Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great for gaming and productivity. Totally recommended.

So far it’s been great! Screen look good and haven’t had a problem. It’s my first samsung monitor and I can’t complain

Picture quality is excellent for basic productivity, and native VESA support is a fantastic bonus.

my old monitor was very outdated but once i got this one i was so happy it was sale cause its a great budget monitor

Unbelievable resolution. Great viewing experience and easy connections to Galaxy phone is how I use it in Dex mode.

Meets all my work from home needs and then some more

Screen is huge! Bigger once I got home. Takes up whole desk but I love it.

This monitor definitely supersedes my expectations and being really helpful for my WFH workspace. Additionally, I am able to connect it to my MacBook Air without any issue so far. I had to purchase another one for my wife for personal and WFH use.

Its very nice and clean screen i would recommend this

Great and easy to use monitor. It is not a touch screen

Good product functions well good colors and settings brightness could be a bit more modular though

Actually liked this monitor a lot, used it as my daily driver while waiting for a monitor arm for my other gaming monitor. Enjoyed it a lot, great monitor at a great price.

I'm on the phone now with them. I ordered it for same day delivery from the East Madison store. They tried to tell me to go online and download a label. Send it back to them and they would eventually replace it. I'm not playing that game. They need to send a new monitor out today and pick this up with the same service. This is nothing I did. This is them sending a box through a local delivery service. It was either damaged in the store or delivery. I'm going to leave it outside at my door and dispute the charges in my card.

Work from home and had to get these while they were on sale.

Works great, would say you can see the pixelation more than I would like. Keep in mind NOW SPEAKERS.

Wow so beautiful I love it It’s work so good thank you Best Buy

Pros Tons of room for work with extra width Anti-glare coating helps for bright rooms Bright enough for most spaces 110PPI Density makes for sharp screen Lower resolution than 4K works with lower end GPU Offers wider field of view for games 100MHz good for most gaming 5ms good for most gamers Includes AMD Freesync support Automatic brightness control HDR 10 support Good black levels for a non-OLED panel VESA mount option Decent off angle viewing Small bezels Cons Control buttons are finicky Some confusing menu options Awkward cable management strap Auto brightness not doing much Limited maximum brightness Design and Features The Samsung S50GC is an ultrawide monitor that seems to be targeting those who are looking for a budget friendly versatile productivity and gaming monitor. The monitor is very light but feels well built. Most of the weight is in the stand, which is optional as the back also offers a VESA mount. The bezels are very thin and almost unnoticeable. The power connection, headphone jack, two HDMI ports, and DisplayPort are housed in a cutout section in back with all ports facing down allowing for a flusher mount if you prefer. The stand is tilt adjustable and has a single cable organizing strap which does not hide the wires, nor does it hold them well. All controls are housed on the bottom of the monitor directly in the center. While the specs say it only has HDMI 2.0, it also says it supports 100Hz at maximum resolution for both HDMI and DisplayPort. It states the native resolution is 60Hz with 100 being the maximum which suggest that setting is overdriving it. Setup and Performance Out of the box setup is straightforward. The stand attaches to the back with two screws, and you are done. The automatic setup is Windows defaults to HDR off and the panel set to 60Hz so to use it to the fullest you will need to manually override the setting. Strangely automatic brightness is turned off by default, but in the end, it isn’t very noticeable if it is even working at all. Going from a dark room to all lights on and shining a flashlight on the monitor there was no observed change in brightness on auto. That said, it was very readable in both situations and the difference between minimum and maximum brightness is only 50 nits so maybe that is expecting too much. Overall, maximum brightness was very good when combined with the anti-glare, but a brighter panel would be appreciated. Samsung seems to have made a good choice using a VA panel. It likely won’t do well for any color accurate work but for a work/play monitor it has just enough of both feature sets to suit the task. There are no glaring color issues and HDR video looks good. Of course, with the limited brightness it won’t be as impressive as higher end panels, but it is still good. The VA panel gets surprisingly dark blacks with no visible blooming. While blacks aren’t OLED dark, they are impressive nonetheless for a budget friendly monitor. Backlight uniformity is good with no visible bleed. No motion blur or ghosting was visible, but above 60Hz text appeared jittery. It is uncertain if it was an issue with the video because testing during gaming the same stuttering wasn’t visible. In daily usage this didn’t seem to show up as a problem. Picture in picture is a feature that might come in handy considering how wide this monitor is. Through the monitor controls you can choose to have an extra input displayed side by side with the primary in split screen. It’s like having two screens side by side with no bezels. The other option is to put the secondary input in one of the corners. It’s a handy feature to have even though the placement of the buttons makes controls feel a bit awkward. The buttons have a soft activation and being under the monitor you must flip your hand upside down to feel them and try to figure out if you have pressed the button or not. The joystick interface used on some Samsung displays seems like it would have done better in this situation. The screen menu has options for volume control but unfortunately the vague descriptions in the manual simply say that it adjusts volume. This leads you to believe that the monitor might have built in speakers except it doesn’t. It took a bit of fiddling around to discover the reason for the volume control. It is for the headphone jack on the back. When plugged into HDMI the system can send audio via HDMI to the monitor and you can connect headphones, or maybe speakers, directly to the monitor. This might be handy for some, but it also causes a small quirk if you connect and disconnect a laptop frequently. For some reason even if you plug speakers directly into the laptop the moment you connect the monitor it defaults all audio the monitor. It is uncertain if this is a Windows quirk or something with the monitor but regardless of the order in which things are connected system sounds are defaulted to the monitor even if nothing is connected. This happened regardless of what laptop was connected. Wherever the problem stems it is worth noting so you can remember to change the default speaker when you connect back to the monitor. Final Thoughts While the S50GC isn’t going to wow anyone with amazing specs, it does seem to have a nice balance of quality versus value. The main question is if you can find the ultra-widescreen format useful to you. If the answer is yes and you need a budget friendly option that can handle both work and play tasks reasonably well then, the Viewfinity S50GC monitor might be worth a look.

The Samsung 34 ViewFinity Ultra Wide Monitor is a no-thrills monitor that gets a lot of this Right. The size is just right at 34 inches. No need for a double monitor setup. It has an easy simple setup. The stand is basic with little adjustment. Sadly, you don't get much adjustment for this monitor. This was my first ultra-wide monitor and I can honestly say I'm impressed. With my Monitor I didn't adjust anything inside the settings. I just ran straight out of the box. The colors appeared fine. Watching Videos everything looked fine. Playing games at 2k on an ultra-wide was a different experience. It was a blast to play some older-style games at max settings. With the 100 Hertz that also gives more crisp gameplay and playback over 60 Hz. It has two HDMI 2.0 ports and one 1.2 Display Port. Negatives The brightness is only at 300 nits which is the standard. Not much adjustment up or down. Adjustment setting inside the monitor is lacking and basic. Not the best color accuracy for professional content creation. This is a decent monitor that doesn't break the bank. It's not the upper premium gaming monitor with all the bells and whistles. You do get an amazing monitor that will perform well for the average individual.

If you’re considering a 2 monitor setup, this will fit the bill perfectly. It’s good for editing content creation such as photos, video and any other media where extra screen area is a plus. Even if you’re used to a large monitor, say a 27” with a typical 16:9 screen aspect ratio, it may take a little getting used to using this extra wide monitor. At least it did for me, and after I did, I wouldn’t want to go back when it comes to editing photos. With 34 inches of work area you can easily multi task in multi windows all in a comfortable viewing span. I love using it with Photoshop and Lightroom Classic because I can put a mosaic of photos I’m editing up and the work area too. See photos. I’m not going to quote every specification since that’s in the product description above. What I’ll be talking about is how well it performs for everyday use and editing photos. Unboxing and setup was easy. The stand feels sturdy and you can tilt the monitor’s viewing angle but that’s the only movement you get, not pan or rotating. The feet are a bit thick and stick out a bit. I have a small soundbar under my monitor, and unless I want to set it on some blocks to raise it above the feet, it must sit in front of the feet. I’d rather have it right under the monitor, but it’s not a deal breaker. HDMI and DisplayPort cables are included. Adjustments are done with a small round five button pad at the bottom of the monitor in the center. It’s pretty small, but I found it easy to use and the settings menu easy to understand and navigate. One of the things that the monitor offers is blue light protection. This is to reduce the amount of blue and “high Energy Visible” light that can cause eye strain. However, from what my research on the subject produced, is that there’s disagreement as to whether it makes any difference or not. About the only thing that seems to be agreed on is that cooler light (daylight 5500K or higher color temperature) as opposed to warmer light (incandescent light 2700K color temp) can cause sleep issues if you’re looking at cool colors at night before bedtime. Blue light eye protection is off by default. When enabled it auto adjusts brightness and color temp. After making sure all auto color, brightness controls and HDR were off, I connected my datacolor Spyder and calibrated the color. It met specification with a 98% sRGB color gamut. That tells me the monitor has an 8 bit per color channel panel. Also known as 24 bit color. Higher bit counts yield a larger color gamut, as in more colors. From what I can find, an OLED panel generally has 10 bit per color channel depth, or 30 bit color. They have the DCI-P3 color gamut that is 25% wider than sRGB. Deeper colors and true HDR. This monitor has to do some kind of extra processing to simulate HDR. What and how, I’m not sure. Great for watching movies and such, but make sure HDR AND BLUE LIGHT PROTECTION are off if you plan on photo or video editing. Specs quote 3000:1 contrast, and from comparing it to my Dell 2 in 1 with an OLED display as well as other monitors I have, it looks like it hits that mark. My datacolor software doesn’t measure contrast. One thing I looked for was how evenly lit the screen is when looking head on from1 foot away to 5 feet away looking at the center. Up close you will notice some slight color shifting and dimming as you get close to the edges at the sides. Top and bottom from the center, there’s pretty much no change. It is noticeable at about 1.5 feet away and barely noticeable at 2 feet away. 3 feet and beyond, not at all. Next was the scanning from side to side. That’s just moving the mouse across the screen and following it with your eyes and looking for any kind of slight splotches, matte looking or cloudy looking areas. I saw nothing but a perfect screen. I have seen screens get like that with age. The only thing I found was a stuck pixel(s) on the far left bottom of the screen. It’s a black dot and big enough to be seen at up to 4 feet away, but its location isn’t enough to be a deal breaker or even subtract a star from its score. If it were near the center, I would be asking about returning it for another. PIP - Picture in Picture works well if you want two different HDMI devices to share the screen. DisplayPort for getting the maximum performance from the monitor. No built in speakers, but headphone / line out for an analog connection. 2 HDMI inputs and 1 DisplayPort. This monitor isn’t 4K. It’s more like a WQHD and a half. 3440X1440 resolution 8 bit VA panel. VA means Vertical Alignment. Like IPS panels but the liquid crystals are vertically aligned instead of horizontal. Not really much different from IPS. Google it for more info. Conclusion: I think it’s very good value for the price. I was pleased with the color saturation, contrast and sharpness. Especially after I calibrated it. Not that it was that far out and different before. If you plan on watching movies and such on it, the HDR setting really makes things pop by deepening the contrast and making the colors a little hotter. Recommended.

I was so disappointed at my purchase. I ordered new not refurbished and when I opened the box I was shocking! The cords were thrown in the plastic, there was fingerprints all over the screen, and a piece of hair came out!!