LG 34UC98 34 inch Curved Ultrawide Height Adjustable IPS Monitor (3440 x 1440, 2x HDMI, DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 2, 300 cd/m2, 5ms, AMD Freesync)

After lusting over pictures of this monitor on Amazon, I needed to find out more about it from LG's website. This made the whole thing worse as my desire for a screen leapt, and foolishly I decided to plump for two!I'm not a fan of curved screens to watch TV/movies on per se, but I have to say the format works massively well when you're sitting a mere 30-40 cm from the screen itself. Both screens curve gently around me, having a couple of ultrawide "flat" monitors would be very angular and quite jarring.I then fretted as to whether my graphics card would be able to handle these two monsters. My PC is a couple of years old, and at the time I paid for a decent one, but nothing that would trouble the wallet too much. These monitors are now running off my NVIDIA GeForce 650 quite easily. The GPU has two DVI-D ports, and again I was concerned that the data transmission required couldn't be handled by the DVI-D to HDMI cables I needed to purchase; but as long as you get a relatively decent cable (I think I paid £18 each for mine), it gives a picture that is nothing short of, well, phenomenal!The first thing that really hits you is the sheer amount of screen real-estate you get with ultra-wide monitors! You can place various windows and applications on the screen, and you never run out of room!However, monitors this wide need a bit of handholding! Imagine having a browser window open showing something on YouTube, for you to click the "full screen" button and have that image dominating your monitor...? It may be the desired effect if you're watching a film, but if you are simply watching an instructional video or some such, you may wish for it's content to be locked to a certain side of the screen. Luckily the LG comes attached with its own control panel, which allows you to split the screen in a variety of ways. This will snap your windows to a certain area of the screen, and all content shown in that space will be confined to that area.You can also attach more than one PC to the same monitor and have both of them running off different parts of the screen. I haven't tested this facility yet, but it will be exceptionally useful when I am working from home and will need to attach my work laptop.The monitor comes armed with a couple of thunderbolt ports for fast data transfer on a Mac, and a couple of USB ports, one of them powered. I have since attached my phone to this port which has charged it up as quickly as plugging it into the wall.Setup was very easy, but take care when you are getting these monitors out of their box. I found the instructions which are shown at the top of the box to be a rather confusing set of pictures that made little sense to me. Don't handle the screen. Pressing on it will inevitably cause problems, so be careful! I assembled the stand before getting the monitors out of the box. I laid the monitors face down on the top of the box and then attached the stand to the back of the monitors whilst they were face down. I could then lift them into place. Being as wide as they are, there is a fair bit of weight to them, so again, be careful as you transition it into position on your desk.I have tried a couple of games with them. It is a gaming monitor after all. I only play two so I'm probably not the best person to comment on lag times etc, especially when my games are fairly pedestrian. I fired up Command & Conquer 3, an RTS classic from about 6 years ago now. I tweaked the graphics settings and found I could only increase the resolution up to 2550 x 1440, so I had to settle with black bars on either side of the screen, but this was still a massively immersive experience. I just felt much "closer" to one of my favourite games.Next was the much newer Civilization VI. This game was released earlier this year and CAN extend to the full 3440 x 1440 resolution. This just looks simply wonderful. I do wonder how a modern driving game would look on this?Finally I have tried a bit of 4K content, this was from YouTube and the picture is, well, 4K and impressive! It has the sharpness and clarity that 4K material should, and the LG panel replicates that wonderfully.In summary, I deemed these monitors rather pricey when I bought them, but with these, you get an awful lot of monitor for your money, a quality panel, some well thought out monitor controls and some handy ports on the back to plug in external components. Having the ability to run multiple PCs off one monitor is also a clever and practical use of the screen real estate itself. I can wholeheartedly recommend one (or two) of these bad boys to grace your desk.

Coming from a very decent (yet 5-6 years old) multi-monitor setup, this monitor fully delivers regarding of image quality, colour reproduction and ergonomics. I like the single joystick navigation. It is also quite nice looking!I use this monitor for both work-related tasks such as Photoshop and website design, as well as gaming mostly on the PS4.Given the high price of this monitor, expectations are also higher, as I result I would like to express the following complaints/limitations:1) Slight light burn on the bottom-left corner. It's not the worst of things, but my in opinion, it shouldn't be there in such high tier monitors.2) DAS mode, which reportedly reduces input lag significantly has no user option to enable or disable. Setting my PS4 to display in its original format (16:9) automatically disables DAS. As much as I have searched for a solution, it looks like DAS mode will never work for me.​

Went faulty literally a month after the warranty expired.LG wanted £550 to repair. The repair was guaranteed for only 3 months.Cheaper to buy a new monitor from another brand and get a longer warranty,I won't be buying LG again.

Text was very blurry so blurry it started hurting my eyes after 10 mins, of focusing , video and images wasn’t the sharpest. For the money paid one would expect the best, but this diffinetly falls short from what was expected

Excellent image quality and range of ports on this monitor. It's been flawless for just over two years. Despite being careful with the ports on the back and pushing cables in squarely without wiggling them the Thunderbolt 2 connector inside the monitor literally came out with the cable.Can't turn the monitor on now without short circuiting it and it's out of warranty and sadly too large to be an effective paperweight so what to do...