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I would rather get 850F or PX329. The blur on 850G is real, I'm on Q3279VWFD8 right now and that one while not having any sharpness controls either has perfect neutral sharpness and perfect 2.2 gamma out of the box, it has way more fine detail in picture than 850G and that's even with it's more matte surface and 1350:1 or there about contrast. On 850G I can see the blur on text and image loses fine details, of course lagom sharpness test image reveals this easily, on Q3279VWFD8 the lagom sharpness image is one solid color as sharpness is perfect one of the most neutral I've seen yet and gamma is also near perfect and thus even inner circle doesn't stand out.
MG279Q is quite old and has the typical M270DAN2.x blurry image issus, was almost "defined" for this panel by this monitor since it was one of the first with it. Google "mg279q blurry" or blurry text, blurry image, it's easy to find.
If you want to see it look closely for grayish pixels around black text on white background (pixel perfect text, no antialiased fonts or cleartype crap), on images with fine details if you know how sharp they are supposed to look (such as sand, grass, ...). It can also vary to some degree between units same as anything else. For a side by side comparison between C27HG70 and XF270HUA it is painfully obvious. 850G at least mine wasn't as bad to use as XF270HUA blur wise since pixels are bigger (lower PPI) but others said it was even worse (I tried the 850G despite that).
All 850G
This is my 32GK850G gallery.
Easiest to check is to use lagom.nl sharpness test image. It's supposed to be a solid gray color, no rectangles or squares visible, based on what rectangles/square are darker/lighter one can determine if it's blurry or too sharp. When fine pattern squares are darker than rest it means monitor has blur and that is the case with 850G pictures below. Central circle is for gamma, when it all blends in including the circle a monitor has neutral sharpness and 2.2 gamma (This is the case with many older monitors that have sharpness adjustment or are neutral out of the box, Q3279VWFD8 looks perfect here).
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Blur causes eye strain after weeks of use. If you only use your monitor 2-4h a day or already have eye sight issues, probably don't care or see it, notice a difference from good and bad sharpness monitor. If you have good eye sight and use a monitor a lot 8-16h a day, using a blurry monitor makes your eyes tired faster.
Blur is also a little visible on close up pixel structure shots of text but you really gotta pay attention and it's not easy to see. Lagom sharpness test picture is the easiest to check, see it and share results with others.
maybe that is the reason. I spend 10+ hours in front of monitors per day, 2-3 in front of the 850, and 8 at my workstation with 2 24" Lenovo 2452p
Depends, there are plenty returned 850G on OCN from others, some of which were indeed because of the blur, I tried it anyway and the blur is there though for me it was not as bad at least on my unit as some other were reporting. Would be nice to not have to check 10 million things for possible issue with monitors but it's how it is nowadays, if the monitor turns on it leaves factory and any other issues are dealt with in RMAs and returns. Like I said some people have good eyes, some don't or don't care to keep their good eye sight. There is some variance between units as well as with any other aspect of LCDs. I've had C27HG70 that was slow in response times as it's larger sibling = unusable while other 4 units were fine. XF270HUA that had viewing angles of a potato for an IPS while other 3 were fine. The quality variance with LCDs is pretty bad. Sharpness is definitely an issue caused by manufacturers and is not fault of the panel itself. It's a "software" issue in firmware or elsewhere in electronics controlling the panel. More fancy image processing often means they will screw up and mess with sharpness too. More simple displays that don't have much if any processing have often no sharpness issues. It's an unfortunate issue created by monitor maker's carelessness. Many office oriented monitors are probably fine or have sharpness adjustment to make them neutral. "Gaming" 100Hz+ monitors often lack these simple controls and tend to have sharpness of input image messed with.
$400 or $300 both are ridiculous compared to 600 EUR with tax in EU and not going down at all since launch (even Gsync rip off version was already lower momentarily).
850G gets warm and you can feel the heat radiating from it a tiny bit at high/max brightness, I don't know what's up with VAs but all VAs I've tried always put out more heat than same size IPS monitors. They do consume more power than other LCD types. You can find power consumption figures in reviews and comparison sites.
And also live with smaller sizes.
My 850G was fairly uniform, it was one of the nicer LCDs I've seen, as long as you forget about viewing angles as those from regular viewing position of 75cm mess up the image hard. No issues with whites as far as I remember. AUO M270DAN2.x sure those are notorious for one side warm other side cold and all 4 I had did this. Most LCDs have some variance but with decent ones there is close to none observable <100 Kelvin color temperature difference.
those can be pretty nice for an LCD.
Not useless. I like their data which I can interpret myself as I know what to look for, what it should be like and not, their subjective opinion needs to be taken with a dash of salt but one reads enough reviews and you get at least a general idea about how the monitor may perform and it's possible issues. Of course reading user experiences is best as many reviews don't check for: image neutral sharpness, viewing angle issues, inversion issues - buzzing - pattern/object on one part of screen affecting other parts, burn in, important response times especially from black for VA, OD in VRR, dark gray uniformity, ... there are a lot of possible issues that one may not find investigated in reviews easily or at all.
Users may often not have a fancy equipment but neither do all reviewers. There are many users that have tried multiple units from retail, I've had 4x XF270HUA, 5x C27HG70 and I could see for myself what a quality mess and huge variance there is between units of the same monitor
There are others who tried even 10x of a single monitor trying to beat a poor quality lottery. Not many take comparable photos, almost no one. I do and can see the differences between units even when I don't have them all at once, often only 2-3 at most.
The PG27UQ 's FALD makes up for what would be a few issues.. but you can just leave it on dynamic for SDR content so the end result is what's important.
You do go back up to 9.3 ms response time at 60fps-hz on it (and combine that with the sample and hold blur at 60fps-hz or other low range frame rate average spans). You only get the 6.6ms or 5.x ms response time on thePG27UQ and the PG279Q IPS screens when you are at very high hz + high fps rates, which can be impossible to achieve on demanding games at any type of very high to ultra settings at 4k resolution. It is definitely the best monitor out right now but IMO the price/size and upcoming 2019 hdmi 2.1 120hz native 4k HDR OLED TVs with VRR and QFT move my $2k budget elsewhere. I can be patient and pick my battles sometimes
TFT central regarding the PG27UQ
