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today's video is powered by Olinda comm hey guys johnathan here with TLD hope you guys are doing well I am back but not so much of a review because I don't think I'll be keeping this particular product for a long enough period of time where I feel comfortable reviewing it but at the very least I wanted to share my experience my impressions about the good in the bad and some problems that I've run into so if you haven't already guessed by the title of the video I got a chance to spend some time with these Samsung u28 D 590 D that is a mouthful which brings you HD resolution 3840 by 2160 at 60 Hertz mind you to the desktop and a 28 inch form factor for under $1000 now for those who follow channel know recently I made the switch or I should probably say leap into 4k video so I'm able to create and produce 4k video content but not actually view it or play it back in its native resolution now deep down I've been patiently and I mean patiently really trying to wait for Apple to announce a 4k display of their own simply for the sole reason I've done durable integration which I will touch on a little bit later in this video but I'm sure as most of you guys know at the time of this video being published there is no option from Apple so I figured with 10 9.3 and its support for 4k scaling coming out and it's official I would jump on the board and test the monitor out now first and foremost getting the main issues and problems I have had with the monitor out of the way obviously wanted to use this with my Mac Pro since that is my workhorse but I ran into problems from the second I tried to hook it up I was able to get everything set up by a mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort 1.2 at 60 Hertz with a picture but for some strange reason towards the right-hand side of the screen there's some weird glitching and artifacting going on and it's really annoying I tried restarting the computer I tried different ports I tried some hardware resets on the Mac Pro and nothing seemed to work I thought maybe it might be the cable but then I actually test it out with my MacBook Pro and that worked flawlessly so it's not the cable it's actually some incompatibility with the monitor and the Mac Pro graphics card something to that nature now obviously this is not a knock on a display it's more a compatibility issue with 10.99 3 which has been pretty crazy at the moment if you guys follow marques mkbhd he actually upgraded to 10 dot 9.3 and it actually gave him problems with his dual 4k monitors now even though I was able to successfully get it to work with my MacBook Pro that was not my intention or how I would plan on using it so at this point in time I'm going to return it now getting into more of the review portion of the video it is a beautiful looking monitor it's got a nice clean elegant design thin bezels that looks fantastic on a desktop I do got to say though that it actually looks nicer in terms of aesthetics and it's actually built the brushed aluminum looking back keyword being looking is beautiful don't get me wrong but deep down it's still at its heart plastic which seems to be the story of Samsung's life it's super lightweight so it's super easy to move if you need to but it's not as sturdy as I would like it to be if you move it around it kind of seems to wiggle which I'm not a huge fan of now I realize that maybe a little bit nitpicky because most of us probably aren't gonna be moving our monitors back and forth so it's not going to be a huge deal but the very least I did want to point that out taking a quick look at the back panel it's pretty simple you get a power input twenty hdmi displayport and a headphone jack so not a whole lot going on there I would have liked to see at least maybe some USB ports and that's kind of why I'm a fan of the Thunderbolt Display is actually not only the Sun durable integration but the fact that it acts as a hub for additional USB ports firewire Ethernet and it just makes the overall experience more convenient and enjoyable so as a quick example as of right now I'm able to hook up my audio interface directly into my Thunderbolt display which helps me with saving space and it doesn't force me into needing to have the interface directly right next to the Mac Pro and on top of that it also frees up ports now the reason I had waited until 10 9.3 was officials because prior to that there was no 4k scaling support which meant for pixels and stuff that was great because you could view it back at its native resolution but in terms of text and actually trying to read things not so much so if you haven't by now do me a favor and make sure you're watching this video fullscreen what you're viewing right now is the native 3840 by 2160 so you can see how small the icons are the text is it's really kind of a pain to actually try and read that and I found myself getting dizzy trying to do so now with 10.9 dot 3 it'll actually give you multiple scaling options for 4k so for example if we took a look at 2560 by 1440 it'll actually render the entire picture at twice that both way so you're looking at 50 120 by 28 80 and that it will condense it down so everything looks super dense and super crisp so essentially what that does in turn texts and UI elements for every pixel of real estate there's four pixels in its place creating that super dense effect conversely though if you're viewing a video or editing in Final Cut Pro 10 it'll actually recognize that and give you pixel for pixel in terms of the content that you are viewing so you could have a full 1080p video playing in there and still have tons and tons of real estate left on the screen now for some reason I was getting kind of a weird resolution in between 25 60 and the native 38 40 it was coming in at three thousand and eight by 1692 not sure why it went that route I think I got a different results on my Asus test then of course you have 1920 by 1080 scaling which to me just looks kind of ridiculous and I wouldn't go that's massive and the same exact thing goes for 720p I'm not even going to show you what that looks like because if you buy this monitor and use that much of a scale you need your geek card revoked now getting back into more of the review format I'm going to break it down into some pros and some cons the first probe being obviously the price point it is under $1,000 and it's actually even under $800 it's got a super-fast one millisecond response time so for gamers out there that is a fantastic option I also really enjoyed the fact that the menu and settings is actually accessed and controlled via a button on the backside of the modern so it's a physical button so a lot more intuitive than trying to jumble through a touch menu or anything like that and for me it was just a really pleasant experience lastly a huge pro for this monitor is the fact that at this price point it is dishing out 60 Hertz there is a comparable Dell monitor for on the same price same resolution but it is stuck at 30 Hertz which hurts my geek heart now in terms of cons because the price is so low you do sacrifice certain things like the fact that it's a TN panel as opposed to something like IPS so the color reproduction and the color accuracy is not going to be as stellar as something like an IPS display which I definitely noticed the other thing is going to be viewing angles which are going to be as good as an IPS display and I know for a lot of people that's not a big deal because the main response I see to that is because well I'm not going to sit to the side of my desktop so I'm going to be looking straight forward that is not a big deal to me that's a case then that is cool and it works out for you now lastly wrapping up the cons I think compatibility is a big issue right now not only in the Mac side because obviously you solve some of the issues that I ran into with my Mac Pro if you got a PC and you want to do some gaming at that resolution ideally you're going to want some sort of crossfire or SLI setup but as of now there is no SLI sub for 3840 by 2160 gaming's that's one thing to consider so that about wraps up my experience with it hopefully you guys enjoyed the video if you did and you are feeling like being awesome make sure to hit that like button in return of course you get a virtual high five at your face now before I hop out of here or give a huge shout out and thank you to lynda.com for making this video possible now I see all the time questions from you guys asking how did you learn to edit video how did you learn to shoot video where did you start and the simple answer is I taught myself we live in an awesome day and age for the information and the knowledge is right there you just got to reach out and grab it and apply it to yourself Linda's calm has a ton of tutorials to push you in that direction so whether you want to take better pictures or video with your DSLR learn how to create and develop a mobile app or even just edit video period using 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