Edit: I liked it enough to buy a second and spelling considerations.
Update: the second unit has wildly inconsistent backlighting, colors, and bleed. I have ordered up a replacement and hope it's a fluke.
Update again: The third monitor, although having the worst looking calibration sheet of the three is perceptually the same as the first. Uniform backlit and glow, no backlight bleed what so ever. Fwiw, the Dell box in the Amazon box for the second monitor looked like it had been roughed up a fair bit before Amazon sent it out the me. The first and third Dell boxes looked much better and maybe the second one was a fluke do to rough handling before it ended up in my hands. It is impossible to say but for what it is worth I now have two perfect copies of the U2719DX and am quite happy.
Update 02-03-2019: This will be the last update unless something goes terribly wrong. I am still very happy with the monitors. One thing I noticed vs the Asus s is that when cold, the asus s' backlight generate a bit of light flickering for the first 20-30 seconds of wake from sleep/power on. These Dells do not. Again, they are not gaming monitors but they have very lovely color and consistency and I think would make for a nice budget photo or video editing display or a quality additional monitor where adaptive sync is not a concern. Using them as surround displays to a Gsync main, some tearing and lag is perceptible (Assasin's Creed Odyssey, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Trackmania Turbo, etc) but not enough to make them unsuitable for an nVidia surround option for that expanded field of view. In non fast paced gaming, there are no issues to this end (Civilization series, Xcom series, etc)
Update 04-11-2019: I just used the USB ports on the second of these monitors where one has always had at least one port in use. The second monitor's powersupply generates a 12KHz whine whenever any device is plugged in where the Asus PG279Q and the other of these U2719DX displays does not. It is quite audible but not enough for me to bother RMAing at this point. Probably will try towards the end of the warranty period.
To keep it brief, I only have a few different monitors for frame of reference: Asus PG279Q, Asus PG279QZ, the TN 120hz gsync on my Alienware 17r4, the OLED on my Alienware 13 R3.
Does it have the viewing angles, contrast, or colors of the OLED laptop display? No.
It is at least the equal of the IPS Asus s in those regards. It does not exhibit those s' annoying green casting of black verticle text elements on white backgrounds and with informal testing seems much, much closer to truly neutral in grays out of the box than my best efforts to tune the PG279Q/z. Despite being 60Hz refresh rate using a Displayport certified Club3d cable it doesn't suffer for non 3d gaming motion perceptual smoothness in video playback or motion of mouse from Logitech G Pro wireless mouse at any DPI setting I use (between 400 dpi and 10k). I wouldn't suggest picking this up as a first person shooter monitor, I tried gaming on it and on where I dominate (relatively) on the Gsync 144hz PG279Q, I get fragged and miss a lot of shots I simply make on the Dells. Last note here is this monitor's bezels are about two-thirds the effective thickness of the Asus "bezeless" and almost completely flush vs the very obvious lip on said Asus s. The U2719DX looks much classier off, on, and only gives up frame rate and Gsync to the much pricier PG279Q displays.
There was a calibration sheet from the factory and it looks dead on. It has its power converter built in so all you need is an IEC C13 cable for power (included in box with HDMI and USB 3.1 generation 1 A to B cables but no DP cable).
The headphone output is enough to drive some Shure SRH-1840 headphones to uncomfortable levels but the amp and DAC on board won't replace a quality desktop solution from the usual parties but is more than enough in quantity and quality to satisfy those who 'checked out' at DAC. That said, it sounds better with my very low impedance Shure SE846 iems fwiw and better still from the SE535.
I did not use the included base assembly as this display is on a VESA 100x100 mount. It does not 75x75 natively fwiw. Like everything else common to the package and display itself Dell thoughtfully had the base and accessories intelligently packed in a single box that also serves as the transit protection for the back side of the monitor. It lifts out very easily to reveal the assembly itself and goes right back in to the box at the same height allowing you to easily keep all accessories in the transit carton secured as they were when they left the factory. Asus should take notes here. I have retained those boxes in case of RMA or future sale and they take up approximately 4 times the volume while not securing unused bits nearly as tidily.
All in all I am very happy with the product for the price charged.
Conserves energy compared to similar products.
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