Review Gigabyte Aorus CO49DQ OLED gaming monitor review: Tremendous color and contrast

[Admin]

Gigabyte’s Aorus CO49DQ is a 49-inch 32:9 OLED panel with 5120x1440 DQHD resolution, 144 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and one of the largest color gamuts available in a consumer display. It’s a pretty good gaming monitor too.

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[parkerthon]

Really interesting, and finally a price that has me seriously considering try an oled monitor ultra wide. But being that my desktop is used for my job 95% of the time, which often requires Teams screen sharing of presentations, I’m trying to wrap my head around how that would work. Is there a way to virtually split my desktop for powerpoint presentation mode that throws slides on one screen and a presenters view on another? I use this a lot. I do see some third party utilities that might do this, but curious if anyone out there has experience with this.

 

[Giroro]

This is wider than the last-reviewed ASUS PG34WCDM, less expensive, and much less curved.
It seems to have a lot going on.
I would need to see the curve in person, because it is such a hard thing to convey through pictures.
I wish best buy had better variety to their in-store displays.

 

[PEnns]

Seems like a really good monitor. But I have to ask: Does it really have to be curved? The size is (allegedly) the same, so why the curve? Curved might be more tolerable at 32", but 49" is a bit too much (IMHO).

Or maybe the main consideration for some: More immersive? Well, maybe, but many will get the same experience from the same 49" monitor and most likely it will be less expensive!

 

[AkroZ]

Seems like a really good monitor. But I have to ask: Does it really have to be curved? The size is (allegedly) the same, so why the curve? Curved might be more tolerable at 32", but 49" is a bit too much (IMHO).

Or maybe the main consideration for some: More immersive? Well, maybe, but many will get the same experience from the same 49" monitor and most likely it will be less expensive!

There is many advantages to the curve.
Firstly for this screen of 49 inch it reduce the width to 47 inch with better readability, your eyes need less distance to find the corners.
On a flat screen the center is good but due to the angles of view the pixels becomes more and more deformed on the edges and smaller (from the viewer perspective), this also reduce the perceived lights making the corners darker.
Those makes corners more difficult to read. Here it's a curved 1800R screen, if you place your eyes at 1,8 meter from screen then all pixels will remain squares everywhere horizontally (because it is not curved vertically) making the lighting consistent.
But for that you need to be centered, so it's only for one person, for a presentation monitor or a TV it's better to be flat.

About the cost of curving, OLED is a flexible surface by nature, it's mainly a choice of form for the rigid support and adapt the assembling chain. This will not really cost more materials. Customers are generally paying a premium fee but you can find some curved monitors at the same price than non-curved monitors.

 

[Notton]

can confirm. With 2x 27" side by side, I have to put them in a V shape to read stuff at the outer edges.

 

[TheHerald]

A 49" Super ultra wide monitor is not very practical, trust me, had one for 2 years.

 

[subspruce]

I can't imagine how I would even use all of that display, or even fit this on my desk, but your desk may be huge and you may need the equivalent of 2 25" monitors side-by-side for whatever you may be doing