LG39" Ultragear OLED Curved Gaming Monitor - WQHD 240Hz, 0.03ms, NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible, 800R Curvature, USB Type-C, DisplayHDR True Black 400

I want to start with this immediately. I am in a Small room with bright colors with a white light rated at 1600 Lumin. From my experience this is a bright room. The only window is behind the monitor, so my eyes are dilated to day light, but there is no glare issues.Despite that, only 1 or two times can I remember thinking I need to turn lights off to see. Always in a dark game never in a normal gaming or video watching setting.With that out the way my pros and consPros- Matte screen, people hate that it is matte, but for me it just means no glare and I see that as a win for a gaming display, I'd be made if in cs:go I got peaked and glare made the person hidden.- It is low bezel.- Great color- Great contrast- Amazing pixel response time- Deep blacks and great hdr- Fit my monitor arm fine, a bit heavy, but I have a cheap arm.- Really thin display- Very easy to assemble- Good packaging imo- 1440p is perfect, I had 4k before and yes I can see the difference however it is not much. 1080p to 1440p seems massive. 1440p to 4k seems minor and requires pixel peeping.Cons- On screen display stays up way too long and there is no way to manual close, so if you tab into a game sometimes it pops up and it is just forced taking up screen space for 15 seconds.- It doesn't know its own resolution. Most games I play in 1440p everytime I tab in and out it makes a prompt appear telling my I don't have a 4k display, I know I don't. Then you must use the UI to close this even if you click "never appear again". Then that ui has a long auto turn off you can't do yourself. To make matters worse if you tab into a game with this, after the UI is gone the next 5-30 seconds at some point the game super stutters and lags until image is fixed. This is all solved by running the game in fullscreen-windowed mode. However I personally prefer full screen.- Brightness is a con. Like I said not even close to as bad as reviews make it, but other competitor monitors are not higher enough to also be good. It is fine, but in cs:go I do notice a flashbang is off white due to lack of power.- Some UI elements like "calibration" are not accessible without the remote that comes with dirplay. I have no idea why, but remote UI, PC UI, and monitor button UI are all different. Same art, but different functions. Want refresh rate and RGB, grab remote. Want game mode, use buttons. Want to update or check firmware version, use PC UI. Why not all be the same and different methods of use.- This knob on the monitor to us UI is trash, there is click and long click. Actually it, click goes down, long click selects. PLS make the next a 4-direction knob with hold and click functions.- Barrel jack plug for power, we should use USB-C whenever possible and it is here. Also, I need 1 more inch for optimal length of barrel end to brick.- Honey comb back to me looks and feels cheap, why do reviewers like it?Basically, This monitor is great the only set back for me is the UI. It truly is just horrible trash. I don't understand the decisions made and I thought by now there would be a major update to it, yet not 1 update since the 3ish months I have had it. I have so much more to say on how bad it is. I jsut can't bring myself to make that long of an essay so I will rapid fire and hope it makes sense.- Greyed out does not mean non-accessible, and lit doesn't mean accessible.- Why is gamer UI and standard UI different in features?- Why does update checker sometimes work and others doesn't say I am allowed?- Why does it minimize to toolbar instead of system tray?- 0 info on what most things do.- Why can I change color gambit if there is 1 option?xtra- I have a quest 2, this is more of a quest and windows problem than the monitor. If I use the monitor in HDR I must turn it off to use quest or the quest bugs out. Just keep note of that.overall. The Panel itself is amazing, the price is best for this panel. The OLED is perfectly bright. No burn in. Best in class I have seen for image quality. 10/10 for all this. I LOVE this thing the ONLY major flaw is User Interface and firmware being stupid. Both can be fixed with an update and in new iterations. As well both are not in use 99% of the time. Just that 1% really sucks.

The GoodMotion Clarity is amazing for gaming. While 120-144 Hz is the sweet spot for most people, the bump to 240 Hz is still noticeable.Contrast Ratio is practically infinite. If you had black wallpaper and no desktop icons or taskbar, you'd probably not think the monitor was even turned on.If you have been using a not-so-great IPS panel or an even older TN panel you will be having an eyegasm. The colors are vibrant and accurate. However, you might want to mess with the settings because the white point (at least on my unit) runs a little warm.Response Times are superb, this goes for both the input lag and pixel response times. The short of it is input lag is you is the delay between you making an input (mouse click/button press) and it shows on screen (there is still network latency and rendering latency to consider, but that is not something the monitor is responsible for). Pixel response times are how fast the pixels can change. This means that if your refresh rate refreshes faster than the pixel can respond you get ghosting, since the pixel cannot physically change fast enough to the next color/brightness/etc.The BadThe brightness is in the 190 - 210 nits range for typical SDR content, just note that there might be some unit-to-unit variance. For reference, your smartphone (anything newer than 2019) should have around 400 - 600 nits of brightness. Moreover, in a dark/dimly lit room, this monitor will fare just fine since you typically only need anywhere from 100 - 120 nits. However, in office scenarios or brightly lit rooms, you will need 250 - 300 to overcome some glare, if any, to have a great viewing experience.The "babying" an OLED monitor needs. The risk of burn-in or image retention, while largely improved upon vs previous OLED tech, will still need some steps if you want longevity on par with that of LED LCD displays. Please read the manual. The short of it is, you're going to have to run some sort of pixel or picture cleaning every 4 hours of use and every 500 hours of use. So, in a regular 8-hour work day. There will be roughly 20 minutes of downtime since you have to let the 4-hour cleaning cycle run twice midday and at the end.Anecdotally - My unit had a dead green subpixel. Now, LG and most other manufacturers might say that this is acceptable, but I'd argue that it isn't. For a product that is in the $1000 tier of monitors, you would expect it to be flawless. If you have a dead subpixel, a dead pixel, or a stuck pixel it is a manufacturing defect, you wouldn't buy a brand-new phone or car with a manufacturing defect, would you? Why treat this any differently?Text Clarity still seems to be an issue with OLEDs that don't use a conventional subpixel layout. To explain briefly, each pixel typically consists of 3 sub-pixels (red, green, blue) If all those subpixels are turned on with equal intensity, you see white and if all are off you see black. At least on Windows, ClearType typically expects an RGB layout for the subpixels. HOWEVER, this monitor has an RWBG layout which confuses the hell out of ClearType and it does its best to reproduce the text as accurately as it can. This results in text looking like it has shadows or is blurry. I noticed it, but others in my family didn't. It was about a 70/30 split in favor of people noticing the blurriness.

First off:Pros:Beautiful monitor, matte coating doesn't bother me at all, yes, text looks a little blurry, but amazing for gaming and videos. The best that exists in 27" format.Cons:LG has the worst support of any company I've ever dealt with. My monitor has a non-functional remote (hence I can't get to the settings -- yes, you can only access most settings through a remote. The single button on the monitor can only do about 2-3 things, brightness/volume because they decided to save money by not having two buttons...)Called in, they said I'd get a new remote in 7-10 days. 7 days later, called to ask where it was, and they said it was now backordered and wouldn't come for 45+ days. The outsourced phone support then refused to hang up because they knew I was going to do the phone survey, and, I swear this is true, they put me on hold for 45 minutes hoping I'd hang up before they finally gave up, ended the call, and I got to do the phone survey.Truly a horrifying support experience. So the hardware is just gorgeous but I've never been more frustrated with a company.Is the support bad enough to overshadow how great this monitor is?Yes, I returned it.