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That's a 360 baby.
It's a big box.
People love a big box.
And in this big box is a new monitor from Dell
which apparently is hold on,
let me look at my notes,
the world's first 40 inch ultrawide curved 5K2K monitor.
Now, when you see a statement like that
you can be pretty sure it's not the world's first anything.
That's too many qualifiers.
And if the marketing department was just trying to tell you
as much about their monitors as they could in one sentence,
then they kind of screwed up
the whole concept of world's first.
So, bad marketing either way.
But it could still be a great monitor so let's check it out.
Right after I get in this box,
using my trustee sheers that I keep in my pocket.
Oh God!
This is like a giant briefcase.
This is a fun kind of thing to unbox.
In it we have a calibration report.
This is showing us that in sRGB mode
which is like regular web kind of color space.
The Delta Es which is the difference between
what the color shows and what like the perfect color is.
Those Delta Es are very low which is awesome,
they're actually below a Delta E of one.
A Delta E of like two and three is like
what the human eye can even discern.
So that's very good.
However, this is a monitor marketed
towards color professionals.
So if you're doing graphic design
or other colored critical work,
you're probably not gonna be working in sRGB all the time,
you might be in something like Adobe RGB
or DCI-P3 which they also have here
but the performance isn't as good.
It's still just barely over two, it's all under three.
So that's pretty good.
We have a how do you say,
I don't want to say non-verbal
but one of those instructor manuals, that's all pictures.
Those can be hit and miss.
I'm gonna try not to look at that.
Cables, display port cable, probably gonna use that.
This is a USB I believe that's type B, like uplink cable.
So that's because at the back of this monitor
there's going to be a USB hub you can plug lots of stuff in
and then from the monitor to the PC, you'll have this cord.
HDMI, we're gonna look closely at this.
You probably don't want to use HDMI with this monitor
if it's anything like other 5K2K monitors
I've seen in the past.
And then there is a Thunderbolt,
actually a Thunderbolt 3 cable.
These things are pretty expensive
or atleast they used to be.
But pretty nice for them to include,
what is that like a four or five foot cable?
Nice, USB type C.
So you can also do display port.
You could run display port
over USB type C using this cable, nice.
Wow, there's a bunch of numbers on this thing.
Can you see this?
Here, look at this upside down one.
One,
is the base
of the monitor stand.
Cool, I like this type of base.
I prefer this to having like legs that jut out
because you can just put your phone or your wallet on it.
I think that's cool.
This is not too big either, haft!
Now here's the little two in the two bucket, and guess what?
It's the neck.
And you can kind of see already
this is a more professional executive look
as opposed to like a gamer look.
Is this integrated to this?
Yes, it is.
Snap that on there and then just give this a twist
with the fingers.
Cool and I can see there is a cable management channel.
I like that stand, it feels robust.
It's like anodized aluminum.
That's good.
Power cable, no power brick yet?
Hopefully it's integrated into this monitor.
It's a fairly large monitor
so I would kind of expect the power brick
to be integrated into there.
And now I get to take this whole thing out.
Oh, I think this is telling me to leave this on until later.
What is this trying to say?
Okay, I dig it.
Now I can get rid of this.
We're back. (laughing)
That's a 360 baby.
I think I can actually assemble this
without having to take the shirt off.
This is actually so nice.
So many times, especially with a really big TV,
it can be difficult to get it out of the box
but then you have to lay the whole thing down on its face
while you get the legs on it.
And then you're looking for something soft
you can safely lay it on putting a blanket down.
Big pain in the butt.
That you don't have to mess with this time
cause they thought of everything.
That's great.
Now I just go like this.
This actually foam in there.
Oh, there is more on this side too
that I didn't even get to see.
It's pretty heavy with the stand.
It's about 20.5 pounds not like unruly.
Okay.
We have this much elevation.
Oh, it goes is really nice and low.
That's cool.
That high.
It actually has built in swivel quite a bit.
That's nice.
And for tilt you get what?
The standard?
Yeah.
Oh, actually tilts up pretty high.
Any rotation?
What? A little bit.
I mean, no one is going to use this in vertical mode.
The reason that rotation is nice,
is that it's easier to plug stuff in
but you couldn't even turn this sideways if you want it
because it would have to be so much higher.
So this is a reasonable
it's nice that they give you a little bit
I mean, you know, if your table's not level
or something like that.
This has a really clean look.
This button over here
it's just a nice little dimple for the power button
and a really premium looking and feeling
joystick.
It looks like they want Apple users to use this.
I can't wait to explore the OSD.
Okay, and then looking at the IO, I like the IO labels here.
This is almost like a soft touch kind of plastic here.
Power cord goes in there.
HDMI one and two.
Again, I wouldn't use those.
They are HDMI 2.0
not 2.1.
And at this point in 2021, if you're spending $2,100
I almost feel like that's almost right there
I wouldn't buy this monitor.
Because in a couple of months is just
everything's going to be 2.1 or it should be.
So I don't know
let's just put an astros on that and keep going.
Display port 1.4.
Oh, here we go.
This is the integrated USB hub.
You can see they actually shows a picture
of a laptop with a lightning bolt and it says 90 Watts.
Yeah, we have RJ45 jack for the internet.
We have a 3.5 millimeter audio jack.
I believe there are four USB type a ports
that are 10 gig on this thing.
Oh, here it is.
Down here.
There's another USB type C down there too.
That's really cool. Especially if you want to hook up
like your SD card reader or something like that.
Yeah, this is kind of a weird screen
because it's a 21 by 9 screen, just normal ultrawide.
But it's 40 inches whereas most are 34 inches.
I have a super ultrawide which is 49 inches on my desk.
So it is wider than that but I don't know.
Of course this is high resolution.
This is 5120 by 2160.
So 2160 PS4K.
You can think of this as just being like the resolution
of a 4K monitor but then you have like an extra third.
So it's like a 4K ultrawide
but they call it 5K2K, which is annoying.
But the reason I was picking on them for saying
this is the world's first curved.
This is not the first 5K2K.
There have been other monitors.
We reviewed an LG one back
in November of 2018 on Linus Tech Tips
that had this same resolution except at 34 inches.
And you can buy that one now for about 14 or $1,500.
So I don't know why you would buy this now to be honest
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All right, this is like a little tutorial
teaching you how to use the OSD and some initial setup.
Kind of like what you do on a TV
but you don't normally do on a monitor.
First option I have here is to enable always
on USB C charging other USB charging
and uniformity compensation.
All of which will increase power consumption
if you want it to adhere to the energy star rating
that it has here but keep those off.
All right, this is not really a gaming monitor,
it's a 60 hertz monitor.
They do claim to have a five millisecond pixel response time
this is an IPS panel but for that you need to put it
into like it's fast mode
which means you might get some overdrive.
This is however, not a review I'm just here to tell you
that it does have like a matte kind of finish on it 3H.
Also one thing you should know, it's curved.
It has a 2,500R curvature
which is not a very aggressive curve.
Other monitors that are more gamer oriented
will have 1,800R or 1,000R curve.
Let's go into the control panel where we can see.
It's a 5120 by 2160 native
and it is I believe this is a 10 bit panel.
Yep, funk.
No FRC malarkey.
Let's try to put it at 75 and see what happens.
This is not a representative.
Like it's kind of a bit of a lottery.
75, it worked cool.
That doesn't mean that yours is gonna work.
It kinda of varies by monitor a bit.
But I mean better than 60.
One thing I want to know though is if I switched to HDMI,
will I be able to hit the full resolution?
Because when I used that LG two years ago, that did work.
Okay, well it's full screen that's good news.
Because when I messed around with the LG before
it was actually squishing it to 16 by nine.
But the recommended is not full res, but can it do it?
It does
5120 by 2160.
Okay, well that's great news.
That is fantastic okay.
30 hertz?
There it is guys.
Oh yeah and ow that I'm moving the mouse around
it's like a slideshow show (mumbles).
Maybe let's see what happens if I go down to a four to
two chromosome sampling an eight bit.
Yeah, use display port
pretty lame.
And I mean, it's not like there's
this way of stream compression.
If you had a newer graphics card, like a 30 series
you could use DSC to get higher specs than HDMI will allow
but you don't have HDMI 2.1 on the monitor
so that is totally irrelevant.
So yeah, you're going to wanna use display port.
Other things about this monitor,
it does have speakers included two nine watt speakers.
It also has a built-in KVM for switching
including a picture by picture and picture by picture.
So should you buy this monitor if you're a content creator?
I don't know.
I mean, for HDR, if you're an HDR content creator
or even consumer gamer pass on this, cause it's not HDR.
The peak brightness is only 300.
Even the LG that it was over two years old at this point
they set display HDR certification of 600,
which still isn't great you want a 1,000
but it's better than 300.
And you have the LG is smaller, this is a 40 inch.
The other one I think was 34 inches.
But that means that is has as a higher pixel density.
So pick your poison there.
I just think that if you're going to be saving $600
then I would go for the one that's already been out
for a long time.
Like this is coming out now but it offers nothing new.
It doesn't have HDMI 2.1.
It does have power delivery, which is kind of nice.
It's not a new resolution.
I just don't know why this is coming out now.
And if it were up to me I would just save the money
and go for the LG which also had great coverage
of the DCI-P3 color space and also had good color accuracy.
It basically does everything this thing can do.
So, I mean, this isn't a review but my guard feeling
is that I wouldn't get this one over
the LG that already exists.
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