Samsung’s Odyssey G9 is the company’s top-of-the-line gaming monitor, and a massive one at that. This 49-inch, 1440p curved screen can wrap around your sight lines and then some, with a bright, colorful picture that will satisfy most gamers. It’s pricey at $1,429.99, but its size and gaming-specific performance help justify that price for serious players of flight sims and racers who prefer one gigantic, enveloping widescreen panel to a bank of several with seams between.The Design: As Wide as All Indoors The Odyssey G9's screen is surrounded by a very thin black band flush with the panel, with only a small bezel on the bottom edge, adorned with the Samsung logo in the center. A four-direction control stick and power switch sits on the underside of the monitor, around the right third of the screen. The back of the monitor is white, a fairly uncommon design choice we’ve also seen in Alienware’s gaming monitors. (The panel would complement one of the white-toned, a.k.a. "Lunar Lig...
Flight-sim and racing fans will go ga-ga over Samsung's Odyssey G9, a gaming monitor with a curved 49-inch screen that gets incredibly bright while delivering smooth motion and vivid color.
Huge, luxurious wide-screen panel; Very bright; Strong color performance
Expensive; Input lag could be lower