Update:I am updating my review to 1 star because the monitor now after only 6 months of ownership will not keep an image for more than 10 minutes at a time. The screen goes black and all buttons unresponsive and I have to unplug the monitor and plug it back in.This problem happened with the last monitor I had from a different company-- The common thing is that both these monitors were super cheap options from their respective companies.Now, this is happening now, but I noticed that when I first got the monitor and tried to use the Picture in Picture feature that this would happen after a few minutes the entire screen goes black and monitor is unresponsive.It happened consistently when and only when I used PiP.. This was right after receiving it in the first week or two!A few months ago I discovered that I can turn HDR on in the monitor, and when I did that, after a month it started doing it for HDR mode... I was not able to keep HDR mode on .. so I turned HDR off..Now, it won't even stay on for more than 5-10 minutes without turning off.When I called LG they said they don't do warranty replacements, which is ridiculous because they should stand by BRAND NEW PRODUCTS. I don't want a defective product repaired and sent back to me when I bought a NEW product. I want a NEW monitor sent back to me, I can send them the old one if they wish, and they can repair that and do the QA thing and do whatever they want with it.But I want what I paid for, which is a new monitor, not a refurbished one.Given the only option though I was going to do it. But then they're not even able to provide me with a professional packaging for the monitor so it doesn't get destroyed. The most they would do is send ONLY a cardboard box! LOL. Everything is left to me to do it myself.No thanks.. Then I asked if they have arepairmen that can come to my house. They said they only do that for TVs.This is a horrendous experience to say the least. Now when I'm trying to save money I have to buy a new monitor because LG won't stand behind their products.Here is my advice: DO NOT BUY MONITORS THAT ARE UNDER $800. Both ones that were cheapos (this one and another $250 4K 28" monitor) failed on me. The LG 34" Ultra Wide that I have that I paid $800-$1000 .. I've owned two and they've both worked FOREVER. And others as well. Only cheapos have failed.Here is the original review:This is a great and affordable monitor, but I was initially (I stress: INITIALLY) disappointed with the quality of the white balance and brightness and color in general given that this is both an LG, and an LG UltraFine monitor. The color was WAY too blue on the brightest automatic setting (You have the different modes, like Cinema, Game, etc. you know what I'm talking about).I noticed that anytime I took a photo of the screen with my camera to post on social media the colors were WAY off in the photo, like WAY off. That's how bad the white balance was.. Green grass was like a weird blue green.The monitor has RGB color saturation which unlike what you'd expect with normal saturation settings the colors don't bleed when the saturation is set to 100% ... So I was able to fix the color AND brightness by setting the Color Temp to custom and then setting red and green to 93%, and blue to 54 with brightness set to 100.Everything else is whatever you want. I have Super Resolution set to off because all that does is make the image really sharp (Think Photoshop unsharpen filter) which makes it look photoshopped/not good.With those settings the monitor is great.But because the colors are so horrid out of the box that's why I dinged it from getting 5 stars.The stand does not have height adjustability which is not ideal because for most desks this will result in horrible ergonomics. I have a sit/stand desk and I had to raise the desk much higher than I would normally want to have good ergonomics.. Also the stand is so low that while my Mac mini fits under the monitor, the Mac Studio I plan to get is too tall to fit under the monitor.What I mean is this is a huge monitor right.. So it will take up a LARGE horizontal space on your desk.. There's only 3 1/2 inches of clearance under the screen to put your Mac mini or whatever other items you may have (I dunno .. phone/Apple Watch charging stand? whatever you guys might have)..Update: I added a picture of this to my review so you can see what I mean.It's literally 38 inches wide, so it's wide. You're gonna be sacrificing desk real estate unless you use a monitor arm which are not easy to find since this uses the larger 200mm TV VESA MOUNT sizing.It's a great monitor with some caveats that may or may not matter to you depending on your set up. My desk is 80 inches wide so when I do get the Mac Studio I will just rearrange my desk so I can put the Mac Studio to the left of the monitor or something since it won't fit underneath it.Like I said, I didn't even bother with a monitor arm because the only ones I could find that have 200mm VESA size mount are the kind that it's a stiff pole where the monitor is fixed to the pole with screws that tighten it on. You would not be able to move the arm around at all so I figured I would save myself the headache and just use it on the stand it comes with.Another option if you don't have a sit/stand desk is you can actually mount it on the wall like you would a TV. but then you can't move the desk around much, which isn't usually a problem for most setups.All in all it's an amazing bang for the buck at $500. It's a no brainer.