Scorpido
After having been spoiled by LG monitors and TVs, I thought I would give it a shot and replace my current 5 year old 24 inch monitor with this one. I needed a good panel for my work and hobbies as well as a HDMI port, so, it seemed like a perfect match. Sadly, it didnt work out. I noticed the problems right when I first turned on the monitor. Black levels are virtually non-existent and the colors were totally off. Thankfully, LG monitors let you tweak the colors to your liking, so, that was something I could work with. After 2 hours of hard work, I had the colors as perfect as possible but, during the process, I discovered uneven back lighting as well as lots of light bleeding and IPS glow. At least that explained the non-existent black levels to some degree. On default settings, contrast and brightness are turned up high. Contrast was actually at the max 100%. With that settings, you could see some details in pictures, however, youd also turn blind after 8 hours working in that mode. Another issue with this monitor: when you reduce contrast and brightness, colors change, too. Youll have to do color tweaking all over again when adjusting brightness and contrast. I also noticed some heavy color crashing on this monitor. Color crashing is when you see a lot of pixelation, lines or curves on gradient colors instead of a smooth transition. None of the settings seemed to ease that; I tried anything I could think of. The viewing angles on this monitor are very narrow, too. A little up / down shift of your head or a little left and right movement will make the screen fade instantly. The built-in speakers work but they sound so tinny that youd prefer to not have them on at all. And, lastly, the power led. It seems to have a mind of its own. I set the led in the settings to "off", however, whenever you wake up the computer / screen, the led is on. On standby it continuously flashes which is really annoying. I dont understand why LG would think that people would like that. I will be switching back to my old monitor. This one is just not for me. My recommendation: look elsewhere for a decent monitor. This isnt it!