Samsung U28D590D 28-inch UHD Monitor Review! #Helpful Post

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hey guys johnathan here with TLD hope

you guys are doing well I am back but

not so much of a review because I don't

think I'll be keeping this particular

product for a long enough period of time

where I feel comfortable reviewing it

but at the very least I wanted to share

my experience my impressions about the

good in the bad and some problems that

I've run into so if you haven't already

guessed by the title of the video I got

a chance to spend some time with these

Samsung u28 D 590 D that is a mouthful

which brings you HD resolution 3840 by

2160 at 60 Hertz mind you to the desktop

and a 28 inch form factor for under

$1000 now for those who follow channel

know recently I made the switch or I

should probably say leap into 4k video

so I'm able to create and produce 4k

video content but not actually view it

or play it back in its native resolution

now deep down I've been patiently and I

mean patiently really trying to wait for

Apple to announce a 4k display of their

own simply for the sole reason I've done

durable integration which I will touch

on a little bit later in this video but

I'm sure as most of you guys know at the

time of this video being published there

is no option from Apple so I figured

with 10 9.3 and its support for 4k

scaling coming out and it's official I

would jump on the board and test the

monitor out now first and foremost

getting the main issues and problems I

have had with the monitor out of the way

obviously wanted to use this with my Mac

Pro since that is my workhorse but I ran

into problems from the second I tried to

hook it up I was able to get everything

set up by a mini DisplayPort to

DisplayPort 1.2 at 60 Hertz with a

picture but for some strange reason

towards the right-hand side of the

screen

there's some weird glitching and

artifacting going on and it's really

annoying

I tried restarting the computer I tried

different ports I tried some hardware

resets on the Mac Pro and nothing seemed

to work I thought maybe it might be the

cable but then I actually test it out

with my MacBook Pro and that worked

flawlessly so it's not the cable it's

actually some incompatibility with the

monitor and the Mac Pro graphics card

something to that nature now obviously

this is not a knock on a display it's

more a compatibility issue with 10.99 3

which has been pretty crazy at the

moment if you guys follow marques mkbhd

he actually upgraded to 10 dot 9.3 and

it actually gave him problems with his

dual 4k monitors

now even though I was able to

successfully get it to work with my

MacBook Pro that was not my intention or

how I would plan on using it so at this

point in time I'm going to return it now

getting into more of the review portion

of the video it is a beautiful looking

monitor it's got a nice clean elegant

design thin bezels that looks fantastic

on a desktop I do got to say though that

it actually looks nicer in terms of

aesthetics and it's actually built the

brushed aluminum looking back keyword

being looking is beautiful don't get me

wrong but deep down it's still at its

heart plastic which seems to be the

story of Samsung's life it's super

lightweight so it's super easy to move

if you need to but it's not as sturdy as

I would like it to be if you move it

around it kind of seems to wiggle which

I'm not a huge fan of now I realize that

maybe a little bit nitpicky because most

of us probably aren't gonna be moving

our monitors back and forth so it's not

going to be a huge deal but the very

least I did want to point that out

taking a quick look at the back panel

it's pretty simple you get a power input

twenty hdmi displayport and a headphone

jack so not a whole lot going on there I

would have liked to see at least maybe

some USB ports and that's kind of why

I'm a fan of the Thunderbolt Display is

actually not only the Sun durable

integration but the fact that it acts as

a hub for additional USB ports firewire

Ethernet and it just makes the overall

experience more convenient and enjoyable

so as a quick example as of right now

I'm able to hook up my audio interface

directly into my Thunderbolt display

which helps me with saving space and it

doesn't force me into needing to have

the interface directly right next to the

Mac Pro and on top of that it also frees

up ports now the reason I had waited

until 10 9.3 was officials because prior

to that there was no 4k scaling support

which meant for pixels and stuff that

was great because you could view it back

at its native resolution but in terms of

text and actually trying to read things

not so much so if you haven't by now do

me a favor and make sure you're watching

this video fullscreen what you're

viewing right now is the native 3840 by

2160 so you can see how small the icons

are the text is it's really kind of a

pain to actually try and read that and I

found myself getting dizzy trying to do

so now with 10.9 dot 3 it'll actually

give you multiple scaling options for 4k

so for example if we took a look at 2560

by 1440 it'll actually render the entire

picture at twice that both way so you're

looking at 50 120 by 28 80 and that it

will condense it down so everything

looks super dense and super crisp so

essentially what that does in turn

texts and UI elements for every pixel of

real estate there's four pixels in its

place creating that super dense effect

conversely though if you're viewing a

video or editing in Final Cut Pro 10

it'll actually recognize that and give

you pixel for pixel in terms of the

content that you are viewing so you

could have a full 1080p video playing in

there and still have tons and tons of

real estate left on the screen now for

some reason I was getting kind of a

weird resolution in between 25 60 and

the native 38 40 it was coming in at

three thousand and eight by 1692 not

sure why it went that route I think I

got a different results on my Asus test

then of course you have 1920 by 1080

scaling which to me just looks kind of

ridiculous and I wouldn't go that's

massive and the same exact thing goes

for 720p I'm not even going to show you

what that looks like because if you buy

this monitor and use that much of a

scale you need your geek card revoked

now getting back into more of the review

format I'm going to break it down into

some pros and some cons the first probe

being obviously the price point it is

under $1,000 and it's actually even

under $800 it's got a super-fast one

millisecond response time so for gamers

out there that is a fantastic option I

also really enjoyed the fact that the

menu and settings is actually accessed

and controlled via a button on the

backside of the modern so it's a

physical button so a lot more intuitive

than trying to jumble through a touch

menu or anything like that and for me it

was just a really pleasant experience

lastly a huge pro for this monitor is

the fact that at this price point it is

dishing out 60 Hertz there is a

comparable Dell monitor for on the same

price same resolution but it is stuck at

30 Hertz which hurts my geek heart now

in terms of cons because the price is so

low you do sacrifice certain things like

the fact that it's a TN panel as opposed

to something like IPS so the color

reproduction and the color accuracy is

not going to be as stellar as something

like an IPS display which I definitely

noticed the other thing is going to be

viewing angles which are going to be as

good as an IPS display and I know for a

lot of people that's not a big deal

because the main response I see to that

is because well I'm not going to sit to

the side of my desktop so I'm going to

be looking straight forward that is not

a big deal to me that's a case then that

is cool and it works out for you now

lastly wrapping up the cons I think

compatibility is a big issue right now

not only in the Mac side because

obviously you solve some of the issues

that I ran into with my Mac Pro if you

got a PC and you want to do some gaming

at that resolution ideally you're going

to want some sort of crossfire or SLI

setup but as of now there is no SLI sub

for 3840 by 2160 gaming's that's one

thing to consider so that about wraps up

my experience with it hopefully you guys

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