For a monitor, the meaning of the panel is equivalent to the engine to the car, and a good panel often determines the final look and feel of the display. At present, the panel of the mainstream display on the market is the IPS screen, including the VA, TN and Nano-IPS and fast liquid crystals subdivided under the IPS screen. The advantage of IPS screen is that the display is delicate, the color is accurate, and the technology is mature, but the poor contrast is one of its relatively large shortcomings, which will make the black of the picture cannot be fully displayed, often presented in gray, so that the transparency of the picture becomes not so good.
In order to solve the problem of low contrast of ordinary IPS screens, Mini LED was born, which adopts the technology of multi-partition backlight under the screen, which can only let specific partitions emit light while the rest of the area does not emit light, this feature makes black can be perfectly presented, comparable to the characteristics and effects of OLED screens, and the price is only half or even lower than half of the OLED screen.
The display that I started to experience today is the PG27P5U from HKC, which is a 4K 144Hz display with flagship attributes, and is equipped with a Mini LED panel, and the display effect is very good.
In appearance, PG27P5U is very cool, rarely see the display with a white back, PG27P5U is one of the few, gray and white back looks very sci-fi and futuristic. The middle strip presents a crescent-like curved bud, the light is soft and delicate, and it also supports RGB tri-color adjustment and switching between different dynamic modes in the OSD setting. There are breathing lights, marquee lights, rotating lights and static lights, of which the effect of the marquee lights, glittering, turn off the lights at night, the light effect will also be reflected on the wall, even the money for the atmosphere lights has been saved, value!
The frontal appearance is nothing to say, the three-sided narrow border is in line with the current popular aesthetic, there is no other fancy decoration, always the front of the focus is the screen itself, simple but better.
The bracket is still relatively cool, a bit like the robot arm on the modern car production line, or like the spaceship bracket in the science fiction movie, the streamlined plus the chocolate axis design of the ring, so that the bracket is not only good-looking, but also very practical, adjustable angle, PG27P5U supports the adjustment between the front and rear inclination -10 ° to 33 °, the adjustment of the plane vertical 90 °, the up and down 130±5mm, the center rotation -20 ° to 20 °, to meet the daily use that is no problem.
After talking about the appearance, let's talk about the screen problem that our users are most concerned about, what difference can Mini LED have, and what kind of experience can be exchanged for a lot of money from the same level of products? My subjective first feeling is that the black is very pure, due to the existence of partition backlight technology, so that the screen in the display of the black area of the area can be turned off backlight, so as not to glow to show the most authentic black, such an advantage is to watch some HDR movies, play HDR mode games, the display of the picture is more shocking, which is especially prominent when playing horror games. For example, when I played the game "ARAYA Araya" that scared the big anchor eggplant into "my cabinet moved", the black in the game screen was completely dark, rather than the "dead ash" created by the ordinary IPS panel, and the overall experience was better.
The second benefit brought by Mini LED is that the bright area is brighter, in the actual test of professional websites, the maximum brightness of PG27P5U can achieve the excitation effect: 1008 nits, relative to the brightness of the conventional IPS display 200-300 nits, the maximum brightness of this display directly doubled more than doubled, in order to ensure that the light in the environment can be used normally, but also let the HDR display can be achieved. The PG27P5U has been displayed HDR 1000 certified and can intelligently start HDR mode when the source allows. In the latest masterpiece "Horizon 5", after turning on the highest special effects, the game can automatically run in HDR mode, on the PG27P5U will show a very large light-dark ratio, in the bright details of the display will adjust the area of the lamp beads to the highest brightness to reflect more realistic effects, such as dazzling sports car lights, hot and dazzling sunlight on Mexican beaches, reflections of glass in the city night, etc., will be much more realistic than ordinary IPS screens. The overall immersion of the game will also add a lot.
The most intuitive feeling brought by 4K is clear and delicate, whether it is the grainy sense of the screen seen after getting closer or the sharpness of the text and screen in daily use is much stronger than that of ordinary monitors, which should be able to have an intuitive feeling for small partners who have used 720P mobile phones and 2K mobile phones. And the smooth feeling brought by 144Hz is also not as good as the current 120Hz mainstream flagship mobile phone, so that your device chain experience is more consistent, coupled with Win11's non-linear animation blessing, definitely better than the ordinary display of 60Hz, with an outdated sentence is "eating Dove silky".
To sum up, HKC's PG27P5U in the actual experience can still play the function and characteristics of Mini LED, the light plate partition 512 area, a total layout of 2048 lamp beads The effect is indeed worthy of the name, the color is gorgeous, the light ratio is obvious Display effect in the ordinary IPS is still not visible. If you want to upgrade your monitor so that it can not only have a black technology blessing but also a cool appearance, then PG27P5U will definitely be your dish!