McKenna
Im a software developer and obviously stare at screens all day. Ive been rocking a 25" ASUS PB258Q (WQHD) for a couple of years and wanted to upgrade to a 32" 4k. Ive been satisfied with the quality of my ASUS monitor but wanted a size increase do be able to push my monitor further back on my desk. From opening the box I was impressed with the size. Assembly of the stand was very easy, it came with the necessary cables. I must say that I HATE having proprietary power cables like LG provides. Would much rather have a universal power cord like everyone else. I plugged this bad boy into my MacBook Pro using the provided Display Port cable and my El Gato Thunderbolt 3 dock. At first I was impressed, especially with the sheer size and resolution. I had it scaled at about 1.5x so that things werent so tiny. My MacBook pro recognized and scaled this very well. The issues started when I opened up my code editor, which is dark themed. This thing has some HUGE issues with bleed/viewing angle/color accuracy all at once. To be clear, I had the monitor about 2.5ft from me. Only about 1/3 of the monitor was visible at a time without significant wash-out issues. I would have to physically reposition my head to see other sections of the screen. Not only that, but the parts that werent washed out had very poor colors in the first place. I compared this side-by-side with my ASUS monitor and MacBook screen, and it was a night-and-day difference. It was almost as if there was a metallic sheen to the colors of this monitor. No matter what preset or settings I tried to adjust, it was just horrible to look at. Again, this only was an issue with darker scenes, but thats what most programming tools are (for eye-care purposes). If you were wondering, the room was completely dark, in a basement, at night. There was no reason for it to be that bad and that hard to see those dark scenes. It actually hurt my eyes after staring at it for a while. For reference, I have attached a couple of crappy pictures taken with my iPhone. One of them is my ASUS monitor, and the other is the LG monitor this review is about. I know these pictures arent perfect, but they were taken at the same time with the same distance, and the same code editor (WebStorm) with a dark theme, and it is noticeably different. I decided to sleep on it and try again the next day to see if maybe I was tired and my eyes were just hurting. The next day I hated it more than the previous and decided there MUST be something wrong. Hopefully this is a dud unit, because there is no way I would use this for actual work. tl;dr: I would not recommend this monitor, ESPECIALLY if you are a developer. The color accuracy is VERY poor and the viewing angles are atrocious, especially in dark scenes. I never ever write reviews.