LordOfChaos
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Just sharing my experience here. I'm in the middle of a move and a bunch of reno and don't have a new TV yet. I've had both of these for a while but never really considered using them together until now, because I know the PS5 doesn't support most of what makes it great, I thought it would just be bad.
But for lack of something else to run it on, I tried it, and you know what? It's actually kinda close to awesome
I thought the stretching would bother me and I'd quickly go back to 16:9 with black bars, but in most gameplay it's not too noticeable, it's only when you see a face or a sphere like a planet that you remember the stretch, it's not like watching 4:3 content on a 16:9 TV. And on a game like Limbo I'd hardly notice at all, he's a little tubbier but that could have well been game design.
Honestly, thought this would be far worse, but it's just somewhat stretched, apart from that the monitor is faster than almost every TV I've used especially with the fastest response time setting in this Samsung monitor (I believe it does some BFI I can't see or notice a dimming on), it's bright, it's more colorful than the TCL 5 series I used to have, despite not having HDR it has more pop to it than most cheaper TVs that say they support it but just look worse. The field of view and curve this close up wraps close to my peripheral vision and almost makes larger TVs sitting further away look small after I've gotten used to playing like this.
It's actually such a surprisingly pleasant time that I really do wish Sony will go all the way and support what it has, it still looks sharp enough that I wouldn't complain much about it but supporting 1440p would be a bonus, supporting 21:9 would be huge, and supporting Freesync apart from just VRR (so monitors before HDMI 2.1 can also do it) would a very welcome bonus. 60fps feels very slick and fast on it but it supports higher plus freesync.
It's fun enough like this, but man would Sony adding support for those things make it amazing, pls Sony
But for lack of something else to run it on, I tried it, and you know what? It's actually kinda close to awesome
I thought the stretching would bother me and I'd quickly go back to 16:9 with black bars, but in most gameplay it's not too noticeable, it's only when you see a face or a sphere like a planet that you remember the stretch, it's not like watching 4:3 content on a 16:9 TV. And on a game like Limbo I'd hardly notice at all, he's a little tubbier but that could have well been game design.
Honestly, thought this would be far worse, but it's just somewhat stretched, apart from that the monitor is faster than almost every TV I've used especially with the fastest response time setting in this Samsung monitor (I believe it does some BFI I can't see or notice a dimming on), it's bright, it's more colorful than the TCL 5 series I used to have, despite not having HDR it has more pop to it than most cheaper TVs that say they support it but just look worse. The field of view and curve this close up wraps close to my peripheral vision and almost makes larger TVs sitting further away look small after I've gotten used to playing like this.
It's actually such a surprisingly pleasant time that I really do wish Sony will go all the way and support what it has, it still looks sharp enough that I wouldn't complain much about it but supporting 1440p would be a bonus, supporting 21:9 would be huge, and supporting Freesync apart from just VRR (so monitors before HDMI 2.1 can also do it) would a very welcome bonus. 60fps feels very slick and fast on it but it supports higher plus freesync.
It's fun enough like this, but man would Sony adding support for those things make it amazing, pls Sony
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. Only joking you do you mate.
