Great discount on these ones. Especially for Gamers
Samsung Curved Gaming Monitor: 48.9" QLED Ultra-Wide $1498 (Was $1998), 26.9" QLED $598 (Was $998) @ Harvey Norman
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If I had no choice, I'd want it as narrow and as short as possible thanks.
The 49" would be so awesome for driving games …
Nothing compares to getting a VR headset with driving games. 3D helps so much with proper depth perception of speed and how fast you are approaching a corner.
Couldn't agree more. I play racing games almost exclusively on my Oculus Rift - combine that headset with my G27 racing wheel and I'm in racing nirvana.
We need to go wider
Harvey Norman still leaves a odd taste in my mouth after the "online tax"
but these deal do look good
If only the responsible entities, the Liberal and Labour parties, left a bad taste in your mouth.
Until they do you're going to keep losing more and more money to wealthier people than you as Liberals raise taxes on you and lower taxes on businesses own by Gerry Harvey and other people who pay the people you vote for to rule over you and make you poorer as has been happening for the last 40 years in Australia. A vote for Labour will be a vote for a party that changes nothing Liberals do but pretends that they're on your side despite changing nothing.
so you gonna buy one?
Yeah I pretty much refuse to buy from them now.
The Samsung is Freesync, the LG is g-sync.
They're both pretty good for the price, I'd suggest the Samsung if you have an AMD card and the LG if you have a Nvidia card to utilize the Freesync and G-Sync features respectively.
Save your money for the LG 5K Flat Ultrawide monitor people,the curves on these monitors will annoy you
How? I have a curved 34 ultrawide and it doesn't annoy me, come to think of it I know a few people with curved monitors and they all seem fine with them.
Curved works incredibly well for ultrawide monitors, you'd be surprised.
I’ve got a flat 34” ultra wide which I love. But the edges do seem at times to be too far. If I had the budget I’d definitely go with a curved ultra wide. Brings in the edges.
Do most games support the wide ratio? Or do you find a lot of games leave large black borders on the sides? I can imagine competitive games wouldn't give you extra visibility there.
Most games support 21:9 and if they don't there's community fixes. If they don't you just have letterboxes or in game letterboxes eg Nex Machina
You can either see more depending or less than 16:9 screens depending on how FOV is implemented but large screens are a disadvantage in competitive play so it's a moot point.
@Diji1: The only game I've had issues with to the point that it was unplayable was the original X-COM, the mouse cursor was always 4-5 squares away from where it needed to be (and would gradually get worse the further you are away from the center of the screen). That was one where the fixes didn't work.
1ms, 144hz.. this is a great 1080p gaming monitor
2560 x 1440
I was talking about the larger one. But yeah, the 27" is great for $600
Great deal on the 49” monitor. I have one and it seems too big at first but it quickly becomes the norm and great for productivity too. Games which support it eg Forza, SWBF, CSGO (funnily enough even before the new UI it worked better than on my X34!), etc. I wish it (and my X34) had auto on/off and auto switching though - took these features for granted on other monitors and now I have to manually turn them on/off and switch between inputs. Also note there’s no speakers despite the monitor accepting audio input over HDMI - this is just to connect to a 3.5mm headphones port!
On a side note, Samsung AU also has the monitor for $1499 for certain corporate customers including delivery (essentially their version of Apple EPP). I bought mine from HN though before I knew of this :(
Clicked through and they said "Hello OzBargainer" when the chat window immediately popped up. Spooky.
There's one every time ;)
cookie monster..
They couldn't say that if you blocked referrers in your browser.
Has it been reduced as Kogan now has for preorder essentially the same monitor but their brand for $1000 RRP?
Kogan 49" Curved 32:9 Super Ultrawide 144HZ HDR Monitor (3840 x 1080) samsung panelinteresting! I might get this one instead
Wow that's a great price. Thanks for the heads up.
+$210 for 5 years warranty and you are set for a while.
Or $210 saved and you use the ACL ?
how do you get to 210 diff?
Australian consumer law is free
i know , i'm wondering how he get to 210
kogan 999 + shipping
this 1500
kogan shipping 300 ???? or kogan + GST ????
Pay for warranty? Are you nuts?
that's a great deal too
Holy crap, what a price.
I wonder how it would go, seems identical!
Can they also do 2 x 1080p signals like the Samsung? I hate playing my games in window mode and prefer to have it 1080p 16:9.
I believe so. The link indicates that it will accept two signals, I'm just not sure if it is 1080p or not.
"The 32:9 aspect ratio is excellent multitasking, as you can display two 16:9 signals side-by-side without distorting or degrading the original images. No bezel separating your two signals makes for a seamless experience working across multiple programs at once."
Sorry, I was referring to the Kogan monitor if they can dual signals
Good find thanks. The Samsung shows 1 ms whereas Kogan shows 4ms in main write up and 8 ms specification listing. Will do follow up with Kogan which is correct. Presumably the 4ms. If so would it be noticeably slower than Samsung? Also means different panel I guess. Not up with all the latest I’m afraid.
Do we humans even notice 4ms? the only lag i notice is only ever internet based.
I didn't notice the response time good pickup! so yeah they are different, however, would be worth reading here where Samsung has claimed a 1ms "MPRT" on another Gaming monitor but actually is an average 13ms when tested.
Besides if you really needed the 1ms, you wouldn't be looking at this monitor, you'd be looking at a 24" 16:9 screen for competitive gaming.
Am I a blind idiot or is that one lacking QLED?
How’s that a valid reason for a neg?
I've got 2x28' 4k screens at work, and a 34' Ultrawide at home…
I'd take the ultrawide anyday, 4k isn't that impressive.
No Freesync/Gsync for that amount of money is crazy.
All 3 monitors (inc the linked Kogan in comments) appears to have FreeSync.
Fair enough, It didn't mention it on the HN website
Yes it does.
Starting to regret not stacking up on HN gift cards from that last Amex deal.
Anyone used these for development?
Nope, but trying to swing getting one of these on the company credit card for sys ops…
Just use dual screens, the price for the 48 inch is so high because it's seamless in the middle for gaming, but the screen real-estate is basically just that of two 24 inch monitors.
If you want more width for your IDE you could try two 21:9 monitors. The accountant at work swears by his. Two 34 inch monitors would be too big though. I'd stick to 2 x 29" 2560x1080 ultra wides.
screen real-estate is basically just that of two 24 inch monitors.
Not exactly:
48 inch diagonal @ 32:9
= 117.4cm wide × 33.0cm high
= 3,874.2cm² total area24 inch diagonal @ 16:9 × 2 screens
= 53.1cm wide × 23.9cm high × 2 screens
= 1,539.9cm² × 2 screens
= 3,079.8cm² total areaSo the ultrawide has about 25% more screen real estate.
If you wanna try yourself: http://screen-size.info/
Nice! I did wonder about this, actually.
So two 27 inch 16:9s would be how to beat the 48 at 4018.56cm²
Extremely tempted to give up my 144hz Gysnc IPS monitor for this…
if only it wasn't Freesync.
If you have an AMD APU then NVIDIA cards are compatible with freesync.
This monitor > my priorities
If this monitor is greater than your priorities, shouldn't it be then, your priority?
Doo doo dee doo, doo doo dee doo…
Thanks OP. I was looking at this monitor for a while. It's $200+ cheaper than MSY and free shipping with shipster. Received today. (27" CHG)
Nice. Enjoy :)
Kogan have their own version of this for $999 with free shipping on pre-order for anyone interested
Not wide enough