Review on Sceptre U278W 4000R 4K DisplayPort Monitor with Built-In Speakers and IPS Technology by Kerry Nigrelli

Pros: Approximate price. If you don't care about brightness or color quality, then this 4K option is for you. This is 4K. This isn't a monitor-specific issue, but even at 4K resolution, the 27-inch display looks a bit grainy in Windows 10. The viewable screen size is 25.5 x 13.25, so at 3840 x 2160 the DPI is only 163. It's equivalent to a 1980's dot matrix printer, it's ok at best. It's a plus for a cheap 4K monitor as it's the best you can get. given today's backward technology will suffice. The money for a 4K monitor is that Windows 10 does NOT support 4K. I've attached a screenshot of what I mean (using Windows 10's native screen rendering engine). Simply put, there's no support for 4K monitors, pretty much every app kind of broken as there is still no proper screen display in Windows 10. It's almost bad enough abandoning the whole idea of 4K until Windows 2030 arrives under a whole new management. It's not monitors' fault either: inside apps (like toolbars and fonts on a page or in a cell), Windows 10's screen rendering in 4K looks absolutely TERRIBLE. The desktop plays fine in 4K, but apps are annoyingly blurry. This is a known issue with more than one monitor when the monitors do not match the resolutions. Since 4K and 1080P are a BIG difference, they really show how horrible the screen rendering is in Windows 10. There is a third-party patch called "Windows 10 DPI Fix" that downgrades the OS's font rendering engine to Windows 8. Thank goodness because it saves MS Office features from being unusable to full 4K resolution. However, IT exacerbates the previous problem. Seems MS broke the rendering engine to try and fix the last one. Sore. Let's come to the main problems of the monitor: the viewing angles are very poor, half the screen remains dark no matter how you move your head. It's like wearing a glowing headlight on your forehead. I think that would be difficult to handle without even experiencing a true IPS screen. White is matte compared to a 99% sRGB display. I estimate that this monitor has less than 50% of the already limited sRGB color gamut. Without much fiddling with the settings, the whites turned white, although if you move your head to see the pixels straight, it helps to push the brightness and contrast slightly past optimum. White quality is around 5 out of 10, which affects all colors as well. The color is ugly. Maybe even nonsense. Playing around with my laptop's GTX 1050 setting helps, but the color never looks good. The screen is just too low to save. The maximum brightness is weak. It is suitable for a dark room, but it is too dark for daytime viewing. This monitor makes fonts look clearer. Don't expect more. Not recommended for demanding people.