Hp’s New 49-inch Curved Ultrawide Monitor Has A Pop-up Webcam

Big monitor, small pop-up camera.

HP is announcing a caller jumbo-sized ultrawide show designed for productivity and agency use. The HP Series 5 Pro 49-inch Conferencing Monitor uses a 32:9 VA IPS sheet pinch 5120 x 1440 resolution, 165Hz refresh, and an 1800R curvature. Like different monitors of this size and resolution, it’s balanced to utilizing 2 27-inch displays broadside by side. But dissimilar offerings from Samsung, Dell, Lenovo, and LG, nan Series 5 Pro sports a hidden 5-megapixel webcam that extends from its apical erstwhile you push to unlock it.

I sewage to concisely spot nan 49-incher astatine a preview event, wherever HP reps demoed package that lets it enactment arsenic 2 aliases 3 virtual displays for multi-monitor-like use. The sheet looked decently agleam and contrasty successful a well-lit agency environment, and its rear has HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, ethernet, and immoderate USB ports (complete pinch KVM functionality). While nan sheet goes up to 165Hz and covers 99 percent of nan sRGB colour space, its 5ms consequence clip and 8-bit colour extent make it little than perfect for gaming aliases color-sensitive contented creation.

Pricing will beryllium revealed person to nan monitor’s November launch.