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Discontinued 2014 matte 2560x1440 LG AH-IPS panels.

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The LG 27MB85R-B uses a standard gamut W-LED back-lit LG AH-IPS LCD panel, has excellent colour presets, good contrast (1000:1), fast pixel response times (Normal overdrive setting) and low input lag unlike the majority of multi-input 1440p monitors.  It has a semi-glossy or nearly grain free matte coating.  Do not mistake the 27MB85R-B for the wide gamut 27MB85R-Z which can cover the Adobe RGB colour space and is aimed at professionals.

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Playwares Review (Korean)

Discontinued 2014 matte wide gamut 2560x1440 LG AH-IPS panels.

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The LG 27MB85Z-B uses a wide gamut, GB-R LED back-lit LG AH-IPS LCD panel, has excellent colour presets, good contrast , fast pixel response times (Normal overdrive setting) and low input lag unlike the majority of multi-input 1440p monitors. It has a semi-glossy or nearly grain free matte coating.  This monitor is meant to be used by professionals who work with programs which support colour management and need a monitor capable of covering the Adobe RGB colour space. 

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Measurements and Review by NL Hardware
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Review by TFT Central

Very accurate and fully adjustable matte 2560x1440 144hz wide gamut LG IPS with G-Sync compatible AMD Free-Sync (48-144hz over Displayport and 48-100hz over HDMI) Displayport, 2x HDMI 2.0. RGB Lighting, 2x USB 3.0 and 3.5mm Audio Out. To prevent the wide gamut (DCI-P3/HDR) panel from over-saturating the color of SDR (HDTV/REC 709 & sRGB) content, the 27GL850 needs to be set to the sRGB mode (which is fairly accurate and has adjustable brightness, but has a preset pink tint and locked color controls.  The 27GL850 has quite accurate and nearly full DCI-P3/HDR color space coverage, but has a slight, though easily reduce-able preset blue tint.  The 27GL850 has negligible or very low input lag and very fast pixel response times with minimal overshoot, but the overdrive needs to be set from Normal to Fast at 144hz to provide the fastest pixel response times, and to Normal at 60hz to prevent obvious overshoot ghosting.



Review by Rtings

Fully adjust-able matte 2560x1440, 144hz IPS panel with AMD Free-Sync, Displayport, 2x HDMI, and 3.5mm Audio Out.  The 27GL83A-B does not over-saturate the color of SDR (HDTV/REC 709 & sRGB) content since it has a standard, or non-wide gamut panel which tries to cover the HDTV/REC 709 and sRGB (SDR) color spaces.  The preset Gamer 1 Picture mode is quite accurate, but not as accurate as some competitors, especially since the 27GL83A-B can not fully cover the sRGB color space while the more accurate, and more expensive 27GL850 can, even when set to the sRGB mode.  The 27GL83A-B has negligible input lag and extremely fast pixel response times which are faster than many competitors.



Review by PRAD

Fully adjust-able (stand base clamps to desk), matte, 2560x1440, 75hz IPS with Displayport, 2x HDMI, 2x USB 3.0, USB-C and 3.5mm Audio Out.  The 27QN880 has 890:1 contrast, a 33-423cdm/2 brightness range, 99% sRGB color space coverage, and is very accurate aside from the gamma which drops below 2.0 starting at 90% white.  The Fast overdrive setting provides fast pixel response times with almost zero overshoot at both 60 and 75hz.  PRAD measured a 12.8ms signal delay at 60hz, and 6.4ms at 75hz; both measurements (oscilloscope) allow the 27QN880 to be considered delay free.