Meh 

I had the g5 and got the lg 4k oled 

wow 🤩 is all I can say 

Have had a G9 for about just on 4 years now - can't fault it or Samsung's service - I had Kingpin card go banannas & damaged my MB & other things - including the monitor - it was just 3 months short of it's warranty perid - so I took a chance & returned it to the retailer - they sent it on to Samsung & got it repaired under "warranty" (well ya gotta have a win sometimes) - but with regard the flying experience it is great - makes landings in all aircraft easier because your periferal vision now comes into play with the width of the screen - as an aside I have recently purchased the Oddessy Ark - not tried it yet as I am in the process of moving house - will let ya know how that experience differs from the G9 - which will go to another computer

1 hour ago, Rattso said:

Have had a G9 for about just on 4 years now - can't fault it or Samsung's service - I had Kingpin card go banannas & damaged my MB & other things - including the monitor - it was just 3 months short of it's warranty perid - so I took a chance & returned it to the retailer - they sent it on to Samsung & got it repaired under "warranty" (well ya gotta have a win sometimes) - but with regard the flying experience it is great - makes landings in all aircraft easier because your periferal vision now comes into play with the width of the screen - as an aside I have recently purchased the Oddessy Ark - not tried it yet as I am in the process of moving house - will let ya know how that experience differs from the G9 - which will go to another computer

Hey great. Please do post your thoughts on the Ark. I too have looked at that. But effectively it's just a curved 55" monitor, isn't it?

12 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

I used a Samsung S4 Active every day for over 8 years. It was more or less bullet proof.  Some of my iPhone using friends had been through 3 or 4 iPhones in the same period.

I still have an iPhone from 2010 that's working perfectly. Anyway, I replaced it in 2019 by the iPhone X, which I still use. Recently sold (very cheap) an iPhone 7 to a friend from 2017 that was also working fine after heavy use. No comparison for me, as my previous Samsung cell phones lasted just three and two years. My son purchased a Samsung TV that worked fine until it started to show strange coloured horizontal lines in its entire screen after only two years. Enough

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14 hours ago, Rockliffe said:

Title is self explanatory. Is there anyone who uses this monitor for MSFS? Interested in rumours I've heard about distortion at the edges(?) I would have thought this was only an issue if the view was too wide, or am I wrong? Is the loss of vertical 'real estate' an issue? Looking at incorporating it in  a new build of my sim. Cheers.

Visiting a store and checking out the product would be best. In my experience, I had an LG 48GQ900-B 48 and thought the G9 would be a suitable replacement. However, I made the mistake of not researching and testing the product in-store. One of the issues I encountered was the picture quality at the edges, which you heard about. I ended up returning the unit after a week. Although we may have different priorities, I highly recommend going to the store before making any purchases. There is a helpful video that outlines some pros and cons to take into account. Best of luck with your decision!

 

 

18 minutes ago, edpatino said:

I still have an iPhone from 2010 that's working perfectly. Anyway, I replaced it in 2019 by the iPhone X, which I still use. Recently sold (very cheap) an iPhone 7 to a friend from 2017 that was also working fine after heavy use. No comparison for me, as my previous Samsung cell phones lasted just three and two years. My son purchased a Samsung TV that worked fine until it started to show strange coloured horizontal lines in its entire screen after only two years. Enough

Hmm, interesting. Longevity of kit is something that doesn't come up in reviews, for obvious reasons. I'd be pretty peed off if I dropped the kind of cash expected on a G9 or an Ark, only to find after a few years there were problems 

Just make sure you are able to return it without too much hassle. The new Samsung suite of monitors, particularly the G9 range, has been getting a reputation for fairly poor quality assurance. A lot issues have cropped up, dead-on-arrivals, flicker issues, build issues etc. but if you get a good unit, I hear they are fantastic. Was thinking about going that route myself but I find that resolution a tad excessive, think I might spring for a 21:9 3440x1440 instead and pair it with some side monitors.

And if you decide to go with the OLED version, that brings up a whole new line of problems you might have to consider, especially as a flight simmer.

19 hours ago, Aamir said:

I have 2, an older G9 and the Neo G9, they're fantastic imo - there's a little bit of "curving" around the edges, but all in not really noticeable to me once you spend a day or so with the monitor. Great for simming! Just make sure you can drive them, there's a lot of pixels there. 

Is there the blooming effect around stars in the night sky? I used to have an LED TV for a monitor but the blooming effect at night was terrible. Dumped it for an OLED. How does the G9 do with it?

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I think this site has the best monitor reviews. On the chart below you can click on "display size" to move all the large wide monitors together. There's a cheaper one they rate higher, made by LG. It's 45" wide not 49". 

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/best/best-gaming-size

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14 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Different use case.

Airliners are all about learning correct procedures, memorising the correct flows and programming the FMS.  Sure people jump  in one and hit CTRL E and proceed to fly upside down through the Eiffel tower but for most people, aside from maybe the gate at the terminal and the taxiways, the outside view is pretty irrelevant your head is stuck in the cockpit and then you switch to autopilot and probably switch to an outside view. For airlines VR  is sub optimal.

GA is mainly about exploring the world and enjoying the ride.  VR, if you can afford the entry price, is going to really enhance the experience.

No idea where this notion comes from. VR puts you right in the moment, as if you were in a real cockpit, boosting immersion to the point you're basically there for real. It enables real perception of space, distance, speed, etc. The best examples for this is probably crosswind landings, where you in your seat are actually offset from the centerline or getting spatially disoriented in clouds. That experience is universal and equally important and useful in flying airliners as well as GA aircraft. Put yourself in a 737 and after that in a 747 and it's almost spooky how high you're sitting and how big the difference in size is as well as how perception of speed is affected, which makes all the difference in flying different airliners. VR also helps a lot in cockpit familiarization and enables muscle memory (thanks to MSFS supporting controllers to interact with the cockpit) to help with that. Interacting with switches and programming the FMC is way easier, more natural and faster than using the mouse (like in P3D).

Whether it's an airliner or a GA aircraft, you're still flying an airplane and there's no difference between the two in the experience VR gives you. There are also plenty of situations to look out the window at the world flying an airliner. Sorry for the off-topic discussion but I've seen this take a few times and it's just not true.

16 hours ago, edpatino said:

I still have an iPhone from 2010 that's working perfectly. Anyway, I replaced it in 2019 by the iPhone X, which I still use. Recently sold (very cheap) an iPhone 7 to a friend from 2017 that was also working fine after heavy use. No comparison for me, as my previous Samsung cell phones lasted just three and two years. My son purchased a Samsung TV that worked fine until it started to show strange coloured horizontal lines in its entire screen after only two years. Enough

I worked as an Apple qualified technician for 5 or 6 years. There devices are not as reliable as Apple like to try and pretend.

6 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

I worked as an Apple qualified technician for 5 or 6 years. There devices are not as reliable as Apple like to try and pretend.

Maybe I'm just lucky. On my experience they've been super-reliable

On 7/10/2023 at 11:31 AM, threegreen said:

No idea where this notion comes from. VR puts you right in the moment, as if you were in a real cockpit, boosting immersion to the point you're basically there for real. It enables real perception of space, distance, speed, etc. The best examples for this is probably crosswind landings, where you in your seat are actually offset from the centerline or getting spatially disoriented in clouds. That experience is universal and equally important and useful in flying airliners as well as GA aircraft. Put yourself in a 737 and after that in a 747 and it's almost spooky how high you're sitting and how big the difference in size is as well as how perception of speed is affected, which makes all the difference in flying different airliners. VR also helps a lot in cockpit familiarization and enables muscle memory (thanks to MSFS supporting controllers to interact with the cockpit) to help with that. Interacting with switches and programming the FMC is way easier, more natural and faster than using the mouse (like in P3D).

Whether it's an airliner or a GA aircraft, you're still flying an airplane and there's no difference between the two in the experience VR gives you. There are also plenty of situations to look out the window at the world flying an airliner. Sorry for the off-topic discussion but I've seen this take a few times and it's just not true.

"Interacting with switches and programming the FMC is way easier, more natural and faster than using the mouse (like in P3D)."

I dont think this cant possibly be true, There are multiple flight sim review videos out there showing just the opposite that seem to follow the VFR recommendation only.  Can you point me to one that demonstrates and endorses VR for switching/programming?

13 hours ago, edpatino said:

Maybe I'm just lucky. On my experience they've been super-reliable

 

They are among the better brands in terms of reliability but they are still consumer devices built to a price and they do still make design compromises and they definitely practice designed obsolescence and other restrictive practices and have been fined for it in a number of jurisdictions including Australia and the EU.  Apple devices are by no means a bad choice - but they are not the infallible God's gift to mankind they are sometimes made out to be, they can and do fail.

G9 today (Prime Day at Amazon) : $899 (for Prime members only). This is not the NEO version.