Review on Monoprice Curved Ultrawide Gaming Monitor 34", 165Hz, Adaptive Sync, ‎142772 by Celina Mac

Excellent panel contrast as well as color as it is a Samsung QLED. There are no complaints about picture quality or smooth motion. I don't have any review units, but the color and backlight uniformity is impressive for this price point when you get the angle right with such a massive panel. While it looks pretty good on paper, there are a few things to note: Monocena isn't a big brand, so their OSD looks more like something more budget-friendly with fewer features. It won't be bothersome other than the fact that this menu rules out any possibility of turning off the bright blue power LED (which blinks when there's no input unless it's off). Also, it takes at least 5 button presses to switch inputs if I'm not mistaken. Not the end of the world here either, but impractical when constantly switching gears. Aesthetically, a great-looking flat bezel with an unobtrusive logo and an included (optional) little red tab that shoots down and plugs into a micro-USB. A nice little touch for them to turn them on for a dime, although it would be better if there was a monitor and color change inside. The stand is also thin and convenient, although it stands quite wide. As for issues with my particular device, I end up blaming QC and Monoprice's generally smaller bezel as mine arrived with a few dead pixels and I later realized that the auto-detection of the input wasn't working. To my dismay, DisplayPort #2 died for me after trying to convince myself the pixels were fine. ”-ness, so maybe that's something to consider that even competes with bigger brands. Another thing is Gsync's lowest tier, FreeSync technology (meaning no "compatible/premium" naming). I ran it at full resolution, 144Hz with Freesync/GSync enabled, no problem on my Nvidia card, just make sure you have enough power to run your desired games at that resolution. Otherwise it's a nice canvas to have at your fingertips and while it's inconvenient to activate I even got PiP to work fine at one point before the input died lol. I've decided to downsize to a more normal aspect ratio and you may have better luck with your device than mine. If the above complaints aren't too worrying, get ready for an amazing ultra wide fame experience. To be honest this is preferable to any triple monitor setup I've had in the past. The best picture quality UW monitors can be found in the $500 range, the next cheapest QLED UWs are the Samsung 7-800 100Hz and CoolerMaster and I didn't have to spend that much. A worthy competitor for them, minus my doubts.