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I wrote this same review on a few other sites in case you are looking around, but they had character limits, so this review is a bit more in depth. Well, here's my review of this LG 43". Let me set the stage so you can understand the context of where I'm coming from for this review. I've been running 4x Samsung SyncMaster 930Bs since 2005 (19", 5:4); yes, that's 12 years on the same monitors. They were good for what they were and served me well. However, I finally updated my 8 year old workstation to a new Ryzen build and the time was right for a display update. I contemplated doing 4x 27" displays in portrait, 3x 32" in portrait, or 2x 43 in landscape. I put together over 30 monitor models into a spreadsheet with every data spec and leveraged them against each other to find the optimal buy for my situation. I spent 18 months going back and forth slowly narrowing it down. In the end, due to some dimensional constraints in my studio, the 3x 32" would not fit and I wasn't sure I wanted to have 4x 27" since I was coming from 4x 19". It just felt redundant and didn't eliminate some of the issues I wanted to overcome, such as changing inputs manually on each monitor to signal a different box. It was down to essentially the 43" " 34"; 4K displays on the market; the Acer, Dell, LG, and Viewsonic. The Acer and Viewsonic used the same TP Vision panel that seemed to have some issues with image retention, red-orange splotchy lag, and a few others. The LG and Dell both use a LG panel. What sold me was two points: 1.) The price; $650 each for the LG vs. $900 each for the Dell and 2.) the remote control. So, I ordered my two LG's and waited a week for them to arrive. First impression: This monitor is BIG. I felt a little ridiculous when the poor UPS driver had to lug these to the door. They are the size of a medium TV really... I took them up to my studio and took one out. It still is HUGE. Plugged it in with a 15' DP cable I purchased (the max length specked by VESA for the DP interface) and there it was, glorious ginormous BIOS screen. I loaded into Win10 and it was a magnificent feeling. I'm going to say it one more time, this monitor is HUGE. I've been using my two displays for about two months now. I have them mounted to the wall with some Ergotron LX HD Sit-Stand Wall Mount LCD Arm - Wall Mount (which I reviewed here on Amazon) and I've been loving them. They no longer seem huge, but just right. Having to use anything smaller is a struggle now. 76" @ 8K is where it's at; measuring diagonally across both displays. So, some technical information about this display. I work a day job but run my own side business. I work in Autodesk CAD/Inventor, SolidWorks, Adobe CC (Audition, Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, Dreamweaver), Corell, Inkscape/G.I.M.P./Scribus, MS Office, LibreOffice, Cubase, and some fashion CAD programs. I do a lot and need essentially a monitor that could handle it all. The only "game" I play is EverQuest 1, which is nearly a 20 year old MMORPG. It handles that perfectly fine. I'm power these monitors with an AMD Radeon Pro WX 5100, for your reference. This card has 4x DP1.4 outputs and is capable of running 4x 4K monitors @ 60Hz. It is a professional card made for heavy work. Consumer/gaming cards will perform differently, so plan accordingly for your configuration. This monitor is not made for precision design/graphic/motion picture/photography/etc. work. However, it can function perfectly fine in this role. The monitors came pre-calibrated with a certificate sheet in each box. I only had to do a little bit of tweaking to get them to where I needed. I also adjusted the contract and brightness down. I keep the brightness at about 30 at night and 60 during the daytime. I'm so used to using bad TN panels over the past two decades, that I calibrate my monitors and design working space for my project specific needs, illuminating the need for precision color in my work. A proper monitor for this work is always preferred, but they would have set me back over $4,000 vs. the $1,300 I paid for two of these. It wasn't worth it for me. I'm disappointed in the lack of DisplayPort inputs, 1 is pretty pathetic, though there is a USB-C/DisplayPort input, which technically qualifies it as 2 inputs. HDMI is a proprietary input and there is a royalty that the end-user ends up paying to have it. Additionally, it's an entertainment input; I'm guessing this monitor is geared more towards the consumer than the creator. What makes it worse, is HDMI inputs 1 + 2 are only 30Hz. I'm using one of them now for an auxiliary box and it's pretty laggy. Luckily I don't care about that machine, but it's still annoying. HDMI 3 +4 do function at 4K @ 60Hz perfectly fine. The stand does not have any height adjustment but functions fine and does its job; I tried it briefly before storing them as these displays are wall-mounted for my use. Speakers, it has stereo sound. Perfect for the dings and pings of your operating system. Good enough for telephony, VOIP, voice audio. But if you want music or entertainment, get real speakers; in-monitor speakers are not for that. I'm happy with the speakers for OS sounds. Surprisingly, these speakers are pretty good. I've heard some pretty bad monitor speakers over the years, but you can actually enjoy music out of these. They also are very loud, unlike most monitor speakers. Don't forget, they are monitor speakers and not stand alone, so the quality will always be lacking, but I'm really impressed with them; the best monitor speakers I've ever heard. The on/off/menu button. It's a little dongle under the monitor. I'm not crazy about it and wish there was just a few buttons on the front bezel or back instead; oh well. You can hold the dongle button for 6 seconds to shut off power, or press it up and then in to shut off. You can also change inputs using the dongle and volume/mute. The white LED power light is pretty weak and I almost can never see it. Only visible in a completely dark room. I wish it was brighter especially since it is on the bottom of the monitor, pointing down towards your desk. In fact, it's so weak, I don't see it looking at the monitor, but instead in the reflection of my semi-gloss desk. The remote. This was a huge selling point. I can adjust inputs much more easily with this. The downside is if you are running 2 or more of these monitors, the remotes all operate on the same frequency or channel. In other words, one remote controls all the displays! I wish it at least had a dip-switch in the battery compartment for channel 1 or 2; like many cordless ceiling fans have. It's very convenient and I love this remote! I use it all the time for input switches and for Picture-by-Picture. PbP/PiP feature - LOVE this feature and was mandatory for my purchase. I'm running 4 boxes total and need to view different machines at different times. I can now do that easily without having to switch inputs like I had to before. The PiP feature is kind of annoying to me, since it places a rectangle over the main input; which will of course block something eventually, but the PbP feature is GREAT! It's true, there is some strange effect occurring in about the outer most 10 pixels of the panel. If you look straight on center of the display at about 30" , you're good. As soon as you look at an angle, you notice this black line along the bezel. Either there is a reflection bouncing around inside the display, or you are seeing "through" the panel at the back bezel. I got used to it and it doesn't interfere with my UI's. See the two images I've added about this. I have no IPS glow really, I was totally afraid of these after seeing so many bad reviews of 43", 4K monitors in general. The screen has a very low glow, as it has to since the LED's push light through the panel to illuminate it, but it's the lowest amount of glow I've seen in the few IPS monitors I've used at offices. It's pretty darn close to my old TN panels from 2005. I'm very happy. The colors look great and doing photography retouching on such a huge screen is a dream come true. Everything is so big and clear and I can see more of an image at once. CAD files are also great since you can see so much more at once. Pro Tip: If using Win10, you can snap windows to quadrants by bringing your window to any corner. This feature is sweet having just come from Win7 and only having the two side snap options. Makes you much more productive. LG offers a software download for a bit more functionality including color/brightness adjustment and a more advanced snapping-type feature than what Win 10 offers. I've only used it to update the firmware on my monitors, but it could be usefull for some. So, overall I'm completely in love with my two new screens. Hoping to have these for 10 years+ like my last monitors. Hope this review was helpful and good luck! UPDATE 1: One year running and I still love this monitors. No issues. I've had to move recently and really wish I had gotten 32" monitors instead, but then I look at what LG has and none seem to have 4+ inputs with a remote and PBP function. So effectively, these are the best monitors on the market for me and I'll just have to keep dealing/enjoying with their hugeness. UPDATE 2: I included two images of the mouse at the edge of the monitor to show what it looks like viewing straight on (you can fully see the mouse over the MS Start button, right up the monitor bezel) and then at an angle, essentially most of the mouse pointer "vanishes". This doesn't bother me; I've gotten use to it, but others seem to struggle with it.