Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 57" 7680x2160 super ultrawide (mini-LED)

Happy Hopping said:

okay, thank you to both of you. I didn't realize the 49" is OLED, because the show room screen didn't look all that good, probably it's a bad wall paper, but at that show room, it wasn't bright at all.

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I've seen the 49" at Microcenter and it's picture quality is good when its setup properly. So I think there was something going on with that. Those are plenty bright. I don't like that monitor because of how small it is vertically.

I agree. That's why I am still waiting for the sale price of the 57 to drop

call me crazy but I couldn't pass up this deal its going alongside my LG 5k2k Oled. I originally bought this display when it released like 2 years ago for like $2900 and I had sold it for the LG 5k2k but with the monitors that were announced at CES 2026 I don't see anything beating this unless we get a 8k oled high refresh rate in 45-57 or better the samsung care is a 4 year plan does anyone have experience with it
top screenshot my original best buy purchase lol


current 2026 purchase keeping the lg 5k2k this time around alongside the samsung

On rare occasion, if you find a Open box product by GeekSquad, they only 5 yr. replacement instead of 4 yr. The sealed product by best buy only offers 4 yr. extended warranty by comparison. And the 5 yr. open box by GeekSquad is cheaper than the 4 yr. by bestbuy sealed box

Switched to the 45 LG 5k2k today. My office is now much cooler and I don't have to deal with the crazy heat the 57" was outputting. So far I like it a lot better for daily use and gaming. Image isn't as sharp but the colors look so much better on this monitor and are not washed out (I could not get a good calibration from the monitor). Haven't worked on it yet, but that will be the real test.

wait a minute, Dan just said yesterday the 57" is not a giant heater. Since the 57" is mini LED, it should be cooler, I think

JMCB1001 said:

Switched to the 45 LG 5k2k today. My office is now much cooler and I don't have to deal with the crazy heat the 57" was outputting. So far I like it a lot better for daily use and gaming. Image isn't as sharp but the colors look so much better on this monitor and are not washed out (I could not get a good calibration from the monitor). Haven't worked on it yet, but that will be the real test.

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I have two of the 57" monitors, and neither generates much heat. I'm surprised to read about "crazy heat" - not at all my experience.

Also, my units don't look washed out in either SDR or HDR. Since it's a VA panel, it will look washed out at an angle, but not when viewed at the normal angle of sitting in front of it.

The brightness is much better on my 57" than my 45" LG 5K2K, and text sharpness is better on the 57" as well.

Another 57" user. It definitely does not generate crazy heat. If you adjust monitor height and angle right, there are no washed colours either for the main viewer. My eyes are leveled at about 3 3-4" from the top, and montor is vertically tilted by about 5-7 degrees (bottom edge is slightly tilted toward me). I find that, with monitor curvature, is the best setting to keep everything at approximately the same distance from my eyes. Hence, no washed colors.

Bigmonitorguy said:

I have two of the 57" monitors, and neither generates much heat. I'm surprised to read about "crazy heat" - not at all my experience.

Also, my units don't look washed out in either SDR or HDR. Since it's a VA panel, it will look washed out at an angle, but not when viewed at the normal angle of sitting in front of it.

The brightness is much better on my 57" than my 45" LG 5K2K, and text sharpness is better on the 57" as well.

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I've had it for 4 months, and really, it got hot. I had it at max brightness and it made my small home office unbearable. Using the LG now for 6 hours during the work day and it's so much cooler in here (and it's warmer out today).

Yeah text is worse, but I'm going to play around with scaling and ClearFont to see if I can make it closer. I previously had it on a desk mount and played around with the angles, and colors still washed out. I'm happy with my switch.

JMCB1001 said:

I've had it for 4 months, and really, it got hot. I had it at max brightness and it made my small home office unbearable. Using the LG now for 6 hours during the work day and it's so much cooler in here (and it's warmer out today).

Yeah text is worse, but I'm going to play around with scaling and ClearFont to see if I can make it closer. I previously had it on a desk mount and played around with the angles, and colors still washed out. I'm happy with my switch.

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Do you have super bright lights or something? Why would you run it at max brightness outside HDR mode? I have the brightness on mine at 12.

Bigmonitorguy said:

I have two of the 57" monitors, and neither generates much heat. I'm surprised to read about "crazy heat" - not at all my experience.

Also, my units don't look washed out in either SDR or HDR. Since it's a VA panel, it will look washed out at an angle, but not when viewed at the normal angle of sitting in front of it.

The brightness is much better on my 57" than my 45" LG 5K2K, and text sharpness is better on the 57" as well.

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How big is your desk? How can you fit 2 of these? Did you ever post a photo on your setup at any thread here? such as the "Show your LCD setup" thread. Can you post a photo

Happy Hopping said:

How big is your desk? How can you fit 2 of these? Did you ever post a photo on your setup at any thread here? such as the "Show your LCD setup" thread. Can you post a photo

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There are mounts that allow you to stack to of these displays vertically.

then it's like having 2 ARK, people told me not to buy ARK as it's bad for your neck. I would love to see Bigmonitorguy setup

Happy Hopping said:

How big is your desk? How can you fit 2 of these? Did you ever post a photo on your setup at any thread here? such as the "Show your LCD setup" thread. Can you post a photo

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They're on different desks connected to different computers in different rooms.

JMCB1001 said:

Switched to the 45 LG 5k2k today. My office is now much cooler and I don't have to deal with the crazy heat the 57" was outputting. So far I like it a lot better for daily use and gaming. Image isn't as sharp but the colors look so much better on this monitor and are not washed out (I could not get a good calibration from the monitor). Haven't worked on it yet, but that will be the real test.

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it never really outputted tons of heat for me. Even when I had it the first time around so do we take the plastic off the back or leave it on ?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hI8lwL-W0

how many of you does the 3 way split that he's doing?

how many of you have these shoulder / headache that he has?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHOjHAJ3sU

just saw this video. I don't know how this guy has $ to buy so many ultra wide monitor. But he's saying if this 52" Dell is a replacement for his 57" Samsung

Happy Hopping said:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOHOjHAJ3sU

just saw this video. I don't know how this guy has $ to buy so many ultra wide monitor. But he's saying if this 52" Dell is a replacement for his 57" Samsung

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I would say its a downgrade if you are looking at it hz and gaming wise only thing it has for it is resolution and ips keeping my neo g9 57 but I think I actually found my next display for immersive gaming the samsung QN990f since it can do 8k @ 120hz and 4k @ 240hz

what size? 65" what's the chroma on it, is it 4:4:4?

sometimes I wonder, for those who own the 57", which is 52.5" in width. and 43cm in height, does a 65" real 8K makes that much difference in usage? it's only 56" wide vs. 52.5" wide, but taller, 81.5 cm taller vs. 43cm. However, if you subtract the stand, and literally have the 65" monitor almost kissing your desk. Then it's not that much taller

my current monitor is 65" in height including the stand, so this is only 16 cm taller.

So survey question: for those who own the Samsung, but hypothetically allow you to refund the full amt., would you buy a 65" 8K instead?

this looks like 1 of those in for a penny, in for a pound

Happy Hopping said:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-hI8lwL-W0

how many of you does the 3 way split that he's doing?

how many of you have these shoulder / headache that he has?

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I don't. I use a 21:9 + 11:9 split for 5120x2160 + 2560x2160 sides.

This is mainly because MacOS is a turd and cannot scale a single monitor adequately, but can scale two lower res ones. I use them at 3840x1620 + 1920x1620 HiDPI (7680x3240 + 3840x3240 render res). An added benefit is dual virtual desktops which is quite useful.

No shoulder/headache issues. That sounds like an ergonomic issue or "you should exercise more" problem rather than anything to do with the monitor itself. If you have never had issues viewing dual monitors, then the same applies to this one.

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sometimes I wonder, for those who own the 57", which is 52.5" in width. and 43cm in height, does a 65" real 8K makes that much difference in usage? it's only 56" wide vs. 52.5" wide, but taller, 81.5 cm taller vs. 43cm. However, if you subtract the stand, and literally have the 65" monitor almost kissing your desk. Then it's not that much taller

my current monitor is 65" in height including the stand, so this is only 16 cm taller.

So survey question: for those who own the Samsung, but hypothetically allow you to refund the full amt., would you buy a 65" 8K instead?

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The issue with that 65" 8K is that it's flat. The wider the display, the more useful the curvature becomes.

I used to use a 48" LG CX OLED TV as my main monitor. I used this setup for 2 years and the main issue with it was that it was genuinely uncomfortable to use the top 1/3 of the screen in desktop use. Even though the display was mounted on a floor stand at 1m distance from me, with the bottom edge of the screen at the level of my table, the sheer height of the display was a problem. So I used it like an ultrawide, only using the bottom 2/3 of the screen which made it more comfortable.

I'd probably entertain the idea of something like a 55" 8K Samsung ARC. It has the curvature, it's not as massive as 65" and is sharper than my current G95NC.

But overall, I'm very happy with the form factor of the G95NC. Ample desktop space, not too tall.

well, it's definitely higher than eye level for that extra 16cm. Your LG is 48" at 4K. It's a bit large for 4K. I'm at 43" at 4K on a Viewsonic. Not enough space for me

for those who own this 240Hz monitor, is this article true about the benefit of using 4000Hz polling rate mouse?

https://gamerhardware.org/what-is-polling-rate/

and if so, you only get 17 hr. to 20 hr. if you are at 8k Hz? seriously?

Happy Hopping said:

for those who own this 240Hz monitor, is this article true about the benefit of using 4000Hz polling rate mouse?

https://gamerhardware.org/what-is-polling-rate/

and if so, you only get 17 hr. to 20 hr. if you are at 8k Hz? seriously?

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I say stop overthinking it and just use your mouse.

Straight from the article:

However, the returns diminish noticeably as polling rates climb. The jump from 125Hz to 1000Hz is dramatic and immediately noticeable. The improvement from 1000Hz to 4000Hz is measurable with precision tools but subtle during actual gameplay.

I think it's useful to have a mouse with a higher polling rate than 125 Hz, but you don't need to get some 4000 Hz fancy mouse. There's a helluva lot more metrics for what is a good mouse than its polling rate.

I've been using the same Logitech G502 (1000 Hz polling rate) for ages.

Yeah the diminishing returns beyond 1000hz on a mouse are severe, it's really not worth it even for a competitive gamer anyway, even if it's measurable and you can see a mouse fluidity difference with a high speed camera.

You potentially lose some CPU performance and are more likely to run into USB port issues, and with a wireless mouse the battery life reduction is massive. At 1000hz I charge my Razer once a week, at 8000hz every two days.

Kalston:

these wireless mouse, there is no chance that we can open the casing and replace the rechargeable battery after say 500 re-charge?

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the reason I post this is because I found a very good deal on a 8K polling vs. the very same series but w/ 1K polling: only $20 difference. The only deciding factor is the no. of charge on the mouse battery. If we can remove the mouse battery, I'll do it. Unless the battery is super expensive, like my Fenix rechargeable battery

Even if that mouse supports 8k, you can and should run it at 1k. It's just a software setting.

Some models can be opened and the battery replaced yes, but battery life in so good at 1000hz nowadays you won't have to worry about it for many years anyway.

While you might get a more ergonomic feel from higher mouse polling rates and extreme frame rates locally, the displayed information you are reacting to is your local game predicting frames and showing you those predictions until the next tick. So what you are aiming at isn't even necessary (exactly) where, and "when", you see it, and actions haven't happened or resolved at the same time as you see them necessarily - according to the server's ultimate authority on it's clock and it's own interpolated results biased by it's code.

On a 128tick server at 128fps or more solid you might get 72ms of the "peekers advantage", "rubberbanding" , which is a type of temporal gap. 60fps on the same server would get around 100ms gap. Ticks or frames can also arrive mid-tick or mid frame on either end, cauing another tick (7.8ms) delay on either or both ends at times. Having 1000 fpsHz on your local machine isn't going to improve that tick rate and the gap. Having a lower ping would be an improvement in the overall way the server processes everything vs others though. On lower tick servers, which there are still a lot of surprisingly, the "peeker's advantage" temporal gap can cause more overt things like teleport rubberbanding and "super bullets" where high fire rate weapons instead land one big damage. That kind of gap is always there when playing on online gaming servers though, it's just a matter of by how much. In the meantime, you are seeing predicted frames generated by your local game simulation locally until the next tick correction arrives, and that is what your higher than 128 fpsHz frames and high mouse polling rate are operating on.

Online gaming is a sort-of displacer beast. Having more articulated movement locally via extreme frame rates and high mouse polling rates may help a bit but considering the above I think there is very likely an early point of diminishing returns advantage wise in online games (rather than LAN games/tournaments and local gaming, - or locally vs. bots where most testing you see published is done). That doesn't mean even higher than that point wouldn't look and feel aesthetically and ergonomically more pleasing though.

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Happy Hopping said:

well, it's definitely higher than eye level for that extra 16cm. Your LG is 48" at 4K. It's a bit large for 4K. I'm at 43" at 4K on a Viewsonic. Not enough space for me

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I view my 48" from far enough away on its own mount, separate with a gap from my desk, so that it's reasonably sized to my perspective. It's near to or within my human central viewing angle width wise, but that also keeps the height from being extreme to my perspective. That requires enough space and being willing to dedicate more space like that for an overall larger pc layout, though, which isn't doable for everyone or vs. available room layouts, priorities, etc.

( *For comparison, a 1440p screen within your central human viewing angle get 42 to 51 PPD).

I consider 60 PPD a minimum, so having a 4k based screen any nearer than where it is 60PPD would rule it out for me. Higher PPD than that is even, overall but especially better for text, and vs. oled fringed text from non-standard pixel layout vs standard text sub-sampling.

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When you sit nearer than around 60 to 50 degree horizontal you push the ends of the screen out into your periphery, where someone with three screens across would traditionally turn the side screen portions of the array inward so that the side screen's pixels remained on axis to the viewer. With a single flat screen in more extreme viewing angles, you instead get this kind of progression which makes uniformity and distortion issues get worse the nearer you sit (as well as lowering the PPD by more the nearer you sit).

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Curved screens have similar tradeoffs when sitting nearer than their center of curvature, but most are designed where sitting far enough to be at the center of curvature would make the screen look short like a belt, unfortunately, so options are limited on the majority of them.

this says 1000R but the same thing happens with any R(adius) mm curvature when sitting at or nearer than the radius ,center of curvature:

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I thought you bought a 57"?

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since you guys work so hard saving me that $20, I'll save the money. I just don't want to buy the 1000Hz model and turns out I need the 8K Hz model. Since you guys convince me I don't need it, I'll save the money. If I were to set it at 1KHz polling on a 8K Hz polling mouse, I might as well just buy the 1kHz polling mouse. And if I were to charge it once every 2 days, that's too much work. It reminds me of my mechanical watch, I don't wear it daily, and I need to swing it daily to get it going, in the long run, it becomes a time consuming exercise to remember doing that.

Happy Hopping said:

It reminds me of my mechanical watch, I don't wear it daily, and I need to swing it daily to get it going, in the long run, it becomes a time consuming exercise to remember doing that.

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It's much more of a pain in the ass to swap batteries in a quartz watch than swing your wrist a few times to get a mechanical watch movement going.

If the price difference is that little, I'd go for the 8K Hz so you won't be left wondering if you can tell a difference or not. You can always just set it to 1K Hz if you want to save battery.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxI0bvHnms4

So I watch the above, the battery is only $7, and it looks somewhat easy to replace it.

but the brand & model I want could be more complex. But the $1M question is: we use wireless mouse for the convenience, all we gain for that convenience is to get rid of that dongle called the braided cord.

But the trade off is to keep charging, then we trade 1 convenience w/ another inconvenience. I can spend that extra $20, but I need to talk to the manufacturer if they even has a setting for 1K or 4K

On the same subject from that link, as a re-cap, they claim for people who use 240Hz monitor, you need a 4K to 8K polling mouse, does the same thing applies to 4K to 8K polling Keyboard?

As I'm just infer what that link says, and I also wonder if any of you Samsung 57" owner also own a 8K polling keyboard, as there so happen that there is a good one out there:

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/pro...swap-rgb-keyboard?_pos=1&_fid=62b88e588&_ss=c

and if there is a difference on your productivity being on 8K polling keyboard?

Happy Hopping said:

On the same subject from that link, as a re-cap, they claim for people who use 240Hz monitor, you need a 4K to 8K polling mouse, does the same thing applies to 4K to 8K polling Keyboard?

As I'm just infer what that link says, and I also wonder if any of you Samsung 57" owner also own a 8K polling keyboard, as there so happen that there is a good one out there:

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/pro...swap-rgb-keyboard?_pos=1&_fid=62b88e588&_ss=c

and if there is a difference on your productivity being on 8K polling keyboard?

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High polling rate keyboard sounds even more insane. You can move a mouse fast enough for polling rate to make a difference, but you can't click keys at a rate where it would matter.

Yea the difference is even smaller with keyboards. 125hz keyboards are actually still serviceable even for competitive gamers. Things like Hall Effect keys make a huge difference though ("Rapid Trigger"), since you can fine tune the sensitivity of the keys to your own fingers and achieve maximum responsiveness.

Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD) is also a game changer, to the point it's considered a cheat and banned in online titles like Counter Strike. I personally use it to cheese the annoying QTEs of some single player games It's much less tiring for my hands when I can simply hold down and lightly tap one key instead of mashing two keys one after the other.

Those keyboards also have the added benefit of providing proper analog inputs, for example letting your steer or adjust your throttle smoothly in driving games (like a gamepad lets you).

in that case, that would save me the money too. First of all, is that $300+ price even right? Regardless, I should have notice that keyboard also doesn't have back lit. So that model, along w/ another one, in the end, I ditch them all.

Happy Hopping said:

what size? 65" what's the chroma on it, is it 4:4:4?

sometimes I wonder, for those who own the 57", which is 52.5" in width. and 43cm in height, does a 65" real 8K makes that much difference in usage? it's only 56" wide vs. 52.5" wide, but taller, 81.5 cm taller vs. 43cm. However, if you subtract the stand, and literally have the 65" monitor almost kissing your desk. Then it's not that much taller

my current monitor is 65" in height including the stand, so this is only 16 cm taller.

So survey question: for those who own the Samsung, but hypothetically allow you to refund the full amt., would you buy a 65" 8K instead?

this looks like 1 of those in for a penny, in for a pound

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Everything else being equal, I would have replaced my curved 57" with poor viewing angles with the 65" 8K I also have. There are some practical aspects of having a real monitor compared to a TV though and my work laptop not being able to run it at native resolution sealed the deal.

kalston said:

Yea the difference is even smaller with keyboards. 125hz keyboards are actually still serviceable even for competitive gamers. Things like Hall Effect keys make a huge difference though ("Rapid Trigger"), since you can fine tune the sensitivity of the keys to your own fingers and achieve maximum responsiveness.

Simultaneous Opposing Cardinal Directions (SOCD) is also a game changer, to the point it's considered a cheat and banned in online titles like Counter Strike. I personally use it to cheese the annoying QTEs of some single player games It's much less tiring for my hands when I can simply hold down and lightly tap one key instead of mashing two keys one after the other.

Those keyboards also have the added benefit of providing proper analog inputs, for example letting your steer or adjust your throttle smoothly in driving games (like a gamepad lets you).

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It's not really my thing in general, but you can do SOCD by using (pretty brief and concisely optimized script wise) null bind macros. The main advantage with the SOCD keyboards as far as I can tell was that it was firmware/hardware based and so was under the radar and undetectable at first, but that's not the case anymore.

Hall effect ergonomics (and potential responsiveness gain) on keys sounds nice for traditional keyboards but I haven't used that. My typing keyboard is mx brown switches. For what I play, azeron cyborg controllers provide a lot of general customized shape and placement, reach-ability ergonomics and tons of inputs.

Afaik, cyborgs won't be adding any hall effect keys/buttons, but they have hall effect thumb sticks. You can set the 8-way/4-way hall effect thumb stick on an azeron cyborg II to WASD key input or to analog Xbox controller mode, plus there is another 4-way hat switch post, and you can assign the other buttons/key switches to anything including duplicating that wasd on some of them if you want, or just the strafing, or macros, combos, toggles, steps, always on/off, timers, etc. The cyborg 1 is 500hz polling rate and the cyborg II is 1000Hz polling rate.

You can hold the stick to strafe while a key (e.g. opposing strafe key) on the controller is pressed, but it won't work like SOCD without a macro applied. You can macro without using reWASD (which is detected and banned), but it might still be a risk with anti-cheat systems. I prefer using the thumbstick in analog mode for most games that support it however , so that it's not just on or off WASD key actions. With analog you can push the stick partway and walk slower for example, like you said of the hall effect keyboard key style keyboards - and use it for vehicles in games, etc.

As far as rapid trigger action goes, I guess I'd compare the cyborg's finger action buttons to mouse buttons rather than keyboard keys, though they aren't mouse buttons, either, really.. "The azeron cyborg's omron switches are considered faster to press than traditional mechanical keys because they require less movement to actuate, acting more like rapid-fire microswitches". There is also a speed advantage with the cyborg layout of inputs travel wise vs any keys you need to reach to get to on a traditional keyboard layout. Plus you can potentially macro actions for pressed on and the following off state, sequence of actions on press and/or when not pressing anymore, timed actions after the initial action, repeat while held, toggles, etc.

I use split keyboards for typing so I'd hate a one piece for my keyboard, and I'm guessing I wouldn't prefer hall effect for typing, either. As it is, I don't use a keyboard for gaming at all anymore unless I need to type a word search into an inventory search field, or if I ever have to input text into an online game chat box or something rather than voice.

improwise said:

Everything else being equal, I would have replaced my curved 57" with poor viewing angles with the 65" 8K I also have. There are some practical aspects of having a real monitor compared to a TV though and my work laptop not being able to run it at native resolution sealed the deal.

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can you elaborate on the Samsung's poor viewing angle

Happy Hopping said:

can you elaborate on the Samsung's poor viewing angle

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Not improwise, but I own two of these 57" monitors. The image quality is great when facing the middle of the screen, but it gets seriously washed out when viewed at an angle. I don't find it to be a problem other than when I try to show something on the screen to someone, and they're not positioned well for avoiding the image degradation from the viewing angle. It's still my favorite monitor overall.

okay, so it's kind of like the old days when we have passive matrix vs. active matrix. Among all the other owner of this monitor, I wonder if anyone else have this problem?