Samsung Odyssey G8 LS34BG850SUXXU Curved OLED 34" UWQHD Smart Gaming Monitor - 0.1ms, 175Hz, HDMI 2.1, Full Smart Platform, Speakers

It’s hard to call a £1000 monitor good value, but this monitor blows every other monitor I’ve had out of the water.Great to have smart tv functionality inbuilt and that’s one of the biggest reasons I purchased.Ps5 and Xbox look fantastic on it, PC with the high refresh rate is crisp.Only slight criticism is with it trying to be too clever with reading attached devices. I use a hdmi switch as i need more attached and it acts like its first time detecting devices when I switch inputs. This is a me issue and a minor inconvenience.If you have the money and are looking this is a great purchase with an incredible design.

Bought this display recently, really happy with it. Build is lovely, Back plate is aluminium, with a glossy front finish. Smart features are a nice bonus, There is a nice mode where you can change the black tones to be a bit brighter to become a greyish tint, really helps with fps games. Just note in mind it uses micro HDMI 2.1, mini Display port 1.4, and two usb c ports, one which can read (dp 1.4) input and charge your device and the other which you can use to plug an external device to use with the monitor. I would recommend usb c to Display port connection though if your using any of the asus zephyrus linups which dont support hdmi 2.1 i would personally get a dongle. If your looking for an HDMI to micro HDMI cable (Their hard to find) i would recommend hama. Overall a great monitor. Well worth it!Edit:I have had this display for a while now, holds up great, I have not had any OLED burn-in which is a relief, not used the TV mode that much but it’s always handy, watching films in this is great, especially when the movies have a 21:9 picture. Sound quality is good, fit is perfect for where I wanted it and it was easy to set up. In the end, this was a good purchase, I would recommend you buy this product if you have the cash. Always nice to go from 16:9 to a 21:9 display, Very Nice Product Samsung! 😃Edit 2:It’s has been over a year so far, the display has been amazing. I use this display for work and video games and it performs well in both. I still have no OLED burnin yet (which is very good) and it still performs how it did when I opened the box. I have had one small issue though, with this display after a year of use sometimes (if you decide to keep your display at maximum height) it will slowly lower itself, this is because of the weight of the screen compared the stand mechanism itself. It is still an excellent purchase, I would recommend it to anyone looking for a curved ultra wide.

Having come from a high end 1000nit LCD I didn't know how much of an improvement this would be, afterall this too is a 1000nit display. But I know from my experience with OLED TVs that those deep blacks can make a big difference. (note: it defaults to 400 nits, you need to set "peak brightness" to HIGH to enable 1000nit mode)First impressions are strong. This is super slim as you would expect from OLED and the stand has a small footprint and is subtle. No riduclous "I'M A GAMER" over the top nonsense here. The stand is easily built too, you just need a screwdriver.Then I turned it on, and surprisingly this thing has Samsung's regular Tizen TV OS in it, with apps and a TV guide and all in 16:9 with borders. Bizarre stuff. Why is all of this stuff in a PC monitor? And it's not something you can ignore either, it wants wi-fi and a Samsung log-in, and you'll need to go deep into its poorly labelled options to set your inputs up. Even then you're not done as changing inputs requires multiple buttons presses on the remote (yes, there's a remote control too) to pick your way through the painfully slow and poorly designed OS.I just mentioned a remote, another weird addition to a PC display. It looks like an Apple TV remote from its design and size, but rather than being built like a tank out of metal as Apple do, this is incredibly flimsy plastic. As it's the only way to navigate the monitor's OS you best take good care of it, as one false move and this little piece of plastic junk will break. And it has no input selector button (!!), but it does have buttons for Disney+ and Netflix. Samsung, you need help.Other things of note, the monitor has speakers built in which sound like you would expect them too (terrible). It can output sound over bluetooth though through any of its inputs, even Display Port. When it comes to inputs you get three, Display Port, HDMI, and Thunderbolt. In another head scatchingly weird move Samsung have opted to go with a micro HDMI. a mini Display port, and a reglular Thunderbolt (which looks like USB-C, but isn't, so be careful which cable you buy). Why the tiny connections on a gigantic monitor? Who knows.Now onto the good stuff. Well the picture is phenomenal. Just phenomenal. Perfect blacks, high peak brightness (on a small area of the screen, the auto brightness limiter prevents it from displaying high brightness on the whole screen), and so much colour volume. I had to turn the saturation down as out of the box it looked really overcooked, but even then it shames my LG C2 TV with its WOLED panel. Quantum Dot OLED is impressive tech. For gaming it's fantastic of course, 175hz and it works fine with GSync, even though it isn't a GSync certified display with one big caveat. If you're on a 40 series NVidia GPU and you're using DLSS 3 frame generation there will be extensive tearing in game. This can be alieviated by forcing VSync on in the NVidia control panel, but this will unfortunately add some lag. It's too bad this isn't a real GSync Ultimate display, as it was originally going to be.And finally I had heard this suffered from fringing on text due to the triangular structure of the RGB sub pixels on QD-OLED screens. Well in all honesty unless I sit weirdly close to the screen I can barely see it at all. It's so suble I have to look for it, but 99% of the time I don't see it at all.Overall then an amazing display in a nice looking package which for reasons I doubt even Samsung know was burdened with an unecessary and painfully slow OS from a TV. And weirdly tiny input connectors. And a remote which feels like it cost about 20p. If you can live with those inconveniences then the display itself is outstanding.

Had the monitor for just over 2 months and it developed a fault, lines going down the screen. I went through Amazon’s product support and opted for a repair from Samsung, which was very quick and they replaced the TFT panel and sent it back to me. I’ve had it back 5 days, used it only twice, today being the 2nd day and was playing on my Xbox and the lines have reappeared. I contacted Samsung and then Amazon because it clearly needs to be replaced as it has the same fault as before, and Amazon customer service has been terrible, won’t offer a replacement or refund even though it’s already been repaired once by Samsung, they told me that doesn’t matter and my only option is to send it to Amazon for repair, no pre paid return label, have to send it off myself and pay for postage myself and be reimbursed at a later date.The monitor if it hadn’t developed the same fault twice would probably be outstanding, as picture quality for Xbox gaming is awesome. Setting up is pretty easy if the SmartThings app decides to work. It is slightly annoying that you have to keep hitting back on the remote to get rid of menus for different things. The lights on the back of the monitor are pretty cool, but could be brighter. I do really like the monitor, I’ve just been let down by a faulty product, and now have to wait and see!