By Darren Allan
We are seeing an increasing number of huge ultra-wide monitors hitting the market these days, and apparently Samsung has another model waiting in the wings – a massive 49-inch curved screen with a resolution of 5,120 x 1,440 pixels.
As TFT Central reports, this new monitor – which Samsung will purportedly begin to manufacture in September – very much builds on the Samsung CHG90, the behemoth 32:9 aspect ratio ultra-wide screen that we reviewed very positively last October (pictured above).
The main step forward with this new offering is the mentioned resolution of 5,120 x 1,440 pixels. That’s a major upgrade from the CHG90, which ran with a resolution of 3,840 x 1,080 (as does the Samsung C49J89, another 49-inch model which we’ll have a review for you imminently, so look out for that).
Aside from the price – which will always be an issue with these sort of monitors – that resolution was the major downside of the CHG90, because having a giant, lengthy screen, which keeps the same vertical resolution as a standard Full HD display can make things feel a little ‘cramped’, as it were.
And the overall pixel density, or detail level, of the CHG90 was …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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