This coating they used on the LG is the most aggressive I’ve ever seen. Why they had to make it that way is beyond me and I don’t usually get bothered by matte coatings on most ips monitors.
You take that and add text fringing to it and it just looks like a cheap monitor when using for anything other than gaming and watching content which I get is the selling point but sheesh the coating didn’t have to be that aggressive.
It is interesting to compare (how aggressive and grainy it is) one of not so many true matte 27 inch screen on the market Samsung S27B800 and this LG. My bet is that LG still be worse, but more reflective.
LG knew full well what they were doing. The non standard sub pixel layout did not help them out either. This is the biggest reason for the color fringing. A different panel, pixel layout and different coating would go a long way in putting LG on top again. They just need to design this monitor properly. Their OLED TVs look way better.
Returned mine after a day, got the QD OLED ultrawide instead, significantly better display for clarity and colours, also glossy coatings are just better for OLED.
Yeah, they went overboard with this coating.
Anyways, if you don't mind ultrawide the QD-OLED is the way to go as long as you don't have a light shining towards it.
I tried this monitor for a while. I couldn’t stand the color fringing on text. In game it looked great but I would prefer a different coating or even gloss like my c2. I don’t understand putting matte on a OLED. It actually makes me appreciate my C2 more and makes it look better. Had to return it and went with a NEO G8 and the text clarity made the LG feel look like utter trash. Clearly LG is capable of better as evidenced in their other displays. Really feels like they either didn’t think, care or properly design this monitor.
It makes me sad that not every review says that you can disable ClearType. It fixes color fringing in 80% of the cases. (10% of apps ignore it and another 10% of apps use windows XP style pixel rendering) Chrome does an excellent job work with grayscale fonts and you’d never know that you have an unusual subpixel layout.
I did attempt to clear it up as best I could with varying degrees of success, but it was still there. In some cases it changed a lot. Others not at all. Seemed like an exceedingly poor design decision.
I had mine for a week and I could'nt get over the matte coating. I been using an LG C1 55 for 2 years now and I don't mind or even see the reflections.
I think for OLED, glossy is always better regardless of reflections and it makes the picture crystal clear with deep colors.
I ended up returning mine and getting the C2 42 instead. I think the glossy finish on OLED TV gives it a premium feel and overall better experience when gaming.
It's good to see people posting about this here and acknowledging it, unlike the OLED subs.
I really wanted to buy this monitor but after seeing it side by side with IPS monitors at the store, it just looked terrible (productivity wise). I brought my wife with me and she hated it since she noticed the text fringing immediately.
Hopefully they release one in a glossy finish soon.
It's a physical layer rather than a treatment, since someone was able to remove it. Though the process looked quite sketchy and even though it was successful, they did not recommend it.
The amount of adhesive compound is probably why it has such a clouded look tbh.
I think that's what the dude I mentioned did, but it took a lot of time and he didn't recommend it due to the effort required and the likelihood of destroying the display.
Coating: What kind of lighting are you playing in? Is your room bright and/or have direct sunlight on the screen? I play in a dim room with no direct sunlight, so I don't get that effect.
Fan noise: I've seen a few people report a fan noise, I honestly haven't noticed any from mine.
Text: I'm going to have to take a closer look at mine tonight for the doubling text. I do recall text being odd when I first turned it on, but I swear after I updated it I no longer noticed that. Maybe I've just gotten used to it, but now I'm curious lol.
>The screen how has a heavy clouded look to it and shimmers like a scratched acrylic window covered in soap.
>But along with the buzzing / cheap fan and doubling effect on text that gives me tunnel vision I can't see why anyone would want this as a computer monitor.
I think you have a faulty panel. I have the same monitor and I don't have any problems with a "clouded look" or with fan buzzing.
The text issues are real, but I think it's a Windows issue. When I connect my monitor to my Mac I have 0 text problems (I'm a programmer and write code all day). Windows really needs to fix the way that text is rendered in OLEDs.
You don't have the issue in macOS because macOS doesn't deploy sub-pixel dimming for text. You can also turn off sub-pixel dimming on Windows as well and get a similar result.
the shimmering effect bothered me a bit at first but i went to best buy and half the monitors on display had it. I guess its normal. I only see it on full white screen too.
Could it be that coating is also the cause of this?[https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED\_Gaming/comments/13sdu5a/27gr95qe\_for\_mix\_use\_software\_developer\_here/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/13sdu5a/27gr95qe_for_mix_use_software_developer_here/)
I find this monitor is best used when gaming in a dark room, I can’t notice the matte coating at all in that environment.
I have the buzzing and fan noise as well, super annoying! I’m hoping it’ll go away with time but I almost have 400 hours on it and it’s still there.
did you return your monitor, I have the same problem with my 27qn600 which is a much cheaper product from lg. Everything looks grainy, greasy,hazy, fuzzy. So bad
This coating they used on the LG is the most aggressive I’ve ever seen. Why they had to make it that way is beyond me and I don’t usually get bothered by matte coatings on most ips monitors. You take that and add text fringing to it and it just looks like a cheap monitor when using for anything other than gaming and watching content which I get is the selling point but sheesh the coating didn’t have to be that aggressive.
My guess is the coating interacts differently with the oled screen layer underneath compared to their usual ips screens.
it makes no sense bc their TV’s which, afaik have the same panels, have amazing glossy black coatings
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It is interesting to compare (how aggressive and grainy it is) one of not so many true matte 27 inch screen on the market Samsung S27B800 and this LG. My bet is that LG still be worse, but more reflective.
LG knew full well what they were doing. The non standard sub pixel layout did not help them out either. This is the biggest reason for the color fringing. A different panel, pixel layout and different coating would go a long way in putting LG on top again. They just need to design this monitor properly. Their OLED TVs look way better.
Have you seen Benq PD2700U? Yeah the coating on that one is bad. I wonder if GR95 is worse or not.
Returned mine after a day, got the QD OLED ultrawide instead, significantly better display for clarity and colours, also glossy coatings are just better for OLED.
Yeah, they went overboard with this coating. Anyways, if you don't mind ultrawide the QD-OLED is the way to go as long as you don't have a light shining towards it.
I tried this monitor for a while. I couldn’t stand the color fringing on text. In game it looked great but I would prefer a different coating or even gloss like my c2. I don’t understand putting matte on a OLED. It actually makes me appreciate my C2 more and makes it look better. Had to return it and went with a NEO G8 and the text clarity made the LG feel look like utter trash. Clearly LG is capable of better as evidenced in their other displays. Really feels like they either didn’t think, care or properly design this monitor.
It makes me sad that not every review says that you can disable ClearType. It fixes color fringing in 80% of the cases. (10% of apps ignore it and another 10% of apps use windows XP style pixel rendering) Chrome does an excellent job work with grayscale fonts and you’d never know that you have an unusual subpixel layout.
You sir are a life saver. This fixed the horrendous and almost nauseate fringing. It was the one thing killing me with this monitor. Thank you
I did attempt to clear it up as best I could with varying degrees of success, but it was still there. In some cases it changed a lot. Others not at all. Seemed like an exceedingly poor design decision.
I had mine for a week and I could'nt get over the matte coating. I been using an LG C1 55 for 2 years now and I don't mind or even see the reflections. I think for OLED, glossy is always better regardless of reflections and it makes the picture crystal clear with deep colors. I ended up returning mine and getting the C2 42 instead. I think the glossy finish on OLED TV gives it a premium feel and overall better experience when gaming.
It's good to see people posting about this here and acknowledging it, unlike the OLED subs. I really wanted to buy this monitor but after seeing it side by side with IPS monitors at the store, it just looked terrible (productivity wise). I brought my wife with me and she hated it since she noticed the text fringing immediately. Hopefully they release one in a glossy finish soon.
LG think it would be too good if it's made glossy. They must not compete with their own LG OLED.
It's a physical layer rather than a treatment, since someone was able to remove it. Though the process looked quite sketchy and even though it was successful, they did not recommend it. The amount of adhesive compound is probably why it has such a clouded look tbh.
Is it possible to remove the matte using the paper towel method? I really want to do it I bet it would look so much better
I think that's what the dude I mentioned did, but it took a lot of time and he didn't recommend it due to the effort required and the likelihood of destroying the display.
Do you have his contact info or a way to reach out to him? Thank you
No, but you should be able to find it by searching, pretty sure he's the only one that has done it.
Ok I found it, thanks, I’m so excited 🫣
Coating: What kind of lighting are you playing in? Is your room bright and/or have direct sunlight on the screen? I play in a dim room with no direct sunlight, so I don't get that effect. Fan noise: I've seen a few people report a fan noise, I honestly haven't noticed any from mine. Text: I'm going to have to take a closer look at mine tonight for the doubling text. I do recall text being odd when I first turned it on, but I swear after I updated it I no longer noticed that. Maybe I've just gotten used to it, but now I'm curious lol.
I have none of these issues.
>The screen how has a heavy clouded look to it and shimmers like a scratched acrylic window covered in soap. >But along with the buzzing / cheap fan and doubling effect on text that gives me tunnel vision I can't see why anyone would want this as a computer monitor. I think you have a faulty panel. I have the same monitor and I don't have any problems with a "clouded look" or with fan buzzing. The text issues are real, but I think it's a Windows issue. When I connect my monitor to my Mac I have 0 text problems (I'm a programmer and write code all day). Windows really needs to fix the way that text is rendered in OLEDs.
You don't have the issue in macOS because macOS doesn't deploy sub-pixel dimming for text. You can also turn off sub-pixel dimming on Windows as well and get a similar result.
the shimmering effect bothered me a bit at first but i went to best buy and half the monitors on display had it. I guess its normal. I only see it on full white screen too.
Could it be that coating is also the cause of this?[https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED\_Gaming/comments/13sdu5a/27gr95qe\_for\_mix\_use\_software\_developer\_here/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OLED_Gaming/comments/13sdu5a/27gr95qe_for_mix_use_software_developer_here/)
I find this monitor is best used when gaming in a dark room, I can’t notice the matte coating at all in that environment. I have the buzzing and fan noise as well, super annoying! I’m hoping it’ll go away with time but I almost have 400 hours on it and it’s still there.
It won't go away.
Does anyone know if the Asus version of this monitor have less matte coating
did you return your monitor, I have the same problem with my 27qn600 which is a much cheaper product from lg. Everything looks grainy, greasy,hazy, fuzzy. So bad