Ultrawide screens for business use

[Pixelpeep Electric]

About to take the plunge and order this - https://www.samsung.com/uk/monitors/gaming/odyssey...

This won't be for gaming, this is for our business we run at home (so will be purchasing it through the company) we run several data heavy applications and it's helpful to have good screen real estate when comparing data from different sources etc

This will be replacing 2x Philips 27" monitors we use currently. spec sounds pretty amazing (240hz / 1ms) and i'm sure we will play the odd game on it etc.

I get this one is pricey, but the business makes enough money and the less we have at the end of the year the less we have to pay in corporation tax, right?

Does anyone have any experience of these screens, with the use we are looking at, and/or any other suggestions ?

[Shaoxter]

I'd rather have 2 regular sized monitors, we have ultrawide screens at work and screen sharing is a pain.
Don't know why you'd need 240Hz/1ms for business purposes... and if you really did want to run games at 240Hz at that resolution you'd need to shell out thousands more for graphics card(s).

[jesusbuiltmycar]

I was considering the same monitor, mainly for development. After a lot of thought and research I settled on the lg40wp95c

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/lg-40-40wp95c-w-512...

I paid £1300 from Technoworld (just checked it is no longer available from them). It is an amazing monitor with a resolution of 5Kx2K. There are only 4 manufacturers that make a monitor with this resolution, all of them use the same panel (LG, Lenovo, Dell & HP).

[AndyAudi]

Shaoxter said:

screen sharing is a pain

Came on to say this very thing.

Absolute nightmare when sharing & sone folks trying to view on a laptop screen.

Depends what you’re doing though

[Dave Hedgehog]

I use 38" UW at work and for home working

For a primary work device do not get an OLED, the windows font text rendering currently looks awful on an OLED due to their pixel layout

I would also only get X x 1600 resolution monitors as the extra pixel depth is very useful for large spreadsheets (i have the toolbar on the side as well)

this is what i use but its old by modern specs

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-38GL950G

[somouk]

Shaoxter said:

screen sharing is a pain.

Another one to note this. I have another monitor that is normal resolution just so I can screenshare for people and they can read it.

[Downward]

Shaoxter said:

I'd rather have 2 regular sized monitors, we have ultrawide screens at work and screen sharing is a pain.
Don't know why you'd need 240Hz/1ms for business purposes... and if you really did want to run games at 240Hz at that resolution you'd need to shell out thousands more for graphics card(s).

Me too. I had to use one of these giant monitors once and for e mails and excel it’s stupid.

[xeny]

Downward said:

Me too. I had to use one of these giant monitors once and for e mails and excel it’s stupid.

For Excel it is great, if still not quite large enough. I concur another smaller screen for screen sharing is very helpful, but who doesn't have a spare HD screen (or the laptop screen) available?

[HammyHamster]

Dave Hedgehog said:

I use 38" UW at work and for home working

For a primary work device do not get an OLED, the windows font text rendering currently looks awful on an OLED due to their pixel layout

I would also only get X x 1600 resolution monitors as the extra pixel depth is very useful for large spreadsheets (i have the toolbar on the side as well)

this is what i use but its old by modern specs

https://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-38GL950G

Agree. I've gone through a lot of high end monitors, and the 38" ultra wide 3840 x 1600 is perfect imo.

I went for the dell Alienware one which has been great.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alienware-AW3821DW-3840x1...

[mw88]

AndyAudi said:

Came on to say this very thing.

Absolute nightmare when sharing & sone folks trying to view on a laptop screen.

Depends what you’re doing though

If you're just sharing a single program it's not too bad, just snap it to the left or right and share it. But my 49" Ultrawide is a ball ache if you need to switch between programs while sharing.

I do API/Full stack dev so having to switch between MSSMS, Postman, Chrome, VSCode and ADO during code reviews/demos is painful

[survivalist]

It’s a huge price premium over a pair of screens that each have a resolution of 2560x1440. Unless there’s a specific use case I’d rather have a pair of 4k screens - higher resolution.

Got the price the pixel density is poor.

[theboss]

I looked at the philips but it seemed just a little too curved and gaming oriented. I have an Eizo EV3895 instead which isn’t cheap but is more business oriented and is in the 38” format rather than ultra wide.

Decent warranty is essential on high end screens. I have a pristine £3.5k Dell 8K ready to go to landfill because they wouldn’t replace the second warranty replacement when that failed just after 3 years. That's on their top of the range Premier colour display. Never again.

[ArsE82]

For all those struggling with screen sharing, I'm sure most of the ultra-wide monitors come with software that allow you to emulate multiple monitors. So, for example, the left side of the screen can be display 1, and the right can be display 2.

[ambuletz]

absolutely no need for 240hz for work use, 60hz is fine, even for 'the odd gaming' its fine. high resolution screens are only really important if you're playing competitively in FPS games. save money on a feature you dont need.

[xeny]

ambuletz said:

absolutely no need for 240hz for work use, 60hz is fine, even for 'the odd gaming' its fine. high resolution screens are only really important if you're playing competitively in FPS games. save money on a feature you dont need.

absolutely no need for 240hz for work use, 60hz is fine, even for 'the odd gaming' its fine. high refresh rate screens are only really important if you're playing competitively in FPS games. save money on a feature you dont need.

[xeny]

ArsE82 said:

For all those struggling with screen sharing, I'm sure most of the ultra-wide monitors come with software that allow you to emulate multiple monitors. So, for example, the left side of the screen can be display 1, and the right can be display 2.

I always thought this trick depended on having two inputs to the screen connected from the same PC (so tricky on some laptops) rather than software. Do you have any example software package names? I'm currently using a 34" with a single HDMI output laptop, and it would be nice to have the option of doing this.

[768]

I'm another who went with an LG 5k2k. Works well for me, I'll zoom into text a bit if screensharing but that's no drama.

But given you've come from two monitors, unless that wasn't working for you, I'd be tempted to go with two ~32" 4k screens as the panels are so much cheaper and you get even more pixels.

[illmonkey]

xeny said:

ArsE82 said:

For all those struggling with screen sharing, I'm sure most of the ultra-wide monitors come with software that allow you to emulate multiple monitors. So, for example, the left side of the screen can be display 1, and the right can be display 2.

I always thought this trick depended on having two inputs to the screen connected from the same PC (so tricky on some laptops) rather than software. Do you have any example software package names? I'm currently using a 34" with a single HDMI output laptop, and it would be nice to have the option of doing this.

Generally the software sets it up as a soft setup, so you can snap to etc, but the fundamentals still see 1 monitor, so Windows sees 1, therefore so does Zoom/teams etc.

[devnull]

768 said:

I'm another who went with an LG 5k2k. Works well for me, I'll zoom into text a bit if screensharing but that's no drama.

But given you've come from two monitors, unless that wasn't working for you, I'd be tempted to go with two ~32" 4k screens as the panels are so much cheaper and you get even more pixels.

5k2k is wonderful. One your have retina style screens you’ll never want to go back. I’ll also go against the grain and say that 120Hz refresh is nice for productivity (the increased fluidity feels much nicer), but of course 60hz is fine.

[ArsE82]

illmonkey said:

xeny said:

ArsE82 said:

For all those struggling with screen sharing, I'm sure most of the ultra-wide monitors come with software that allow you to emulate multiple monitors. So, for example, the left side of the screen can be display 1, and the right can be display 2.

I always thought this trick depended on having two inputs to the screen connected from the same PC (so tricky on some laptops) rather than software. Do you have any example software package names? I'm currently using a 34" with a single HDMI output laptop, and it would be nice to have the option of doing this.

Generally the software sets it up as a soft setup, so you can snap to etc, but the fundamentals still see 1 monitor, so Windows sees 1, therefore so does Zoom/teams etc.

I think you're right - apologies. I remember using the software and I thought it presented at the driver 'layer' but having just watched a few Youtube videos I think it's more a companion application.