Veratu
Ciddharthas
OK, I think I have everything dialed in now, but just wanted to clarify one (hopefully last) thing. When trying to change the input "type" to pc, I see in the Home Dashboard where I can change the name and icon of the various inputs. I had changed the name before, but you said I should change the "type". I don't see anything labeled as "type" specifically, but I do see a menu where I can change the *icon* and various types of inputs do show up in a drop-down menu (console, cable, etc.). I changed that to PC by selecting that option (as opposed to renaming anything character by character). Is that what you meant, or am I still missing something?
Yes, the icon is the type :) Sorry if that wasn't more clear. You're good.
Awesome, thanks! The display is working beautifully so far. I got that weird auto-dimming feature turned off, which makes a big difference in user experience, for me at least. Even though the monitor that hits all my checkboxes for what I'm looking for isn't out yet - and I kind of doubt it will be out anytime in the next year, since what I what is
2160p (or maybe more realistically 1600p)
ultrawide
mininum of 120Hz refresh rate (ideally 144)
roughly 34 inches
OLED
HDR with something close to 1000 nits of brightness (admittedly might be overkill here)
So yeah the monitor that checks off all those boxes will probably come out at about the time we start seeing micro-LED monitors, which will blow away all LCD and OLED displays once it becomes affordable since you get the best of both worlds with that tech.
One of the main reasons I waited on the getting the CX48 was to see what monitors came out around CES time this year, which were all kind of underwhelming (to me at least), but I have gotten kind of attached to having an ultrawide display, and the options there are limited. I thought it would be difficult to adjust to a non-ultrawide and that if I ended up not liking the CX48, well... it's arguable that it's time to upgrade one of our other TV's in the house anyway. And while I do have to pan my camera around a bit more than I'd like, the extra screen real-estate mostly makes up for it not being an ultrawide.
Something I found kind of surprising is that even though my 3080 ftw3 is driving about 67% more pixels compared to my 3440x1440 ultrawide monitor, I haven't seen much framerate loss, which I had expected to see. The card does run a bit hotter though (which makes me glad I converted it to the hybrid version). I've only tested it in a couple of games so far though.