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I got my new monitor (Gigabyte M27Q) today and I've learned some things about it.
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I'm using the monitor right now and after perusing some Reddit threads looking up information on calibration I've learned the following things.
- According to Redditors this monitor makes all text in Chrome and Steam completely unreadable. I was very surprised to learn this considering I was reading those posts on the monitor in Chrome. I guess I have very good eyesight to read the text that's completely unreadable.
- You can't look at screenshots with text taken an a monitor that uses RGB because this monitor uses BRG. I really don't know where this came from. Yes I checked, yes I could read text just fine.
- According to Redditors the HDR on this monitor doesn't work at all. Turn it on and nothing happens. Except it does. It's lower end so it doesn't have the features of higher end displays, but there's a difference between SDR and HDR with this monitor.
- There's massive light bleed at all times. This is true, but only on pure black, this is also true for all LCDs even with local dimming, there will be some amount of light bleed. Add even the smallest amount of color and the light bleed isn't as noticeable. The light bleed is also only on the edges, not covering the entire screen.
Things Redditors that definitely used this monitor somehow missed.
- Ambient light plays a big part in image quality. It's 2021 and nobody has invented a screen that doesn't turn into a mirror. This goes for OLED as well. My phone has an OLED screen but when showing pure black I can see my ugly face mirrored back at me.
- There's a tiny white LED to tell me the power is on at all time. However a hardware mod involving tape and a black marker fixed that.
- Edit: Turns out scaling works fine, my glasses are just dirty, that's not a joke. I kept seeing this weird white shine, then I noticed my lenses are all greasy.
What remains to be seen:
- How long the monitor lasts before something breaks.
- The hell on Earth that the RMA process will be.
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