LG 38WN95C-W Monitor 38" 21:9 Curved UltraWide QHD+ (3840 x 1600) Nanio IPS Display, Thunderbolt 3, 1ms Response Time, 144Hz Refresh Rate, NVIDIA G-SYNC, AMD FreeSync -White/Silver

Picture quality is amazing. I have this paired with a MAC Mini M4 and the colors are awesome. Very pleased with this purchase and would highly recommend if you need a high-quality monitor for editing. I don't know why so many negative revies, I never had a problem with LG Electronics and I edit video for a living.

38" 3840x1600 is such a huge upgrade over 34" 3340x1440. I didn't think it would matter but I can't go back now. If this monitor died I would just go buy it again. I've had it for 15 months with zero issues. I don't use the stand as I have it mounted so I can't speak to it. The curve is subtle so I don't ever notice it. It is great for gaming with the high refresh rate. And the gaming display modes make a huge difference for seeing in dark areas and making colors pop. I have an AMD card so the FreeSync Premium Pro works flawlessly. The local dimming is trash so don't buy it for that. The HDR 600 is definitely better than HDR 400 but without inky blacks you're not going to get the pop you really want from HDR. That being said, Auto HDR on Windows 11 can make some non-HDR games games look really nice.

I hate to give a 1-star review because this monitor really is good...when it works.The Good:The picture quality is excellent for an IPS display. Don't expect OLED blacks because it's not an OLED display, but it does a great job blocking light and providing a pleasant viewing experience. The 144 Hrz refresh rate makes animations buttery smooth, and the quick response time makes this a competent gaming monitor. The Thunderbolt port works well, and allows me to daisy-chain this display to my Thunderbolt 3 dock so I can run the display at 144 Hrz while only having one Thunderbolt cable connected to my M1 MacBook Pro. Overall this monitor packs a lot of features and value for $1,199 (price at time of purchase).The Not so Good:It does have minor blooming around the edges when viewing a dark scene, but that is expected on any edge-lit display. The HDMI inputs are only 2.0 rather than 2.1. That means you cannot hook up an Xbox Series X or PS 5 and get the full 144 Hrz refresh rate. The PBP (picture-by-picture) only works with either Thunderbolt or DisplayPort as the main source, and HDMI as the second. This means I cannot view my MacBook and gaming PC at the same time. Not a deal breaker, but just a dumb limitation IMO.Text clarity is not great on this display, and that is likely due to it being a 38" monitor with a sub-4K resolution. Not everyone will care much about text clarity, but as a programmer text sharpness and clarity is extremely important.The Bad:If I were writing this review yesterday then I would have given this monitor a four out of five due to the nitpicks above. Honestly, I was already planning on sending this display back because of the text clarity, but there is a much larger issue that needs to be discussed.After about 2 days of use as my work monitor I noticed that faint vertical lines would show on the right side of the screen. Ghost images of my web browser content would appear as well. At first I thought this was an issue with my work M1 MBP as this issue didn't occur with my other M1 MBP or gaming PC. These liens and ghost images aren't permanent, at least not yet, but they do persist between switching inputs, cables, computers and even unplugging the damn thing. It seems that the display technology itself is the issue here.Of course, this could be an one-off issue with my unit, but I have found many people on Reddit and other forums who are complaining about having the same exact issue. This is my second LG monitor and this is the second LG monitor that has had issues. My first one, albeit a much cheaper 34" WQHD monitor, would just turn off from time to time. Now this new LG monitor seems to have defects as well.Unfortunately, I cannot in good faith recommend this display to anyone in the market, and I will be sending this one back.

The monitor costs a ton but fulfilled a couple purposes for me. First, i wanted to stop using two 27" monitors side by side. The bezels and size of my old setup meant i felt like i was always searching to find stuff and turning my head a ton. Sounds weird, but turning my head to find something just annoyed me completely. Second, I wanted to be able to play games from my windows machine but do work with a macbook and get that single cable connection with thunderbolt 3.The good parts here are that the monitor solved my two main issues perfectly. Games look great in ultra-wide mode and my 2018 mbp gets full power supplied with a single cable. Oh, and the TB3 connection totally supports 144hz at full resolution. It's ... fantastic.The bad parts here are relatively minor but still annoying. First, when using TB3, my mac defaults to using the monitor speakers. I output those speakers to my desktop speaker set and that's cool. However, i can no longer control volume with my keyboard media controls and that's SUPER annoying. I have to change volume in specific apps (spotify, browser, whatever). My windows box sends audio through hdmi and this setup also lets it share speakers through the monitor, so that is still nice. The second annoying part is simply the amount of USB A ports. There should be at least two more and anybody like me is going to find this super annoying, too.I don't really care about the lack of PIP with TB3 and display port, but I could see how that would annoy people, too.Final gripe is the height adjustment and size of the base. The base is super deep and (even with a deep desk) causes my keyboard to be right at the edge of my desk if i want to use my laptop screen at the same time. Raising the monitor all the way is still too low to not block the bottom edge of the screen. I ended up taking some scrap wood and building a monitor riser to give me some more adjustability in the height of the monitor and that makes it better. Still too deep... I need to cut a notch out of my stand to let my laptop be a little deeper on my desk.[update 10/19/2021]Been using this thing for 6 months or so. Still love it.I started using a free utility called monitor control to control monitor brightness & volume with mac media keys. Big issues are fixed for me.I use EasyRes to set resolution and refresh rate but it doesn't maintain 144 across mac reboots. It always drops to 75hz. Annoying, but... meh.I've noticed that I despise the power button. It's not reliable at all and the menus are slow to display. You end up with a ton of double presses or misplaced selections. Not a deal breaker for me since I don't switch inputs a ton, but you might...I'd recommend it to anybody. I love this size for development and gaming.[update 5/09/2023]2+ year update. I am still enjoying this monitor immensely.Some MacOS updates solved the problems with resolutions swapping to defaults when I plug in so I no longer use EasyRes. Same deal w/sticking @ 144hz. Now it just works.New Complaints:I've had some number < 10 instances where something goes wonky with the connection. The monitor gets a weird "screen door effect" that requires me to disconnect and run a test pattern to un-stick pixels.The button is still the worst part here. Does anybody think a button shouldn't work if there aren't any computers plugged in? Not me... It doesn't. Weird and annoying. Sometimes the OSD will auto hide even though things are plugged in. Super annoying.New Things:LG has released a new monitor that is 42" ultrawide. I think that might be the true sweet spot in ultrawide size. I'd love just a little more screen real estate. Too bad the resolution & refresh rate suck compared to this one.I've been testing out using multiple outputs from one machine w/PIP for work. It's pretty cool to have mid-panel snap zones. It can be annoying if you have a 3+ panes of code to view and can't expand past half-way... Try it out. I've also had a second machine attached via PIP & used logitech options to share mouse/keyboard. Pretty great, but not perfect. I wish this thing shared my peripherals better.