LG 27UL500-W 27-Inch UHD (3840 x 2160) IPS Monitor with Radeon Freesync Technology and HDR10, White

I’ve had this monitor for several months now and love it. It replaced an old 28 inch 1080p that became unusable for me for viewing text. I use it mainly for work all day, which consists of reading documents, web pages and working with web applications. I also use it to view and edit photos fairly often.The picture is excellent and text is sharp at native resolution with Windows set to 175%. There are no dead pixels or color/light bleed around the edges. It’s been the perfect step up solution to be productive all day and have an excellent display for pictures and video as well.My only gripe is that it does not have auto-detect for input so I have to manually change inputs every time I switch between my work and home laptops which is fairly often. This combined with a joystick control that has to be pressed up from the bottom to start is a bit of a pain. Also, I did mount it to an adjustable stand right away as I need it to sit low on my desk and most monitors that have an adjustable stand don’t go low enough.

This LG monitor is, in one word, great. Out of the box, it came with a color calibration sheet, and told me about gamma, delta E (<5) , and white balance (3500K). Once activated on the OSD, Freesync was immediately dected by my Radeon Software, which was nice. The monitor looks great, with nice brightness (more on that later) and clarity. It came with both a Displayport 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 cable, as well as a small external power brick. The stand is good, and has some weight to it, however I did not use it, and instead took advantage of the 100mm VESA mounts.Back to the display. I see this monitor as “HDR 10” compatible, and windows 10 detects this as an HDR monitor, but please note, it only has a peak brightness on about 350 nits, making it more HDRish. The bezel sizes are alright, but nothing special. I personally would not use this monitor for Competitive gaming, as the response time is not great and it is only 60hz, however it does have Freesync, so more cinematic games look great. Video consumption and production on this thing is nice as well, and I would definitely recommend this monitor.For the last image of both monitors, the one on the right is the LG 4K monitor, which has an IPS panel. The left one is an older Samsung VA panel, at 1440p.

Purchased this screen as a 4k gaming monitor over Christmas. It worked great for the first 3 weeks. Amazing picture quality, great size, good stand,….and then the quality showed itself. A 3 week old monitor had an entire section go dark. I’ve had monitors loose parts of the back lighting before. Though usually after 7+ years….Not only 3 weeks! Was very disappointing to have to revert to my 7 year old 1080p monitors as the temporary replacement until this was replaced. It’s really dis-heartening when you build a fully new gaming rig for 4k only to have your well reviewed monitor die on you 3 weeks in.I have given a 2nd star purely because Amazon were quick to send a replacement. We are on week 1 of the replacement monitor so will see how long it lasts.

I still consider this product absolutely gorgeous, but the LG repair service has been piss poor. Whats worse, I have to go through the repair service twice!Long story short, my unit was having an issue where the monitor will not lit after quick/abrupt shutdowns. If I pull the power cord, or really having a power outage while the monitor is on, it will not turn back on. Twice I was able to bring this monitor back to life with a cold reboot; it finally broke after the third try. Luckily I was covered by the very generous 1 year LG warranty and was able to send this unit back around Sept 23th; the unit was received according to LG on the 30th, despite it being delivered several days earlier. After that, dead silence for a good 3 weeks. I checked the status of my repair on LG’s repair tracking site, nothing was updated and my appointment was still pending. Frustrated, I called the customer service and was told a part needed for the repair will arrive on Oct 26th, a Saturday; now I call that bullcrap as my monitor was fixed and shipped that Friday. The next Tuesday I got it back, I found there are two pieces of dust INSIDE the LCD glass. If you care enough to zoom in and see my misery, those two bastards are clearly not your average dead pixels. They are way larger and magnitudes more in annoyance. So here I am again, starting another repair case; I merely own this beauty for 4 months and am forced to waste another month for repair!With that said, if you win the monitor lottery and would not have to go through LG’s service, this is a true beauty. You get a great IPS panel, stunning UHD for the price of a dell 2k; LG’s OSD and features are quite impressive (better than ACER, sorry ACER) as well. But unfortunately I’m a sore loser and don’t have much else to do except for venting my frustration on amazon. If your defective unit is doomed to break, at least do it before the return window closes.

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 I got this at $219 and for the price I felt I was getting a lot. 60htz, 27″ gaming monitor that can also support 4k and HDR. Unfortunately there is a big catch with this monitor. I have had serious screen flickering. The flickering is noticeable at 60 59htz and 30htz is downright bad. I have an RTX 2070 super and I have used a 70″tv, and 1080p gaming monitor at 60htz and did not have any screen flickering with those screens. I attempted to fix the issue by following microsoft’s suggestions as well as looking up tutorials online with nothing working. At full price I cannot suggest this monitor. Instead I would suggest investing the few extra $100 for a higher quality monitor to avoid screen flickering.