Samsung’s new ultra-wide gaming monitors bring OLED love to CES 2023
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CES is a great showcase for many of the consumer tech vendors and Samsung has always been a prominent presence at the annual Vegas show. And in no change from typical form, the company’s 2023 booth delivered one innovation after the other, especially when it comes to computer monitors They are made for gamers and streaming fans.
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Samsung fans can look forward to five new monitors later this year: the Odyssey Neo G9 (Odyssey G95SC), Odyssey G8 OLED and Smart Monitor M80C. These monitors are backed by jaw-dropping backlighting and OLED displays that self-emissive. monitors Samsung has made to date, and we can’t wait for them to officially hit shelves.
The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9: What We Love
Not one to rest when it comes to magnificent new tech, Samsung’s all-new Odyssey Neo G9 bears the unique laurel of being the world’s very first Dual UHD Mini-LED monitor. On top of its 7620 x 2160 resolution, the Neo G9 is optimized from the ground-up to deliver everything a hardcore gamer could ever want, including a 240Hz refresh rate, 1 millisecond response time, a Matte Display for glare reduction, and Samsung’s Quantum Matrix Mini LED picture processing for some of the greatest colors and contrast ever produced by a gaming display.
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Dual UHD Mini LED technology
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HDR1000 with a contrast ratio of 1,000,000:1
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DisplayPort 2.1 is the first gaming monitor
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Samsung 49-inch Odyssey Neo G9
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What We Love about the Samsung Odyssey G95SC or Samsung Odyssey G8
Both the Odyssey G95SC and Odyssey G8 are Samsung’s first curved OLED gaming monitors, and much like the brand’s 2022 foray into QD-OLED TV tech, these 2023 screens are engineered to deliver a bright and colorful picture with near-perfect black levels. This is thanks in part to Samsung’s onboard Neo Quantum Processor, but also because of the company’s OLED screens, which ditches LED lighting in favor of self-emissive pixels.
The Odyssey G95SC is 49 inches, and will be the world’s first 32:9 aspect ratio gaming display, with a maximum refresh rate of 240Hz.
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World’s first 32:9 aspect ratio gaming display (also on the Odyssey G8)
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Premium metal casing in 36mm (also available on the Odyssey G8)
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0.1ms response time (also for the Odyssey G8)
The Odyssey G8 measures 34 inches and is designed for a 21/9 aspect ratio. It maxes at 175Hz.
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Include Mini Display Port, HDMI and USB-C (also available on the G95SC).
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HDR True Black 400 for better black levels (also on G95SC).
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DisplayPort 2.1 is the first gaming monitor (also available on the G95SC).
Both models also utilize Samsung’s sleek 3.6 millimeter metal casing, adaptive sync and AMD FreeSync for tear-free gameplay, along with Samsung’s impressive Gaming Hub, which connects players to popular titles from Xbox, GeForce NOW, and Google Stadia.
The Samsung Smart Monitor: What we love about it
If you’re all about apps and streaming, the new Samsung Smart Monitor M80C should bode well for you and yours. Arriving in four color options (Warm White, Sunset Pink, Daylight Blue, and Spring Green), rocking 4K resolution, and a 16:9 aspect ratio, the M80C will be equipped with a near-bezel-less 32-inch display, a set of built-in speakers, as well as Samsung’s detachable SlimFit Camera.
The M80C is optimized for video streaming, cloud gaming, and Microsoft 365 applets, all of which are powered by Samsung’s Smart TV platform. There’s also a new feature called My Contents that adds personalized widgets like photos and daily schedules to the M80C’s ambient screen, as well as a new SmartThings Hub for controlling your home’s many smart devices.
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What we love about the ViewFinity® S9
Photographers, graphic designers, and content hosts the world-over all need a powerful and detailed monitor to do their best work with, and Samsung’s ViewFinity S9 is shaping up to be one of the most picture-perfect professional monitors for 2023.
The S9 will be Samsung’s very first 5K monitor, with a screen size of 27 inches to house all those pixels. From a color gamut perspective the S9 will capture up 99% of DCl-P3 colors, which allows for creatives and project managers to work with the highest accuracy. That’s on top of other useful features like Samsung’s built-in Smart TV platform, as well as a detachable 4K camera.
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Samsung’s first 5K monitor
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HDR600 is a HDR600 image enhancement tool that improves highlight and shadow details
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SmartThings app and smartphone camera users can adjust picture settings
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