Christopher M Ramirez
UPDATE - 1/30/2019: Ive continued to use this monitor and its working great. Ive added some screenshots of the Anthem Demo login screen. Anthem looks gorgeous! Ill try to grab additional photos from the open demo. In these images Ive tried to highlight the 4K aspect and how images have more detail. I compared this against my wifes XBox One S on her 40 inch Samsung TV (UN40H6203AF). You can see the additional detail 4K brings in the mural (much greater detail) and on the helmets (no jagged lines). I put a red circle over the mural and helmet areas. I also think the color looks better on the 32UL950-W. As before, Ive added a red box with UN40H6203AF in it and the blanks are the 32UL950-W. ORIGINAL POST - 1/18/2019: I recently upgraded from a Samsung SD27D590 to the LG 32UL950-W for my Xbox One X. Ive used this monitor for about 10 hours tweaking different settings. I have tested using Battlefield V (4K, HDR), Destiny 2 (4K, HDR), and Overwatch (4K, No HDR). Thus far it looks really good. I noticed one odd thing in the beginning but its only been with Battlefield V. There are times it seemed to auto-adjust to a darker tone and then it will brighten back up. This did not happen with other games nor did it happen with my old monitor (and its a different darkening and brightening then leaving/entering a dark building). The overview deployment map does appears to have more detail. Destiny 2 looks amazing! The colors are really vibrant. With Overwatch, I thought that the purple color of my Zenyatta skin also seemed to be more vibrant even though Overwatch doesnt support HDR. Cant wait to see how Anthem and the Division 2 look! The XBox and monitor will require some adjustments to get everything looking good. I would recommend doing a search for "best visuals from xbox one". You should find a link for checking and setting the xbox graphics settings for 4K, 10 Bit color depth, PC sRGB, etc. I would suggest also running through the Xbox TV Calibration settings. I had to reset the display properties on the monitor and run thru the calibration a couple of times before I got things where I wanted them. Additionally, Freesync is not enabled by default. You have to turn it on in the monitor settings or the Xbox will not detect Freesync is available (Settings->Picture->Game Adjust->Freesync). I selected Extended which the manual indicates has a greater range. I havent done significant testing on Freesync as of yet. One thing to mention about HDR vs non-HDR. When you adjust settings for the monitor it does not adjust for HDR. I found this out when playing Battlefield V. As soon as the game started, I tiny bubble appears in the upper-right corner indicating HDR content is detected. When I went to adjust settings, I noticed the monitor settings were different then what I had just spent time adjusting. Im still tweaking the HDR settings and they do appear to save separately from non-HDR settings. I also noticed that lowering the brightness level in HDR mode to 90 stopped the odd darkening/brightening issue I mentioned earlier. I currently have the brightness around 75. Ive had mixed results with some of the individual game HDR adjustments. I tried to go with the Destiny 2 settings they recommended for HDR and it looked really washed out. Im attaching some images showing the detected settings on the 27 inch and the 32 inch. Youll see that the LG 32UL950 does have 4K, HDR and Freesync detected on the Xbox. I also uploaded a few pics of the games I mentioned. Hopefully the attached images arent too bad. Im not sure how theyll be modified when uploaded. All attached images for the 27 inch monitor are marked with SD27D590 in a red box. The unmarked images are from the LG 32UL950-W.