Review on Innocn 27-inch DisplayPort Computer Monitor: 1920X1080P, 165Hz, Flicker-Free, Anti-Glare Coating, Blue Light Filter - Mountable by Andy Zhu

This is a reliable and affordable 1080p monitor with great colors, decent viewing angles, and makes a great 1080p display for PC or console gaming. I love having it on my desk to use with my Steam Deck and gaming consoles, but it has some weird quirks. Keep in mind that you don't have much power when it comes to design. The included stand for this display can tilt the display slightly forwards or backwards, but is not height adjustable, so it stays at a fixed height unless you put some books underneath or change the monitor stand. Although it's compatible with VESA mounts for monitor arms or stands, it requires you to install a set of "standoffs" screws, making things a little more difficult and leaving you with four standoffs that you could lose if you opt for the Use decide including stand. Changing settings on the monitor can also be a little frustrating: this monitor has a combo button that is used both to navigate the display menus and as a power button. Basically, it's a small bar that you can click up, down, left, or right to use as a "d-pad," or click down to turn the display on or off. Using it can be a bit confusing. If you right click on it, you will open the menu. You click up and down to navigate the menu, right click again to confirm, or left click to cancel. It doesn't seem intuitive - and while menus can be navigated by trial and error, I've often accidentally turned off the monitor while trying to confirm my choice. In fact, these controls are so confusing that when I first turned on the monitor, I accidentally chose a language other than English and left the menu in Japanese. I was able to fix that, but it would be nice if the monitor had an easier-to-use menu control button. Separate menu and power buttons would have been desirable. A full menu lets you choose from preconfigured display settings, manually adjust colours, resolution and sharpness, and access monitor features like sleep timer and LED control - handy since the monitor defaults to bright RED LEDs that are active at all times on the monitor is on. It might look cool for the right person, but I was glad to be able to turn them off. While menus aren't the most difficult to navigate, they can be cumbersome. Fortunately, the monitor has several shortcuts. A left click opens a quick menu that allows you to conveniently choose between two HDMI inputs and a DisplayPort input on the back of the monitor. Down, you can raise the built-in "crosshairs" that can be used for aiming in video games. Finally, if you hit the up arrow, you'll immediately see a menu where you can choose from 11 different display modes, including 7 game presets, as well as movie, web and text modes. Most of the time I just left it in default mode, but it was nice to have a bunch of preconfigured options for color, sharpness, etc. available on the fly. Every other computer monitor I've ever had uses a standard power connector that is interchangeable. This monitor does not use a cable with a smaller connection port and a slightly larger plug. It's big enough to interfere with connecting other things next to it. Despite these quirks I am very satisfied with this monitor. Yes, the menus are a bit difficult to understand and it has a very basic mounting stand, but the screen itself is very good. Vivid colors, very sharp images and everything I need from a Full HD gaming monitor for non-4K games and systems.