Disclaimer - images made with a Galaxy S25, which are pretty representative, **except they are** about **10-15% more saturated** than the real thing - the classic Samsung way.

Having received this model from my company and noticing everyone only talked about the IPS variant only - which makes sense, since it's a better variant - I wanted to give it a try, since, until I save enough for a juicy OLED, I thought it could work well enough for me, as I love ultrawides in general.

TL:DR once properly calibrated, at least to my liking, it statically looks like an 'OLED from Temu' and moves surprisingly well for an entry-level panel sort of type, the smearing is bearable and the motion blur is definitely noticeable but personally I can live with it, since I don't flick my mouse that much.

***Pros***

\- good contrast and pretty dark blacks - nope, not 'Deep', but still convincing enough I would say, for a guy that uses an OLED screen pretty often --> unfortunately the picture with the tiger overexposes the 'glow' way too much, in real-life the contrast is much stronger and uniform.

\- 120 Hz is amazing purely for a **business** monitor, at this point, I do believe Thinkpads and pretty much every other display on the market should also get an upgrade to this, it's a huge improvement even if only for scrolling code down and up and moving the mouse in general

\- very manageable smearing **using Overdrive on 'Normal'** \- otherwise it's dreadful, 'Off' results in a smeary mess everywhere and 'Extreme' has the reverse effect and is also crap

* just for reference, a couple years ago I tested an older Dell VA 'Gaming' model and when I tried FIFA, **the whole pitch was smearing** like a green jelly whenever the ball was crossed/clear away, no matter which settings I chose, this is OLED times better than that, guaranteed.

\-- you can definitely use this even to play some **CS2** casually with your friends/coworkers, it won't redefine the way you play, but if you lose, chances are, it's not the monitor who bottlenecks you, it's definitely just responsive enough to make you see enemies pretty quick and react accordingly, especially with good crosshair placement - yes, you need it **more** than on a TN/OLED/IPS, since a quick mouse flick will blur the image somewhat, **not terribly**, but you definitely won't pick enemies up so easily like on the other panels, that much I can tell you.

\- adequate curvature, I do believe 1500R is perfect, both from a 'immersiveness' and a 'panel limitation' perspectives. I used another 34" one with 1000R for a bit and it was just too much, it works really well for 45" and super-ultrawides, for for regular ones, 1500R is king if you ask me.

\- USB-C Port with DP Alt Mode and Power Delivery up to 95W -- really useful to get rid of extra cables and set up your laptop.

***Neutrals***

\- once calibrated, colors are ... 'alright', I can't say they 'pop' or look washed out or anything, they are just there like you would expect from a normal monitor

\- (maximum) brightness is **just** high enough for my liking provided I max it out. Granted, I generally like pretty, albeit not very 'bright' stuff. After all, 300 nits on a VA is generally far from amazing, but for a room **without** direct light in the thing, it's adequate

\- no speakers, if one needs them

\- (34" is still not ideal to replace two 24" or especially 27" side-by-side monitors, 39" is needed for this at least as far as I'm concerned)

***Cons***

\- absolutely dreadful stock settings, and at least in my case, not even enough to fully 'set it up' properly:

* colors looked absolutely terrible on any preset like the 'sRGB', **the red was almost purple** \- in the very first minute I though someone made fun of me - sorry Lenovo, but your 'factory calibration' certificate paper won't convince me the average sunny day sky is almost green.
* what I had to do is to **max out** both the brightness and contrast, put all colors to custom - 75% (R-G-B) and then go into my GPU control panel and add 10% more contrast and 20% more saturation for the colors to 'pop' somewhat - like you see in the very first picture (but once again, my **Galaxy S25 exaggerates them quite a bit, they aren't** ***that*** **vibrant** in real-life).
   * 100% colors worked initially **without** any additional graphics card driver saturation, but in this case, for example, the Emails list horizontal lines (between them) within Gmail were completely lost, that's when I tweaked them further and I discovered this sweetspot.

\- horrific viewing angles - basically, you have to sit dead on the center to get a decent consistency of the colors/blacks, and even then it's decent, but not perfect depending on the scene and shade of gray you're having.

\- 'Anti-Glare' coating - I quickly get used to it, but it definitely adds a **subtle** 'grainy' look to the image, although, the pro here is that the text looks somewhat 'sharper' in this case. I guess it's more or less like the 'Matte' vs 'Glossy' discussion on the OLEDs.

\- motion clarity is subpar by today's standards, it's still fine to me simply because when I'm not working or doing something else, I mostly play single-player games such as God of War **with a controller**, where you don't rotate the camera that much, and I can stand a bit of 'motion blur' here and there, but compared to any other panel, yeah, it's simply not good. However, as you can see below, it's not that intrusive IMO.

**I also added two videos** [**here**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThEWkMHqMGw) and [**here**](https://youtu.be/xAUXFdsGGeE), to see more or less how smearing and motion blur in gaming look like - I know they are not perfectly representative but still, I tried my best.

Long story short, the smearing is there and you can instantly notice it's a basic VA panel the moment you scroll reddit for just one second, that alone gives it away, but it 'comes back' really quick and when you want to actually read something, the text is already 'clear', if it makes sense.

As a 'mixed' user conclusion, I do believe this is a nice addition in the business family and it's definitely worth using it compared to 'your' old 24" 1080p display from 2018, it does nothing extraordinary, but if your company gives it to you and you can live with the cons listed above, I believe it's a pleasant surprise overall, considering how low the general standards for these monitors are. 

I would definitely not pay more than an entry-level price for this - something like 200€ in the current market, but for an entry-level solution I like it.

T34WD-40 (Ultrawide 'Business' Monitor) is surprisingly usable/acceptable