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hey what's up guys Jays $0.02 here and we took a look earlier this year at some LG ultra wide monitors that were debuted or are these kind of teased at CES and we took a look at the 34 um 67 we took a look at the 34 you see 97 which was a curved 34 inch IPS display but there was a lot of complaints that people had about that particular panel the 34 40 by 1440p curved display and uh LG actually listened up and made some changes so we're gonna be taking a look today at the 34 you see 87 C which exists purely because of consumer feedback did what it's so oh you really think so what is the white thing well she says it gets the job done - ah that's mom the fractal design node - OH - it's not about how big it is but all about how you use it so let's start by kind of going over some of the features at the UC 97 had or the 34 UC 97 had which was a great monitor don't get me wrong but there was a lot of things that people didn't like about it which kind of hurt at sales and hurt some of its adoption rate first things first a lot of people didn't really care for the gold color I don't know it was more or less Apple s if you will it didn't a lot of people didn't like the way it looked in their home offices or their businesses or even their gaming setup so a lot of people skipped it over simply because of the aesthetics of it another thing people complained about was the stand it didn't have any height adjustment on it whatsoever it was mounted in one position and that was it it looked really nice it was made out of metal and felt like a polished chromed metal looked really really slick but it had no adjustment and that really didn't work out very well for a lot of people I mean it's a 34 inch monitor you might need to raise it or lower it depending on your setup so they've gone ahead on this model and kind of revamped that but probably the most common complaint was it was just too damn expensive at well over a thousand it had things that made it worth $1,000 though it was an IPS panel it was a 34 40 by 1440 p21 by 9 curved panel very high quality IPS panel people just didn't want some of the features that were in there for instance the Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt pass-through and so they just really requested the LG make a more affordable model now that's exactly what we're looking at here in the 34 you see 87 see but it maintains its qHD 34 40 by 1440p pixel pixel resolution and the fact that is still an IPS panel now they also got away from the gold color and went to a nice matte black looks very very slick and also a very nice gunmetal gray all metal construction stand which is height adjustable that is very very important now one of the things that I don't think a lot of people complained about because not many people use monitor mounts but I personally had a complaint about was their implementation of how the VESA mount or base amount worked on the UC 97 where you had to kind of use an adapter thing and then an adapter plate and then mount it on and it stuck it real far out it was one of the reasons why I never implemented it in my skunkworks panel setup even though it was an IPS panel and would have been perfect for content creation like I do but the UC 87 actually has a 100 by 100 base amount on the back of the panel which is perfect so you don't have any additional adapters or anything that you have to stick on there so that was a really nice implementation to see now one of the things to that's really nice about 21 by 9 monitor aspect ratio is a lot of developers are now implementing this into their games where you're no longer getting the black bars on the side for it being kind of a weird one-off resolution it's a much more widely adopted resolution now which is why I'm considering moving this panel over to skunk works and getting rid of my 4 panel array and just going with one or two of these guys I would get more space lit back on my desk especially if I stacked two of these on top of each other and would gain IPS the only downside is because it's IPs we still have very low refresh rates at 60 Hertz now I know I that very low but when I've been running 144 Hertz panels for over a year now 60 Hertz does seem very slow and choppy at least until you get used to it again not to mention it will alleviate some temperature in the room I won't have as many power plugs or power bricks going the monitors put off heat themselves and this room does get very hot in the summer I haven't decided yet if I'm going to implement this as a standalone monitor it's definitely going up top for my rig to have an IPS editing monitor because well you know IPS is the color accuracy of IPS is as close as you can get to real life and that's what's important but it's also important to realize that IPS while gaming is gonna make your color seem a little bit more flat not as bright and poppy pop I think that's the right term as TN panels but the off viewing angles are going to be perfect the curved panel of this gives you a nice kind of immersion where you don't have any of the skewing that you get with a flat panel especially something 34 inches you know in diagonal measurement and I think that the gaming aspect of 21 by 9 is really starting to become something that is widely adopted and you can do it now without any sort of downsides now there are quite a few picture modes in this thing and one of them is gaming mode which is supposed to help with the saturation but I think the game mode on an IPS panel looks worse than TN it just doesn't look very good at all so I would just leave it on photo mode which tends to give a little bit more set just a little bit more saturation but still keeps a lot of IPs color calibration in there now I did notice that all the settings from this panel came on custom settings so I have a feeling this one might have been pre calibrated before it was sent to me I don't know if they actually come pre calibrated or not since this is a review sample it might have been professionally calibrated but I can tell you that everything looks really good on this panel especially to open up photos and stuff and video editing I really do think this is gonna make its way over to my system at least on the top panel so I can have my preview and stuff up there but I think 21 by 9 curved panels are definitely something to consider both for gaming productivity and just all-around awesome panel take a look at so guys this has been the 34 UC 87 C from LG definitely nice to see this panel considering it exists because of community feedback and we like to see when companies make changes that are directly related to what the customers are saying so a good job on that one LG anyway guys I'm gonna get on out of here thanks for checking out today's video if you didn't see the original video of the 34 UC 97 look in the description you guys will see a link to that video and you'll be able to kind of compare the two side-by-side and you'll see a little more of what I was talking about with the changes they made here versus the UC 97 and even though this one's a lot cheaper at a time of filming right now at $899 yeah it's very expensive still but I think that this is actually a better panel for a guy like me than a lot of the functions on the more expensive panel like the 97 so anyway guys thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next one you