This morning after adjusting the view angle on my monitor I noticed a crack the upper left corner. Very little pressure was applied and I have done similar adjustments on my non-monoprice monitors in the past with no issues. Very disappointing.

Another minor annoyance is the base is slightly rounded which means it can not be used to store small items.

Great monitor!

Howdy folks, just wanted to chime in and report back. This monitor is an excellent value, I was able to snag it at $415 price, and I would do it over and over again. The panel is excellent, and the stand is really nice. I am comparing the stand my Dell 38" Ultrawide, and it's very similar in terms of build quality. When I do some occasional coding, it's a nifty feature being able to rotate the monitor to a vertical orientation. This monitor has a premium feel to it, without the premium price tag. I took a gamble on this monitor, since there werent any reviews on any reputable sources (rtings), and not much was said about it on places like Reddit. But it was a gamble that paid off. My initial impressions are very positive. Having all of this real estate in a 32 form factor is a great thing for productivity, and being able to have multiple applications open when doing things like web dev, and watching youtube videos and taking notes. I would buy another one in the future.

I'm not a huge gamer, but I stare at a monitor all day and want large size for content and higher resolution for eye comfort. Monitors designed for gamers have lower resolution, monitors designed for photography have four figure price tags. So I waited and bought a cheap 42" 4KTV as a monitor. It was too big and the sharpness/color even for basic productivity work was terrible. Once prices came down a bit, I upgraded to this.

This 32" Vivid monitor isn't perfect - it needs a setup/assembly guide, needs more HDMI inputs, better HDR, higher refresh on the USB-C input, the adjustment menu is difficult to navigate, and the matte finish makes it feel subjectively less sharp (objectively, it's fine. I just need to get used to it). But there are no dead pixels, color uniformity seems good, the stand is great. I'm finding myself using this PC more because the display is so much more comfortable than what I'd been using in the past. And it's an absolute bargain: similar IPS panels with worse stands cost $200 - $300 more.

Exactly what I expected

First off I really enjoy this monitor. I went from a Monoprice IPS 27in monitor to this 32" monitor. I'm running it at full resolution and am very happy with the extra space and quality of the picture.

My only complaint is that the monitor stand included with the monitor was locked up, and they only way they would send me a replacement was by me shipping them back the entire monitor first, then they would send me another one. That would have set me back at least 1 week working from home. So I decided to order a regular monitor stand and it works great.

So very happy with the product, it is hard to find a great 32" monitor out there for this price, and other than the stand I am very happy with this purchase.

At the current market with its price range, it should be a solid mid-upper tier 4k monitor, and the only area in which it delivers are the stand and the monitor itself which isn't all that bad. However it isn't great either, HDR 400 is borderline fake HDR, look it up if unaware.

Now onto the features - first of all imagine a $600 monitor, with only 1 HDMI cable built in for 2019/2020. I ended up needing to invest in a HDMI slitter for the most mundane setup - work laptop with micro-DP when I work from home, personal laptop / PC (just one) and a PS4 with HDMI. Especially given that "older" cable types such as DVI are also unavailable, it straight up only has 3 channels which is very low IMO that I'd expect to find only on the cheapest of cheap monitors.

I also encountered some software bugs or simply non-optimal designs which I'm too lazy to dig into to see if I can fix. It seems that with a Macbook resting, the screen doesn't turn off by itself and would also send some annoying sound blips to my speakers once in a while. I say this not knowing the full cause (could be a quirk of macbook) - BUT my previous monitors do not have this issue. I end up having to manually turn off my monitor every night and it just gets to me. Sometimes it would stuck between switching channel if the initial channel is cut off - buttons don't respond. A couple times I couldn't even turn it off and had to resort to unplugging and replugging to get it to work again.

Those could be my user errors - but if they are, they never happened with my previous monitors and are non-obvious non-intuitive what I should be doing.

The TL;DR is, overall the monitor is good enough for me to work with the quirks and not to bother returning it as a busy working professional. But at the same time would I do it again? Absolutely no. The final slap in the face is the newly listed 32'' 4k monitor on MP (wasn't available when I purchased this monitor) at price $399 seems great on all the features where I highly doubt the difference in monitor quality is big enough to worth the gap. Go there, don't buy this one.

I purchased this monitor and it worked okay for a couple of weeks. Then it started to get a glow around the edges, and about a week later it got a red line about a 1/4 of an inch from the right side from the top to the bottom. After a couple of days it faded and then a blue line at last pixel on the left side showed up and after a day faded away. Now I just have the yellowish glow around all edges.

I did submit an RMA but of course I don’t have the box anymore to send it back and get it replaced. I figured I could get them to put a hold on my CC and just send me a new monitor and I would send this one back in that box but no they don’t do that.

So now I have two options, get a box that will fit this enormous thing and send it safely back to Monoprice support OR I could just e-waste it. Honestly, the second option sounds a heck of a lot easier.

Disclaimer: Monoprice lent me this product to try in exchange for a fair and honest review.

I work in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) field and spend much of my day looking at data using a multitude of color schemes. This monitor allowed me to view raster data in a stretched color scheme with a more intricate level of detail. I could see the details of elevation datasets more clearly and could more quickly discern where I needed to work with the data. The wide range of color gives a noticeable difference when working with aerial imagery as well. Vegetation takes on a whole new level as the slight changes in green/gold/brown within a farm are visible are larger scales.

On top of that, the large 32" screen provided me with a much larger work space than I am used to. I could see much more of my work in a single view and could get more done in less time.

I used this monitor side by side with my current work issued monitors, both Samsung S24E450. That monitor has 16.7 million colors compared to the more than 1 billion of this one. I didn't think I would be able to see the difference but it was obvious once I had them running together. The size difference was also a big deal, considering my two Samsungs rotated to portrait basically make up the same space as this one monitor.

The catch 22 here is that these great levels of color detail that I see on screen unfortunately cannot be captured by the other hardware we have in the office. I know the moment I print a map or share a document with someone, that color detail will not be as vivid for anyone else. So that could be something to keep in mind depending on your work and the capabilities of who/what will be processing it.

Overall this is a great monitor to have when you need a larger color range and it has put into perspective for me how much more I can get done with the right hardware.