Innocn 4K 160Hz Mini LED - 27M2V 

Quick Update: I still have the Innocn 27M2V!! 6 months in and I still love this monitor. Unfortunately last month I discovered two pencil sized red areas on an all black display. You had to sort of look for them, and it had to be all black, but by accident I found them while loading into the BIOS menu. Otherwise they did not show, and were gone with local dimming and HDR. I immediately reached out to Innocn for RMA. This process was not entirely painless TBH. It took almost 3 weeks of emails and finally a phone call to get them to issue my FedEx label, after initially responding immediately. It felt like they are a fairly large company and somewhat disorganized as far as service goes. Everyone was friendly/nice and response were usually within a day or 2 max. But I kept getting bounced around, or told they were following up or my case was being processed. Eventually I got fed up, I called them and talked to their service department which is in Austin Texas. Then I was given a FedEx label to send the old unit back. They actually cross shipped me and brand new monitor from Amazon stock after I shipped mine out. I assume they waited for that to happen before shipping mine. Oddly enough it arrived to my doorstep with no prior notice or shipment tracking, so I was confused when I found it on my front porch. Either way getting a brand new unit with the newest firmware was a nice treat for warranty service! The new monitor is very improved in terms of firmware. Local dimming is greatly improved, they must have changed the algorithm because it no longer completely ruins the image for desktop use, and is completely usable for 24/7 desktop. Some items in the OSD are different or new menus. Most importantly HDR is greatly improved in terms of turning it ON/Off. Now it will no longer revert to 30% brightness and forget your preset image setting. It will revert to your image setting and brightness. You can also toggle HDR On/Off with windows hotkeys or in display settings, so no longer need to enter OSD after initial setup. All in all, an awesome monitor, made even better! I'll try and do an updated video soon!

when you turned local dimming on I was genuinely shocked at how good it looked, definitely buying this.

thanks for the review. This monitor has slipped under my radar until today. At $800 vs the neo g7 $1200 (current sale), i'm definitely looking at every review i can find. I'm glad i waited for you to turn on local dimming because the ips glow at the start of the video looked horrible. Seeing the local dimming turn on is a definite wow factor. I think I've found a monitor worth selling my original 1440p g7 for.

Hey Talon! Thanks for this review of the INNOCN 27M2V, I just finished watching a review by Lau Kin Lam, but I don't speak Chinese, so while searching for a video in English, yours popped up! From what I've learned this afternoon about this monitor the "Gravity Switch/Sensor" isn't for your monitor falling off of your desk, but rather that though it's an accelerometer, it's a sensor that auto rotates between "Landscape" mode and "Portrait" mode. Gotta scoot, thanks again!

Thanks for the update , I have been watching this monitor for awhile now. The 27 and 32 in were back in stock last week and i though I would try the 32. Yeah its ugly, but WOW. now to get the setting all figured out.

That looks fantastic! Also a great price for the 27inch version

10:36 for people who want to see local dimming being enabled.

Excellent review , I have an innocn oled 15a1f Portable monitor that I use for single player games only since it is only 60hz but the hdr performance is incredible even though the typical brightness is only rated at 400nits full screen. Really thinking about getting this monitor for a new pc build. I was considering the cooler master tempest gp27q but it's sold out every where.

We need a Follow-up video and more on how it performs 1 month in!

Thanks for the review! This review convinced me to pick one up. I do have a question though. What do you have your contrast and shadow balance set at? My only issue is the very noticeable blooming/glow on the bottom corners and cannot figure out "ideal" settings for the life of me lol. I tried using the same brightness and RGB settings as you, but the whites seem to be pretty yellowed out. Regardless of all of that, love this monitor.

thanks a lot for the review. question - is PMW used to modulate brightness, do your eyes not get tired during long work, and what real color coverage did you get?

I've had this display for about 2 days now and the contrast is completely insane compared to my AW2721D IPS panel. There is a SSLLIIIGGGHHHTTT bit blooming visible when I play Diablo 2 Resurrected, for example if I'm running through a pitch-dark dungeon lit by torches. However, there is also a "Backlight Contrast" option in the OSD that completely eliminated the haloing, but also reduces the contrast -- even at just 15% however it is still leaps above IPS. In games that don't feature super-bright highlights against absolutely pitch-black backgrounds I've not seen any blooming in games at which point you can really crank up the Backlight Contrast. Third party calibration report are showing the panel at around 7,500-10,000:1 contrast ratio. This puts it roughly TEN TIMES the contrast of good IPS panels and 3-4 times the contrast of VA panels. Remember that this panel is reportedly a QD-IPS, and the color calibration seems to back that up, reporting over 98% coverage of sRGB, DCI-P3 and over 90% coverage of the AdobeRGB color gamuts. Also, this display is INSANELY BRIGHT! I keep my AW IPS @ 85%/65% brightness during daytime/nighttime use. This 27M2V I keep st just 55% and 35% brightness respectively. 85% brightness is absolutely BLINDING on this thing and the HDR looks *_better than my C1 OLED,_* because that high brightness really makes colors POP in a way I've never really seen before.

Thank for your review. Would you still find the monitor a good monitor now after 4 months?

Nice. I'm in the market for a new monitor and I was looking at this one. What's the HDCP version? I can't find complete specs anywhere.

Hi Talon! Thanks for this amazing review of the INNOCN 27M2V. Could you check that it supports Dolby Vision HDR? Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the video. Did you ever find out if you can update the firmware? Also was there ever a fix so you could hotkey the local dimming? Having to go into the menu every time seems like it would be a pain. Thanks!

this monitor is nuts. i hope they bring it back for $699

Question on the matte coating, are you able to see where it ends on the edges of the screen, or does it look like it wraps around the whole screen and goes behind it? Thinking about buying this monitor and trying to remove the coating.

How has been the experience with the monitor? I'm not sure about buying it because of the company which I don't know about. I want it for 4k gaming. Keep up the good work

any reason why you wouldn't keep local dimming on all the time?

Hello Talon, I just recieved my Innocen 27m2v monitor today. Out of the box, it was working fine. Tested it with my PC, PS5, and laptop through USB-C. I was playing on the PS5 for a couple of hours, then out of nowhere the screen glitches a bit and OSD no longer worked. I looked it up on Innocn and it states OSD won't show if there is No Signal. I am able to see the display by turning on the PC/PS5/Laptop but have to flip the On/Off button, but for some reason the monitor think there's no signal. Do you have any idea what I can do to solve this?

You kinda sound like Bill Hader and it's wiggin' me out haha good review

Can no longer find it on Amazon anymore, was going to purchase this week but it seems like it disappeared

Going to save up some money to buy this when its available in my country, not sure when tho 😅

I saw a post that stated when using SDR with local dimming on the user was experiencing blurriness and loss of detail in the image shown on the screen. Is that a case for you as well?

Could you possibly make a video of the monitor playing a game? Like Idk genshin Impact? Or some kind of bright colored game that also supports HDR. Maybe fortnite?

Any chance you could upload gameplay recording the display? MW2 preferably :)

The monitor looks fantastic, I'm going to pick up the 32 inch version. I can't justify the price of the Acer Predator X32 FP.

Did you try the kvm functionality? Desktop DP/HDMI + laptop via ucb-c? Not a lot of info on how this monitor handles this. Thanks

thank you for showing me how to do this on my monitor i was about to say i got scammed lmao. this is amazing it looks like my oled.

Hey I’ve just bought this monitor, however I’ve been experiencing black screen issues while ONLY playing OW2 (Xbox series X player btw). Every so often my screen completely goes black for around 5 or more seconds, and it’s more annoying than it sounds lol. Just wondering if you’ve experienced something like this, and if I there’s any fixes or tips you can give me as I’ve found little to nothing about this online… and I’m thinking about returning it if this continues with no fixes…

Have you had any issues turning on Local dimming when playing games with HDR,VRR or Gsync in combination. I have a 4090 as well. Right now I’m on an Asus PG27uq. Similar monitor but with a lot less dimming zones(352) and no HDMI 2.1. After watching your video; I think I’m gonna buy one. I just wanna make sure everything works correctly. Like my Asus is an HDR Ultimate. Meaning I can run Gsync and HDR at the same time with no issues(As I’m sure, you already know being a HDR monitor fanatic like me. Lol)That’s kind of why I’m asking. I didn’t see that this monitor has the ultimate badging. I’m pretty sure it’s just compatible. Anyway, great video I really wanted to see this thing in action and you posted it so, thanks again! Much appreciated…..ps. I bought the Asus 32UQX about a year ago on sale for $2700 and it runs everything all at once too; but then again the flawed masterpiece that it is does not support HDMI 2.1 Now I’m wanting to put my PS five on a monitor as well, so this kind of seems like the perfect match. I guess in summary; my main question is I just wanna make sure that when I turn Gsync on and have HDR running at the same time(hopefully supported)that it works fine and that the local Dimming does not freak out. Subscribed!

Sorry about the audio test guys. Just realized Windows Chrome settings were still set to headphones for audio. So annoying how windows gets in the way sometimes.

How did you get the 144hz/160hz? I have it connected to my PC with 3070 NVIDIA RTX card HDMI 2.1

14:00 I'm looking at it from an LG 42" C2 TV and the blacks do look black with my OLED. I'm thinking about getting one of those as long as I can get inky blacks with local diming. I use my 42" TV as a PC monitor and for watching TV shows, movies, and videos. My TV shows 1,332 hours given that I mostly use it about 15 hours a day. A 27" would be a great size for me, but I'll miss out on 42" for watching movies where top and bottom black bars simply do not exist. Of course, as much as I want to go with a 27" 4K monitor, I'm kind of hesitant when buying this monitor for dark room performance alone. Beats saving hundreds of dollars over a Samsung Odyssey Neo G8. I seriously cannot stand backlight when it comes to watching movies with a 27" 4K monitor. Hopefully there will be monitors with IPS Black with local dimming that would surpass even this monitor's contrast ratio so that backlight bleeding is a thing of the past.

Any bloom using dark mode at night on the INNOCN 27M2V? I have the Sony INZONE M9 at home but Im thinking of getting the INNOCN 27M2V.

Will the contrast and picture quality of the 32" version of this be that much worse? Considering it has less dense zones.

did you even turn the video in HDR ,,,a;; i see is 4k ? press wind key+alt+b,,,to turn on and off HDR mode in wind 11?

Cant find this monitor nowhere on the market, not on amazon and not even on their official site, any suggestions where to get it ? link in description redirects me to 60hz M2U monitor

You guys think this monitor will be good for photo/video editing?

160hz vrr apparently only works AMD cards according to their support. How is the matte coating?

the review says 160 hz but on Amazon it says top hz is 60, which one is it?

Is it matte or glossy? Sorry I haven't watched your whole video yet - maybe I'll be able to answer my own question soon. :p

i got the 32 inch version paid $450 was it a steal? or a bad invesment for gaming?

How bad is the input lag while using fald?

I can't find this for sale. Too bad.

4K processing. Standby.

Why would you post a review of a 4k monitor in 1080p?

Amazon is listing this monitor at only 60hz just wanted to double check and make sure it’s actually 144 plus??

This or the GP27U 🙈🙈🙈 what to doooo

Is this a 8bit or 10bit??

Prefers a cooler image… 🧐🤮

Have you actually been able to watch Netflix 4K HDR on PC with this monitor? I have a Cooler Master GP27U and It acts like its not HDCP 2.2 compliant, and only streams in 1080p SDR. But if I hook my Xbox One X up to it, it streams Netflix 4K HDR no problem

That 1440p LG OLED has way more problems than it's worth in my opinion.