Peeps
After a week of using my new LG 34UM65-P Ultrawide 34 Inch IPS LED Monitor, here is my initial views.
Manufacturer Specifications
Whats in the Box
The obvious one is the monitor itself, but we will come to that later.
Accessories wise, it comes with power supply with UK cable, 2m HDMI cable, Stand with screw cover, some screws and a sticky clear pad for when using a VESA mount. Also has the driver CD and instructions and that's about it.
Setting Up
Setting up was rather easy. Just 2 screws hold the base onto the swivel mount on the bottom of the monitor. i had to watch i didn't damaged the monitor controls joystick, which is on the bottom of the monitor. Without the base on, you could inadvertently lay it down on it and break it. Within 5 mins it was on my desk.
Round the Back
It has the following ports
DVI - D port
Full size Display Port
2 x HDMI
Audio Input from PC
Audio Output to Headphone
Power Supply input.
Initially i set up with the DVI- D port but it wouldnt display the image correctly. Not sure why as i would have expected it to work. Ended up using the supplied HDMI cable and away it went.
Round the Front
The stand is partly clear and it looks like the monitor is floating, which is a nice touch. The stand is hard plastic and feels tough and well made. The screen only tilts up and down and there is no swivel unless you move the whole base. It has no height adjustement either.
There is a little joystick which has several control on it. Moving left and right adjusts the volume. Pulling towards you mutes and un mutes when adjusting the volume.
Pulling towards you twice turns it off. Pushing the button opens up the menu that allows you to adjust the usual settings you would expect. It also has a PBP mode that allows you to display 2 inputs at once, each taking up half of the screen. You can select what input you want to choose.
First Look
Having moved on from this
to this
initially i was like wow. i had to sit back from it to take it all in. Its one thing having 2 screens, its another having 1 so big. Its a really nice looking screen, both in the picture quality and the physical look. Well chuffed.
In Use
Movies
Guardians of the Galaxy
The Shawshank Redemption
Some movies will use the whole screen and some will not. the black bars at the side are quite common on Youtube as well. Watching in such a large screen feel weird at first and you always want to move back a bit. Trust me you get used to it. Generally looks very nice.
Multitasking
This is where the screen is good. It comes with some bundled software called Screen Split. This allows you to set pre determined window sizes and the windows/apps/browser snaps to it.
You will see the choices in the software and how a couple of them look. This is a really good feature as it saves you trying to adjust the screen manually. It is as simple as picking the choice and the open windows snap as needed. really cool feature. Coming from 2 screens where i was used to having 1 screen with a video on it and the other with a web page on it, this really helps to have this software to bridge the gap. I think without it, it would be very annoying to use.