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Weaksauce
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Just got mine from TigerDirect but I haven't had much time to test it. Mine has almost no backlight bleed except for a faint, barely noticeable strip along the bottom and I haven't found any dead pixels yet. I think I won the panel lottery (this is coming from a Samsung S23A950D which had lots of image quality problems).
Early impressions:
+The colors are pleasantly saturated out of the box, I don't have any problem with the overall vibrancy of the image. This is a nice step up from my S23A950D.
+Viewing angles are not as bad as I had expected them to be.
+1440p @ 27" seems just about right. Text is about about the same size as it was on my 23" 1080p monitor, maybe a little smaller, but not too small.
+For the first time ever I've got no problems with the default sharpness level, which is good because I don't think the PG278Q has an adjustable sharpness setting in the OSD menu(?)
+The mini-joystick used for navigating the OSD is a godsend. Other manufacturers should take note.
+It's a pretty cool looking monitor. More importantly, it manages to look cool while at the same time incorporating all the ergonomic features you could possibly want. Form is integrated seamlessly with function here.
-Out of the box the image was far too warm, resulting in a noticeable yellow hue, just like every other TN panel I've ever owned. I've had to significantly reduce the red and green channels in favor of the blue channel.
-Black levels are not so good with the monitor's default brightness setting (I believe it was set to 80). Lowering the brightness makes an improvement but only goes so far.
-Though I wouldn't exactly describe the image as "pasty" (my S23A950D was pretty bad in this regard), I still feel like the gamma is higher than it should be. This is disappointing, one of the review copies floating around was measured to have near perfect gamma, and I was hoping mine would be similar.
-The matte coating is pretty fug. On one hand, not seeing my reflection in dark images is nice, but the image quality is definitely degraded versus what it could be if they had decided to make this beast a semigloss.
-The inner bezel, at least for me, creates the illusion of the image being smaller than it is. It's not that bad but I could have done without it.
-The red ring on the base will not be to everyone's liking. I find it to be kind of tacky and distracting and will likely be turning it off.
The monitor definitely has its flaws, but since I got a near-perfect panel I won't be returning it.
Still need to test gsync/ulmb, make some finer calibration tweaks, and tune it with Lagom. I had to leave for work soon after setting it up
Early impressions:
+The colors are pleasantly saturated out of the box, I don't have any problem with the overall vibrancy of the image. This is a nice step up from my S23A950D.
+Viewing angles are not as bad as I had expected them to be.
+1440p @ 27" seems just about right. Text is about about the same size as it was on my 23" 1080p monitor, maybe a little smaller, but not too small.
+For the first time ever I've got no problems with the default sharpness level, which is good because I don't think the PG278Q has an adjustable sharpness setting in the OSD menu(?)
+The mini-joystick used for navigating the OSD is a godsend. Other manufacturers should take note.
+It's a pretty cool looking monitor. More importantly, it manages to look cool while at the same time incorporating all the ergonomic features you could possibly want. Form is integrated seamlessly with function here.
-Out of the box the image was far too warm, resulting in a noticeable yellow hue, just like every other TN panel I've ever owned. I've had to significantly reduce the red and green channels in favor of the blue channel.
-Black levels are not so good with the monitor's default brightness setting (I believe it was set to 80). Lowering the brightness makes an improvement but only goes so far.
-Though I wouldn't exactly describe the image as "pasty" (my S23A950D was pretty bad in this regard), I still feel like the gamma is higher than it should be. This is disappointing, one of the review copies floating around was measured to have near perfect gamma, and I was hoping mine would be similar.
-The matte coating is pretty fug. On one hand, not seeing my reflection in dark images is nice, but the image quality is definitely degraded versus what it could be if they had decided to make this beast a semigloss.
-The inner bezel, at least for me, creates the illusion of the image being smaller than it is. It's not that bad but I could have done without it.
-The red ring on the base will not be to everyone's liking. I find it to be kind of tacky and distracting and will likely be turning it off.
The monitor definitely has its flaws, but since I got a near-perfect panel I won't be returning it.
Still need to test gsync/ulmb, make some finer calibration tweaks, and tune it with Lagom. I had to leave for work soon after setting it up
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