AOC AGON AG274QXM - 27 Inch QHD Gaming Monitor, 170Hz, IPS, 1ms, Mini LED, RGB design, HDR 1000, KVM, Height Adjust, Speakers (2560x1440 @ 170Hz, 600 cd/m² HDMI 2.0 / DP 1.4 / USB-C), black

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Look, no one here can wave a magic wand to make a dozen high-quality product reviews of a specific product SKU appear on the Internet. A curved screen is designed to better fill a user's field of vision, giving the viewer a sense of being immersed in the image. For movies, music, games and more, you’ll enjoy quality audio without the hassle of connecting external speakers. We can normally live without gamma and colour temp controls as long as the screen is factory calibrated pretty well, although they would definitely be nice to have access to. Contrast took a small hit down to 942:1 but the good news is that colour accuracy of sRGB colours is now very good, with a dE 1.

The AOC AG274QXM packs the latest Mini LED technology, enabling lighting of 576 individual zones, improving contrast and brightness enough so that it features VESA's DisplayHDR 1,000 certification. There seems to be more and more good hdr monitors coming out that to me it would be worth waiting for better options. Brightness was high out of the box as with many screens, but the image felt well balanced and not too warm or cool. I've only had one AOC monitor, a 23" 1080p60 IPS unit, I guess I must have lucked out given how poor their reputation seems.There’s a couple of challenges though when using this screen for general work and office type applications. Oh, and speaking of AOC, I didn't remember (or think to look), but my secondary monitor is actually an AOC - a 24P2C. The Mini LED backlight has 576 local dimming zones which offers vastly superior local dimming capabilities compared with the wide range of edge lit backlights on the market, if indeed the monitor even has local dimming of any sort ( not all HDR marketed screens do!

Information about the maximum vertical viewing angle, within which the image on the screen is of acceptable quality. PayPal Credit and PayPal Pay in 3 are trading names of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH. Speaking of the OSD, it’s easy to navigate, but there are only a few options in it that I feel should be enabled out of the box.There is some moderate improvement to “local contrast” in HDR, measuring ~3080:1 between adjacent bright and dark areas on a 10% area bright pattern test. This subreddit is for News, Reviews, or high quality discussions related to Monitors and Display Technologies.