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Here, backlight uniformity isn’t quite what LG claim on the supplied calibration sheet that comes with the display, especially when you’re less than 100% parallel to the screen.
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OLED is all about true black and very deep saturated colour… in normal use the 31MU97 looks like that… but you can catch it out when dimming the lights completely and throwing up the black screen of movie titles or a blank Photoshop canvas. Going larger than 55″ OLED or to 4K OLED will currently set you back the best part of 10 grand.
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To give you an idea of how much, OLED 1080p TVs command a 200% premium over similar IPS 1080p TVs at 55″ (cheapest OLED TV I can find is 2500 euro currently). OLED will wipe IPS / LCD off the face of the planet but right now it’s just too expensive, ESPECIALLY when you are talking 4K resolution. This is the screen to get if you have a Mac Pro, not the ageing Apple Cinema Display. I have no idea why Apple have gone so cold on matte displays and aren’t yet offering a 4K Cinema Display with Thunderbolt, instead leaving it to LG. Unlike the iMac 5K display which is very reflective due to the gloss coating the LG 31MU97 is a matte display, favoured by editors and graphics artists the world over. Build quality is also vastly improved over the 21:9 LG, especially the stand.
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The LG 4K panel though is a league up and pro territory rather than prosumer.
The 21:9 LG is nip and tuck as good as the iMac display for colour, only less glossy. Canon 1D C footage looks stunning on it!!
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This is super value for money and is an IPS display like the 31MU97… however I wanted to view 4096 x 2160 full screen with no scaling and also to ramp up colour accuracy a few notches. I also tried the lovely super-wide 21:9 LG 34UM95 3440 x 1440 which Dave Dugdale over at Learning DSLR Video is a big fan of. I previously used the Samsung 4K TN display which was cheap and cheerful, and actually pretty good for a TFT but IPS gives far better colour rendition and viewing angles. I’m generally a bit unimpressed with the stability of Premiere CC anyway, so it’s no great surprise.
Oddly I get the occasional crash when running in 1:1 DCI 4K mode. The 5K 27″ display of the new iMac makes it too difficult to ever run it in 1:1.Īdobe Premiere runs smoothly in the notch down from full 4K – of course the pixel quality and pixel pitch remains true 4K – but the user interface scales. I tend to run the screen at the equivalent of quad-HD for general use (especially web surfing) and in 4K when maximum real estate is needed for creative work. The combination of DCI 4K and a large 31″ screen in a 17:9 aspect ratio makes it just about comfortable to make out tiny UI elements when running like that. Windows only scales some of it, and leaves the rest up to individual apps to support. The screen naturally stays in it’s native full DCI 4K resolution and the Mac scales the UI (user interface) elements to fit – all of it, in ALL apps. But the way OS X handles scaling is the best on the market, way better than Windows. The display can be driven at the full 4K DCI real-estate (1:1) at all times if you prefer.
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If it reverts to Ultra HD, after a reboot for example, the solution is simply to reboot again or hit it… hard… with a hammer. This has been a minor quirk for me in practical use so far and I think Apple’s latest Yosemite update fixes the bug, though I’m not so sure about 60hz. However it sometimes reverts to Ultra HD and cannot yet do 60hz. I currently have my late 2013 Macbook Pro Retina plugged into the LG 4K monitor (Thunderbolt to DisplayPort), and surprisingly it works!! This laptop supports DCI 4096 x 2160 not just 3840 x 2160, at up to 50hz.
That’s not too much more than the 3440 x 1440 21:9 ratio LG 34UM95 (799 euros). I purchased mine in Berlin for 1099 euros inc. B&H currently have the display for $1229. It’s not massively cheap but it isn’t expensive for what it is. So does the 10,000,000:1 Contrast Ratio, 10bit colour and 5ms Response Time. At 31″ it is also bigger than the 27″ iMac 5K, which helps. The LG 4K DCI display is one of the VERY FEW true cinema 4K monitors out there and a good match to any of the new cameras shooting DCI 4K in 4096 x 2160 resolution, like the GH4, NX1 and 1D C. Is this a better option than the 5K iMac display? I think it could be… The catchily named “LG 31MU97-B” is in fact not a submarine but a 10bit IPS 4K DCI display with 99.5″ Adobe RGB colour gamut.
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