Chris here and I'm taking a look at another innocn brand of monitor I've reviewed now quite
a few of them in the past and they've surprised me pretty much all of them will this one be another
surprise well we have a panel that's looking like it's got a lot of Promise certainly for people
out there looking for a 4K 27 inch monitor so it is Visa certified for HDR 1000 1000 and its peak
brightness is their claim 99 Adobe RGB is another one of their claims so it is a IPS mini lid set
up here with the tick and it's 4K 60 hertz only so it's not a high refresh rate 4K 60 of course just
being a standard there so I'm not really aimed at Gamers but it does have some RGB on the back
of it if you're into that you can actually turn it off too the monitor does have some other features
you don't normally see and that is an ambient light sensor a accelerometer so when you rotate
the screen around it will automatically flip the screen over it's going to know to do that and it
does have a type c input which does support power delivery up to 90 Watts so for just one cable you
can just power everything which is very convenient and have of course display out it does have
two HDMI 2.0 ports which are 4K 60 and display port 1.4 audio jack and even built-in speakers
included with the monitor which by the way was really well packaged we have our power supply
now it is 180 Watts external power supply this is a good thing if the power supply fails you're not
going to end up losing the whole monitor you simply just need to replace that and we've got
to type c to type c cable now it does support up to 90 watts output for your type c devices which
is excellent it's going to keep them charged and topped up we have our power cable for the power
supply of course a HDMI cable and a DisplayPort cable and then a factory calibration report very
good to see this so they've calibrated there you can see all the information about that calibration
for Adobe RGB and also for srgb and those are the results so with all professional monitors they do
normally include information like that we have a support card and finally a user manual there
for the 4K mini LED monitor so the stand base this simply just hooks into the stand and you see it's
got rubber feet on the bottom of it that screws into place so you don't need tools to assemble
it it is a metal frame the inner part of it and then they've used this painted silver plastic now
I wish it was actually a matte black color I would have preferred that and that stands the same thing
the internals are metal but it has the plastic on the outside of it now there's a gap right here
for cable management you can feed the cables through that for say your keyboard your mouse
and at the end just simply clips into the back of the monitor like so
then on the right hand side we have our controls here for the on-screen display menu so the power
button it has a status LED built in within it and then four other buttons they are made out
of plastic but they feel alright even though this 4k monitor is only 60 hertz I wouldn't classify it
as a gaming monitor it certainly has the look of one of course with these RGB lights on the
back so you're able to set different options like just a static continual light you can put
it onto a breathe mode pulsing change the colors it's a full RGB there and you can see that it's
in the middle portion there with the Plastics that are painted silver and then in each of the
corners so you can turn it off into settings if you don't like it which will be certainly what
I'll be doing here I'm not fond of having RGB lights especially on monitors the frame around
the outside of the monitor is plastic yet again that same silver now it looks okay it feels maybe
a little cheap however there are a lot of vents on the sides and the top and the bottom to keep
the monitor internals cool so the screen can be run in a landscape mode it does have a built-in
accelerometer which is also known as a Gravity Sensor along with that ambient light sensor so
it can spin around either way you can spin it as you can see like so it should swap over the image
now just give it a few seconds there we go swapped over now and you can also rotate it that way too
so it is in the highest position which is needed to flip it around into the portrait mode that
is the lowest position right there the screen can be angled up it's about 10 degrees or so and then
angled down around about five degrees a little bit less there and you can swivel it 45 left
45 right so you can get that perfect position for the monitor so you can look at it straight on
without having to have a crooked neck or anything like that the bezels on this monitor as you can
see aren't too bad top left and right the bottom bezel is a little bit thicker there send branding
on the bottom bezel that doesn't stand out too much now if you were to be typing away moving
your desk a little would the monitor Shake around well a tiny little bit here but it's quite sturdy
the base as you can see it's wide and I don't find it being really an issue there's 4K IPS
mini lead monitor is using an anti-glia coating so I'm really happy about this I just think it's
the best coating for monitors especially if you're going to be using this in a office environment you
have some lights on you don't want to be looking at Reflections all day that's going to really tire
out your site now in the corners you'll notice that it is slightly dimmer now this is a trait
of ips screens that I see everywhere you normally see the edges looking a little bit dimmer there's
also a gap between this anti-glare coating over the top of it and then the IPS panel below it's
not really that noticeable and now with all the blinds closed so there's no Reflections
interfering with the screen is there any of the common IPS leakage now it's very hard to see
it there is a little bit coming through on the upper right hand side it's very minimal and I'm
only seeing it when displaying a completely black image like right now and the blacks look really
decent for an IPS panel they're not only deep of course but for IPs I think they're excellent
something that is not so common on monitors as an ambient light sensors are great to see it on
board it can auto adjust the brightness of the screen according to the ambient light you can
completely disable it through the settings menu if you wanted to so the monitor is IPS mini lid HDR
1000 support it is Visa certified and with the 4K resolution so that is 38 40 by 2160. we've got a
lot of screen reader State here a lot of space to work with great for use like this professional use
maybe you're going to be editing videos it does look really good and it's just the extra space it
gives you so great for multitasking as well having things on the screen either side now looking at
the screen do we see any ghosting ah they're visible Coronas are there problems like that
well doing the little UFO test here I'm not really noticing anything now the maximum brightness does
top out at 785 nits is what I'm measuring now it's meant to be able to do 1000 yes I do have
the HDR mode enabled with the Monitor and I've got hdr on at the moment too with my settings through
Windows I'm not quite sure what is going on there with that brightness but it still is really quite
impressive it's very bright right for me I've in fact got it turned down to just 25 at the moment
now taking a look at the color coverage here the gamut actually just before we do I'll just show
you the calibration so calibrated with my spider X pro and then a factory calibration you can see
there's barely any difference it's just the the Grays and the white balance is slightly different
there so I calibrate all my monitors it's normal that's going to be out by a little bit competed
their own Factory calibration but very good here when you take a look at the Adobe RGB is 83 now
I was expecting this to be a little bit higher maybe around the 90s almost ntsc is 79 srgb 100
so that's their claim it's in line with their claim there and then P3 is 86 which is very good
almost up to 90 there which is great that's what you want now just move this around really quickly
and I'm not seeing any ghosting mouse cursor the pointer there I'm not seeing any trading trailing
pointers too as well with it so it's good for that not a gaming screen really because it doesn't
have g-sync it doesn't have freesync it's only 60 hertz would have been nice if it was 120 but that
probably would have pushed up the price tag but it is a very nice panel as for that on-screen menu
how are the controls so when you first press home it'll bring up the shortcuts and it's directly
below where the button is so it doesn't make it too difficult you can adjust the brightness on
the fly now I tend to run a very low brightness actually of about 25 because I just can't seem
to capture it properly if it's anything over that it's a very bright monitor tapping home twice you
then bring up the whole menu as you can see now so we've got our professional settings it's called
that's where you can change the different color modes you can put it into a DCI P3 mode Adobe
mode srgb and a standard mode now it does time out after a little while as you can see you can
I believe adjust that too as well we've got our picture settings right here that you'll see that
you're able to adjust the brightness contrast a few other tweaks there so I have the HDR mode on
enabled I do want that game settings again even though this really isn't a gaming monitor there's
a couple of little options in here you might like this is also where you can turn off those PCS the
LED lights on the back the RGB if you don't like the RGB it's just go into this disable it and it's
off forever which is good picture in picture so if you do happen to have another source plugged in
you can then adjust and you get all those options so I don't have another device plugged in like my
PlayStation 5 or a gaming laptop or anything else like that too I'll just go into the last setting
here or the second to last sorry is our on-screen display settings so there's the timeout it's on
10 seconds I should probably actually adjust that and then you'll find here other settings so that's
where you can set the input source to be Auto and I do like this one auto power that's probably one
of the most handy things so when you turn on your PC what have you got connected to it it
will automatically power on this monitor now what is the final verdict then of using this innocent
4K 27 inch IPS mini LED HDR 1000 monitor 1000 nits monitor it's a bit of a mouthful it is a very nice
screen I have enjoyed my time using it now for a few days as my main monitor there's still plenty
of room there that I can fit all of my video editing into it and it's great for that for
the screen real estate text looks very sharp I've noticed no problems with ghosting if you do look
at just a black image and if you're into staring at black images all day you might be a little bit
annoyed with a tiny little bit of screen bleed you see on the outer edges it's not actually that
bad now it is not fully laminated so this front anti-glare coating isn't actually optically bonded
to the screen behind it they might have done that to reduce the glare it's probably actually a cost
saving move but it's not too bad you do notice it a little bit when you just look at the very edges
but once to get used to that it's you don't really notice at all that there's about a millimeter Gap
or so between those layers there so the color damn it the coverage I did put it onto the
Adobe RGB mode and I only managed to get into the 80s not into the 99 RGB which is their claim now
if it was in the 90s I would have gone okay thumbs up it's close enough to their claim
um and what I've seen with their previous monitors they've always been pretty much
spot on with their claimed if they've said that it has uh 99 Adobe RGB well I got like almost
that with some of their others and okay srgb is a hundred percent that's not too hard to achieve uh
so it's a little disappointing there in that area now maximum brightness is another one in the HDR
mode and running HDR I can get 785 nits of top brightness now it should be peaking at around 1
000 nits which is what it's capable of it does after all have that Visa certified HDR
1000 but I'm just simply not able to get those brightness levels with it now I did find the
blacks as I showed you in my example that they actually look really good for an IPS screen of
course it's not an OLED level that's impossible to to achieve with this kind of tech with this
kind of panel here now if you do intend to gain it's not a gamer monitor there's there's no way
that anyone's going to claim it is because it doesn't have for start g-sync freesync uh the
response times and everything like that seem pretty standard I don't actually know them but
they don't seem bad but if you are a gamer and especially into your competitive games you're
going to want something that's got a really high refresh rate which of course this simply does not
deliver it is 60 hertz 4K now for professional use that is perfectly fine okay I think most
people's desktops running at 64k still acceptable right I mean I actually personally run 4K 120 but
even gaming 4K at 60 hertz is acceptable it's fine it's definitely doable on this just not at
a professional level so all up I can say with the ambient light sensor the type C port with
the 90 Watts very convenient the options it does offer it is an excellent monitor here it's just
falling short at least my panel that I have in this unit from their claims that's really the
only thing and the other which is subjective of course is the design of it the black sorry I would
have preferred it to be black but the silver plastic on it and then the RGB lighting I'm
not too fond of it I would have liked more of a a subdued professional kind of look just matte black
plastic would have been good no LEDs but of course you can turn them off so it's not really that bad
so thank you so much for watching my review here of the innocent 4K mini LED mini lid monitor