LG 27GN950-B

[Joel D]

You sound like you work for them.

lol, No, I am actually a Sony fan to the heart since the late 80's. When LG came out I remember sounding like you is all I'm saying. I wanted to hate them. China built crap. And we have good reasons to think that. Issue is, as time ticked on, all the professional calibrators I use, plus all the extreme videophile home theater cats started telling me LG done topped the quality charts. This was back when the almighty Panasonic VT50 Plasma was still king of a perfect looking panel. LG released that first OLED of theirs, and well.... game over. Can't top it (other than getting a Sony, as LG makes panels for Sony TV's now.) I did get the Sony. Just cause I like them better for other reasons.

Anyway, the issue this whole time has been Sony nor LG makes gaming monitors. I just got into this PC gaming trip about 1 year ago now. And got a IPS, and couldn't be more unhappy with the looks compared to my Sony. So hence this thread. I do not work for anyone, but I have logical reasons why I was excited about a LG gaming monitor that wasn't the old school LCDs. But I'm now still let down, cause howiec said the monitor seems to not be that great.

The info I shared about LG was indeed real though. Something to think about. Even my precious Sony company only makes parts for 5 years, I found out the hard way with my previous TV from them. Bottom line, is LG really is not a bad company like we would assume.

[howiec]

But I'm now still let down, cause howiec said the monitor seems to not be that great.

The info I shared about LG was indeed real though. Something to think about. Even my precious Sony company only makes parts for 5 years, I found out the hard way with my previous TV from them. Bottom line, is LG really is not a bad company like we would assume.

Well, don't get me wrong - I think the 27GN950 is good value compared to other 4k monitors as of right now.

It just has some serious flaws that may or may not be a deal-breaker for some. Picture quality is actually good but the biggest 2 gripes I have with it, as previously mentioned, are:

• Significant glare
• 160Hz mode crashing PC during any display settings changes (don't know what causes this)

On a side note, I didn't buy this monitor for HDR so I don't care that it uses lousy edge-lit zones either.

LG, just like most other companies, designs and makes both good and bad products. Gotta mostly evaluate their products individually although some things like customer service/support obviously applies more generally.

[Joel D]

Thanks for clearing that up Howiec. Thing is, is I didn't hear you jumping up and down about the NanoIPS panel. As NanoIPS is suppose to have a way better color gamut and more precise visuals than IPS. With the glare issue, even though unrelated, it becomes inadvertently related cause glare will give the illusion of a worse picture.

The 160hz thing doesn't bother me.. I thought it was a 144hz monitor anyway. I'd just run it like that.

The glare is a issue cause you would think you could just play in the dark (which I do, a 100% pitch black room, no windows, no lights on, thats how I like to play anything anyway - so much that I need to turn off all glowing mouses, glowing keyboards, etc.. I use 0 room light) and that would solve glare. Well we are right and wrong about that. Its solves it as in you can't see it reflecting off the screen, sure. BUT if the screen is built in a manner that causes glare that means no matter what, its somewhat effecting visuals vs a screen that doesn't, and yes, even in the dark. It just disappears consciously, on the surface in a dark room.

So I feel you on the glare issue. Its bigger than one would want to think. I hate glare. Also, if you have any panel professionally calibrated, you'd be very surprised how low the brightness is. Thats industry standard of how it should be and needs to be for proper color/contrast.

[STOPchris]

You sound like you work for them.

lol, No, I am actually a Sony fan to the heart since the late 80's. When LG came out I remember sounding like you is all I'm saying. I wanted to hate them. China built crap. And we have good reasons to think that. Issue is, as time ticked on, all the professional calibrators I use, plus all the extreme videophile home theater cats started telling me LG done topped the quality charts. This was back when the almighty Panasonic VT50 Plasma was still king of a perfect looking panel. LG released that first OLED of theirs, and well.... game over. Can't top it (other than getting a Sony, as LG makes panels for Sony TV's now.) I did get the Sony. Just cause I like them better for other reasons.

Anyway, the issue this whole time has been Sony nor LG makes gaming monitors. I just got into this PC gaming trip about 1 year ago now. And got a IPS, and couldn't be more unhappy with the looks compared to my Sony. So hence this thread. I do not work for anyone, but I have logical reasons why I was excited about a LG gaming monitor that wasn't the old school LCDs. But I'm now still let down, cause howiec said the monitor seems to not be that great.

The info I shared about LG was indeed real though. Something to think about. Even my precious Sony company only makes parts for 5 years, I found out the hard way with my previous TV from them. Bottom line, is LG really is not a bad company like we would assume.

Why do you keep talking about LG and Sony for computer monitors? You act like they are the best with computer monitors, that is not the case. I suggest you take a look at some reviews and judge for yourself: https://www.tftcentral.co.uk/

LG makes good panels, but their quality control has been terrible in my experience. Their actual monitors, not the panel itself, are not the best.

[Joel D]

I keep mentioning cause they are my/our only hope now if you are as picky as I about image quality. I have tried all monitors and they ALL suck. I want OLED quality in a monitor. Hence, hoping this NanoIPS was heading in that direction. Or at least ANYTHING better than TN and IPS and VA. Which all the monitors in that list are, and all the monitors that you think are your only choices are. I'm saying, Sony, LG, make us some bad ass new tech monitors ! Or more simply, make what you make now just in monitor form, I'd buy that in a sec.

So I guess I need to apologize, as I am not being clear - I am talking about what I want, and what should be, not what there is. Other than this NanoIPS, cause that is indeed the reason of this thread. I really want some reviews back on this NanoIPS by people who care about image quality more than any other feature/spec/stat.

For now I am literally thinking of dealing with the input lag and 120hz and plug my PC into my Sony A9G (for gaming only, not computing) and call it quits. Cause I just can't deal with these inaccurate subpar images of IPS, TN and VA. Just me personally - I know. Oh Plus I'd have 4k immediately. Issue is, its a 55" haha, so ehhhh, DAMN, like I said, I'm just pissed off right now at technology. Moving soooooo slow. I give up

[STOPchris]

I keep mentioning cause they are my/our only hope now if you are as picky as I about image quality. I have tried all monitors and they ALL suck. I want OLED quality in a monitor. Hence, hoping this NanoIPS was heading in that direction. Or at least ANYTHING better than TN and IPS and VA. Which all the monitors in that list are, and all the monitors that you think are your only choices are. I'm saying, Sony, LG, make us some bad ass new tech monitors ! Or more simply, make what you make now just in monitor form, I'd buy that in a sec.

So I guess I need to apologize, as I am not being clear - I am talking about what I want, and what should be, not what there is. Other than this NanoIPS, cause that is indeed the reason of this thread. I really want some reviews back on this NanoIPS by people who care about image quality more than any other feature/spec/stat.

For now I am literally thinking of dealing with the input lag and 120hz and plug my PC into my Sony A9G (for gaming only, not computing) and call it quits. Cause I just can't deal with these inaccurate subpar images of IPS, TN and VA. Just me personally - I know. Oh Plus I'd have 4k immediately. Issue is, its a 55" haha, so ehhhh, DAMN, like I said, I'm just pissed off right now at technology. Moving soooooo slow. I give up

Well, you can get an OLED and it will cost a small fortune and have potential burn-in issues. Both of these issues are literally why we don't have OLED in the mainstream gaming market.

[Joel D]

Yep, hence my complaints. Shouldn't be like this.

That said, I can speak from experience that the burn in issues are extremely overblown. Just use common sense and its cool. Its the input lag that's the main issue. Cause 120hz is fine. Though I'd like 240hz. You just shouldn't use a OLED for computing. But gaming is fine.

Either way, IMO this is all so much more simple than they are making it. Milking us with old technology claiming its new and claiming "there are challenges" in doing this or that. No there isn't, they are all lazy and the dollar value to living expense ratio is the real problem, so it costs so much *fake* dollars for any real person to spend time on anything. Not really their fault per se, but its all our faults why we are in this mess. BUT - that's a whole other story ! lol

What this threads purpose was isn't about OLED or this company or that company. Its about NanoIPS. So ideally I'd like to keep it on that. Is it indeed better or not ? Caused if it is, we are headed in right direction. And IMO, I bring up those companies cause they are the best at what they do for the higher quality images (hence LG introducing NanoIPS first). So if they could pull their heads out of their a$$es for 2 seconds at least and make us some really really good monitors that would be great. Cause obviously no one else will (Dell, Asus, BenQ, MSI, etc..), they are too stuck on increasing stats I don't care about instead of focusing on matching and exceeding the image quality of the *now old* OLED tech. I mean OLED is old now hence OLeD - haha !! Its got *old* in its name for crying out loud.