Triple screen alternative

Must have missed the announcement
http://interestingengineering.com/samsung-biggest-ultrawide-monitor-buy/
About time to replace my 42" UHD.
Why on earth they keep packing that FreeSync into high end monitors, who is buying AMD GPUs these days, esp if you can afford $1.5K monitor like that one.

 

interesting... I thought VA panels are prone to ghosting?

 

http://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/ips-led-vs-va-lcd
Interesting read, plus it's Samsung, so I suspect it's PLS, not traditional VA. QLED feature from their top end TVs is quite interesting too.

 

That replaces 2 monitors, not 3. 3840*1080.

 

I'm a bit iffy on the resolution though, it seems a bit too low for such a ginormous monitor... even with tons of AA I doubt the image would look as crisp as a big 4k screen at a normal sim racing monitor placement right in front of the wheel. I've tested both the LG 34UM60 (a 34 inch 2560x1080 ultrawide) and LG34UM90 (a 34 inch 3440x1440 ultrawide) side by side at a demo running Battlefield 4 and the mad blurriness of the image quality on the lower res one was beyond unacceptable when compared to even the little 27 inch 1440p monitor I had back home when viewing at a similar distance. The higher res one looked perfect though, and we are talking about 34 inchers here. So I really wouldn't impulse buy a 42 that is running at such a low res without testing it out first especially at that retarded high price.

 

I doubt it will be a problem. Have been using 4K 42" for over a year, sitting 30" in front, even moving nose close it's hard (impossible) to spot individual pixels. All that at native resolution, down scaling is different issue altogether, to play 1440p I had to use Min sharpening preset on monitor or it did as you say "looked blurry", with that in place it's virtually identical to native res.
I am glad that finally mainstream monitor makers recognized demand for bigger monitors, no need to re purpose TVs or use some Korean no name monitor brands anymore.

 

Oooooooooohhh. I want!

 

No, coming from a "smaller" monitor, you can definitelly spot the pixelation on a 42 I tried at home. It sure is tempting though for not having to deal with 3 monitors, but they should have made the 49 screen same as the other 2 at 1440p. I think it's good enough even if it's 2 monitors worth of space and not 3. The few times I have tried triples, half of the 2 side monitors are not much use to me and were there just for peripheral, but no real info added. Not cheap though

 

1920x1080 on a 27" monitor is pretty rubbish. Since this is practically the same physical size as two 27" panels, I also reckon it should have been 5120x1440.

 

^ This exactly. The pixel density is gonna be really low on this screen. It's just too damn big to be running that low of a resolution... especially for the 1500$ asking price it is just meh, should have been a higher res panel.

 

Yep. Looks terrible. I was willing to pay 800 € for the Predator Z35 but the ghosting and smearing was unacceptable. IPS or wait for whatever good comes next. The pixel density could be another deal braker...how high is the panel...like a 24" or more?

The 32:9 is awesome, for sure.