I got the Dell U2719D today. Here’s some thoughts about it. Long post incoming. I’ve never reviewed or have taken any “technical” look to computer monitors, so I really don’t have a clue what I’m doing. Treat these results whit that in mind.
First the good things:
The picture quality in general is ok in my opinion. When I compare picture quality to my old IPS display (Dell U2412M) I don’t see any major flaws and so on. There’s this odd shadow at the bottom of the screen, but I’ll get to that later.
Gaming is ok, I tried CS:GO, PUBG, Overwatch, some other FPS games and I didn’t feel or notice any problems. Other than I still suck at FPS games, but that’s not the screens fault.
Monitor has “normal” and “fast” modes for response time. Here is the pictures for the UFO test. The pictures were shot with iPhone SE.
Normal Mode:
Fast Mode:
I don’t know it switching the mode has any effect on input lag. There’s no way for me to test imput lag, but I didn’t notice any problems while gaming. Then again I’m just a casual gamer.
For the monitor design, I really like the thing bezels. Monitor does not feel that much bigger than my old 24 inch Dell U2412M. Monitor stand is the same quality you can expect from Dell.
The bad things:
There’s only one thing that bothers me with this monitor, and it’s this odd shadow that is visible at the bottom of the screen. According to this Reddit post that shadow is normal:
https://www.dell.com/support/article/ae/en/aebsdt1/sln309430/backlight-bleed-or-shadows-appearing-on-dell-infinityedge-borderless-monitors?lang=en
That post has some additional info and pictures included. I also took some pictures myself:
The shadow is mostly visible if you are looking the display from angle, meaning that the screen does not face directly toward you. First picture shows that if you look at the screen straight, the shadow is almost invisible. But if you look screen from and angle, the shadow is clearly visible. It’s hard to describe and its depends a lot how you like to look your display. I actually don’t notice that any more now that I adjusted screen better and have gotten little used to it. Thought this might still be a good thing to bring up.
If there’s any other test I should run just let me know.
sorry for the occasional broken English, its late and I should go to sleep.