Samsung SAM-LS32BG702 SAMSUNG Odyssey G70B Series 32 (Open Box)

OMG Samsung, what did you do? First off, DO NOT BUY this monitor. It's NOT a monitor. It's a TV with some Monitor features tossed in at the end. But no TV tuner. At every possibly opportunity, this thing pops up a Game Bar that takes 25% of the screen. To interact with any of the monitor menus, can you use the easy remote? Oh HELL no. You have to use the invisible microscopic buttons on the bottom of the frame. Good luck. But the screen - oh the screen.... My 3 year old 32" 4K HP monitor DESTROYS this Samsung in picture quality. The BEST I can get the Samsung no matter what picture mode or settings I adjust is for piss-colored whites and charcoal gray backs. The contrast is at the not quite as good as an old 1280x1024 IBM monitor from 1999. Black text on white is hard to read forcing me to use my HP as my primary work screen. So the picture sucks, what else is wrong with it? It's a technological dinosaur - No USB-C or Thunderbolt, no no, this modern beast has USB 3.0!! with two - yes TWO USB-A Hub ports! You get a net +1 port!!!!! WOW Samsung! Really on the ball here! Oh yeah, my 3 year old HP has at least USB-C 3.2, with 2 additional USB-C ports and 4 more USB-A ports. Can pretty much use it as a "light" docking station. Oh but this monitor has speakers built in - to reduce desktop clutter. Uh huh, it does have speakers all right. But you will not want to use them for anything. The quality of sound direct from a Dell Laptop is far FAR superior to the Samsung. Only problem is that Windows Autoconfig (there is no fix) will change your default audio device every time the audio device changes. Which is every time the monitor returns from Sleep. Oh, and it sees it as a NEW device, so even if you disabled it in Device Manager and Sound Settings, it comes right back! And defaults the the GARBAGE Samsung monitor speakers. And the clincher that is causing me to send the pile of crap back, when it goes to sleep, it keeps waking itself up with the Game Bar telling me it's going to sleep again.... BUT when my system resumes from Display Sleep, the monitor re-connects as 1080P!!!!!!! Only way to get it back to 4K is to physically disconnect the Display port cable and re-connect, which causes Windows to lose the Display configuration, change the default monitor, etc. etc. So First, I don't understand the positive reviews - they must all be schills for Samsung (not out of the realm of possibility for a company that size.) Nobody that actually uses this monitor would honestly give it a positive review. Why did I buy this monitor? It was one of the few 32" 4K monitors that supports nVidia GSync rather than just the AMD Freesync, and availability of alternatives was limited. I took a chance on Samsung. What a mistake. It's getting returned.