind of a rainbow color or pick an ambient color that goes with your setup but it does have a little bit of indirect back lighting uh designed to bounce off the wall let's go see what it looks like on an actual desk all right so here it is on my desk this is what replaced my I think it was a 42-in also 42-in Corsair Zenon Flex Ultra wide my biggest complaint about that as I've already said is that is a 1440p Ultra wide panel where the text starts to look really blocky at that at that screen size obviously with this being 4K that isn't the case but because it is technically a TV um you can see we have all the webos functions we would expect cuz I have a lot of LG TVs at home I love web OS I hate Android TV so I'm not a fan of any of the Sony Bravia stuff because of the fact that it's all Android TV Samsung I have longstanding beef with for other reasons in terms of just panel quality and some bad repairs I had in the past so I become a little bit of an LG Fanboy when it comes to their um built-in operating system I love web OS not to mention LG gives you all the free channels and stuff that come along with it again I know this sounds like an LG sponsor video it's not um it's just something I'm very familiar and comfortable with hey Starship Troopers arguably one of the best movies ever made speaking of which there a really new really cool new game out that that very much mimics that I what it's called hell divers 2 was there first hell divers yeah Oh I thought maybe it was just a meme this second one was the first one but whatever uh so you got all your apps and stuff hey it does have Max as you can see right there of course it's got the magic remote so it can you know you can use like a Wii remote this is also where that extra um sensor comes in handy if if you want want to use that um let's talk about the flexx aspect of it right now I have it set to 35° of flex now the cool thing is that you can do it with buttons on the screen or we can just go over here to oh and also to multiv view this is kind of Handy like if you're playing a video game or something like on um console or PC or whatever but maybe there's a sports game on you want to watch at the same time and this is like your dorm room panel or something I think it makes like a great dorm room panel not the great price for that but it makes a good panel that's it's like one thing you can have consoles and PCs and set top or Dish Dish Direct TV whatever plugged into it so you could have like a picture and picture going where you can have like a game up and by game I mean like football game hockey game soccer game whatever or football right and then still playing your game and keep an eye on what's happening at the same time so multi view is kind of nice um game Optimizer does exactly what you would expect this is where it adjusts settings to give you optimized like shadow um brightness so you can see people hiding in the shadows it gives you a better latency optimization you have standard and ultra um so if you're playing twitch games where reaction time is very important like rocket League or Counterstrike or any sort of game where you know shooting and response time is very important that's going to be nice the problem with game Optimizer though is if you put it in game Optimizer mode it goes really dim on the brightness because of the fact that it kind of like defaults to power energy saving mode and one of the reasons for that is oleds because the pixel itself is turning off there is a time for that pixel to turn on and off and change colors and such so the dimmer the panel is the faster it can respond um you can go into the OLED care settings and actually turn off the power optimization or the energy optimization uh or energy saver mode by I should say and then you can adjust the OLED brightness in the in the game Optimizer so you can kind of fine-tune that to brightness versus response time I haven't noticed an issue by going game Optimizer turning off the efficiency mode and pumping the OLED brightness to its Max which is 100 um and I didn't really notice any sort of response time issues going into the noname optimized modes like Vivid or standard or cin or any of those there was a noticeable amount of input lag only a couple of frames but on a game like rocket League a couple of frames could actually be a pretty big differential between what's reality and what you're seeing when you're seeing it so just want to point that out anyway moving on to the um where is it here all settings I want to show you guys the curvature stuff cuz one of the things that's neat it's essentially the same panel technology as what's in the Zenon Flex the difference is it's 4K like I've said it's 16x9 it's not um Ultra wide but this is a motorized Flex screen whereas the Corsair you kind of have to go through the awkwardness of like o I hate that sound okay this does it motorized for you it's just going to bring up uh the different modes right here so we have standard which is flat curvature mode one which is off I'm not sure what that means that's sort of played around with some of these but here's our user mode of 35% um what does that do hamburger okay so it just brings up the button there so now as you see I can just move this little thing up over the Little Dot Chang the curve to however I want it what's funny is zero because I've looked at a flex screen for so long now at home or Curve screen at home and here at work to where zero or flat looks domed it almost looks like the corners are going away from you I've gotten so used to seeing it uh like in my face but whatever here you can just go by 5% increments and kind of set it to where you want it I find 35 is perfect for me but you see 5% increments on the curvature all way up to 100 100 to me oh it's like reflecting the sound back at me all weird now it's like when you talk into a dish and it's like hello you know it's like weird I don't like that it's one of the reasons why I hated the G9 from Samsung too much curve you can also drag that that's so cool just to think that I have a motorized panel it's so weird it's also one of the reasons why it's so expensive to be honest I think if it were a manual it would be like probably 5 to 100 to maybe even $1,000 less you want to know the truth but how is it with gaming that's that's so sick for gaming HDR mode is off but this is a HDR panel but I have HDR off on windows so of course it's going to be off in the game as well oh yeah it's so good drug do you know why I'm doing this because I did an LG video where they were like please remove the part of shoting the people a oh oh the Jesus Christ that's a lot of cops no so yeah the monitor looks good okay so so anyway there you go I just wanted to make a video about the LG the OG led the LG OLED the 42-in flex I forgot the actual model number we could put in on the screen right here um yeah it was it was time for a change and I've been using exclusively Ultra I've been using exclusively Ultra wide for all my panels now for years and I wanted to go back to a 16x9 4K 120 HZ but I wanted something bigger than like 32 in panels that you could get so the 42 in seemed like The Logical stop gap between going with a big TV which honestly is what this is it's just a C3 OLED panel let turn that down it's just a c a C3 OLED panel shrunk down to 42 in uh which is ironic CU it cost more than the big C3 TV just because of the motorized functionality and stuff I feel like uh LG was on to something here but man did they really really really overprice it um that I think the motorized Flex is what's costing it the most uh honestly so I I don't know how many people would be interested in this I can say that if you go up and look online and and talk to some of the feedback from people that sell them they say they really don't move like these have been sitting for years or not years but months and months or whatever without moving apparently the previous model cuz this is like a refresh um those didn't even move they end up getting sent back or whatever so I was like I want to try it I want to see what it's all about so if you guys want to see maybe a long-term report on how it's been on whether or not I'm going to keep using it um like this video and comment down below that you'd like to hear like maybe a 6month or even a one-year review how the oled's kept up uh cuz one of the problems with OLED and its early stages of life was the fact that burn in was a real problem you know Network logos down in the like this right here right if you're playing this game for hours and hours and hours this would be a problem this would eventually like burn in on the screen uh but it has all kinds of burn in protection that's really not been a thing now in a long time with pixel shift and pixel sweep that happens every time you turn the TV on and off it does a really good job at also repairing any sort of burn in um not something that's been a problem for quite a while now anyway I've talked long enough about this now I'm just going to use it for a while um I am going to use one at home as well and just kind of see see how it goes you know it's been a long time since I've really kind of took a look at how my panels are and what I'm looking for in a panel so I've kind of tried got to experiment now and see how this goes anyway huge thank you to Microcenter for supplying this monitor for us to take a look at don't forget Microcenter has a huge selection like we already showed of all kinds of gaming monitors as we've already shown as well as their uh professional TV area where you can look at TVs or even crossover panels like this one here to sort of bridge that gap between uh Monitor and TV so there you go guys thanks for watching and as well we'll see you in the next onewhat's up guys J2 sense here and we're at Micro Center here in Tustin California as you guys know is our local store um today I well last time we were here I talked about the fact that I wanted to kind of change up my monitor setup at work and at home and I sort of showed you guys what I wanted to do with that before we get over there and kind of show you again if you've missed that video and get it back to my studio and set up I wanted to show you the monitor section cuz I feel like this area of people's setups and builds don't get enough love and if there's any place in the world you could possibly go to see how every month monitor looks next to each other it's going to be microsite the vonic x24k LED projector is the world's first projector designed for Xbox consoles featuring screen sizes up to 120 in Native refresh rates up to 240 HZ built-in Harmon Card and speakers and low latency gaming modes the x24k gaming projector from vsonic delivers a truly customizable experience for both gaming and HDR Cinema to see our full length video covering features and user experiences follow the links in the description below so the cool thing about the store here in Tustin this is a modernized store what I mean by that is it has Chang like where I'm standing right now used to be the original like build your own and where the pre-builts and stuff for but it's all been redesigned and remodeled so a lot of the store designs might be a bit different but the more modern stores will be like this where they have every single monitor like skew that they sell out on display and then it's also like separated by brand so for instance over here at the very very end of this kiosk we've got the alien wear endcap which has not just their monitors but their desktops there um over here we got Dell a lot of people don't know Dell actually sells monitors remember the Dell ultr Sharps were one of the very first like professional grade monitors you can get for like video editing and and Photoshop and stuff they got the Asus wall over here so everything from the Asus lineup to the Rog lineup remember Rog is technically a different brand with Asus so they're all on display um this is the pg42 uq uh we had this mon monitor actually actually no this is different this one's very thin see this is what's nice about this is you can come over here and kind of like touch and feel and look at these monitors now the only downside is the fact that they're all sharing a split signal as you can see so that sometimes can degrade some of the quality um but at least gives you an idea of what it size looks like what its base is like um just how it looks in person they're all going to be in like a display mode which is usually like super Dynamic very bright poppy colors and contrast and stuff um but it's better than just kind of looking at it in the box right so we got curd monitors this is the one that we used to have right here this is the PG 38 uq no I had the 42 uq but this one's like way fatter than the other one so you can see that right from the front in like an image you can't tell but from the side you can see how much fatter this monitor is versus the other one so let's take a look at uh the other side I'm curious what the LG panels have on display because the panel I'm looking at for working home now isn't actually an LG panel but it Bridges the gap between TV and monitor which I think is starting to become blurry these days in terms of that crossover Tech making it so that you can have larger format screens without all of the compromises you have to make with a TV so let's look over here so you can see all the LG monitors are on display um obviously your g-sync monitors your free sync monitors they're probably mostly going to be freesync LG tends to really kind of lean into freesync more than g-sync I mean although a lot of freesync panels these days are validated for g-sync um um but whether or not it's official right cuz that's an Nvidia owned thing or whatever um uhoh their maffy has expired another really popular brand you tend to hear about these days is Acer uh Acer's been around for a long long time not just with desktops but obviously with panels so it's just nice to be able to see everything um on display now yeah like I said when it comes to the quality of what you're viewing obviously with there a split signal like this and all of them being in kind of like their store mode or super bright Dynamic modes it's not going to give you the best representation of what the panel looks like but you can see things like off Vie access like whether or not it's going to start to invert colors or you know that's more of a TN thing most of these panels these days are all IPS or even VA um VA is kind of bridges the gap between TN and IPS but IPS cost has come down so much now almost even cheap panels these days tend to be IPS um but you can kind of get an idea of maybe this uh curve is a little bit too much for you is a th000 r curve too much is a 700 r curve just right that maybe you decided you thought you wanted a curve panel and now you don't just by looking at it so the nice thing about having all this stuff on display is the fact that you're not just guessing by looking at an image you are actually looking at it yourself speaking of looking at it let's go look at what I got my eyes on my th000 R curved eyes so the audio video aisles here at Micro Center they may not be like Magnolia centers at Best Buy and stuff but they have a pretty good selection of different types of TVs so this is a LG OLED Evo C3 um this is what is the size this probably like an 85 in or 86 in something like that or that says 77 that could be a 77 might be 83 it's hard to tell in a big open store right but again everything's on display so you at least get an idea of what it looks like um you get an idea of its thickness which I think is really important when it comes to TV shopping right cuz you could rotate the TV a little bit and you can actually see now the depth you can see the layout of the input for like the hdmis uh or even output for like Arc Channel or whatever and see like how close can you get it mounted to your wall you going to have any sort of issues with trying to put a a TV or a vesa mount on or TV mount or Vasa mount on this and get it mounted up where you need it to I've actually had quite a few TVs caused me a problem in the past because I wasn't paying attention to where the cable inputs and outputs and stuff were and were interfering with like different mounts I had so it's kind of nice to be able to see that speaking of mounts as you can see if you need a wall mount for a monitor a TV a flex Mount doesn't matter they've got full motion mounts the whole deal oh and they're on display right here I didn't even realize this so you can actually see the mounts on display which is kind of nice I think these are the kind of things that most people forget about with their setups especially if you're building a game room or something it's probably going to be a TV in there but here's what I'm looking at this is the lg42 LX 3Q 42-in class OLED it's a 4K HD Smart LED TV it's an OLED even though it says LED it's OLED but um it's basically it's kind of like built upon the flex panel that we've seen on LG's gaming panels and even the Corsair Xenon which is an LG panel as well the difference with this is actually 4K so I've been using the Cor a Zenon Flex for a while ever since it came out in fact mine's an engineering sample so it's got a little bit of quirks with it because it's not a full retail sample but mine's an ultra wide not a 16x9 and for resolution sake I kind of want to go back to 16x9 um it is curved just slightly I don't know what the arc rating on the curve is it doesn't really say I forgot this one is adjustable it doesn't have the pop out handles this is the motorized one but uh the fact that I can have both The Best of Both Worlds and with it being 4K the text will be sharp the problem with having the 1440p ultra wide 42 in I think it's 42 in that I have now is at 1440p the teex starts to look a little blocky so I'm looking forward to getting the OLED depth of color as well as the uh the sharpness to go along with it it is extremely pricey though at uh two grand it's extremely pricey at two grand however this is going to replace um at home anyway this is going to replace the Soundbar and such that I'm trying to get rid of uh because it has built-in speakers here the downside with it all the electronics and guts of the TV are in a separate base whereas the panel is just the panel and it's got wiring built in through the mechanism to to control the panel so that means you can't like wall mount it basa mount it or anything like that it has to use its base and be on the stand um in terms of inputs and outputs though if we look we've got multiple um HDMI on here 1 2 3 4 HDMI so I'm going to have to make sure I have a high-speed HDMI cable I'll probably pick one up while I'm here just to make sure I have the right one one because running 4K up to what is it 120 HZ needs a high-speed HDMI like display port would be best but because it's technically a TV HDMI is all you're really going to find on it but because of the fact that they have so many of the built-in gaming features and functions now with all of the high-end processors and the TVs now you don't have the input lag and latency you have gaming modes which actually turn off a lot of the post-processing stuff the built into a TV to get rid of any sort of that input lag um and I it's just kind of right now the only way you can get larger than say a 32in TV or or monitor or an ultra wide monitor is you have to go TV so stuff like this exist to sort of bridge the gap which really makes it good uh for both worlds but at this price though this is where people immediately going to be like that's ridiculous and that's why I'm going to use it now to see whether or not it truly is ridiculous the downside is I want two of them because I want one for home and because the base and everything's attached to it I don't think I'm going to be able to fit two of these boxes in my car because we have three people in the car and I can't pull the seats down in the back damnn I wish I had my roof rack on the car now you imagine this all strapped out on the roof okay so I grabbed the flex we're going to take this to the car see if I can even fit two of them if I can I'll grab two of the flexes I think a lot of people are familiar with the C3 the flex is really designed as a gaming TV so I'm really excited to see how this does considering the fact that you know uh Jeremy here at the store was telling me like a lot of people don't even come look at it for the use of gaming so that's why I'm really excited to try it out is it a product that LG should have never made or is it literally like an unsung hero that people don't even consider because the price itself is so high and ridiculous like I this has to be Dual Purpose like I think people using this would have to be using it as a TV as well having maybe a console hooked up to it having your your set top box hooked up to it your computer literally being one thing to to provide for everything it's two grand is a lot of money though we may not even fit one nailed that I should have brought the truck well maybe through a little bit of uh creative Tetris and maybe some unsafe people riding on the roof of a car on the freeway in Southern California uh shout out if you saw that and honked at us uh we didn't really do that so don't think that anyway we got it back to the studio so here it is uh we're going to kind of do a quick unboxing and then we're going to talk about why maybe people aren't buying this panel like honestly this panel is is neat but uh it's very unpopular in the sense of sales numbers so let's just kind of get through the unboxing it's like suction cing itself suction cing suctioning ction suctioning okay it's basically going to have all the same crap like You' expect with the TV so you got your remote control in that bag you've got your um the power cord is actually built into the panel it doesn't unplug you've got these two panels which I'm not entirely sure what they're for yet they're little plastic covers haven't figured that out yet we'll take a look in a sec um remember this is not able to be Vasa mounted or anything so I'm not too sure what these are for but there they are so I got two of those made a comment to LG a long time ago and again it's important to note this is not LG sponsored in any way um Microcenter sponsored this video but I made a comment to LG a long time ago I'm like you guys should make OLED TVs that have all the specs and stuff we want out of a monitor and they were like oh no no no we probably would never do that sure guys anyway um so as you can see it's fully assembled already nothing to put together no vase amount because of the fact that the base and everything is part of the thing it doesn't come apart right so here's the power cable as you can see it's like hardwired into the TV just dangling out um oh I guess those panels maybe go right here yeah they go there to cover any of the cables okay that's cool all right let's get it out of here um I've already showed you guys the connectivity and stuff oh something else that it also includes uh in that little package over there is IR sensor extension cable so that you can uh actually put the IR sensor somewhere else if you want maybe under the desk or something so if you want to work the remote from somewhere else I'm not sure why but here it is right here so it's the IR extender cable which is kind of neat I guess if you need it and then it's just got a USB a to USB a we should hook two USBS to itself I what happen if we did that charge of charger that's just because there is a USB hub kind of built into this sort of um all right let's get it out of the box okay um so obviously there's no swivel on this at all and you do get a few degrees of tilt adjustment like maybe 10 down and five up at the best not much and if you take a look at the back you can see it has this this wire channel built in they do give you extras of these little plastic covers one that can go there one that can go here um that way if you are running an coax seal to this for whatever reason maybe from a set top box or something has a land port for Wired land it also has wireless built in and then we've obviously got our four hdmis as you can see right here one of them is an arc channel so if it's hooked up to a receiver or something you can send the cuz it does have web OS built in which is nice because if you're going to use Netflix or Hulu any of that sort of stuff Apple TV then if this one even has Apple TV some of the LG panel TVs don't have Apple TV and some do it's really weird and some have HBO Max and some don't it's really weird or just max now they call it um and obviously we have our USB hub right here as I mentioned and then we have two USB inss so this would just be for like plain Media or whatever as a USB in device so there's that there's nothing entirely too crazy about it oh also to this right here these are LED strips so these light up and they give you some functions to be able to connect them well not connect but just have it respond to the colors happening on the screen kind of like those immersive LEDs like you'd find on Big Picture panels on the wall um kind of hard to see and how far away it is and how big the screen is uh anyway you can also make it react to sound or you can just give it kind of a rainbow color or pick an ambient color that goes with your setup but it does have a little bit of indirect back lighting uh designed to bounce off the wall let's go see what it looks like on an actual desk all right so here it is on my desk this is what replaced my I think it was a 42-in also 42-in Corsair Zenon Flex Ultra wide my biggest complaint about that as I've already said is that is a 1440p Ultra wide panel where the text starts to look really blocky at that at that screen size obviously with this being 4K that isn't the case but because it is technically a TV um you can see we have all the webos functions we would expect cuz I have a lot of LG TVs at home I love web OS I hate Android TV so I'm not a fan of any of the Sony Bravia stuff because of the fact that it's all Android TV Samsung I have longstanding beef with for other reasons in terms of just panel quality and some bad repairs I had in the past so I become a little bit of an LG Fanboy when it comes to their um built-in operating system I love web OS not to mention LG gives you all the free channels and stuff that come along with it again I know this sounds like an LG sponsor video it's not um it's just something I'm very familiar and comfortable with hey Starship Troopers arguably one of the best movies ever made speaking of which there a really new really cool new game out that that very much mimics that I what it's called hell divers 2 was there first hell divers yeah Oh I thought maybe it was just a meme this second one was the first one but whatever uh so you got all your apps and stuff hey it does have Max as you can see right there of course it's got the magic remote so it can you know you can use like a Wii remote this is also where that extra um sensor comes in handy if if you want want to use that um let's talk about the flexx aspect of it right now I have it set to 35° of flex now the cool thing is that you can do it with buttons on the screen or we can just go over here to oh and also to multiv view this is kind of Handy like if you're playing a video game or something like on um console or PC or whatever but maybe there's a sports game on you want to watch at the same time and this is like your dorm room panel or something I think it makes like a great dorm room panel not the great price for that but it makes a good panel that's it's like one thing you can have consoles and PCs and set top or Dish Dish Direct TV whatever plugged into it so you could have like a picture and picture going where you can have like a game up and by game I mean like football game hockey game soccer game whatever or football right and then still playing your game and keep an eye on what's happening at the same time so multi view is kind of nice um game Optimizer does exactly what you would expect this is where it adjusts settings to give you optimized like shadow um brightness so you can see people hiding in the shadows it gives you a better latency optimization you have standard and ultra um so if you're playing twitch games where reaction time is very important like rocket League or Counterstrike or any sort of game where you know shooting and response time is very important that's going to be nice the problem with game Optimizer though is if you put it in game Optimizer mode it goes really dim on the brightness because of the fact that it kind of like defaults to power energy saving mode and one of the reasons for that is oleds because the pixel itself is turning off there is a time for that pixel to turn on and off and change colors and such so the dimmer the panel is the faster it can respond um you can go into the OLED care settings and actually turn off the power optimization or the energy optimization uh or energy saver mode by I should say and then you can adjust the OLED brightness in the in the game Optimizer so you can kind of fine-tune that to brightness versus response time I haven't noticed an issue by going game Optimizer turning off the efficiency mode and pumping the OLED brightness to its Max which is 100 um and I didn't really notice any sort of response time issues going into the noname optimized modes like Vivid or standard or cin or any of those there was a noticeable amount of input lag only a couple of frames but on a game like rocket League a couple of frames could actually be a pretty big differential between what's reality and what you're seeing when you're seeing it so just want to point that out anyway moving on to the um where is it here all settings I want to show you guys the curvature stuff cuz one of the things that's neat it's essentially the same panel technology as what's in the Zenon Flex the difference is it's 4K like I've said it's 16x9 it's not um Ultra wide but this is a motorized Flex screen whereas the Corsair you kind of have to go through the awkwardness of like o I hate that sound okay this does it motorized for you it's just going to bring up uh the different modes right here so we have standard which is flat curvature mode one which is off I'm not sure what that means that's sort of played around with some of these but here's our user mode of 35% um what does that do hamburger okay so it just brings up the button there so now as you see I can just move this little thing up over the Little Dot Chang the curve to however I want it what's funny is zero because I've looked at a flex screen for so long now at home or Curve screen at home and here at work to where zero or flat looks domed it almost looks like the corners are going away from you I've gotten so used to seeing it uh like in my face but whatever here you can just go by 5% increments and kind of set it to where you want it I find 35 is perfect for me but you see 5% increments on the curvature all way up to 100 100 to me oh it's like reflecting the sound back at me all weird now it's like when you talk into a dish and it's like hello you know it's like weird I don't like that it's one of the reasons why I hated the G9 from Samsung too much curve you can also drag that that's so cool just to think that I have a motorized panel it's so weird it's also one of the reasons why it's so expensive to be honest I think if it were a manual it would be like probably 5 to 100 to maybe even $1,000 less you want to know the truth but how is it with gaming that's that's so sick for gaming HDR mode is off but this is a HDR panel but I have HDR off on windows so of course it's going to be off in the game as well oh yeah it's so good drug do you know why I'm doing this because I did an LG video where they were like please remove the part of shoting the people a oh oh the Jesus Christ that's a lot of cops no so yeah the monitor looks good okay so so anyway there you go I just wanted to make a video about the LG the OG led the LG OLED the 42-in flex I forgot the actual model number we could put in on the screen right here um yeah it was it was time for a change and I've been using exclusively Ultra I've been using exclusively Ultra wide for all my panels now for years and I wanted to go back to a 16x9 4K 120 HZ but I wanted something bigger than like 32 in panels that you could get so the 42 in seemed like The Logical stop gap between going with a big TV which honestly is what this is it's just a C3 OLED panel let turn that down it's just a c a C3 OLED panel shrunk down to 42 in uh which is ironic CU it cost more than the big C3 TV just because of the motorized functionality and stuff I feel like uh LG was on to something here but man did they really really really overprice it um that I think the motorized Flex is what's costing it the most uh honestly so I I don't know how many people would be interested in this I can say that if you go up and look online and and talk to some of the feedback from people that sell them they say they really don't move like these have been sitting for years or not years but months and months or whatever without moving apparently the previous model cuz this is like a refresh um those didn't even move they end up getting sent back or whatever so I was like I want to try it I want to see what it's all about so if you guys want to see maybe a long-term report on how it's been on whether or not I'm going to keep using it um like this video and comment down below that you'd like to hear like maybe a 6month or even a one-year review how the oled's kept up uh cuz one of the problems with OLED and its early stages of life was the fact that burn in was a real problem you know Network logos down in the like this right here right if you're playing this game for hours and hours and hours this would be a problem this would eventually like burn in on the screen uh but it has all kinds of burn in protection that's really not been a thing now in a long time with pixel shift and pixel sweep that happens every time you turn the TV on and off it does a really good job at also repairing any sort of burn in um not something that's been a problem for quite a while now anyway I've talked long enough about this now I'm just going to use it for a while um I am going to use one at home as well and just kind of see see how it goes you know it's been a long time since I've really kind of took a look at how my panels are and what I'm looking for in a panel so I've kind of tried got to experiment now and see how this goes anyway huge thank you to Microcenter for supplying this monitor for us to take a look at don't forget Microcenter has a huge selection like we already showed of all kinds of gaming monitors as we've already shown as well as their uh professional TV area where you can look at TVs or even crossover panels like this one here to sort of bridge that gap between uh Monitor and TV so there you go guys thanks for watching and as well we'll see you in the next one\n"