Electronics manufacturers love to tout “world’s first” in their marketing. Take LG’s newest OLED monitor, for example. It isn’t the first display with 5K resolution, nor the first that can bend from flat to curved. (That one goes to the Corsair Xeneon Flex.) But it is the first monitor that’s both 5K2K (what?) and bendable, so bully for LG, I suppose.
The LG UltraGear 45GX990A is a 45-inch OLED display with a 21:9 aspect ratio and an impressive 5120×2160 resolution. That’s indeed a little wider than your standard 4K screen, stretching out the usual 16:9 ratio into the semi-standard “ultrawide” form factor, with a huge upgrade in both physical size and usable resolution versus the more typical 3440×1440 configuration. Like the previously mentioned Corsair OLED, it can bend between a flat display and a 900R curve at will. If you don’t need this feature, the slightly less fancy 45GX950A model has the same size and resolution in a fixed 800R …