Review: LG 43UD79 4k UHD Monitor

Full review of the LG 43UD79, after spending four months using it on a daily basis.

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[F_Bardamu]

Excellent review. No gimmicks or poor jokes, straight information. 👍

[Mattonassis]

The problem you had with the corner of the display can be easily solved by turning on the "Underscan" option in your monitor settings (Input tab), however you will loose a few pixel at the corners.

[prntondmnd]

i give u a like because you had no music and you didn't talked time wasting bla bla, thank you

[duranarts]

A much needed comprehensive review on this. Thank you.

[Hawtload]

I've had it for a few days and I love it for photo editing, gaming, and movie watching.
I would recommend sitting at least 3.5ft from it, and possibly still getting a 2nd monitor for multitasking purposes.
Multitaking on this monitor alone is not as comfortable as it was on my 5k imac using Photoshop full screen with a 2nd monitor for multiple secondary apps like ical, youtube, and email. If you try to fit all that onto one screen, you're gonna have to make compromises.
I will say that you can get 4 browser windows open on this at the same time quite comfortably other than having to turn your neck.

[shadowrd]

I love this monitor. Your review was very informative, & educational as well. I’m still thinking of getting this. You sir have a new subscriber. Keep up the great work. Thank you for posting this video.

[FigTech]

FWIW, there has been a firmware update that fixes the PWM issues: it raises the PWM frequency from ~120Hz (noticeable for some) to 480Hz (not noticeable). 👍

[bh_bh_]

Has been using this monitor for some time, Best monitor fo productivity, great sound too, great to have that remote too .. would recommmend this monitor rather than any kind of wide screen monitors ... But yeah you need a deep desk ...

[MikkoRantalainen]

Note that this monitor has BGR panel instead of RGB so you have to tweak subpixel antialiasing settings in pretty much every app that has its own configuration.

[csinclaire]

Hello. Have watched your review twice and may purchase; however, I also spotted a 2020 model, LG 43UN700-B, just today, and wondered if you have any info, thoughts, review notes, etc., on this model? I realize you may not own it since the model you've reviewed is only a couple years old. But just thought you might have heard something through the grapevine. I'm ready to order something and am just trying to decide what. Your video has been a great help so far. :)

[Wuety]

Ugh I want 75hz or better, 500nit and ips with a curve. Idk what the hold up is

[foreverdubailover]

Great review for this monitor, Thanks for sharing.

[blazinbeaches]

Good review man, do you definitely recommend 43" over 40"? Trying to decide. I'm coming from 27" 1440p but have to do 125% scaling. So I'm guessing 40" at 125% would be very close to what I have now and a 43" at 125% might not look good or does it? A 43" at 100% would be great getting full resolution, just worried things might be too small.

[yahyauzun]

I bought after watched your video and I am really happy the only problem LG costumer servise not good but it is really nice product better then Dell

[WSGF]

Pinned post for additional notes and Q/A:  
- I purchased this unit with my own money.  It was not provided for review.  
- My initial comments about the 34" ultrawide and PBP were in reference to previous setups, and my evolution of moving to a 43" 4k UHD panel - not a reference to the Dell 43" that I previously reviewed.
- I didn't have any issues with burn-in, which is a concern with this panel type  
- The audio out is designed for headphones, and will overdrive an audio/line input on a speaker set.

[michaelconti]

When is the 2nd video coming out? I wanna see how the display management software works

[Underhills]

Hi. I really appreciate your honest and unbiased monitor reviews. Thanks alot! It's between the LG or the Dell monitor for me. I'm a graphic designer, so main purpose is showing clients graphic design work from about 3 meters distance. In feet distance that's about 9.84252.

[stevesquick]

Do you notice poor gray uniformity related to backlighting on your unit? Mine has a couple of semi distracting vertical darker gray areas that’s only noticeable on moving scenes usually in sky scenes.

[VinzentB]

thanks was looking for the minimal brightness all voer the internet (:

[robertk]

Can you comment on the challenges of wall-mounting this monitor? I’ve read a couple reviews/comments on Amazon regarding the recessed mounting holes as well as vertical tabs protruding into the mount area. Any wall mounts that you could recommend?