My LG monitor that I bought at the end of November 2021 is on the fritz, several times now I've come back to it and it's had image retention and flickering, and on one occasion it the whole screen was also covered in vertical scanlines, and all of this persisted even when the screen was unplugged from the computer entirely. 😫 I managed to get it sorted out with one of those videos that displays red, green, and blue patterns scrolling and flashing across the screen and leaving it running at max brightness for several hours, but a search of the internet revealed this image retention issue seems to be a fairly widespread problem, ffs.
Since I work from home basically 99% of the time I didn't want to risk having it crap out in the middle of the work so decided to preemptively get another monitor. I was running the LG scaled slightly because at the default 2x scaling everything was too big, so as a result it was just a little blurry compared to my MacBook Pro's internal display. I did a bunch of poking around and ASUS has a 32" 6K monitor, the PA32QCV (rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?) that's very well-reviewed and does HDR and compares very favourably to Apple's 32" 6K monitor at a fraction of the price.
It arrived today and I'm pleased to report that it is indeed an absolute ripper. It required a little fiddling with the settings when HDR mode was on to get everything look good for both SDR and HDR content, but I fired up the HDR copy of The Expanse on it and it looks amazing. For text, everything is crisp and sharp, and the anti-glare coating is so much better than the old LG... the morning sunshine coming into the office in autumn doesn't require me to close one of the curtains so I can read the left side of the monitor now! Interestingly I also have a little bit more screen real estate now, the old monitor was 34" but 21:9, the new one is 16:9 but there are more vertical pixels added than horizontal pixels lost.
I also got the little speaker stands that I got for my birthday set up and it really makes a difference to the sound, the stereo separation is incredible. Very pleased with how clean and tidy my desk setup is now.
Posted on 23 April 2026, 22:25