This is my 2nd LG large monitor in less than a year. My first one was/is just fine but I primarily seek out the highest quality for detail and color correctness and after reading reviews and watching reviews I settled on this one because of the following:
Size/price: 34" at less than $1,200
Quality of detail and color: 5K and color is limited by my video card.
Mac Friendly: Probably one of the more important reasons as I was hoping that it would have features that were in line with my previous high-end Apple Displays (some but not all).
I have it connected to a 2019 Mac Pro with a standard video card (to be upgraded)
Truly, the colors are very close to the true thing and my output looks great.
The built-in speakers are quite good.
The overall style/appearance is very nice and the stand takes up little space and is sturdy.
My only complaint is that even though this monitor was specifically designed to connect to and work with Mac OS, you still can not control the volume from the keyboard which means that you have to either reach for the toggle at the bottom of the monitor or find and click on the volume control using your mouse. My thought is that if Apple monitors could be controlled by keyboard strokes decades ago, LG should be able to do that today.
Long story short. If someone were to steal or break this monitor, I would go out and purchase another one just like it.
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| display size | 34 inches | 1 inches | 40 inches | 37.5 inches | 24 inches | 32 inches |
| resolution | WUHD | 4K UHD 2160p | 5K WUHD 2160p Ultra Wide | 4K UHD 1600p Ultra Wide | FHD 1080p | 4K UHD 2160p |
| display technology | LCD | LED | LCD | 178 | LED | LCD |
| hardware interface | thunderbolt, usb, hdmi, displayport, usb c | hdmi, displayport, usb c | displayport, hdmi, headphone, usb c, thunderbolt | hdmi, displayport, usb c | vga, hdmi | usb c |
| viewing angle | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees | 178 degrees |
| mounting type | Wall Mount | Wall Mount | Wall Mount | Wall Mount | Desk Mount | Wall Mount |
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For my Mac Studio, I wanted a bit more screen real estate as I am often working with two apps side by side. After debating over using two of the individual 27″ monitors side-by-side, I decided to explore a single “ultrawide” monitor. These are easy to find, but not with 4k (or better) resolution, such as this LG has.4k = 3840 x 2160 and 5k = 5120 x 2880This 34″ LG 34WK95U Ultrawide = 5120 x 2160As such, it is 5k horizontal and 4k vertical. The key is that the monitor’s physical display dimension is the same height as their 4k 27″ monitor. As such, the 34″ diagonal measure expands the horizontal only. You would NOT want to stretch out the same humber of horizontal 4k pixels (3840) so the increase it to 5k (5120) in the horizontal only. The net result is a Ultrawide monitor that still has mathematically correct scaling.A standard 1080p monitor measures 1920 x 1080. Double the vertical and horizontal and you get 4k 3840 x 2160. However, all of the text on the screen would appear half the size as it did on 1080p. So, what Apple does is use scaling. On screen, it takes what was a single 1080p pixel and doubles it in size, both vertically and horizontally. So, what was a single pixel is now shown as a 2 x 2 pixel square. That 1:2 scaling ratio takes makes the text on a 3840 x 2160 monitor look like 1920 x 1080. However, since what was 1 pixel is now 4 (2 x 2) it is much sharper in appearance.That is what makes 4k on a 27″ monitor look good, since it is 163 pixels per inch. If you put 4k on a 32″ monitor it drops to 137 pixels per inch. So, it is not good for image quality to use anything larger than a 27″ monitor for 4k.What LG has done is create a 34″ monitor that maintains the 163 pixels per inch resolution. By keeping the monitors physical height the same as their 27″, with the same 2160 pixel count, but physically stretching the horizontal dimension and bumping up the resolution from 4k (3840) to 5k (5120) instead. This keeps the 163 PPI as well as the perfect 1:2 scaling ratio.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019
LG said that they will fix and send back the monitor, but they don’t know when, and since they drop the monitor and have body damage now, it will be send with aesthetic unpleasant look, because their policy doesn’t cover that, and there is no refund for it. Oh boy it’s impossible to hate more a company than I’m right now after hearing that. That’s a complete disregard to consumer rights! This company is the worse!
DO NOT BUY! The monitor get some panel problem in 3 months of use, then went to warranty repair, came back after a month totally broken with signs of drop by the side and front glass trashed. I send back in the next day and it's being another month without no sign, no email, no calls from LG nothing. I already bought a replacement and I want my money back, therefore LG support simply stop answering my messages, they don't refund, neither sent the fixed monitor back.
Avoid this headache, don't buy it!
Original review:
I bought my about 3 months ago, I've already contacted LG for support, they will send a box to my address and I'll need to ship it to get it fixed.
A day before 3 months with this monitor it start a weird behavior, suddenly the USB-C stop working as display, it still chargers my MacBook Pro, but it doesn't recognized it as a connected display anymore. Then I added the DisplayPort cable, it worked, and I noticed many horizontal lines in the screen (see the pic) it goes all the way like that.
My first though is that could be cable or something else, so I disconnected everything and restarted the monitor, in the settings menu of the monitor I can see that horizontal lines, well, it's not because of anything connected, the monitor simply is gone.
Very annoying to need to do the support process to get it fixed, but the hard part is that I use it professionally and I can't stay without a secondary monitor, then I'll need to buy another replacement while this is being fixed.
--- UPDATE 2020-01-06 ---
After about 20 days waiting, they've sent the monitor back. As you can see in the pictures, there is one with the dead pixels screen, then two pictures showing the perfect state that I send the monitor in the box, and the last picture is how I turned on once it came from the service.
Clearly the monitor was damage either by the service or by the UPS transportation. Despite the FRAGILE stickers all around the box, once I turned on, that broken image was everything that lasted from this screen.
Also LG support system is so broken that it doesn't store the apartment number, so the guy from the UPS went all the way to talk with the manager to find my apartment, that was added to the ticket, online and by phone.
I'm waiting they send the new label to send it back and hopefully they will send me a working unit, therefore I have not much expectations for that, probably I will need to go to Apple and buy their new monitor since LG might take too long and I need it to work.
Unfortunately I can't recommend, specially because of the poor durability and abismal lack of support from LG.
Last 3 months, it's 2 months at warranty service and they did body damage to it
Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019
More Customer Service updates:Reviewed in the United States on December 3, 2019
LG said that they will fix and send back the monitor, but they don’t know when, and since they drop the monitor and have body damage now, it will be send with aesthetic unpleasant look, because their policy doesn’t cover that, and there is no refund for it. Oh boy it’s impossible to hate more a company than I’m right now after hearing that. That’s a complete disregard to consumer rights! This company is the worse!
DO NOT BUY! The monitor get some panel problem in 3 months of use, then went to warranty repair, came back after a month totally broken with signs of drop by the side and front glass trashed. I send back in the next day and it's being another month without no sign, no email, no calls from LG nothing. I already bought a replacement and I want my money back, therefore LG support simply stop answering my messages, they don't refund, neither sent the fixed monitor back.
Avoid this headache, don't buy it!
Original review:
I bought my about 3 months ago, I've already contacted LG for support, they will send a box to my address and I'll need to ship it to get it fixed.
A day before 3 months with this monitor it start a weird behavior, suddenly the USB-C stop working as display, it still chargers my MacBook Pro, but it doesn't recognized it as a connected display anymore. Then I added the DisplayPort cable, it worked, and I noticed many horizontal lines in the screen (see the pic) it goes all the way like that.
My first though is that could be cable or something else, so I disconnected everything and restarted the monitor, in the settings menu of the monitor I can see that horizontal lines, well, it's not because of anything connected, the monitor simply is gone.
Very annoying to need to do the support process to get it fixed, but the hard part is that I use it professionally and I can't stay without a secondary monitor, then I'll need to buy another replacement while this is being fixed.
--- UPDATE 2020-01-06 ---
After about 20 days waiting, they've sent the monitor back. As you can see in the pictures, there is one with the dead pixels screen, then two pictures showing the perfect state that I send the monitor in the box, and the last picture is how I turned on once it came from the service.
Clearly the monitor was damage either by the service or by the UPS transportation. Despite the FRAGILE stickers all around the box, once I turned on, that broken image was everything that lasted from this screen.
Also LG support system is so broken that it doesn't store the apartment number, so the guy from the UPS went all the way to talk with the manager to find my apartment, that was added to the ticket, online and by phone.
I'm waiting they send the new label to send it back and hopefully they will send me a working unit, therefore I have not much expectations for that, probably I will need to go to Apple and buy their new monitor since LG might take too long and I need it to work.
Unfortunately I can't recommend, specially because of the poor durability and abismal lack of support from LG.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2019
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Works well for me. Picture quality is good.
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Works well on powerful enough hardware!
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