Samsung LS49CG934SUXXU Odyssey OLED 49″ Gaming Monitor
Samsung LS49CG934SUXXU Odyssey OLED 49″ Gaming Monitor – 5120×1440, Speakers, HDMI 2.1, 0.03ms, 240Hz
A new era of OLED gaming
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Built-in speakerThe built-in speakers keep your desk clean from the mess of wires and external speakers. Get all the audio cues to take your game to the next level without setting up any new equipment. | Elevated design sets a new standardSlim Metal Design Upgrade your gaming station with razor-sharp design. Featuring a premium and modern metal finish measuring at just 4.5mm at its thinnest, Odyssey OLED’s unmatched design will suit your stylish sense. | Connect more to enjoy moreTap into a multitude of input options. HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort and USB Hub let you hook up to favorite devices that elevate your game with no mess. | Extend winning streaks in comfortReach the height of winning. Tilt and adjust your monitor until all enemies are in perfect view. Your display can be moved freely so you can find total gaming comfort. |
| Weight: | 12.6 kg |
| Dimensions: | 23.6 x 119.4 x 52.9 cm; 12.6 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Samsung |
| Model: | LS49CG934SUXXU |
| Colour: | OLED |
| Manufacture: | Samsung |
| Dimensions: | 23.6 x 119.4 x 52.9 cm; 12.6 Kilograms |
I’ve been using this monitor for gaming for the past 2 years now and it is a delight of a screen. The quality is awesome, refresh rate and response time is perfect. HOWEVER, the software is stupid on this screen.
If you’d like to switch input while this is off (which is by default if the main input is off) then you are good for a good 10/15 seconds before the screen turns itself on.
This monitor is truly at the top of the chain when it comes to monitors. It is perfect in every aspect.
Brightness might be an issue for those hard of sight or prefer really bright display as this can’t get as bright as my older monitor but this monitors max brightness is my max too. I’ve never experienced blacks as black as this and colours a vibrant.
Only thing limiting me are my dirty glasses xD
First impressions are strong. This is super slim as you would expect from OLED and the stand has a small footprint and is subtle. No riduclous “I’M A GAMER” over the top nonsense here. The stand is easily built too, you just need a screwdriver.
Then I turned it on, and surprisingly this thing has Samsung’s regular Tizen TV OS in it, with apps and a TV guide and all in 16:9 with borders. Bizarre stuff. Why is all of this stuff in a PC monitor? And it’s not something you can ignore either, it wants wi-fi and a Samsung log-in, and you’ll need to go deep into its poorly labelled options to set your inputs up. Even then you’re not done as changing inputs requires multiple buttons presses on the remote (yes, there’s a remote control too) to pick your way through the painfully slow and poorly designed OS.
I just mentioned a remote, another weird addition to a PC display. It looks like an Apple TV remote from its design and size, but rather than being built like a tank out of metal as Apple do, this is incredibly flimsy plastic. As it’s the only way to navigate the monitor’s OS you best take good care of it, as one false move and this little piece of plastic junk will break. And it has no input selector button (!!), but it does have buttons for Disney+ and Netflix. Samsung, you need help.
Other things of note, the monitor has speakers built in which sound like you would expect them too (terrible). It can output sound over bluetooth though through any of its inputs, even Display Port. When it comes to inputs you get three, Display Port, HDMI, and Thunderbolt. In another head scatchingly weird move Samsung have opted to go with a micro HDMI. a mini Display port, and a reglular Thunderbolt (which looks like USB-C, but isn’t, so be careful which cable you buy). Why the tiny connections on a gigantic monitor? Who knows.
Now onto the good stuff. Well the picture is phenomenal. Just phenomenal. Perfect blacks, high peak brightness (on a small area of the screen, the auto brightness limiter prevents it from displaying high brightness on the whole screen), and so much colour volume. I had to turn the saturation down as out of the box it looked really overcooked, but even then it shames my LG C2 TV with its WOLED panel. Quantum Dot OLED is impressive tech. For gaming it’s fantastic of course, 175hz and it works fine with GSync, even though it isn’t a GSync certified display with one big caveat. If you’re on a 40 series NVidia GPU and you’re using DLSS 3 frame generation there will be extensive tearing in game. This can be alieviated by forcing VSync on in the NVidia control panel, but this will unfortunately add some lag. It’s too bad this isn’t a real GSync Ultimate display, as it was originally going to be.
And finally I had heard this suffered from fringing on text due to the triangular structure of the RGB sub pixels on QD-OLED screens. Well in all honesty unless I sit weirdly close to the screen I can barely see it at all. It’s so suble I have to look for it, but 99% of the time I don’t see it at all.
Overall then an amazing display in a nice looking package which for reasons I doubt even Samsung know was burdened with an unecessary and painfully slow OS from a TV. And weirdly tiny input connectors. And a remote which feels like it cost about 20p. If you can live with those inconveniences then the display itself is outstanding.
Coming from a 27″ 2k monitor from AOC, this is night and day different! The colours are soooooo much better and more vivid! Very happy, even if it cost a lot!
The difference is mind-blowing. I originally chose the LG monitor for it’s great picture quality, but the G8 OLED makes that look like cheap trash in comparison. The G8 OLED is so incredibly colourful, bright and rich-looking. The motion in gaming feels really great and the fringing you hear about online is not really noticeable unless you put your face a few inches from the display.
Of course I’m worried about burn-in, so maybe I’ll return to change this review in a year or two, but for now I am more than ecstatic with this monitor. Amazing!
Wow, what a stunning monitor, set is super easy and so many additional media apps. Only negative but not enough to lose a star. Samsung, listen to what other manufacture’s are doing, why don’t you include the connection cables in box. Especially when you’ve gone away from the norm. But the monitor is gorgeous.
I knocked a star off for the poor stand (hardly height or tilt-adjustable) and it takes longer than my other monitor to turn on which just looks a bit weird when waking the computer. Needs a monitor arm
The suitability of size and pixel count will depend on your setup needs but it is great for me with the low bulk and weight working great on my monitor arm
The colours are superb and the speakers are great, although I run the sound through to a Sonos beam sounbar using HDMI arc.
The mini ports are kind of annoying but just buy a new miniport cable, it’s pretty much the same price as buying an adaptor.
My one (well two actually) beef is I have a Samsung tv in the same room and it’s annoying when you cannot limit a remote to just the TV, but you can work around it and the lack of a dedicated source button on the remote is crazy
My only issue is, like some people online after searching about the issue, that its such a heavy monitor it self tilts back down from where you tilt it (for your eyes or whatever). I had to remedy this with some card and jamming it in the back where it tilts. No issues since but for the price you would think the monitor would have things like this covered. (basically a crap stand).
Elsewise 5* just remember you will likely have to do something about it tilting back constantly.
Has been a decent monitor (owned 11 months) but the black smearing in games can be annoying – things like the Borderlands games for example or particularly bad.
Picture out of box is incredible. Best I’ve never had on a pc. Do alot of video editing in Adobe premiere. This has allowed my to have more content on screen and really speeds up the editing process by at least 50% even on a gddr5 GC with only 8gb it runs so sweet.
No dead pixels picture is perfect in every way for me, and the reduce strain on eye function was a blessing as mostly use it in evenning
Not tried gaming yet as only bought for editting
Using the menu was easy, overal use of the navigation stick was like scroll and click like an R3 on PS Pad. But does feel cheap and blocky, clunky but does the job.
Bad
Stand is crap and cheap with no adjustment however cable tidy on back in is a nice touch
Audio: none, just a headphone jack. Just feel angry at this one it obviously has a type of soundcard or it wouldn’t have a headphone jack, so feel a bit robbed
Screen besel
No gap at bottom, 10mm left-top-bottom
Thought was an issue at first then realised it standard
Amazing monitor will stick wit the odyssey
I love this monitor but the stand it comes with is very cheap. Comes with a display port cable but no hdmi cable oh and a (UK) power pack. Very lightweight great picture. It’s a very good way to cheaply get into 1440 p gaming.
Caveat: use a VESA mount. the stand that it comes with is really utterly crap, very weak plastic. I guess it does the trick but if you’re playing games and moving your arms on the desk, your monitor is going to be dancing all over the place. Bad show from samsung, and this loses a star on “value for money”, otherwise it would be 5 star throughout for me.
Not the best screen for the PS5, but ideal for PC users.
I also bought a VESA mount, as all the bad reviews about this monitor, were around the stand, just get a VESA mount movable arm right away, then there isn’t a problem.
Contrast: that’s where VA panel is good at, very high contrast possible.
Ergonomics: a disaster, terrible stand, nothing adjustable.
Curvature and ultrawide: just marvelous, incredible for playing games. The eyes are able to see this wide. Those peripheral retina cells detecting motion are there all the time, so it feels super natural to have this extra width. The experience feels more immersive and makes sense.
Notes: At first I had problem connecting to my PC, after downgraded monitor DP version to 1.2, it then worked.