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Hi, I'm new here and looking for a 27" all-round display with a high contrast to watch videos or play some sneaking games with dimmed lights. It needs a standard gamut (sRGB/Rec. 709) with a gamma curve that works in a darker environment. Size should be about 27". I think that's a good balance between work use and immersion. The resolution can be 1080p or 1440p as I'm used to 1366x768 at 32". For "legacy" video editing without colour management I prefer the most accurate sRGB within those constraints.

When I got an overview over the market I saw dozens of potential candidates, until I ordered some for evaluation...

• HDR or wide-gamut means that for 99% of content (the one in standard gamut) you lose all monitor adjustments, especially gamma, but sometimes brightness as well. The BenQ EW277HDR was so far my favourite option, until I tried the Rec. 709 in a dark room and it showed atrocious banding between black and other colours with no way to fix the issue.
• High refresh FreeSync: Typically the overdrive is statically optimized for the highest refresh and if you are a good bit below that with your FPS, motion leaves bright overshoot artefacts. On the other hand a fixed 240 Hz refresh rate can mitigate the need for FreeSync/VSync. GSync is more well thought out, hands down, but I'm on AMD and GSync modules cost as much as an office monitor.

Looking at what is still available at online shops in the EU, my best option currently is the BenQ EW2775ZH (cheap speakers included), but it feels a little odd that an old 150 € bread and butter office monitor should be the best pick. Reviews:
https://xsreviews.co.uk/reviews/benq-ew ... ll-trades/
https://playwares.com/dpreview/50043618

Maybe the Samsung C27RG50 is a better choice. It looks like a bad default gamma setting may be holding it back from being very accurate: https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sa ... -monitor/3
The reviewer writes: "The second chart shows results after tweaking the RGB sliders and changing the gamma preset from 1 to 3. This brought everything in line. The grayscale error became very low, and gamma rides slightly above the ideal 2.2 line. [...] Our sample looked really good after its grayscale calibration and gamma adjustment."
I guess I'll have to ask him if that "calibration" means creating an ICC profile or is just monitor settings alone.

Are there any other accurate sRGB VA monitors to look into?

This is what has to be beaten:

BenQ EW2775ZH colour accuracy, Delta E average was 1.2. Colour uniformity seems bad on the other hand.