LG Electronics 42.5" Screen LED-lit Monitor (43UD79-B)

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 930B's 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" 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 9, 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. I don't care since I have mine mounted to the wall. In fact I wish they sold stands separately so those of us that don't use them won't have to pay extra for them, decrease the box size and decrease the shipping weight. Now I have to store them in the attic. The stand does function fine and does its job; I tried it briefly before storing them.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.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.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!

It seems like the current 43" 4K monitor panels (LG, Acer, Dell, Philips, ViewSonic) currently suffers from one common issue. That be the edge of the display screen casting a shadow from a close viewing angle (2 ft). However, if you sit roughly 4 ft away, you'll get the full picture. Then everything becomes too tiny to read, unless of course you apply 200% scaling.I believe a proper 43" 4K monitor without the shadow edge issue would've been made curved. As it's currently designed, it's curved inward, so when viewing close, we are missing viewing angle of the edges. If the monitor was designed with an outward curve, it would fix this problem.Just an FYI:Dell released their 43" monitor May of 2016. It is currently still the most expensive 43" monitor that is using outdated I/O ports.Acer decided to jump in on Feburary of this year. Currently the cheapest offering in price and quality. Their target are for gamers.LG (if you imported from Japan), Philips, ViewSonic released their display panel May of this year.Also remember folks, always use Display Port as your input if you don't have an HDMI 2.0 output source. Otherwise you'll run into image ghosting problems due to limited bandwidth of HDMI 1.4 from the source. That source being an outdated integrated graphic processor or graphic card older than 2015. The first graphic card to support HDMI 2.0 was Nvidia's GTX 900 series.

I just got this to replace 2 HP 32" QHD Monitors and happy with it so far. Beautiful screen and although its not quite the InfinityEdge that Dell have, the bezel is still pretty slim. The joystick under the screen to control power and menu makes it easy to adjust settings but even easier with the included Remote. The screen split software is great and allows you to quickly change different screen configuration based on what I'm doing on the computer. I primiarily use this for photo editing (Lightroom / Photoshop) and light gaming. I have this hooked up through Displayport to an RX 480 video card. I can play NBA2k17 @ 4k smoothly which is awesome. Not a heavy gamer so the response time on this screen is fine for me. It came factory calibrated but I still calibrated the screen with Spyder4Pro anyways to get accurate colors for Photo editing.

I originally wanted to get an HDR monitor, but the ones that have been announced so far are 32" or smaller. That means at 4k you pretty much need to enable scaling. So I decided getting a 4k monitor where you wouldn't need to scale was more important. Which brings us to this monitor. It is big, bright, and beautiful. It changed the way I use the computer. Instead of alt-tabbing between windows, I have now gotten into habit of snapping windows to the sides and corners using Windows 10's built-in snapping features. Weirdly you can't snap windows to the top and bottom halves of the screens, but you can resize after snapping to a corner. I'm sure MS will add that feature in the future. Also, there are keyboard shortcuts for snapping windows to the sides but not for the corners for some reason.Other positives: non-glossy surface, no dead pixels on my unitSome negatives: speakers have almost no bass, some pixels on the sides of the screen can only be viewed head-on, once in a while the screen will go black for a second

I wanted to have a computer screen that was huge, 4K and doubled as a TV for my office/den. This LG monitor fills that bill nicely.It's a near-perfect computer monitor and just as good as a 4K TV. The only slight flaw I could see what the top of the screen is slightly dimmer than the bottom, but that's not noticeable unless you really look hard.But the screen's resolution and color rendering are excellent. On top of all that, the price was so low I was worried about quality. That concern was unfounded. Great deal, worth every penny!

I purchased this monitor about a month ago and at first, I hated it and feared I made a really poor purchase even after all of my reseach. (Hang in there, it gets better!

Man oh man. Who knew a monitor could make my life better? You need to step your monitor game up to this bad larry. It's like having 4 monitors seamlessly connected.

Great product!!!

A nice 43in 4K IPS monitor for all purposes. View angle and color saturation are both superb. I'm not a gamer so I do really use its gaming mode that much.

I bought it for the USB-C and 4 HDMI connections. I can select up to 4 displays at once which is great when testing my code on streaming devices.

I have tested 8 different computer monitors and TVs for viewing blueprints and working with architecutral documents.

Bought 1st one Oct 2017 after months of research. Totally satisfied. No problems. The reviewer with 2 of these sise by side landscape is accurate in all he said. Love this monitor.

Damn. What a monitor! I bought it to run Photoshop and Illustrator side by side and it's been great. I don't regret buying this thing monster screen at all!

I purchased this LG 43UD79-B 43" monitor. I started seeing vertical lines on the screen after having it for 95 days.

Great display. I use this display in place of 2 smaller 24" displays. It works great. No complaints. Big, bright, beautiful display!