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SCEPTRE 27 Inch IPS Ultra 4K LED Monitor U278W-4000R, UHD 3840x2160, HDMI 2.0 DVI DisplayPort Speakers, Metallic Black (2017)

The brightest lights and darkest darks unfold before your eyes whether you are working or gaming with the Sceptre 27" 4K UHD monitor. With an unprecedented Degree of versatility, DisplayPort delivers video and audio. HDMI not only delivers superior d...

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(12 reviews)
Design

(9 reviews)
Money

(8 reviews)
Picture

(38 reviews)
Price

(32 reviews)
Display

(23 reviews)
Screen

(25 reviews)
Stand

(22 reviews)
Color

(54 reviews)
Quality

(40 reviews)
Flicker

(14 reviews)
Brightness

(13 reviews)
Review

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Issue

(9 reviews)
Bite

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Reviews around value (5.00 of 5)

  • Overall, well built high quality display and great value at the price point.
  • Great value, nice materialsProbably the best 4K 27" display at 60Hz with 5ms response time for the price of $200
  • You have to adjust the color or hue out of the box to your taste, but these appear to be a great value 4K 27" monitor.
  • Aside from that, display looks and runs great, and is a great value for the price.
  • Good value for a 4K. I like the built in speaker capability
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Reviews around deal (5.00 of 5)

  • I looked around for a month before purchasing this monitor and failed to find a better deal
  • Shows no proper quality control, but given the low price, I still consider it a very good deal
  • It's a great deal for the size and resolution, however it's kind of finicky about changing inputs
  • It is still a good deal, but I am thinking about returning it.
  • But if you can squeeze a little more out of your budget, I would go with e a more reputable competitor.
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Reviews around design (4.33 of 5)

  • The display is well built and the stand is well designed, as others have indicated
  • Though I still have yet to get that perfect setting combo, I doubt I ever will
  • The stand is stylish and features a minimalistic design however it could also be improved, including a hight ajustment for example would make it perfect
  • Pro's - good value for 4k and size - well physically designed and constructed
  • Sleek design, speakers are not the greatest but honestly who uses the speakers on a monitor
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Reviews around money (4.30 of 5)

  • So trust me, if you're tempted because of the price, just don't buy it, save a little more money and get something with better quality
  • Haven't had any issues with the monitor and it's a good money saver.
  • , that's about it, spend some better money and get better monitors.
  • But if you can squeeze a little more out of your budget, I would go with e a more reputable competitor.
  • but I don't really feel like wasting my time and money to fix something that really doesn't bother me all that much
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Reviews around picture (4.23 of 5)

  • Great picture, but the durability on it for me was trash.
  • The screen is bright, the picture is clear, and the number of inputs is great
  • Seems to be a bit sensitive to static as the picture will occasionally cut out when sitting down at my desk, but quickly comes back
  • It has great picture at half the price of competing TVs
  • I was very excited to receive this monitor but upon setting it up, the top left and bottom left of the screen shows pressurized distortion and blooming which ruins the picture
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Reviews around price (4.18 of 5)

  • The price hits so well that more people can afford a quality 4K 60Hz monitor
  • This is a very good monitor for the specs you are getting and the price you are paying
  • If u are looking for a really high quality monitor that looks great on a desk with really good gaming graphics for a great price this is the one
  • The price is super cheap for a 4K screen and the screen is wider than i thought it would be
  • Though I still have yet to get that perfect setting combo, I doubt I ever will
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Reviews around display (3.99 of 5)

  • Screen is great with very crisp display but the issue is with little bit of overall lag
  • So, what you get is a sharp display, with good overall color and saturation, that is a decent build quality, has VESA mount support, and you get
  • the display and build quality are nice, but that doesn't matter when the quality isn't up to par.
  • Though I still have yet to get that perfect setting combo, I doubt I ever will
  • Display looks grainy at 1080p, if you purchase this, make sure you're actually going to run at 4k
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Reviews around screen (3.88 of 5)

  • The screen is bright, the picture is clear, and the number of inputs is great
  • The manual says the screen is very fragile, so don't even touch it.
  • But that got worse as you can see in the picture, now the entire screen has vertical red garbage all over it
  • Basically, my screen looks like it has scan lines (from the old days CRTs) and the 4k resolution is unusable (reading is very uncomfortable at that resolution when you miss half of the horizontal lines).I lost the box with the manual a few months ago during a move so now I'm stuck with a very dark and completely unsharp (because of the missing horizontal lines) 1080 image which is ridiculous
  • Screen is great with very crisp display but the issue is with little bit of overall lag
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Reviews around stand (3.53 of 5)

  • I would give it five stars but the stand is not really usable
  • The stand is not cat friendly and can topple easily of you have a bigger cat
  • The colors are amazing, the stand is sturdy with a good finish on
  • The included stand looks really good and offers the ability to angle the monitor, but not adjust the height
  • The stand is not cat friendly and can topple easily of you have a bigger cat
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Reviews around color (3.41 of 5)

  • Fuzzy image, multiple dead pixels on each monitor, hard to set good color
  • So, what you get is a sharp display, with good overall color and saturation, that is a decent build quality, has VESA mount support, and you get
  • My monitor arrived in perfect condition, with no dead pixels and excellent color out of the box
  • Viewing angles are awful, colors are awful, brightness is awful
  • The screen will also randomly flash multiple colors and lose focus, like an old CRT monitor when you demagnetized them.
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Reviews around quality (3.17 of 5)

  • Honestly, the fact that it is 4K is irrelevant given the poor quality of the display
  • You are going to get decent color reproduction but not necessarily the best for intense image editing or manipulation (fantastic quality though if you work with high resolution images)
  • I have experience good viewing angles, good blacks, great color reproduction, and great quality
  • It looks great, fantastic image quality, and base design
  • The options here are not spectacular and contribute greatly to the poor color quality
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Reviews around flicker (2.22 of 5)

  • The pixels look crisp and the picture is stable, it's not flickering.
  • A pair of these with Windows 10 driven by a powerful CPU, say 8 core AMD and graphics card, say Radeon R9 270X DD or GeForce GTX1050, gives a wonderful twin 4K desktop system.
  • (Update) Horizontal driver developed annoying intermittent flicker
  • It's connected through DisplayPort using a Cable Matters USB C Multiport Adapter (USB C Dock with USB C to DisplayPort 4K 60Hz), 2x USB 2.0, Fast Ethernet, and 60W PD in White - USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 Port Compatible for MacBook Pro and More.
  • I purchased this in May and its now September, This monitor occasionally has a strange flicker and now has faint, notebook-like lines appearing in the top right-hand corner
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Reviews around brightness (2.12 of 5)

  • Got a second one and after under 2 months of light use it started having flickering horizontal lines and lowered brightness thus making it unusable by me
  • By all means the monitor isn't terrible and unusable; it will function perfectly fine if all you need is 4K resolution running at 60Hz through HDMI and don't care about great colors, brightness and contrast
  • Both monitors also had very inconsistent brightness and screen flickering
  • But if you can squeeze a little more out of your budget, I would go with e a more reputable competitor.
  • The brightness is extremely lacking, there's a huge chance that you'll have dead pixels, the viewing angles are horrible, it heats up easily, and calibrating the monitor is a nightmare (Very old menus).I thought that I could deal with some issues for around $200, but I was wrong
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Reviews around review (2.02 of 5)

  • I think people gave this monitor negative reviews because they dont know how to tweak the settings
  • Because as I awaited for "my baby" to get here, a stream of bad reviews rolled in about the monitor not being able to hit 4k resolution and a plethora of other issues
  • Dont let the bad reviews fool you, this is a great value for the money
  • But if you can squeeze a little more out of your budget, I would go with e a more reputable competitor.
  • Ordered this monitor based on good reviews on multiple of the company's products.
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Reviews around issue (1.95 of 5)

  • This is a good monitor if you get no dead pixels or my issue
  • I disregarded the issue, and kept using it until a few days ago, half of the pixels decided to die
  • If the two issues I had don't matter to you then I would recommend buying the monitor.
  • Though I still have yet to get that perfect setting combo, I doubt I ever will
  • I have read in other reviews that there ae some severe QQ issues, but I did not have any
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Reviews around bite (1.95 of 5)

  • It seems like overall if they went through a bit better quality assurance, they would be great!
  • t work computer and
  • The settings control panel on the back has been said to be a bit difficult to use, but I have had no issue in using it and find that it is a once and done change for me as once you find a happy medium, you just leave it and change everything else from within the PC itself
  • I cannot say with any certainty whether being able to select DP from the menu would fix the issue, but it seems a bit odd to me that I cannot even open the menu unless there is something connected to the screen supplying video.
  • But if you can squeeze a little more out of your budget, I would go with e a more reputable competitor.
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Reviews around screw (1.80 of 5)

  • so it doesnt really bother me, the other complaint is that on the part where the stand mounts to the monitor the screws are very loose, not enough to cause issues, just enough to make it wobbly
  • Sadly, my unit came with wrong screws, I couldn't secure the stand to the monitor tightly causing the panel to wiggle with every slight movement
  • It's connected through DisplayPort using a Cable Matters USB C Multiport Adapter (USB C Dock with USB C to DisplayPort 4K 60Hz), 2x USB 2.0, Fast Ethernet, and 60W PD in White - USB-C & Thunderbolt 3 Port Compatible for MacBook Pro and More.
  • Shipped with 3 loose screws and one moving around inside the TV box, where the base joint is screwed to the frame of the TV
  • It also comes with a really well built screw driver to assemble its stand, or four standoffs in case you want to use a VESA mount
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Reviews around line (1.58 of 5)

  • Basically, my screen looks like it has scan lines (from the old days CRTs) and the 4k resolution is unusable (reading is very uncomfortable at that resolution when you miss half of the horizontal lines).I lost the box with the manual a few months ago during a move so now I'm stuck with a very dark and completely unsharp (because of the missing horizontal lines) 1080 image which is ridiculous
  • I began testing the monitor and found that while watching videos, a blurry horizontal line would come across the screen around the area where there was movement in the video
  • I dinged it 2 stars as my original one was defective (red lines randomly appearing and the screen would go black)
  • Today it started flickering horizontal lines all over the screen
  • The perfect budget 4K display.1 Star - Not quite two months later, after the return window closed, evenly spaced thin solid horizontal black lines now cover the display
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Reviews around pixel (1.10 of 5)

  • but it comes with the possibility of having dead pixels
  • Great picture no dead pixels, perfect complement to my GTX 980ti until my RTX 2080 arrives.
  • My monitor has a few dead pixels, about the size of an the dot of the "i".
  • This is a good monitor if you get no dead pixels or my issue
  • Mine came with several dead pixels right in the middle of the screen
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More about SCEPTRE 27 Inch IPS Ultra 4K LED Monitor U278W-4000R, UHD 3840x2160, HDMI 2.0 DVI DisplayPort Speakers, Metallic Black (2017)

  • The brightest lights and darkest darks unfold before your eyes whether you are working or gaming with the Sceptre 27" 4K UHD monitor
  • With an unprecedented Degree of versatility, DisplayPort delivers video and audio
  • HDMI not only delivers superior digital video and audio, but also Connects both to the monitor using a single cable.