this LG monitor that they sent over for a video is an OLED monitor that
isn't 17 feet across it's just like a like a normal monitor size which means
it's basically the monitor I've spent the last eight years waiting for So
today we're going to talk about meeting your Heroes and you know what they say about that
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now the brand new LG 27gr95qe which oh you just can't help but be aroused by those monitor names
is aside from being an OLED on paper essentially as much monitor as anyone could ever want you have
a refresh rate that will excite even the pigeons in the audience crazy low response times and very
good color gamut coverage and physically it even has hexagons on it which as we've established many
times before is the gameriest shape in the Box you get all of the cables you need for the monitor it
also comes with an external power supply which I'm not a huge fan of I prefer internal power supplies
because the cat can't chew a power supply that's in your monitor you also get a little remote so no
physical buttons on the monitor interesting Quirk with the remote it uses the same frequency as just
LG TV remotes so if you have an LG TV in the same room and somebody wants to watch some TV on it
they can accidentally turn your monitor off mid game gaming session which I say from experience
now physically the monitor is real sexy it's got lean bezels with this recessed chin that houses
some sensor action and the panel is also mostly very thin in standard OLED fashion although we do
have a pretty big control booty bit which aside from being just covered in hexagons also has a
little bit of lighting built into it cause gamer I guess now the stand on this monitor is amazing
and I'll spend some more time gushing about it a bit later but first let's talk about the i o
which it has everything you need it even has an optical Port which is quite unusual for a monitor
and I think it's a nice addition anyway let's set it up and talk a bit about the monitors ergonomics
now we're quickly going to talk about the ergonomics while I load into a scav raid here
because this monitor has one of the best stands I've ever seen on a monitor it's got a kind of
like standard nice monitor stand so it means you have like the normal range of motion you can even
turn it into portrait mode if you want to and it feels nice and sturdy and it actually sits in the
place that you want but that's pretty standard a lot of monitor stands do that the thing that
this does differently is that the stand actually is tall enough for you to get the monitor properly
into your eye line which I've never seen on one of these monitor stands before they're
always just a little bit too short which means you still have to look down at them as opposed
to look them straight in the eyes like you're going to challenge them to a fist fight which
means this is the first monitor I've interacted with that doesn't actually need you to buy a Vasa
arm for it so that you don't incur back injury with it so that's very cool good job LG [Music]
now obviously gaming on it is amazing now the thing that always gets me about gaming
on an OLED is not the infinite contrast ratio which is kind of like its party trick that's
nice but it's not the biggest deal for me the thing that always blows me away is with the
combination of the low pixel response time of oleds and the 240 hertz refresh rate of
this panel means that it is Snappy as hell you can't feel the monitor at all which is it's so
awesome inputs even in a game like tarkov feel frankly telepathic unfortunately image quality
isn't perfect in typical OLED fashion the monitor does kind of struggle with detail in deep blacks
so in a very dark game-like escape from tarkov depending on the time of day you can lose a lot
of detail but at least it doesn't have the glow of an IPS panel which in the same dark
scenes is even more distracting than the flat black everywhere in my opinion now speaking of
the monitor's lack of ips glow it means that this monitor humiliates IPS displays in terms
of off-axis viewing I spent about two and a half weeks living with this Monitor and every time I
walked up to it I was blown away by the off axis viewing performance compared to an IPS display
now when it comes to measurements the monitor is mostly excellent like the panel uniformity
is the best I've ever seen by a reasonable margin but there are a couple of anomalies the first one
is it doesn't go very bright but unless you're using it outdoors in the Sahara it's probably
going to be fine at no point while using it did I think the monitor wasn't bright enough and the
other anomaly is my sample had some color accuracy problems with magenta and orange
now this is by no means a contentious statement OLED panels are Majestic the combination of the
beautiful vibrant contrasty image combined with the snappiness that comes from the low response
time and high refresh rate means that gaming on this display is a sight to behold now OLED
panels aren't quite perfect like I mentioned before they're not the brightest displays ever
although again I found that this one in like normal indoor settings was more than bright
enough for my use case and then there's also the problem of burning which does mean that you need
to baby these monitors a little bit you have to set a very aggressive monitor sleep modes
in Windows and remember to turn the monitor off every time you walk away from it and not have it
like sitting on static images but honestly I don't really mind having to Baby Tech if it rewards me
for the babying and this monitor really does the thing is there is a pretty big bot to this monitor
well there's two big ones the one is the price a thousand dollars for a 27 inch 1440 display
is a lot even for something as special as this but that's not the biggest but the biggest but
is the matte coating on the display it's it's way too aggressive I get why you want a matte coating
on an OLED display reducing Reflections on a not very bright monitor is good but the problem is
it's just so visible on any light colors so it means that on the desktop you can't not look at
it and in sky and video games and stuff it's so noticeable and it kind of ruins the immersion of
it the best way I can describe it is that it's like it adds a film grain to the image which is
not something you want and it meant the first time I turned the monitor on my reaction was ooh which
is not great I waited like eight years for this Monitor and it costs a thousand dollars my first
reaction when I turned it on should have been so LG please make a version of this monitor that has
the same coating on it as your OLED TVs because that it's way better and this current coating is
kind of a deal breaker for me with this monitor which is so sad because it's such a good Monitor
and if it wasn't for the coating I would be inappropriately excited about it this monitor
was the chosen one but then it just tripped over the last couple of hurdles and sheared both its
legs off at the knee like it was so close now not all matte finishes are bad and the matte finish
on this display may not be a deal breaker for everybody but I'm sitting here now and I can't
not look at it so with that let me know in the comment section down below what you think of
quite aggressive matte finishes on displays and uh yeah thank you for watching thank you LG for
sending over the monitor I appreciate it and uh yeah until the next video bye-bye foreign
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