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hmm which one do I want hmm I don't know hmm decisions decisions which one would you choose perhaps you're looking to invest into new monitor experience should you go ultra wide or a more traditional UHD the Krakken x61 by NZXT offers fantastic cooling with the 280 mm a radiator with long slim tubing for easier installation and high pressure copper cold plate you can also customize led through the cam software so get crackin so me having no personal experience on the UHD side of things LG sent us their 27 UD eighty-eight it's a 27-inch monitor and 3840 by 2160 of resolution at 60 Hertz and it's loaded with relevant features for professionals like white color gamut 10 bit IPS panel USB see support which is so cool factory calibration with a nice handy report and free sync support for just that extra smoother gameplay and before we reflect on the 21 by 9 vs. the UHD conversation here's everything you need to know about this new LG panel and also we have reviewed the widescreen here so check it out so first I love the consistency of the design language between these two LG monitors with a curved aluminum base that supports the monitor nicely with incredibly thin bezels there's a silver plastic housing around the monitor with an almost flush surface it's a gorgeous looking display with impressive sharpness now this being only 27 inches we get fantastic pixel density that shows no visible pixels anywhere and the first thing that I wanted to explore was native 4k content and yeah I was highly impressed having this type of native 1 to 1 pixel readout for an editor like myself is highly beneficial there is no upscaling there's no down scaling just native 4k footage playback on the native 4k display now you don't need to be an editor to appreciate all the detail you get out of such a panel and you only realize how much detail there is by being super close to it and having this native reference again maybe one of the best reasons to choose you itch over a wide screen or an ultra wide screen we have 110 millimeters of height adjustment with portrait mode available something ultra wide monitors do not support plus 23 degrees of angle adjustment the back is covered with white plastic it helps to lighten the monitor and it looks super clean too with dual HDMI 2.0 dual USB 3 1 DisplayPort 1.2 a headphone jack plus that one major selling point use bc that supports 4k at 60 Hertz plus data transfer and to power your source notebook up to 60 watts so for example if you plug in your macbook that has USB C port it will charge the macbook while also allowing you to transfer USB stuff over the through the monitor and also pass all that digital data to and one meter USBC cable is included and this minimalist direction thanks to type C is so tempting it's now just a matter of mobile devices utilizing USB type-c more often a few more cables are included like hdmi displayport and a USB pass-through plus all your power cables and now let's shift focus towards the conversation to compare the UHD vs. 21 by 9 and I gotta admit that the user experience on both these formats is completely different so for comparison here's the LG 34 UC 98 it's a 34 inch monitor that is curved it falls in the same technical realm as the UHD monitor with the IPS 10 bit panel at 34 40 by 1440p resolution and despite the smaller 27-inch panel having 33 more pixels I would say productivity on the ultra wide is better so having two windows a side by side is more comfortable video editors love the horizontal real estate for the time line and it just feels really good to shift away from the conventional sixteen by nine aspect and we almost have this deceptive perception of having more screen real estate on the ultra wide versus the 4k screen where in reality that's not really the case you have more pixels on the 4k display but it feels like you have more room to work with on the ultra wide next is media consumption and either of these have their strengths and their compromises so thin content looks amazing on the white screen occupying full length of the panel but all other content leaves black bars on either side while you also run into black bars above and below media on the sixteen by nine aspect that isn't native to that aspect so one awesome advantage of most widescreen panels is the high refresh rate due to lower resolution so with the UC 98 it's going up to 75 Hertz without sacrificing on the panel quality it's still IPS it's still 10 bit while the IPS UHD monitors are quite hard to find with anything above 60 Hertz now both of these actually support free sync which is awesome the range on the UHD panel is slightly better on the lower end so it's going to 40 to 60 Hertz which is fine for 4k it's a good low minimum of 40 Hertz but only ultra wide it's between 59 and 75 Hertz which means your gaming experience at the lower frame rates will suffer due to such high minimum so this is a perfect transition into gaming and 21 by 9 gaming is absolutely unique don't be afraid by some non supported resolution at 21 by 9 for certain games because that format is becoming so popular that we'll eventually have 21 by 9 support resolution across the board and so it feels amazing wide horizontal field of view you see more I had a blast doing a run-through with Tomb Raider and this was actually beneficial and Victoire and it's a hack and slash game where you see more of the map and therefore you can avoid going to certain directions because of this top-down view and that is based on my own experience with the ultra wide panel as some strategy games do not exactly utilize the widescreen format so well so the menu and the UI do not exactly crop to cooperate and this is where UHD and having that extra verticals of resolution is important for software like AutoCAD and Sketchup since gaining the extra vertical resolution is more important than gaining that why there is Liu and we right now do not have a widescreen monitor that is 2160 pixels in the vertical resolution so UHD is more optimal for those scenarios UHD on the other hand looks incredibly sharp provided you have the means to run in this resolution but the real gaming drawback for me is the refresh rate having lived with dual 144 hertz monitors 60 Hertz on a 4k display just doesn't feel so great because everything feels a little bit too slow now most ultra wide monitors are curved which is a positive it sort of wraps around slightly around your vision for a positive effect but also that skews all your lines on the screen and why I cannot use it for editing since I lose reference to my line composition but the curve is awesome for everything else while UHD is fantastic for creative work especially with compatible 10-bit hardware so my MacBook Pro supports 10 bit output which means gradients and color transitions are much smoother and the same goes for the ultra wide comparing backlight bleed between the two panels you can see that the large monitor has some more distinct brighter spots while our UHD monitor also has some corner bleed but it looks smoother and so this battle between 21 by 9 versus UHD format is quite vague because both these monitors serve their unique purpose I for one absolutely love 21 by 9 for gaming you have a nice wide field of view without compromising on the quality and general productivity - because I feel like I have more space on the screen ultra wide this also made me explore the depth of the internet for Tru 21 by 9 media which has given me goosebumps and that consumption and that experience alone is totally worth it but anything curved on the screen is a big no for me especially for anything creative because I need my lines to be straight so that I have a good perception of my composition and this is where the UHD monitor is I would say King with fantastic detail great resolution even built-in aspect markers to help in some cases while not super ideal for gaming because it's quite difficult to run in this resolution and it's only 60 Hertz I would choose high refresh rate over high resolution any day and 99% of the media that we consume is still presented in the 16 by 9 aspect which means this UHD format is a lot more enjoyable for most media as I hate the black bars on left and right on the ultra wide and so if I was to choose one between these two options I would definitely gravitate more towards the ultra white since it offers a bit more unique visual interaction compared to the traditional sixteen by nine monitor and also a very important and for Windows users scaling at 34 40 by 1440 resolution is so much better compared to UHD resolution whereas with UHD I have to scale everything to 150% maybe 125 percent in order to see everything clearly without having to be super close to the screen and everything being super tiny and in this case you're kind of losing out on the real estate just everything looks a lot tiny a little bit sharper but when I was running the MacBook Pro with both monitors scaling was fantastic on both monitors without any issues so if you are a Mac user definitely the UHD is a much better option because scaling is so much better and that concludes this video on dmitri with our canucks thanks so much for watching which one would you choose Ultra wide screen or UHD let us know in the comments down below we'll see you in the next video you