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Hahaha...that's not fair!! I saw that as well, but that is a six figure tv, hell it even costs more than my first house!!

I grabbed my wallet and it lost the argument, thus I now have a new 34UC97.
I haven't yet had time to walk it through a battery of games, movies and productivity...I hope to do so soon. Since I already have a Dell 29" 2560x1080, I'm familiar with the 21:9 format and all the pluses and minuses. This new LG is no different of course...just more pixels

First few things I have noticed so far.
The curve is subtle...you don't really notice it when viewing from the front...only when looking at the monitor from above. I would be curious to see what a bigger arc looks and feels like...perhaps with OLED in time or with a projector and screen.
The colors have that usual IPS pop...I'm sure the accuracy is a bit off, but I'm not a stickler for that, as long as it is in the ballpark, I'm pretty happy.
The lack of a VESA mount does seem like quite an oversight on LG's part. I read there is a version (34UC87?) that should have a VESA mount and of course we know the Dell will.
I'm not sold on the champagne color on the back of the monitor...not my style.
The backlight bleed on black content is pretty bad...no joke, I have never seen a monitor with this much light bleed. I tried watching a few movies just now and I had to zoom in XBMC so there were no black corners visible, the light bleed was THAT distracting.

And there it is, the light bleed might cause me to return it. I can tweak colors for accuracy, I can tweak games to handle the wider view format but I can't tweak or fix the light bleed.

I will try to post a pic but for right now, I would hold off on ordering/purchasing one until you can see one in person or at least view the pics once I get them up.

I have a good assortment of games, let me know if there any you want me to check out.
Cheers!!

I wouldn't mind
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2688398/ ... splay.html

Seems to come with some good ports, but I would prefer 120Hz.

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So, I returned the LG 34uc97...I just couldn't live with the awful backlight issue in all 4 corners, 3 of the corners were just plain silly. I'm surprised it passed QC before shipping out!!

I will post some pics so others can see and be forewarned. If you really want 21:9 and curved, I would wait for rev 2 or even rev 3 of the displays.

On a related note, after looking to see what else was out there for new monitors, I decided to go a totally different route and picked up an LG 4k TV, model 49UB8500 and am running it via HDMI 2.0 with 2xGTX970's.

Holy crap is it great fun to run at a 4k resolution, 60hz refresh, max out the eye candy settings in the games (I turn off AA...you don't really need it at 4k res, imho) and enjoy a 49" PC monitor

I will add more info on this to the 4k discussion section.

Here are some pics of the backlight issue I experienced.
Please note they are taken with an ipad, not a camera...but they still show the backlight issue rather well, which is to say bad!!

Do you think it was your batch or just the model in general? I'd be curious to get one down the line.

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I looked around the net and others posted similar bleed issues...so I'm going to say for now it's a model issue.
Some speculate it's the bezel and that it is too tight in the corners, which I believe was a similar issue on the non-curved model, 34um95.

I love the curved idea and looks and down the road, I may try a curved TV as a monitor. However, the add'l premium for the LG curved TV's is too much right now. Samsung also has curved TV's, but they don't seem to support 4:4:4 4k@60hz very well based on various AVS forums posts and threads.

Holy......
That bleeding looks horrible!

It's sad that a lot of new monitors have such heavy problems on their first production run.
*looks back at the eizo foris he once had*

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Yeah, I was as equally surprised once I powered it on. I've been through more monitors than I care to share, but without a doubt the curved LG was the first monitor I've ever experienced that had bleed and not even a little but a LOT!!

I would definitely wait for their next rev if you want to go curved and make sure you buy it from a place with a no questions asked return policy.