LG turned its 48-inch OLED TV into a huge 4K gaming monitor

I put a big screen on my desk last year in order to have one screen to rule them all. It was great, with amazing color, but not the perfect PC screen. Some of the features I wished I had in my review of the new UltraGear 48GQ900 television have been added by the new television.

The stand is among them. The new UltraGear monitor has a V-shaped foot that lifts the whole screen off the table, unlike the big wide base of the C1 and C2 TVs.

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There's a built-in two-port hub, an easily-accessible 3.5mm four-pole headset jack, and a remote control that might make sense if you don't want to rely on its built-in 20W stereo speakers. It has a big dial and buttons that can be used to change video inputs, audio outputs, power, and mute. The TVs had a TV remote, but no nub to navigate the menus.

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You can summon an on-screen crosshair and a counter on the Chinese product page of the Korean company. I'm not sure why you'd want to increase the screen's resolution.

The company's press release doesn't say if the automatic brightness limiter has been made less aggressive, which is the thing that kept these giantOLED screens from being amazing do-everything PC monitors in the past. I found the C1 48 to be excellent for PC gaming, but it was difficult to scroll through documents and websites while the screen was constantly dim.

The limiters protect your screen from burn-in, but they're a little overzealous, and other companies that have built gaming monitors around it haven't figured out a way to deal with that. Rtings writes that the new smaller 42 inch panel still has a distraction issue, even though it has improved in its most recent panels. We asked about it and will let you know what we hear.

One of the reasons to pick anLGOLED TV over a gigantic gaming monitor is because you can sometimes find them around, or just a couple hundred north of the $1,000 mark. It would be a harder sell if the monitor version was more expensive than the other version.

The world's flagship gaming monitor is probably Alienware QD-OLED. If you're interested in what it's like to live with a giant screen, I describe it in detail in my review.

The company says the new product will be available in Japan this month, with key markets in North America, Europe and Asia to follow. The company has a press release about a pair of new 32-inch monitors, one with DisplayHDR 1000 and the other with a refresh rate of 120 frames per second.