Aren’t the high end or pro brands just using QC to weed out the weaker panels from basically the same few makers? Quite expensive to do that, I guess
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If you are on a budget, yes they are ok. Get’s a rating of meh from me. Build quality is bad(!), the panels are acceptable.
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A couple of days is not a good return policy.
Newer technology tends to be more lightweight, except for phablets I suppose. It could be a QA problem, but your observation does not instill confidence.
I read about using light to mitigate a screen problem but watching a movie with light… or lowering the brightness…
I bought a screen to have the greatest views.
@afre It’s 14 days to return it, at staples, I don’t know how much time with LG.
What panel would you buy now if you were looking at a 30 to 32 inch monitor…
Whoa. Those are chonky. The last time I saw an LCD screen that thick was an old fluorescent side-lit. For $6k new, surely they aren’t that. Right?
They might be when I was poking around the Dell site I bumped into this one…
Insane…
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Ha. I think they use the same panels as others but just quality control to exclude those that don’t meet the criteria, tbh. They often (like mine) have built in calibration sensors that flip out of the thick bezel and run a calibration of the screen every 200-300 hours. I guess their target users don’t really care about the aesthetics too much and anyway may have a hood attached. A lot of secondhand ones on eBay don’t have a stand because they’ve been mounted on a bracket.
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Return. Uniformity is one thing you pay for in a higher end monitor. I’d say that’s in the defect territory though.
I don’t care for UHD/4K for photo or video editing. Actually, contrary to popular opinion my sweet spot is a 2560×1440 32" monitor.
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Uniformity yes minimally, I think so too.
I don’t know what to say anymore lol.
I took some actions tonight, the LG 27UP600-W AUS is ready for a trip back to the store tomorrow.
It felt great to put it back inside of the box, the feeling of doing the right thing.
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Its your money…you should feel that it is well spent… …
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Screens are such a central piece of equipment, it is well worth selecting a good one.
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@priort @bastibe yes. I wanted to spend 300$ for a monitor but it looks like it’s going to cost much more then that.
I see the ProArt PA278CV 27" 2K for 429.99CAD taxes but it’s an online order only, can’t see it physically. I need to check my budget also.
I use a 24" Asus ProArt monitor and I think it ticks all your boxes, as well as being very energy efficient. I picked it up second hand in ‘as-new’ condition for £100.
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I am just back with the refund money from the LG screen, the guy at the counter was already aware of the glow for that specific model… they already knew about the problem.
I am back again on the market for a new monitor 
@butlerbright
I seriously think about the 24" ProART 1080p or the 27 ProArt 2K, but I can’t decide.
A. I think 27" is a bit too large for nothing, 24" is ideal for the depth of my shallow desk. (24")
B. I fear that with 2K, the resolution setting scaled @ 200% in lInux mint, the content will be too big and at 100% scaling, the content will be too small. Not sure 100% i might have OS scaling problems with 2k. (With 4k the content was WAY too small at 100% and a bit too big at 200%)
C. I tasted the 4K resolution screen and frankly I think it was much better then 1080p. For that reason, I’m really tempted by the 2K, the 27" model, but i’ll need to accept a smaller everything working space.
The size of the ProArt 24" is ideal at a much better price.
27 2K resolution would be so nice to look at.
I’d say the 27" wins by a slight margin, but I am attracted to the 24" for the logical arguments.
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I’m old so I love big monitors… I have a few 27 in ones at work and my office PC is 27. 3 or so years ago I bought a 32 inch for home and I love it. I recently mounted it on the wall with a swing out arm style mount and bought a stand-up desk. Now everytime I use another monitor they seem too small… 
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I appreciate the real estate of high resolution monitors … so I sit quite close to a 4k 27" and I would not choose otherwise, but it’s a personal opinion !
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@priort 32" this is huge! it must be a comfortable setup, no need to use dual screens with 32". Mine is mounted on the wall too with arm, that way I can toss things under it (;
@clind Honnestly i know what you mean, previously I read here that 4k was overkill maybe for 24" but it was pretty strong on 27" IMO. Seeing almost no pixels from 24" of distance was a pleasant and unique experience.
Good news I partially solved my problem B (the scaling issue), in Linux Mint it’s possible to get 125%, 150% and 175% scaling by adding them in settings, a switch called "enable fractional scaling controls but they say “experimental” it’s only half a good news…
This is putting a bit more weight in the balance for the 2K screen. I’ll ask the Linux forum if the feature is stable.
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Instead of using monitor scale you can scale your fonts with the font selection tool using the Text Scaling factor option. With my 27 inch 4k monitor I’ve found the best setting to be 1.2 Sometimes I feel it may be too small but 1.3 is definitely too big.
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