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welcome back to hardware unbox today I'm looking at Dells latest super ultra wide monitor the ultra sharp you 49:19 DW I'm not sure if super ultra wide is the official term to these sorts of displays but they're wider than a standard ultra wide so feel kind of works well here maybe double wide or something like that is more appropriate any case this thing is very wide and pretty massive overall in terms of specs it's a 49 inch monitor with a 50 120 by 1440 resolution giving it a 32 9 aspect ratio they might be wondering why would someone want a monitor that's so wide and the answer is pretty simple this display is equivalent to two 27-inch 1440p displays side-by-side without a bezel between so if you are planning to run with a dual screen 1440 piece set up something like the you 49:19 DW might be a better choice the interesting thing about this monitor is it's one of the first super ultra wide 1440p displays on the market we've seen 1080p class displays so 3840 by 1080 for a little while now and in fact some are even high refresh these days at 144 Hertz but we're only just now seeing 1440p equivalents come to the market so it's a pretty new panel type and product category as this is quite new some of the features that exist with 1080 p class dr. Weins haven't come to 1440p models yet one is high refresh rates there are some more scheduled for release this year that will bring that feature but for now we're stuck at 60 Hertz the other is any sort of adaptive sync functionality so what we're left with is a monitor that's more designed for productivity and creative use than for gaming I think this sort of resolution has a lot of promise for gaming but it's also really well suited to working and multitasking because there is so much screen real estate and unlike 1080p Class variants the resolution is very good which again helps with loading the screen up with apps and viewing crisp text and imagery if you're sick of bezels and all the other complications that come with dual screen setups then something like the you 49:19 DW could be what you're looking for does use their standard ultra sharp design language for this 49 inch beast so most of the outer shell is constructed from simple grey offer suitable stick it looks fine but really there's not much more to say here because dough is letting the display do all the talking what impressed me more than the visual design is the build quality in general the monitor is extremely heavy and the process of getting in another box is more complicated than most displays I've reviewed but the end result is an extremely solid product the standard is beastly and does a great job of stabilizing such a wide display without much wobble it also features a rock-solid height adjustment and tilt feature on top of this the you 49:19 DW is curved with a relatively light 3,800 hour curvature sometimes this can introduce some complications into the build process that leaves a few untidy seams here and there but not with this display it really is extremely well built and I'd expect no less from dell ultrasharp line 4 ports we're getting 2 HDMI ports DisplayPort and USB C input along with a collection of us be in and out pause one of which supports charging and two of which are easily accessible on the bottom left edge USB C is another one of those nice office centric touches as it makes it easy to hook up a laptop with a single cable the monitor will even provide 90 watts of charging power in return the only downside about the design are the buttons that control the on-screen menu though is using basic base buttons rather than a directional toggle which makes the menu hard to navigate with that said there aren't very many features in the menu to begin with so it's probably not something you'll be using all that often Dell has included several Zoning options though to make use of all this screen real estate there's a basic picture-in-picture mode so you can hook up to 16:9 1440p inputs and have them each occupy half to display but the software utility is more impressive it allows full zoning of the entire display into whatever configuration you like which makes it easy to snap windows into layouts that Windows doesn't natively support like say three across but that's just one of 38 presets in the app with the ability to create any zoning array you like on top of that it's a powerful tool that makes great use of this display moving into the performance section of this review now and as this is a Productivity focus monitor most of the metrics we'll be exploring in detail again towards color accuracy in that sort of thing Dell says the monitor comes with 99 percent srgb coverage and a delta 8 accuracy of less than 2.0 out of the box so we'll see how fares in terms of panel tech the 49 inch screen here is an IPS LCD which is the go to standard for professional monitors the reason for this is despite modest contrast ratios IPS allows for the best viewing angles which is crucial for car accurate work only superior uniformity the contrast ratio of the you 49 19 DW isn't too bad at eleven sixty to one that's around the upper end of what IPS panels tend to achieve and brightness is also suitable for most use cases at up to 330 nits but the area I was most impressed with is the excellent viewing angles which you would expect from a high-end IPS like this color performance I'll admit I was a little surprised about when I first run the tests on that monitors out of the box configuration by default the monitor uses the standard mode which is the mode Dell says is calibrated for srgb however the white point is off rather than clocking in at 6500 K the CCT average is 7 for 0 for K with the white point of around 7000 K this gives the display a slight blue tint relative to the properly calibrated monitors I use on a daily basis this sort of result isn't terrible but it does lead to a grayscale delta T average of 3.14 which is higher than the ideal Sub 2.0 Delta II for content creation the gamma curve is decent which is good to see whoever I'm not quite sure what happened here with the white point but we'll get to fixing that in a moment before that though we have our color tests which are more around the mark of what Dell advertises in our saturation test the monitor clocked in a delta average of two point zero nine but it's only at low saturation levels that the monitor struggles and in our general color tracker test the panel does sneak in with the Delta average just below 2.0 these color tests are good not the best I've seen but certainly accurate enough for productivity and creative use out of the box without needing to invest in calibration tools grayscale is definitely concerned but colors at least are good unfortunately there is no nice simple solution for correcting the grayscale curve because the monitor seems to have been calibrated with this white point in mind if we adjust the white point to a more accurate 6500 K the cars get shifted out of whack you can see that here the CCT averages are more appropriate 65 88 k though it's not perfect and then the Delta II average is two point five five so it's improved as well but we then look at the color checker coverage up to near three-pointer where before it was below 2.0 and that's because of the color shift as we drag the white point back to accuracy I'm not quite sure what's happened in the factory calibration process this could be an issue with just my unit or it could be an issue that's with all of these displays my results were also a little worse than the calibration report included in the box although that reports still has grayscale c30 up around 7,000 K and my testing takes many more data points and really overall the performance is fine especially for just general productivity work thanks to those color Delta he's around the 2.0 mark and for srgb coverage certainly for creative workloads like video or photo editing that I'd move into the next step which is a full calibration using display Cal I was very quickly able to achieve outstanding performance from this panel that's one of the great benefits of IPS technology and you know it tends to play very nicely with calibration in fact the contrast ratio increased slightly to twelve hundred to one after high performance calibration with all Delta e values below 1.0 Pedro members can download the profile created for this display although results will vary as not all displays are the same the other key thing to discuss is uniformity by default uniformity is very good for such a wide panel there are a few issues with the very outer edges but the central zone which is massive romana of this size is well above average again this is one area where you choose IPS productivity or creative work over other display technologies however the you 49:19 DW also comes with a uniformity compensation option that improves uniformly further this improves those outer edges and essentially provides perfect uniformity across the display with that said it's actually not a murder I'd use as bizarrely it completely stuffs up color and gross scale performance switching the mode on half of the contrast ratio cause color Delta is above 5.0 and butcher's grayscale I'm really baffled as to why this is the case but it does work as advertised and improving uniformly maybe these are the trade-offs required for perfect uniformity in any case is really not worth using in most use cases and finally I just want to briefly run through the response time metrics this isn't a particularly quick panel coming in with a greater great average of around nine milliseconds but that's fine for a 60 Hertz productivity focus display there is a single overdrive mode but it introduces overshoot so the default option is the best use here and the one tested with the year 49:19 DW also clocks in with around 7 milliseconds of input latency that's not up there with the your gaming grade displays but it's perfectly acceptable for this type of monitor and it's not annoyingly slow either the dell ultrasharp you 49:19 DW isn't going to be for everyone I think the game is especially it's simply not worth buying a Productivity focus display like this even if it has some cool new specs that you might want in time 1440p double-wide will become an option for gaming but a 60 Hertz maximum refresh rate no adaptive sink and the high price tag makes it far from the best choice right now but gaming isn't their target market the target market is productivity office usage and creative professionals for that market I think this monitor gets a lot of things right it sensibly built and very sturdy it has neat features for office users like USB C power delivery and lots of Zoning options and it uses an IPS panel so we're getting great uniformity in viewing angles factory calibration is good it's not perfect but I think it's fine for offices that anyone doing color accurate work should probably still seek an independent calibration there lots of benefits to this super ultra wide form factor as well replacing two 27-inch 1440p monitors with one might be the right call for your workflow you might hate bezels or the inconvenience of lining up and positioning two displays most importantly you can ensure that content looks exactly the same on both halves of the display which you don't always get with separate monitors and overall I think this is a much better option for productivity than a 1080p class equivalent because the higher 50 120 by 1440p resolution does make a huge difference the question in the end is going to come down to your use case and what you're after at 1349 dollars this is not a cheap monitor Dell will sell you to ultra sharp 27-inch 1440p monitors for $350 each or two with premiere color for $600 each both options ending up less than the total cost of this 49 inch super ultra wide so you'll have to really want the specific benefits of this single panel solution otherwise a more traditional dual screen setup will be more cost effective I think for a lot of people the benefits of a single panel won't outweigh the huge price increase which leaves the you 49:19 DW as more of a nature but it's not bad overall so if you do fall into that niche and want this panel it is a quality option that's it for this review of the dell ultrasharp 49 still plenty of monitor reviews to get through including some your gaming displays that have just released so subscribe to those give this review a like if you enjoyed it consider supporting us on patreon and I'll catch you in the next one