At the moment it's a bit difficult to say, as Samsung hasn't really made an official statement. The only thing I have seen is that Samsung has postponed the release of the Odyssey G9 from the end of July to mid-August on their website.
My guess is that the first deliveries will take place at the beginning of August and that availability will increase in the course of the month.
This is the second time that the delivery date for my order has not been met.
It seems that digitec has no idea and just sets a date to keep people waiting :(
I paid the full price a fortnight ago and today it was on sale for CHF 1099. That really hurt, but I still don't regret the purchase. I briefly thought about buying a second one. 🙈
Yes it does! And I'm afraid all the time that it will crack at some point and then I won't have a picture any more. Every time it cracks it sends shivers down my spine. I don't know whether this noise is really so healthy for the monitor.
I don't think they have it on display. Maybe they can check the Samsung website to see how wide it is overall and then measure it. Of course, it's different from live, but I know for sure that it's.... huge. I know someone who has it
My table is 60 cm deep. That's why I got the NewStar NM-D775 monitor holder. I have a distance of 40-50cm to the monitor and find it comfortable. However, I usually have the eye-saver mode on when I'm not gaming because so much light is tiring for me in the long run.
The models are technically identical. The model designations in this case indicate that the products are each offered for a different European market.
My brother received his from Digitec a fortnight ago with a production date of August 2020 (QC at the beginning of August) and without a light gap. I therefore tend to assume that the current models from Digitec are "save".
Yes, the monitor supports Picture in Picture mode with two different sources next to each other. However, I don't know if the PS4 supports 1440p resolution.
...I wouldn't buy an "ASUS GeForce RTX 2080 Ti ROG Strix O11G Gaming (11GB)" today when the new graphics cards from Nvidia or AMD come onto the market in the next six months!
Unfortunately, I have the monitor standing on the stand supplied.
But with Vesa, the screws should be standardised.
So for 75x75 and 100x100 they should almost certainly be M4x10 flat head.
Hope this helps you in some way. There are also Vesa screw sets for this, where the plugs and screws for the wall are already included.
Best regards from the Erzgebirge
René
They have changed the supplier and so the price has gone up, I asked today. I am really disappointed, I would have bought it today because it was already in my shopping cart. I have asked Digitec to remove the monitor from the promotion as it is no longer a promotion :(
Yes, you can, even if it is a cost-intensive undertaking (to be fair, anyone who buys a monitor for 1500.- will probably not care much). The monitor supports VESA (100mmx100mm) wall mounts. However, since this monitor weighs 16.70kg, the number of compatible wall mounts is quite small, so take a look at the Ergotron HX series.
Info to all those who want to use this monitor with a 3070 / 3080 / 3090:
As you may have already noticed, this otherwise great monitor causes numerous problems with the above cards.
- Second screen not possible (no picture)
- G Sync problems (no picture)
- Only 120Hz, instead of the full 240 (otherwise -> No picture)
- Latest Nvidia driver not compatible (457.30)
-...
After a lot of research and conversations on Reddit and in the Samsung community, the solution looks like this:
In most cases, the monitor is still delivered with software 1006.1 or 2. This only causes problems with the latest NVidia drivers (see above).
After that came a software 1007.1, which, however, was about as bad.
Now the latest firmware (1008.1) has been available for a few days, which has eliminated all problems.
Now it works with the latest NVidia drivers, G Sync On, RGB FULL, 240Hz, 10 bit colours, second monitor, etc.
So be sure to do this update!
Unfortunately, this has not yet officially arrived in Europe (thanks for nothing, Samsung...), but here is the link to the Samsung Community, where I have also included the download link. In the meantime, Samsung has also confirmed the solution:
https://eu.community.samsung.com/t5/notebooks-ssd-it/odyssey-g9-rtx-3090-schwarzer-bildschirm-bei-240hz/td-p/2244033
(Don't worry, the download starts in Korean, but works on all monitors, no matter if English / German, etc. is set as language).
Hello according to Samsung all mounts that comply with the VESA standard will work "The screen is fully compatible with monitor arms that comply with the VESA standard..."
https://www.samsung.com/ch/monitors/curved-gaming-odyssey-g9/LC49G95TSSUXEN/#specs
The hole pattern corresponds to 100 x 100mm and a suitable adapter for wall mounting is included with the monitor (I received mine today). So you can choose freely, with or without an arm as you like, but tiltable makes sense. The monitor is relatively heavy, so it's better to be safe than sorry (weight of monitor without stand 14.1 kg). Many greetings and have fun with this great piece of equipment.
The bandwidth of current HDMI and DisplayPort standards is not sufficient to natively drive "5K" at 240 Hz. This will only be possible with the upcoming HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 standards (the latter in particular is a monster). For this monitor, Samsung uses the DSC 1.2a compression method, which in turn is included in the DisplayPort 1.4a standard. Thus, your graphics card and/or your docking station must support this standard in order to achieve the 240 Hz at "5K". I don't know if such a docking station exists. If there is, it would have to be connected via Thunderbolt 3 in order to be able to deliver the necessary bandwidth.
The bandwidth of current HDMI and DisplayPort standards is not sufficient to natively drive "5K" at 240 Hz. This will only be possible with the upcoming HDMI 2.1 and DisplayPort 2.0 standards (the latter in particular is a monster). For this monitor, Samsung uses the DSC 1.2a compression method, which in turn is included in the DisplayPort 1.4a standard. Your graphics card must therefore support this standard in order to achieve 240 Hz at "5K". VESA states that there is no loss in picture quality with DSC 1.2a.
Hi Tomilio
Received the monitor on 27/09/2020. I'm working on the assumption that this is a model that is AFTER the whole panel thing with "letting light through". I didn't notice any green discolouration, but I'll be happy to check the monitor again for you later, once I'm home.
Do you have this with all picture settings?
The only thing that is "normal" would be if you activate some kind of overdrive, because then the strobe backlight, i.e. flickering, is visible on most panels. However, this is intentional (for the ultra short response time) and does not represent a defect. Depending on the user, this is more or less annoying and is also more or less visible in different scenarios.
Does anyone have hands on experience with HDR? I realise it's a general question but if it's going to be this monitor....
Here's the thing. Recently HDR has been going up to 1600 and I've read that even HDR1000 can be way too bright for a gamer. I imagine you virtually climb out of a Far Cry style cave and outside you are literally blinded.
Most gamers play in dimmed rooms and rarely is it a fluorescent tube market light. So contrast is important but not 1000+HDR X-ray...
What is the sweet spot or can you set HDR to e.g. HDR 600?
Yes. Games that support HDR usually let you set the maximum brightness. Assassin's Creed Origins/Odyssey and Ghost Recon Breakpoint have the option, for example.
For games that don't offer the option, I have a nasty suspicion that they simply understand HDR as HDR 400.
With the ASUS ROG PG27UQ (DisplayHDR 1000), I find the maximum brightness at 1000 just right. Yes, when the entire monitor surface is white and shines with maximum brightness, it is unpleasantly bright, but that doesn't really happen when gaming. Not even with cave exits (I can't say anything about Far Cry, but it was never a problem with Assassin's Creed Origins/Odyssey).
But if you have small picture elements - the sun, a burning car, a headlight - then I think it's mega cool if the small picture element can shine really brightly. However, I don't know if the effect is as noticeable with the G9. As far as I understand, the G9 only has 10 brightness zones, i.e. only whole rings are switched on (instead of the five-litre zones of the PG27UQ).
The only thing I wouldn't recommend is to play completely in the dark (only light = monitor). The differences in brightness are too great for that. But a lamp dimmed to the minimum at the other end of the room is quite sufficient.
Yes, that is possible. The Odyssey G9 supports both PBP (Picture-by-Picture -> side by side, 2x 27" (2560x1440)) and PIP (Picture-in-Picture -> overlapping, known from TV).
Quote from the German product page of Samsung:
"Thanks to PBP, you can display two sources simultaneously in their native resolution. In addition, with PIP you can scale the size of the second source to up to 25% of the screen. Plus, you can easily split the screen with Samsung's Easy Setting Box SW software."
https://www.samsung.com/ch/monitors/curved-gaming-odyssey-g9/
