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Live TV, Great monitor, awesome picture quality and features. Slim than a smart TV and has all the great fetaures of a smart TV and even live TV content. Picture quality is good so is brightness and clarity. Features are good so you can connect external speakers (wired or Bluetooth). Go for it.
The paper instructions were minimal, being some cryptic drawings of how to assemble the stand and warnings about how to hold the monitor. They could use some help from IKEA to make them understandable.
Once assembled, I began by trying to use the monitor with my phone as suggested on the setup screen. After registering an account (why?) I could use the app, but I kept looping through the connection settings. It would show the monitor connected and then it would show the QR code again to connect. Super confusing. I was never able to set the WiFi password through the phone. Eventually, I gave up and used the remote with the menu to set it.
I found the entire WebOS user interface depressingly complicated and difficult to navigate. There is lots of content, if you are using this monitor as your TV.
Back to using it as a monitor for my computer. I found the picture less bright and not as sharp as my old LG Monitor. I went through all the settings for brightness, contrast, gamma, power saving etc and the best I could do was still passable but not excellent, as I am used to. Sad that the old monitor from the same company is better than the new one.
I am used to navigating settings with the joystick under the monitor. At some points I just got stuck in menus and the only way out was to use the remote or turn off the monitor. Using the remote is easy and works well, but once it is lost under the couch cushions I would like to use the joystick button. Once again it seemed the UI/UX just wasn't up to par. Once stuck, I thought I would find the complete manual on line with documentation on what I was doing wrong, perhaps. Nope. The downloadable documentation for this monitor was little more than the paper I already had.
Going through all the menu options makes me think we have a case of adding every feature under the sun and forgetting that the main aim is to make a good monitor.
I tried playing content off a USB stick. I was totally surprised that it would not play the videos in avi or mkv format that work fine on our Sony. Without access to the Play store as an Android based monitor has, you can't download VLC or other apps to add features or codecs. I notice there is a developer mode, so more apps might be coming.
There is a built in web browser which was surprisingly OK, but a bit slow. Since it is LG proprietary it may have limitations. There does not seem to be a way to install Chrome.
YouTube, Netflix, Amazon and all the other streaming platforms are available and work well.
If you want a combination smart TV and monitor, there is a lot to offer here for the price.
If you want a good monitor for your PC, I put it in the OK but you can find better category.
I find it interesting that they have incorporated a smart TV into a computer monitor. I didn’t know that is was something that we needed. Correct me if I am wrong, but can’t we watch movies and TV shows on a monitor if it is connected to a computer anyway? Anyway, I digress… This monitor also allows you to access documents and other things from your cloud but you have to download the apps and pay for each one. So if one doesn’t have access to a PC at least there as still computery things you can do with the monitor if you have a keyboard and mouse connected. The instructions that come with the monitor are basic at best so in my case I found that I was doing a lot of exploring and fiddling on my own. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. The look of the monitor is nice, it’s sleek and I appreciate the variety of colours that they come in. I chose the black one and I quite like it. Input wise, it has two HDMI and 2 USB ports on the back of the monitor. There is an HDMI cable in the box. Setting up the monitor is a bit tedious if one decides to do it through their phone. I decided not to so I manually set everything up on the monitor itself. I just don’t care to have another app that I have to register for just to get a monitor up and running. Using the monitor as an entertainment interface is pretty easy. The menus are easy to navigate and the app store has all the popular streaming services available if they’re not already programed on the monitor. The interface reminds me of other smart devices. The remote is easy to use and I have no complaints about it. The sound is alright, it isn’t horrible but you’re not going to get big sound out of it. So I primarily chose this as a monitor, and in that respect I find it to be a bit lacking. For basic office usage it is pretty good. If I was a gamer, however, I think I would be a bit disappointed with the sharpness of the images. It really just reminds me of using a TV as a monitor. I think LG may have focused so much on the smart aspect of the monitor that they overlooked what people typically look for in a monitor in itself. Overall, it is a nice monitor and I am happy with it for home office use. I can’t say how often I would use it for its smart capabilities but I can see how someone with limited space would find this monitor handy.