When the first wave of UltraWide 21:9 monitors landed back in 2012, it felt like one step forward and one step back.One the one hand, the extra desktop real estate at the sides meant that you could replace your dual monitor setup with a single display, doing away with the distracting middle bezel that would divide your two working areas. This was useful for stretching out spreadsheets, snapping documents side-by-side or watching movies in their native cinematic aspect ratio.However, due to their common pixel-resolution of 2560 x 1080, such monitors suffered from a lack of vertical space and resulted in what felt like a cramped letterbox-like working area compared to 1440p panels. What's more, on average they were more expensive than their 16:9 counterparts and as such many people found it difficult to justify the cost of getting onboard with the intruiging aspect ratio.Interview: LG talks to TechRadar Pro about the 34UM95Step up the LG 34UM95, which goes by the mantra of bigger is better - both in terms of physical size and resolution - which have been upped to 34 inches and 3440 x 1440 (21:9) respectively. This larger working area is the equivalent of running two 20-inch monitors side-by-side with resolutions of 1720x1440 (6:5). Finally, 21:9 gets the vertical space that was sorely lacking from previous models, matching what you would find on a 27-inch monitor while providing even more horizontal space at the sides. The UM3495's working area really is huge.