The G9 just got BIGGER and BETTER! - Samsung Odyssey G9 2023

**A Look at High-End Monitors: The Good, the Bad, and the Confusing**

If you're in the market for a high-end monitor, chances are that one of the things that caught your eye was the mention of HDR (High Dynamic Range) capabilities. But what does it really mean when a monitor says it has HDR 600? Unfortunately, it's not always as exciting as it sounds. Many of these "HDR" monitors are actually just LED or IPS panels with some marketing magic thrown in to make them sound more impressive.

It's worth noting that HDR is not inherently bad; in fact, it can be a game-changer for certain types of content, such as movies and TV shows. But when it comes to gaming and graphics work, what really matters is the panel technology behind the monitor. That's where mini LED and OLED come in – they offer true high dynamic range capabilities, with more dimming zones than traditional LCD panels. This means that you can get truly bright highlights and deep blacks, resulting in a much more immersive viewing experience.

But how do these high-end monitors really stack up against one another? Well, for starters, the Samsung Odyssey OLED is an interesting beast. While it's certainly a premium product with a price tag to match, it offers some features that set it apart from other displays on the market. For example, its partial mirroring technology allows you to take a portion of the mini map and cast it to a different screen – it's a feature that's both convenient and useful.

Of course, one of the things that really gets under my skin is when companies start using terms like "Ultra wide" and "super ultra wide" without actually delivering on their promises. I mean, who thought it was a good idea to create two 4K panels side by side? It's almost like they're trying to distract us from the fact that the underlying technology isn't as impressive as we'd like it to be.

But then there are displays like the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 – or at least, what it is for now. Without a final release date and pricing announced, it's hard to say exactly how these monitors will stack up against one another. But from what I've seen so far, they're definitely worth keeping an eye on.

One thing that really stands out about high-end displays like the Neo G9 is their ability to upscale content with ease. The Philips Hue light control system is also a nice touch, allowing you to seamlessly integrate your display into your home's smart ecosystem. And let's not forget about the world's first partial mirroring technology – it's a feature that's both convenient and impressive.

As for the real star of the show, well... I'm a bit biased towards the Odyssey OLED, but even that can't hide its flaws. For example, while it has an incredible display, it only goes up to 1800 R curvature on a 49-inch panel – not exactly what you'd call a premium feature.

**A Hands-On Look at Curvature**

One of the things that really caught my attention during CES was the curved screens on display. I'm not going to lie, I was skeptical at first – after all, doesn't the human eye only have so much curvature built in? But as it turns out, the manufacturers have been working hard to get the curves just right.

I spent a bit of time driving around the Samsung Odyssey G9's curved track, and let me tell you – it's something else. The way the screen wraps around your field of vision is truly immersive, almost like having two screens side by side without the need for a second monitor at all. Of course, this is assuming that you're sitting in front of a display with some serious curve to it – and even then, I'm not sure how much of an actual difference it makes.

Now, as someone who's never actually used racing simulators or gaming monitors before, I have to admit that I was a bit skeptical about the whole experience. But after spending some time playing around with the Odyssey G9, I can confidently say that it's something special – even if I do still prefer my actual driving skills.

**The Future of Display Technology**

Of course, no conversation about high-end displays would be complete without mentioning the future of display technology. Right now, we've got micro LED on the horizon, which promises to be a major game-changer for things like brightness and contrast ratio. But who knows what the future will hold?

One thing's for sure, though – it's going to be an exciting ride while we wait for these new technologies to emerge. As someone who's already invested in the world of high-end displays, I'm excited to see where this technology takes us next.

**Conclusion**

Overall, my time with the Samsung Odyssey OLED and the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 has left me with mixed feelings. On the one hand, it's clear that these displays are pushing the boundaries of what's possible in terms of image quality – even if they do come with a hefty price tag.

On the other hand, I have to admit that some of the marketing hype surrounding high-end monitors can be a bit confusing. Whether or not you're looking for HDR capabilities, curved screens, or just a great display overall, there's something on offer here for everyone. And as we wait for new technologies to emerge, it's worth keeping an eye on what these companies have in store for us next.

But for now, if you're in the market for a high-end monitor, I'd say take a look at the Samsung Odyssey OLED – it's definitely worth considering, even if it doesn't come with every feature under the sun.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow do you even beat the Odyssey G9 whether it's the Neo or the older model it's so tough they're amazing well guess what at CES 2023 they've gotten uh one new model but two new models for the Odyssey series for the G9 specifically and right here we've got the OLED this is using the new Samsung OLED panel the biggest improvement over the mini LED is that you're gonna have crazy Lightning Fast pixel response times it might not get quite as bright but I'm telling you guys this thing is absolutely stunning it gets crazy bright for being OLED thanks to Samsung's OLED technology and I can tell you for a fact that it is colorful and it's color accurate and it's just absolutely stunning because there's no white subpixel you're getting a lot of color pop when you turn up the brightness you're not washing anything out it's still 240 hertz like the previous model but now with OLED you're getting that insane they're measuring 0.1 millisecond pixel response time really it's faster than that you guys honestly everything we've tested is like .01 millisecond if not faster it is wild how crazy it is it's using Quantum dots so we've got top emission so that there's no layer to punch through with the Odyssey G9 and OLED we're still on a 1440p panel at 32 by nine with a 49 inch screen this thing is huge so you're getting uh 5120 by 1440p resolution some people are gonna want 4K and I get it but honestly you guys when you've got this many pixels it's really hard to run games the mini LED that we're going to get to in a bit is 4K so if you're excited about that just stay tuned the panel construction as well as the stand and the case is all very similar to the G9 that you're used to except with the OLED at least this thing is just razor thin it's crazy how much panel you can fit into such a small space now because of that it's hard for them to give us some specifics on these things they're not not coming out until they say the first half of the year you know q1 Q2 maybe we're trying to not be too specific here but we're getting uh probably an external power brick so if that's a huge deal for some people I mean you might just have to deal with it because I think it's worth it for this thing all right let's check this out oh my God you know as much as I might not be crazy about fortnite they really did pick a really good game for a solid example of all of the color and that's that's just gonna pop at you as you run around it's just absolutely stunning I wish I had more information for you guys unfortunately it's CES and we don't have too much I don't know what the color gamut is going to be like I I don't know what the top brightness is going to be like I went to Samsung display and saw a bunch of stuff and they're quoting you know a hundred plus percent coverage of uh DC ip3 I think they said 90 BT 2020 and in some of their models around 2000 nits we probably won't see 2000 it's on this display don't know what they're going to actually release with and we can't measure it here obviously but considering my other cutie OLED monitor does a thousand nits this is going to do at least that if not more because this is Gen 2 uh Samsung OLED technology as for the stand it's very solid and very stable like we're not we can't unfortunately we can't move these guys around too much but they didn't tell me I couldn't jiggle the table and honestly you know it's gonna jiggle when you're not mounting it on something these are Vasa mountable it should be something very similar to the previous G9 that uses an adapter ring to make sure it can fit onto a vase amount the only real disadvantage with this guy over the other one is that for graphic designers uh or just PPI snobs you are only getting about 109 PPI on this guy versus something more like 139 140 on the mini LED that we're going to talk about in a little bit but once again we can't look at the back early we can't take it apart so I can't give you a solid answer right now being guaranteed that we're going to cover this thing later on I'm going to check out the mini LED in a second but before I do thanks to our sponsor dbrand for sponsoring this video okay so our sponsor dropped out for CES 2023 but dbrand foot of the bill they're making me come out here on the streets and offer people Tech tips for free and I hate it you want a tech tip I'm okay do you know what detective I can give you a tactic unfortunately you don't want any Tech tips I just want to offer a tech tip no Tech tips do you want a tech tip you don't want to okay all right okay can I offer you a tech tip Santa's the right person if you put a minus sign in front of a word it'll take it out of the search results whoever edits this is gonna have a great time watching this footage of me being anxious before I do this to learn more about who made me do this go to shortlineus.com now as for mini LED we've got the Odyssey Neo G9 57 inch that's the only real way to differentiate between them if it's got Neo in the name it's probably mini LED if it doesn't and it's got OLED in the name it's probably a Samsung OLED panel as for this it's in it's very much just an upgrade from the previous Neo G9 it's up to a whopping 57 inches on top of that it's 1 000 are curvature so you can really get in there and immerse yourself it's also got 4K screens they're calling it duhd or dual UHD because you've got basically 7680 by 2160 so it's essentially one 4K panel a second 4K panel running at a whopping 240 hertz with about a one millisecond response time it's crazy it's similar to the previous one in that it's got a bit over 2 000 dimming zones which is pretty wild that's over a thousand for basically each 4K screen that you've got here obviously yeah it's not the same as every pixel is a dimming Zone like the OLED that we just looked at but honestly for mini LED that's really good unfortunately like I said we can't really handle these too much so I can't look at the back I O but one of the really cool things is if you just bought an AMD card these have the new DisplayPort 2.1 ports that I haven't seen anywhere I think it's a world first don't quote me on that but I haven't seen it anywhere else yet on top of that the i o isn't terrible we've got a couple of HDMI ports now they can't say whether that's 2.0 or 2.1 exactly because of the renaming and all that but what they can tell us is that it's got 2.1 features like variable refresh rate as for the construction it's very similar to the previous year's model except I think the stand is a little longer now to account for the significantly larger screen otherwise it's very much a similar display like it's really hard to improve on that thing it's such a beast of a monitor and they're just making it better for many LED what they're doing in case you're going to wear is they're taking that diode and then they're making it significantly smaller hence the mini LED like it's basically self-explanatory however what that lets you do is it lets you pack more brightness and punch into every part of the panel because there's basically way more of these tiny little lights all the way in here lighting everything up what that's also going to let you do is give you a full array local dimming so you're going to have these dimming zones where it's like oh we can let this single tiny part of the screen get crazy bright without just over blowing the rest of the image if a lot of you have I don't want to say cheaper monitors but less expensive ones and they say something like oh it's got HDR 600 but it's just an LED like IPS panel or whatever unfortunately it's it's not like don't look at those things with hdr on and think oh HDR sucks it's not worth it that's not the case you guys it's just unfortunately it's got a price gate to it and as soon as you start spending more money it gets you stuff like mini LED and OLED which gives you way more dimming zones which lets you like really brighten certain parts of the screen and keep other parts of them way dimmer and give you like an actually good high dynamic range experience okay you guys I've never used any kind of racing Sim in my life but I do know how to drive standards so I'm hoping this goes kind of okay oh my God oh this is sick no it's not I'm actually pretty good driver I like to think I am it's absolutely crazy how good Ultra wide is let alone like super ultra wide it's something that's like basically two 4K panels how many of you have that at home where you've got two side-by-side screens and you want to do a big extended image but then you've got that bar in the center I'll stop driving so I get don't get distracted no distracted driving here one of the best parts about it though especially with this thousand dollar curvature is that you don't even need to turn your head like I can just move my eyes and I can see the entire screen because it's surrounding my entire field of vision trying to match the curvature of the human eye it's fantastic I don't think curved screens make sense on a 16x9 panel I think you can see everything just fine even on bigger ones however as soon as you start going Ultra wide or super ultra wide it's almost key I don't like Ultra wide panels that don't have any curve at all and it's actually my one problem with the Samsung Odyssey OLED is that it's still only about 1800 R for quite a large screen a 49 inch panel aside from the Neo Quantum processor in both of them that's really good for upscaling you've also got a bunch of Philips hue light control which is pretty cool so you actually don't even have to buy the Box it'll do it all in one app on top of that it's got this super cool world's first partial mirroring technology where you can take basically like a part of the mini map and then cast it to a different screen honestly I have no idea how they managed to improve on the Odyssey Neo G9 which is already a fantastic display even for the high price tag that it has now speaking of that we don't have any sort of pricing we don't again have like a final release date but if you're curious about any of that kind of stuff check out the Neo G9 and what it originally went for at MSRP it'll probably be something similar but then account for the significantly larger screen size on that guy and the Improvement to 4K it's probably going to be a bit more than that as for the OLED no idea it's going to be not inexpensive it's a premium display both of them and you're going to be paying a premium price tag for that but it's really hard to explain without having you here in this room with me just how good these displays look I know that you're watching this on some what whatever monitor at home maybe it's really high-end I don't know but even then you're getting whatever compression YouTube is doing like it's just not going to be a true one-to-one comparison like you're going to see with your own eyes when you're in person at the event or just when it's in your home these things look amazing you guys and it's hard to explain why you might like not necessarily need one of these monitors but why you might want one when you grow up with a bunch of different panel Technologies and you've seen the different pros and cons of each one this is like the end game at this point maybe not quite there's you know we've got micro LED on the horizon we'll see that in a few years maybe that can finally top OLED or the really high-end mini LED stuff but honestly who knows it's a speculators game at this point and for now I am super happy to both own some of the Cutie all that stuff at home and just work with it all the time because they're just absolutely stunning displays if you've enjoyed any of this content make sure to check out all of our other CES 2023 coverage the short circuit has been a blast I can't wait to check out more of these and I'm gonna go game on that G9 over there see you later\n"