(NEW) Samsung 32" Odyssey OLED G8 Series 4K Gaming Monitor

This monitor is awful, the first experience when you turn it on is already bad, because it is a 'smart' monitor. So it forces you through a setup, where it tries to get you to connect it to the internet and all that jazz. You don't have to connect it to the internet if you don't want to though, it doesn't force you to. Which was nice, since I had no intention of using the 'smart' features. It's overwhelmingly clear that this monitor wants to be a TV though, and that's a problem because I bought a computer monitor.There is a remote for this monitor. I thought it was funny that this monitor is advertised as a gaming monitor, and they put a little solar cell on the bottom of it, completely forgetting that most gamers game in a somewhat dark environment. The remote is annoying, but it is easier than using the little rocking button on the back to control the monitor. They really should have just put more buttons on the screen. I had little need for the monitors speakers, so I muted it, just to see that an icon appears on the screen and moves around so that you know it is muted. On a TV this might be useful, but on a monitor where I had planned to not use the speakers much, it was annoying. There is no way to disable this icon. I ended up turning the volume to 0, but that means I have to do more stuff if I ever want to use the speakers. Also if you flip the remote over and set it down, like how it is intended to be charged, and accidently set something on it, or your cat steps on it or something, it will mute your monitor, and show the annoying icon. So that is inconvenient.Every time you turn this monitor on, it has a bar appear at the bottom of the screen telling you the resolution and the frame rate, and which of the useless gaming features you have turned on, the answer is none, by the way, since I tried them out, and none of them were worthwhile. That was bad enough, but after that it will tell you how to use the "Game Bar" I thought if I followed its instructions the message would stop appearing, but nope, I guess it will appear every time the monitor wakes, which will be a lot if you use the monitor correctly, since OLEDs can't be on a static screen for long.If that wasn't bad enough, when the monitor is going to go to sleep, it doesn't just go to sleep, it counts down from 45 seconds, before sleeping, which is a waste, since your computer already counted down the time before stopping the display, and no other monitor I've used has this problem. Eventually I also noticed that when you wake up the monitor it hangs for a few seconds, oftentimes it does this when I finish entering my password, so I get to see the middle of the fade between my desktop and my lockscreen for a while, it's just another way this monitor found to be annoying.Already we were off to a rocky start, but the first game I tried to play on this monitor was one of my older games, it runs at a 1024x768 resolution. I mostly just wanted to see what it looked like on this screen, well I was surprised to see the monitor freak out and show a spinning wheel. I was hoping this wouldn't be how it handled every resolution change. Then it went on to say "Display Mode Unsupported" like it would not allow me to play my game. Luckily I knew keyboard shortcuts to close the game and return to the other resolution. I tried opening the game again to see if it was a fluke, and it turned out that was the case. However, every now and again, it'll just not work when you change resolutions to something low like that, which is super annoying, since you aren't going to want to waste resources running every game at the monitor's native resolution.I then tried raising the refresh rate, since I hadn't tried that out yet, and I noticed that at some refresh rates, the colors don't show up right. They're washed out, and the blacks become grays. This was fine, though, because the near 60hz and the 240hz that I planned on using looked fine. The funny thing I found was that there was a button to turn off "Game Mode" in the settings, but when you turn that on, it limits the monitor refresh rate to 120hz, and that one had the color issues. Also frustrating was that having game mode off makes those bars that appear when the monitor wakes not show up, so it would have been nice if that was a working setting.All of that was annoying already, but I found the biggest problem after a few hours of use. It doesn't matter how long a session you have, the screen will just randomly go black and then come back after a moment. That's not very gamer of it, in that brief moment, you could go from winning a game to losing and it'll be all Samsung's fault. It happens pretty frequently. Sometimes it happens many times in a row, and other times I can go hours without it happening. For a 1,000 dollar monitor, this is simply unacceptable though, and is the real deal breaker. I tried updating the firmware, I used a USB stick, since I didn't want to connect the display to the internet, and they let you download the firmware off the internet. I was hoping that the updated firmware would fix the issue, but as of version 1004.0, it is still broken. I tried it with another computer and the issue still persisted, so it wasn't an issue with my hardware. The monitor just doesn't work correctly.There are just too many problems with this monitor for me to want to suggest someone purchase it. I'd stay very far away from this monitor. The screen itself is great, but everything else about the monitor is wrong, and I wouldn't suggest anyone subject themselves to the troubles this monitor brings. In my opinion, this thing isn't worth the money they are asking for it, since it just doesn't work right.