SAMSUNG UJ59 Series 32-Inch 4K UHD (3840×2160) Computer Monitor, HDMI, Display Port, Eye Saver/Flicker Free Mode, FreeSync (LU32J590UQNXZA)
229,99 $
- WIDESCREEN UHD: With 4x the pixels of Full HD, get more screen space (vs 16:9 screen) and UHD images; View documents & webpages w/ less scrolling, work more comfortably w/ multiple windows & toolbars, and enjoy photos, videos & games in stunning 4K
- A BILLION COLOR SHADES: Supporting a billion shades of color, the UJ59 delivers incredibly vivid and realistic images; Its color accuracy means colors appear true to life, making the UJ59 ideal for photo, video and graphics applications
- SEAMLESS UPSCALING: Samsung’s UHD upscaling technology includes signal analysis and detail enhancement that seamlessly upconverts SD, HD and Full HD content to near UHD-level picture quality
- WIDESCREEN 4K GAMING: With 8.3 million pixels supporting a wide range of colors and resolving every image with astonishing clarity, UHD gives you a wider view for a truly thrilling and immersive gaming experience
- SMOOTHER GAMEPLAY: AMD FreeSync synchronizes the refresh rate of your graphics card & monitor to reduce image tear & stutter; Low Input Lag Mode minimizes the delay between mouse, keyboard or joystick input and onscreen response for smooth gaming
| Standing screen display size | 31.5 Inches |
|---|---|
| Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 |
| Max Screen Resolution | 3840 x 2160 Pixels |
| Brand | SAMSUNG |
| Series | LU32J590UQNXZA |
| Item model number | LU32J590UQNXZA |
| Item Weight | 16.61 pounds |
| Product Dimensions | 9.9 x 28.72 x 21.04 inches |
| Item Dimensions LxWxH | 9.9 x 28.72 x 21.04 inches |
| Color | Black |
| Voltage | 110 Volts |
| Manufacturer | Samsung |
| Country of Origin | China |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Date First Available | April 27, 2018 |
Stephen Kaczmarek –
Overall this is a good monitor for home use.
There are better ones out there, but the price point makes this one worth considering. I bought it because I wanted to display text files in larger sizes — so far, it’s doing an excellent job. Text is crisp, and the larger size allows me to both read more easily and multitask. Arguably a similar arrangement could be done through two smaller monitors, as is the case in my business office, but I don’t like the screen being divided.
My old monitor was 27 inches. It, too, worked well for many years, but as my eyes have changed, I was feeling more strain to read text. Because I write and edit a lot, among other things, I often have more than one full-sized page open at a time. The problem was larger monitors without higher resolution were not necessarily an improvement. Yes, they enlarged the images, but then the text wasn’t as readable. This higher resolution, 4K monitor bridges that gap.
The good:
1) Crisp images and text — I can run a 4K movie in a window and still have plenty of real estate for other applications.
2) A decent refresh rate — videogamers no doubt will have quibbles, but for ordinary business use and all but the most sophisticated graphics, it’s fine.
3) No dead pixels or screen bleed — I’ve been using the monitor a while now, but, of course, these flaws often don’t show up right away.
The bad:
1) Color reproduction seems a bit off compared to my old, non-Samsung monitor. The colors lean toward the blue portion of the spectrum. I may play around with the settings more to see if I can warm things up.
2) The display stand is not adjustable and does not swivel. This is a bigger issue than it sounds because it’s actually in an computer cabinet with fixed shelving. Yes, I can raise the office chair, but this is the first monitor I’ve ever owned that can’t simply be raised or lowered at the stand.
3) Physical buttons are awkward. There’s a circular control in the back that’s tough to reach (especially since the monitor also does not swivel). The HDMI and power plugs are on the opposite side . . . which is awkward since the feed for cables in my display cabinet as well as the wall socket are opposite of that. Because the power cable is short, I actually have to use an extension cord to plug it in.
So, if you can live with these limitations — some of which are specific to my furniture and den set up — this is a good value for the price.
Time will tell how long it lasts. For the past 10 years or so, I’ve sworn by Samsung televisions, but a more recent one developed significant display problems because of a long, purple “cloud” across the top of the screen. I’m guessing because the television is so razor thin, the screen buckled from it’s own weight, warping that portion.
It’s too early to tell if this monitor, which is similar in proportion, will do the same. In more recent years, Samsung seems to be using cheaper parts and components, so I may need to update this review in a few months.
Philippe B. –
First, for the positive point: this is a very nice looking design externally.
I only give three stars because this display is announced as 60hz and will only display 30hz @ full resolution which is misleading because it is advertized as 60hz (i would have assume at full resolution). 30hz means sloooooow when moving anything around.
I tried on 2 different computers and with both the provided hdmi 2.0 cable and also with a display port 1.2 cable that i unfortunatly had to buy separatly because they don’t provide any.
Setup is a bit tricky to have wires go through the ‘cable management’ integrated into the stand but with some patience i managed it. Notice that because of its size, and also of the very tiny stand, it is easy to drop this screen from your desk, stand doesn’t grip alot, only 3 tiny little rubber feets are standing between earth and your costly investment.
Finally, because of the pixel/screen ratio, this screen will only be usable at 125% in windows 10. Linux doesn’t support fractionnal screen scqling out of the box. I know it is possible but have not been able to get there yet.
So overall, mainly because of its 30hz limitation, it is quite a deception. If it was 60 i would have gave it 5 stars.
Allan –
If you are a gamer make sure you use the HDMI2 port. HDMI1 is 30HZ and 2 is 60HZ. I initially just hooked into the first port and saw it was running at 30FPS. derp.. read the pamphlet and saw 2 was 60HZ. All was well.
Joshua Billows –
I had read conflicting reviews about whether or not this monitor is wall/desk mountable. It is not. I had planned to install this on a two monitor desk mount in my home office, replacing an ASUS 4k monitor I’ve had for a couple of years. I was going to take the ASUS onsite to an office I have at a client’s location. When I realized it wasn’t going to work I brought this Samsung monitor to that office. I had trouble getting my Dell Docking Station to recognize it as a 4k monitor on a HDMI connection, but when I switched to a DisplayPort cable it worked fine. The monitor itself is sharp and the curve is nice, particularly if you like to work close to your monitor.
Dheeraj Sharma –
All buyers beware of this “Vora Fabrics” , i got duped by this seller after ordering the model “LU32J590UQNXZA” priced ₹36,990.00 and got the model “LU32J590UQWXXL” which way cheaper ₹29,999.00.
SLB –
I use a split screen daily for my job as a legal transcript editor, one side for the transcript, one for exhibits. The large size allows me to set large type and still fit everything. Curve allows me to clearly see edges with no eye strain. I think colors are fine.
I don’t game, so I cannot comment on that, but streaming movies seem to work just fine. Just don’t sit all the way across a room because 32″ is not large enough for that.
Of course the speakers are far too soft, so I have to connect it to something else. While it’s too large to fit on my desk which is only 23″ deep, I have it on a tiny desk which butts up against that on a desk riser to eye level. I purchased this on a deep sale and am totally satisfied with it.
Bizzaro –
first off, once again, 1 star removed bcz the carriers you choose to use lie about delivery, then dont deliver to my actual address forcing me to walk heavy boxes up 3 flights of stairs. the carriers have dollies and stuff for that, i do not, so ill keep removing a star until you gain control over your carriers.
1 star removed bcz i tried to cancel this before it shipped but received an email saying it was too late to cancel, but it didnt actually ship until 30 hours later. good job people, keep it up.
1 star removed because you sent a 400.00 item in a giant box with not one piece of bubble wrap. if i had the energy i would box all this up and send it back. all my packages from amazon these past 2 weeks have come with little or no bubble and im buying up parts for a VR computer, so that about 3500.00 over 3 e-tailers and 4 different carriers, all arriving in busted boxes at the wrong location with no protection. this is your job. why is it hard?
so you just lost 60% of your rating for avoidable things that are persistent in your supply chain. amazon has been getting worse and worse and worse ever since it started being another e-bay with shady sellers and wildly fluctuating prices and shipping. your usefulness is coming to and end when prime video is no better than free youtube, your products are price matched , and your delivery methods are corrupted.
now for the monitor. i should keep taking stars away, but i would be left with negatives. first the bezel”less”. there is a bottom branded bezel, along with 1/8″ of dead space. the other 3 sides all have 1/4″ dead space. so you effectively have an internal bezel of non-usable screen real estate that still takes up the space a monitor that doesnt shave off inches does.
next – display port. it does have 1 display port. ive read reviews where it did not, and that was the reason for my cancel request. well, that and no vesa, really, why would you not include that? seems intentionally cheap. anyway about the DP, i dont know if samsung updated this model to include it, or previous reviewers got bait and switched with a different model (this also happens here on amazon, just look at some “renewed” item listings), or simply didnt recognize the port as it looks like hdmi in the dark, and it is dark up in the cable attachment area. in any case you get one now. just one. version 1.2
no vesa. you know, this is disheartening as vesa compatibility has almost become ubiquitous. so this was a choice. a choice made by someone who is completely out of touch with todays home and soho computing. its one thing to not include the vesa if you are going to give us a stand with lots of motion, and stability, and good materials. instead you get a cheap tube frame and about 5 degress of motion up and down, no side to side. the frame is so cheap , i assume, bcz they engineered the weight and design of the monitor to hold it steady. in this it is marginally successful, but only by using a lot of desk space.
controls – are a joke. i do enjoy the joystick type navigation on the power button, serving double duty as the way to nav the menu. however, you get contrast, brightness, volume….oh yeah, thats it. why have a menu?
documentation/box contents – you get a lot of useless information, like a warning not to pour water on it, but no product spec sheet, which i immediately hunted for to put the display port thing to rest. no case badge, no stickers of any kind, no cleaning cloth, no display port cord. nothing. im sorry, you do get a cheap 6′ hdmi cable and a typical power cable.
color. when i plugged it in, i had typical hd settings on my ben-q ips. so i immediately got a pop up warning for that. once i changed it to 4k settings, it filled up my screen but was washed out, grey. even now with brightness on 100, the top amazon blue nav bar looks muted and washed out. the white area where i am typing is kinda grimy grey. there are no controls to change this on the monitor. obviously you can use windows to calibrate, which i just took a time out from this review to do. setting brightness on 50 even though it looks like typing on a gym sock, i went through the process, only to find at the end, nothing changed at all. except my brightness control was reset to zero, giving me the ability to raise total brightness past the previous max. welcome because now i can see, but still washed out colors.
cyber monday had some ok deals and there are screens by AOC and even LG that i should have tried. but i own lots of samsung stuff and im typically happy, so i went with this one. at 500.00 original cost i would lol in your face while i packed it up and returned it. at the 399.00 i paid i feel raw by about 150.00. this is a 250.00 monitor tops. there is way too much competition, good competition, for samsung to release this giant box of pffft.
im going to keep it for either my 3rd or 4th favorite computer, but thats only bcz its here in my house already, but it wont ever be connected to any machine i use every day.
skip this. people will say its the cheapest 4k so get it. but washed out colors, no vesa, simplistic controls and giant footprint on your desk make it a sure pass. i havent even tried to watch anything in 4k yet bcz it cant make web browsing look good and im too tired to get more irritated at this junk.
oh, i forgot cable management. imagine the cheapest thinnest plastic ever, then make it thinner, and this is your backplate which covers the area where the stand screws to the screen and offers a hidden channel to run your pwr, dp, and hdmi cords down to the desk level. this demands careful thought as a previous reviewer ranted about the cables falling out. well, yes, the hdmi slot is too wide and it will fall out over time, as will the power cable, however you can coil and bend the wires to a point where you can make then exert upward pressure to keep them seated. no tape or glue needed. it takes time bcz you dont have alot of room to work in and you dont have a lot of room to coil up inches of cable in there. the fisher price backplate is not strong enough to hold it if you could. this was a design flaw and an obvious one that should have been caught and rectified during product testing. recessed, side facing ports with a usb 3.0 or 2 or 3 would have been a good addition, and one which most of the competition has included so once again im left scratching my head as to why samsung decided not to include these features.
after i finished writing this, i have to go back and take another star off for quality of product. i hate 1 star reviews, but samsung and amazon deserve it.
Sri Thuraisamy –
I paid for a cheap-but-still-alright-4k-monitor and so i got a cheap-but-still-alright-4k-monitor (after calibration). So i can’t exactly complain, but i will now spend the rest of the review complaining.
Out of the box, the colours were absolutely abominable. The whole screen looked like it was smeared with ketchup and the gamma was, for lack of a better word, crap. After *very much needed* calibration, the picture actually looked pretty decent for the price with some nice colour accuracy. The nice colours don’t mean a whole lot when you can’t see them because they’re too dim. Because even on max brightness, the monitor is extremely dim and just barely bright enough for a cheeky midnight incognito browser session. One other thing that distracts from the pretty colours is the noticeable (but not particularly horrible) motion blur.
It could definitely benefit from any form of VRR though. Also i don’t know what was happening with the other people’s reviews of this monitor i was getting 60hz straight out of the box. Input lag isn’t the greatest either, so that combined with the refresh rate makes it not amazing for gaming. But i don’t play many competitive games and mostly play either single player games, casual online games or do programming and editing, all of which this monitor is adequate for.
Build quality is also kind of crap. One thing that was annoying was the fact that the joystick on the back died almost immediately, which doesn’t inspire feelings of having bought a quality product. Luckily it gave me just enough time to calibrate it properly but it is annoying that it happened so quickly. Another thing is that the stand is also kind of pants and feels like a stiff breeze could knock it over. No vesa mounts either, which i wasn’t planning on using but is still sad to not have and further exacerbates the crappy stand. One last problem i have is that the wall wart it came with is absolutely gargantuan and it can be annoying to plug in.
I was torn over if i should give it 3 or 4 stars, because the build quality and out of the box experience are crap. But after calibration and some mounting tape, i can look past at least some of my complaints with it. And at the end of the day, anywhere under $400 Canadian is pretty dang cheap for a half-decent 4k monitor and it’s pretty alright for the price, although i probably wouldn’t pay much more than that… that being said, if i could give 3.5 stars, i would.
Sri Thuraisamy –
I have tried few other monitors in the past. This is work work perfect with my MBP. Great screen resolution for coding and photo editing, etc.
Cars Simplified –
I got mine this while it was on sale (and the white one in particular was on sale for even more, so I went with that) and for what I do, it’s great. I edit a lot of 4K video, and any time I’m working with footage over 60 frames per second, it is stretched out to 60 at the fastest. The 60 Hz refresh rate doesn’t affect my work in a meaningful way, but it definitely isn’t what you’d want to use for gaming on a high end built-for-gaming computer. Even my built-for-editing computer (lots of gaming parts without the RGB lighting) sounds like overkill for this monitor, but I just can’t see any ROI dropping more money on what would amount to a slightly better monitor in very limited situations.
This seems like a perfectly sufficient monitor for anyone working on general content creation up to 4K 60FPS, or gaming at 4K where high frame rates aren’t vital.