![]() ![]() ![]() The Odyssey G7 (G70A), released in 2021, is now available at Samsung in the USA for $579, down from $799. VRR control on this panel never added noticeable latency, though it does feel a bit better now that I don't need to run it to reduce flicker.Samsung has a limited-time deal on a few Odyssey gaming monitors in the United States, including the G7, the Neo G8, and the brand-new Odyssey Ark - winner of CES Innovation Awards 2022. Running HDR in Windows also, ironically enough, makes SDR content more accurate (by reserving excursions for actual HDR stuff) without having to try to cap the color gamut with the poor sRGB emulation mode the display has. It's no where near as good as my OLED TV at HDR, not by a long shot, but it's much better than nothing. Even the local dimming is useful with more recent builds of Windows and newer drivers. The brights all pop more, and I can get the lows looking the same with the right HDR/SDR brightness balance. I still find HDR worthwhile, once tuned, because it doubles the peak brightness of the display (to somewhere between 600 and 800 nits on this Faker) with a corresponding increase to effective contrast ratio. IPS is flatly a no-go, unless it's some comically expensive dual-layer professional display, though an acceptable IPS Black panel is probably not far off.Īs far as HDR goes, this panel is only rated for HDR600 and only has eight dimming zones (edge lit). I'd probably still take an OLED that fit my other criteria, but they still don't exist. lolĬlick to expand.Mostly something that is a 32" 1440p or 4k display of at least 240Hz (that can transition fast enough to actually justify 240Hz), that has a better than 2000:1 static contrast ratio without being an OLED (I'm still not sold on OLED longevity and I frequently use my displays in high ambient temperature, in bright lighting conditions, for static scenes). I have no idea why everyone raves about these VA panels Samsung are using.ĭoesnt help that using VRR control to tame the flickering (will say this isn’t something I experience much due to typically being higher fps) introduces so much input lag, you might as well go back to whatever IPS panel you were using in 2009 it’s probably more responsive. Monitor over saturates and crushes blacks really bad. The local dimming performance of this monitor is so poor, that I even tried running HDR without Local Dimming just to see. With any reading or browsing, the text will simply cause the monitor to bloom the hell out of it and basically make it look like a bunch of smearing. The “higher brightness” of this NEO G7 is completely mitigated by the inability of the monitor to do anything without extreme bloom.īrowsing and desktop use, for example, is horrendous with Local Dimming enabled. There’s only one way to enjoy HDR, and it’s through an OLED with individually lit pixels. Mini-LED local dimming is better, but even 1156 zones is a joke. The NEO G7 would be lucky to get an HDR400 certification, never mind the 2000 Nit lies they market. Samsung is BRUTALLY lying about peak nits. So, before I waste a lot of time ripping this thing apart, clip my EEPROM programmer to the board and forcibly overwrite the firmware the hard way, just to have it fix nothing, does anyone with a Samsung display have a flash drive that they have confirmed as working for firmware updates via the service port?Ĭlick to expand.what specifically were you looking for with a G7/G8 type monitor? What I’ve found with the NEO G7 is: I would have assumed the service port was defective by now, except for the fact that it's clearly able to detect that a drive has been inserted in it (different message if the drive is absent or plugged into the other USB port on the display) and there are numerous reports of it being very picky about the flash drive used. Unfortunately, no matter what device I use (I've tried nine different USB flash dive models, a mechanical HDD connected to the service port, and two different NVMe SSDs connected via adapters), nor how I've formatted it (via diskpart, Rufus, or the SD Associations SD Card Formatter utility, at various permutations of offset, partition size, FAT version, and cluster size), the display cannot find/read the. No idea what the firmware is supposed to do, as Samsung has not seen fit to publish an actual changelog, but I want to update to it on the off chance it improves these scan lines, spotty HDR detection, and/or questionable FCR. I've noticed that there is finally some new firmware for it. So, I've got this this C32G77TQSN display (it was on sale), which works well enough, but has a few outstanding issues. ![]()
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