Gaming and general purpose monitors
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Picked up a 34" ultrade wide curved Dell monitor. It was on sale cheap enough I could try it. Never used a curved monitor I thought it might help some of my vision issues.
When I plugged it in and turned it on it was in English. One move of the joystick it went to what I think is Japenese. Going through all the menu items nothing is in English. The online manual says to change to English just pick English from the list. I never get there apparently. Same for total factory reset it says go though menu until it says factory reset, which I assume at this point is in Japenese. Any ideas? I got to the sider to turn down the brightness since it was like looking at the sun. Unplugging it did not reset.
When I plugged it in and turned it on it was in English. One move of the joystick it went to what I think is Japenese. Going through all the menu items nothing is in English. The online manual says to change to English just pick English from the list. I never get there apparently. Same for total factory reset it says go though menu until it says factory reset, which I assume at this point is in Japenese. Any ideas? I got to the sider to turn down the brightness since it was like looking at the sun. Unplugging it did not reset.
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Was about to recommend this, I’ve done it with my in laws tv when the ui was set to korean
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So I'm going to be on the lookout for black friday deals.
I have enjoyed my 38" Alienware UW monitor. However, it is not true 4k and games which don't support UW end up giving lots of issues. I'm having more problems with my older 27" and I would be happy to downgrade this UW to a second monitor for content since it does say two browser sessions side by side great.
I'm thinking ideally a 40-43" 4K monitor, of which there are few. I think the only options are a couple of 43" VA panels such as the Asus XG43UQ or Aorus FV43-U-SA, however these are hovering near $800 and they would have to be very cheap to consider comparing to other options. I guess my top candidate is the one Asus/LG based (I think) on the C1 or C2 panel which are the PG42UQ or the 48" LG version. Unfortunately this model seems to be low stock (gone on Amazon and Microcenter stores near me don't have any), so it might be either held back as a doorbuster. While not as good as the LG C4, a nice discount on the 42" Asus might be a good step up. I am trying to stay away from the C4 because I have always had some annoying issues with TV displays, even though panel wise it would be perfect as a monitor if Asus repackaged it.
As the hail mary play, I might consider an Odyssey Ark 2nd gen if they come down a ton. They are regularly discounted to 1800. I might consider it at under 1500 and I would impulse buy one for 999 doorbuster.
Any other 40- 55" monitors that are regular 16:9 and not UWs to consider keeping an eye out for?
I have enjoyed my 38" Alienware UW monitor. However, it is not true 4k and games which don't support UW end up giving lots of issues. I'm having more problems with my older 27" and I would be happy to downgrade this UW to a second monitor for content since it does say two browser sessions side by side great.
I'm thinking ideally a 40-43" 4K monitor, of which there are few. I think the only options are a couple of 43" VA panels such as the Asus XG43UQ or Aorus FV43-U-SA, however these are hovering near $800 and they would have to be very cheap to consider comparing to other options. I guess my top candidate is the one Asus/LG based (I think) on the C1 or C2 panel which are the PG42UQ or the 48" LG version. Unfortunately this model seems to be low stock (gone on Amazon and Microcenter stores near me don't have any), so it might be either held back as a doorbuster. While not as good as the LG C4, a nice discount on the 42" Asus might be a good step up. I am trying to stay away from the C4 because I have always had some annoying issues with TV displays, even though panel wise it would be perfect as a monitor if Asus repackaged it.
As the hail mary play, I might consider an Odyssey Ark 2nd gen if they come down a ton. They are regularly discounted to 1800. I might consider it at under 1500 and I would impulse buy one for 999 doorbuster.
Any other 40- 55" monitors that are regular 16:9 and not UWs to consider keeping an eye out for?
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Looks like the Asus 42" OLED is end of life, it's 799 at Walmart. Might be some good discounts for black Friday, but part of me wants to wait and see what the next monitor releases will be. If it gets near 599 or something crazy I might still jump on it.
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