Regardless, these issues will happen over hundreds and hundreds of hours of playing the same kind of content, so don’t worry about it too much…just a little. Features a 240Hz, 2560 x 1440, OLED display A perfect combination of speed, size, and picture quality that makes for a highly versatile monitor That’s annoying, but it’s an easy problem to solve. What the UltraGear OLED 27 gets right is adjustment. Ironically, you don’tneed a screwdriver to set up the sturdy stand, and it enables just shy of four-and-a-half inches of height adjustment, 20 degrees of swivel, 20 degrees of tilt, and the ability to turn the monitor vertically.

Note that in the Gamer 1 preset mode, the contrast setting in the OSD is at 60% by default, but considering it is set at 70% in most other modes, including the default “calibration” profiles and the sRGB mode, this seems to be a better optimal setting for contrast. Visually it only makes minor difference though in greyscale rendering and shadow detail. We prefer to change this to 70% to match the more accurate preset modes on the screen for this section. The performance is very similar in all other modes except for ‘Vivid’, which can reach up to ~400-nits for 25% and smaller white window sizes, but drops to ~200-nits at around 50%, and down to ~130-nits at 75% – 100%. Therefore, we don’t recommend using the Vivid mode in SDR unless playing games or watching videos as the jumps in brightness will be annoying during everyday use. It also has a too high color temperature, resulting in a bluish tint. SDR The Vivid HDR mode can reach up to 800-nits for 3% and lower sizes, 700-nits for 10% and 130-nits for 100%, but it over-exposes some bright parts and has a bluish tint. Either way, it falls short of the specified 1000-nit peak brightness. LG plans to release a firmware update in April to improve the brightness performance. HDRThe 27GR95QE features a more traditional monitor-like matte anti-glare coating, as opposed to a glossy panel coating like you’d find on popular OLED TV’s including the LG 42C2. This seems to be the panel coating of choice for OLED screens aimed at desktop use, and it makes sense when you think about the typical use cases for desktop monitors compared with TV’s, and the fact that this type of panel coating has been used for many years in the LCD market. Reflection handling You get a similar image clarity and sharpness as you would on a 42″ 4K display (~106 PPI), such as the LG OLED42C2, just a bit less screen real estate due to the lower 1440p resolution. While the achieved colour coordinates are listed there is no easy measurement for the colour gamut coverage or confirmation that it has been matched really. It would have been nice to include a % sRGB coverage here to make it easier for the user to validate, perhaps an absolute figure and a relative figure, which would then reflect if there’s any over-coverage still. Actually we spotted an error with the reporting of the blue coordinates above too. You can see the target was 0.1500, 0.0600 and the software says the result was 0.1490, 0.1490. That second “0.1490” is wrong, and thankfully it hasn’t been calibrated to that, otherwise we’d end up with a massive under-coverage in blue shades and only 81% sRGB gamut! It’s being reported wrong in the results above. When you load up the software you get a simple section allowing you to define your calibration targets. Here for instance we’ve selected 120 cd/m 2 brightness, 6500K white point, 2.2 gamma and the sRGB colour space. You need a compatible calibration tool (or “meter”) with support for a range of popular options provided in the software – Spyder5, SpyderX, i1 Display Pro/Pro Plus, ColorMunki Photo/Design, i1 Pro 2 (spectro) and the CR100. Here for this example we’ve selected the i1 Display Pro Plus colorimeter.

LG provide a 2 year warranty for this screen although do not really talk about image retention or burn in cover, other than to say that the warranty does NOT cover “Burned-in images resulting from improper usage as described in the user manual”– but improper use is a pretty vague term. This may make it difficult to claim under the warranty should you ever run in to any image retention issues, so we would advise some caution depending on your usage type and habits, and your risk tolerance. Gaming Enjoy your games while having voice chat by connecting easily with 4-pole Headphone out. Also, you can feel even more immersive with virtual 3D sound with Asus has one in its ROG lineup, Corsair launched a Xeneon model late last year, and LG has the 27GR95QE-B in its UltraGear range. AOC, meanwhile, has just announced a new 240Hz OLED model in its AGON Pro range that will go on sale soon. With some simple adjustments to the brightness control, contrast and RGB balance, we had achieved a significantly better result in the ‘Gamer 1’ mode. The main benefit was that we’d corrected the RGB balance, and now had a pretty consistent greyscale colour temp, and a white point very close to our target at 6553K. The screen no longer looked bluish, and this in turn improved the greyscale accuracy hugely, now down to dE 1.4 average.

This LG is a killer display that doesn't shine as bright as we'd like.

Image retention, or burn-in is still a prevalent issue with OLED displays despite the resilience of newer panels. As such, some care will need to be taken to maintain optimal image quality on the 27GR95QE. While I wouldn’t go to the extent of baby-ing it all the time, leaving static images on the screen for extended periods of time could result in some burn-in issues. If you are a heavy Windows user, you might want to set the taskbar to auto-hide, and if you are watching lots of sports, or playing a game with a lot of static HUD elements, you might want to give the screen a break now and then with other kinds of content so the OLEDs don’t ‘set in’ on a particular color. The only concern for text clarity is the WRGB subpixel structure, which is an issue we saw on the first batch of QD-OLED monitors. There’s some blurring around text as you sit close to the monitor, but I never found it distracting while using the display. You have to get very close to the screen to notice, so although text clarity is a problem compared to a traditional LCD monitor, it’s far from a deal breaker. Superb gaming Jacob Roach / Digital Trends This monitor supports the fastest refresh rate and respons

The LG 27GR95QE also features Hexagon RGB lighting at the rear with adjustable colors and lighting patterns. In a dark room, the LEDs are even strong enough to reflect off of the wall and create atmospheric ambient lighting. The matte anti-glare (AG) coating that LG have opted for is going to be controversial for sure, as the topic it was when we reviewed the Asus PG42UQ and other matte coated OLED screens.Whether or not it’s a good thing might also depend on your other uses somewhat. For this ‘office and general use’ section of the review we definitely preferred this AG coating over a glossy coating like that found on something like the LG 42C2. It does a really good job of eliminating reflections that you’d get from glossy coatings and diffuses light sources nicely. It looks and feels a lot more like a normal desktop monitor to use, and we think this is a good thing for the majority of people for office and general uses. These kind of environments are unlikely to be light controlled and you wouldn’t want to be working in a dark room for office work. You’ll have various lights and windows to worry about and we felt that the AG coating was a good thing for these uses. The LG 27GR95QE-B’s brightness output reached 365 cd/m2 in SDR, but it went down to 161 cd/m2 if you put an all-white image on it. It peaked at 688 cd/m2 in HDR scenes, so it can get as bright as it needs to be for games and movies. Its contrast can dip or rise exponentially, just like any other OLED display out there. Next, the monitor has a wide 98.5% DCI-P3 gamut coverage, resulting in rich and vibrant colors. This is equivalent to around 135% sRGB gamut size, so content made with sRGB color space in mind will be over-saturated. Some users prefer the extra vibrancy provided by the over-saturation, but you can also clamp the gamut down to ~100% sRGB in case you prefer accuracy. Dell U2722DE and U2722D August 31, 2021 Dell’s latest 27″ UltraSharp display, with a 2560 x 1440 resolution IPS panel, USB type-C hub, KVM and a wide range of office enhancements and features

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As much as I am impressed by the picture quality, the LG can't escape the common problem that plagues some OLED gaming monitors: brightness. In my testing, the OLED's non-HDR peak brightness sits just above 200 nits which is frankly abysmal. LG claims you can get around 800 nits with HDR on, but will only apply to small, bright objects. So, it will be gaming-relevant, but you can't expect anything close to the brightness you'd get from a screen that can actually do 800 nits full screen. The monitor also supports hardware calibration and comes with the LG True Color application, allowing you to store two calibrations on the monitor itself without having to rely on ICC profiles. Design & Connectivity With an LG computer monitor you’ll discover cutting-edge display technology and slim designs, from the LG CINEMA 3D monitor, the new standard in 3-dimensional excellence, to our dazzling LED and LCD monitors, which offer state-of-the-art display and features. You’ll get a new outlook on life with monitors and other computer equipment from LG. You can see that the targets had been closely matched after this process. This is a further “validation” process you can run which takes 3 minutes to complete and will produce a more thorough report, including one you can save as a PDF if you want: