This is interesting:
- Doubles as a smart TV, with Apple TV+ built-in and AirPlay 2
Great news, competition is always good.
The feature set is impressive. Let’s see how Samsung will position it, price wise.
No mention of VESA mount support. The M8 has a non-detachable stand. It looks like this one follows the same design (I hope not).
Does this mean both LG and Samsung are making 5k panels now? That seems like fantastic news. (As opposed to Samsung packaging LG’s panel, like Apple does.)
I can’t believe it! Another 5k display. Definitely didn’t have a non-Apple 5K display on my 2023 tech bingo card and the year had barely started.
Let’s review it again in a few years and see if they last. People swear by LG, but they do make some junk monitors that are “great” when new. I guess price will be some kind of indication when it’s known.
With Apple TV+ and AirPlay 2, there’s a lot of Apple in that monitor.
Perhaps it’s the “off-brand” Studio display in disguise that can be sold at reduced markup, like you know Kroger doesn’t have a peanut butter factory.
There again, all Apple devices and displays are made by vendors (there’s no Apple factory), so maybe it’s just, say, a Foxconn display.
Apple’s displays don’t have built-in Apple TV, do they?
No, but they do have that Apple Silicon chip in there that’s not doing much. It’s surely only a matter of software.
I recently added a second Studio Display to my setup after a few months of satisfaction with one of them. I hope this doesn’t make me regret that decision!
Between this, the announced Dell 6k XDR-ish competitor, and the new Samsung Neo ultrawide with true 4k vertical resolution, this feels like more monitor competition and innovation than we’ve had in years. Exciting times.
Exactly! All those millions of people buying non-Apple products are silly. The multi-billion conglomerates like LG and Samsung are known for their utter junk products. If it ain’t from the fruit company from Cupertino it can’t be any good.
I’m very happy with my LG monitors and TV.
In my experience, their quality did a 180 when they changed from GoldStar to LG.
They are also a supplier to Apple.
Generally I’ve been happy with my LG stuff too.
What I’ve heard is that “LG” isn’t a monolith in terms of quality, and they have products all along the quality range. So if you buy a low-end LG product, you’re getting a low-end product. If you buy the high-end one, you’re getting a high-end one.
Yeah. If nothing else, it’s at least an indicator of where Samsung thinks it should be positioned. I doubt that Samsung would price a comparable-quality display at 50% of the price of a Studio Display, even if they could. There’s just no reason to, given the lack of competitors.
I think you misunderstand what I said…
… where @webwalrus does.
I bought a NZD$600 4K LG monitor and it was perfectly good for about 2 years before it started deteriorating. There were people worried about inconsistent and “leaking” backlights on Studio Displays where you had to use an all-black image to tell. The LG I have requires merely to turn it on and you will see the problem. Before there’s a signal; when there’s a signal; whether black or white or anything in between.
The 1080 LG monitor that preceded it, price unknown as it was many years ago, still works fine.
Same here. I had a LG27UK850W 4K display with Thunderbolt, USB-C and all that stuff and it was great for … (checks some digital papers) three years after the thing went bonkers waking up from sleep and basically became a black display with the on-screen menus displaying garbage characters, probably some electronics became fried.
BTW I replaced it with a cheaper Samsung Smart Monitor M7 32’’ that is so big that my bad eyesight means I can only comfortably read the screen at the “larger text” 1080p resolution. Still, the display quality is no match to the previous LG, but I am not buying any other LG display for as long as I will remember.
Sarcasm and other attempts at humor are so easy to miss!
This is why emoji were invented. (Not really, but they do serve a useful purpose where tone is important.)
Samsung copies Apple in the end, per usual. I’m still hoping the display is differentiated enough and that Samsung’s starting to manufacture 5k panels alongside LG lets other brands enter.
I wonder if there’s a non-linear increase in the cost of panel production varying with the size of the panel that means that high quality 5K panels are just unexpectedly more expensive to produce than 4K panels.
Yes, yields at minimum, I’d think. I don’t know the exact falling-off curve but it’s not linear, and 4k to 5k is a bigger jump than 2k to 4k in absolute pixel count.