The First Glossy Gaming Monitor 

What a time to be alive.10 years ago every monitor was glossy, and we wanted mat coatings. Now: first glossy gaming monitor. In few years we will have first gaming mouse with a ball :)

i always wondered why everybody wanted matte coating when i personally thought glossy looked best! it's great to see glossy making a comeback for gaming monitors!

I really love how these monitors are clean, simple and no logos.

This man's biceps grow with every new subscriber.

I've been using the LG c1 oled since August. So I have some experience in both glossy and matte. If you have your setup where a window is facing the monitor, don't even bother getting glossy unless you get blackout curtains. The reflections is insanely noticeable. But if your setup has curtains or isn't near a window.... it is definitely 100% worth getting over matte. I've noticed that if you have a room only lit by ceiling lights, the matte actually looks worse because it spreads the lightness throughout the monitor.

I would never have thought about that if you didn't mentioned here. I think Mac screens are looking so good, because they are more glossy than others, despite being coated in some way. I also had a relatively old laptop lying around. Resolution was not fancy, but the screen was glossy and looked much better indoors than more modern laptops with a matte screen.

I’ve often wanted to remove my matte filter to see what the screen looks like glossy. It’s possible but it could never be returned to its original condition. I’m surprised no manufacturer has come up with a removable or optional matte filter at factory.

I love glossy panels! I game in a dark room with thick curtains, so reflections are never really a problem. All monitors don't have to be glossy, but they don't have to be all matte either. Give customers a choice! Besides, you can always put a matte screen protector over a glossy screen if you really want. Removing a matte coating is much more difficult.

I've had a glossy panel for 10 years, and the trick is to have a warm light source that that is at an angle where it won't be visible as a reflection on the glossy panel, but still able to uniformly shine its light across the entirety of the panel. For some reason it greatly increases vibrancy, contrast and gives you deeper blacks. Matte panels can't even compare, as long as you know how to set up your lighting conditions, which is why I'm waiting for some nice glossy options before upgrading. It's like comparing a high quality photograph, printed on glossy paper, to an aged, washed-out printout on plain paper.

As far as I'm concerned, the more options for monitors out there the better. People will like this depending on their gaming environment. If you are in a small windowless room where you can easily control reflections, this is a great option. In the living room, not so much.

another advantage of glossy over matte is that to deal with reflections you can control the environment, turn off the lights, remove bright objects and more, with mate you are sort of stuck and it will always have a layer of anti glare hindering your experience.

Back in the day I looked specifically for glossy monitors. This was before all the hz wars and 60 was just the thing. I preferred the colors and everything just seemed to look better to me. Didn't know this was a thing coming back but am actually happy about it. Looking forward to try one out.

I am so happy that Eve stood up to the plate and gave us consumers what we wanted. I have been holding off upgrading my old ass desktop monitor because I love glossy displays and I despise matte antiglare.

ICAN personally go either way with monitors being matte or glossy. Growing up using an occasional glossy lcd monitor in its infancy was easy imo to adjust to. Now using my LG CX Oled and a normal monitor depending on which gaming rig I’m using is fine to use either way. I have normal Venetian blinds and the glare is no problem nor distracting in any way on my Oled when gaming. I definitely agree that a glossy screen gives you a noticeably sharper image 🥰👍

No wonder the LG OLED glossy TVs look so nice!

My 2007 HP Pavilion had a beautiful glossy panel that I have had a hard time finding an equivalent to in much modern laptops... the reflection never really bothered me.

I have won a glossy BenQ LED TN LCD in a tournament back in 2006, and I thought it was the single biggest improvement to an LCD screens ever. Gone was the bland look, everything was more vibrant, CLEAR, much more like on my CRT. Still, it was 75Hz so I sold it. In January 2022 I went on to build a new PC and decided to finally buy myself LCD as the main screen (been using Mitsubishi SB2070 all those years)... but there were none in the shops? So I just bought 144Hz AOC 24G2U, as it was a reasonable price to check 144Hz, if I'm ok with IPS, pixel density and fps vs size and resolution. I will say side by side on the strongest overdrive it is close to 100Hz on my Mitsubishi, but it is not even a competition when CRT is running on 120Hz or more (this one can go 160Hz depending on the resolution). Anyway glossy 240Hz 27 1440 IPS is probably what I would like next.

Never understood why everyone wants matte screens. I mean in a gaming Setup you plan to not have any light reflections on your monitor anyways and glossy is so much better in quality

Holy shit, been some weeks since I last checked your channel and wtf? You're pumped! Fit af, good for you!

i'm very happy to see a high refresh glossy panel! i adore the mini-LED screen on my macbook pro, and my Acer 34 GX is awesome, but I wish it was not curved and glossy. I would probably even go back to 16:9 but I just can't push 4k easily with my 3070 on some titles

I went from "why would you need that" to "oh, why wouldn't you need that"

What do I have to say? You look more and more buff after each new video! Good work, on both fronts.

Thank you for your reviews and builds. Keep up the good work!

Got one ordered months ago, they're supposed to ship in June, we'll see how it goes. I'm very excited about testing this.

I love the fact that my 7 yr old gaming laptop does have a glossy panel instead of all the gaming laptops that come with matte coatings today.

I want glossy now. I use to have an epic glossy display and with the position I keep my monitors and my lighting I don’t care about glare. I care about image quality and color accuracy. I have such a hard time enjoying my lg ips 144hz 1440p 32” because of the matte finish and washed out colors. I’ve tried calibrating it but im wondering if I need one of those devices to calibrate it

THANK YOU!!!!!!! BEEN LOOKING FOR LIKE 5 OR MORE YEARS FOR THIS!!!!!!!!!

Currently use a 4k tv with glossy finish for both gaming and productivity. Don't have a lot of glare in my setup even during the day, and I usually use indirect lighting in the room, so don't really have an issue with glare, and I love the colors

I ordered one. Wish me luck it ever arrives given Eve Device's history

This was very enlightening! I didn't realise that the light dispersion of the matte panel had an impact on clarity, but you explain and prove it well. Thank you!

I totally love glossy panels and I don't get why they stopped making them several years ago. I still remember how good the image looked on an Acer laptop that had a glossy panel. None of the matte finish panels today offer that "clear" image anymore. Also, as I primarily game and watch content in a dark room, reflections won't be an issue. I'm also interested in removing my matte filter from my 27gn800, saw some guides on YT that show them being peeled off after soaking them with paper towels and water. I haven't found one for my particular model but I think I'll give it a try soon.

Thanks for making a list! I was searching for this for a while, i have an arcade game setup with a ton of LED's and in the real arcade there is a glossy display + glass panel in front of the monitor And i already got one of the glass panels but didn't know where to find a glossy display. I hope it's going to look epic when i get around to setting it up.

Is it me? Or is he getting more and more jacked every video

For me if my setup has proper lighting, (i.e. no insane reflections) I would definitely choose a glossy coating, after living with a glossy coating laptop for a few years I definitely agree on the reflection being an issue. For now I have completely transferred back to matte coatings for both my laptop and desktop, but if you are able to control the lighting perfectly with like a desk setup I don't see why not for going for a glossy coating for all the benefits it provides.

I've always looked for a high quality glossy monitor as an extra portrait one to run next to my main. Glad there's an option now.

I was looking for this for the past 5 years! Finally someone did it!

Miss glossy monitors. Love the better contrast and vibrance they have. I actually still have a glossy 24” monitor in use on an second computer. The new Alienware AW3423DW is a glossy OLED monitor and I’m so tempted to pick that up. Any chance you’ll review it?

My computer is connected to a LG CX (glossy) and my MacBook Pro has glossy display as well. For the CX in particular, which is a really nice OLED display,. it is far too glossy for daytime watching dark content in my living room. Just too much light reflections, especially from sun lit areas. Superior at evening though. For MBP, you do notice some reflections, but generally the screen is brighter + more of my work content is lighter, less reflections are shown.

for me it depends on my setup. right now, my setup is in a studio apt with a lot of windows, so lighting is quite variable, and matte works best. i soon plan to split my setup to gaming and work separately. work will be mostly naturally lit, and have those same caveats that are pro-matte. but i'm hoping to move my gaming setup somewhere that'll be very light-controlled (with less, not more of it as well), so glossy might be good there

absolutely nuts to see this channel grow over quarantine and now to this. well deserved , love the videos

i'd love to see more glossy gaming monitors. picture quality just looks a lot better. insane that apple charges $300 extra for apple studio display and $1000 extra for XDR display to have matte displays on their already expensive monitors lol

Sometimes in certain lighting scenarios, glossy works so much better for reflection control. I worked at an office with overhead lights once that even though the lights weren't reflecting in the panel directly, you could see large, soft blooms of light in across the panel from these overhead lamps because of how much the matte coating blurs and makes the reflections larger. If I was using a glossy screen in this situation, there would just plain be no visible reflections from those lights at all -- which would have been visually preferrable.

When I was looking for an ultrawide 2 years ago I ended up with BenQ's VA panel over the some other brands with IPS panels because my office and the whole apartment is really bright. With this panel the reflections aren't bad. Couldn't imagine getting an IPS panel, not to mention a glossy IPS model. :D

On the one hand, I'd love to have a glossy screen for the better look, on the other I like sitting in sunny spots while on the computer and my mate screen does a great job of handling reflections.

My own experience with glossy monitors is that they are great if you can completely control the lighting of your setup. Very much preferred. If you can't control the lighting, just get a matte finish display.

The way I could just watch every single video when I know I can’t afford half the stuff she shows on the channel lol. Keep it up man your videos are always so informative and top tier quality that we all enjoy.

Thank god finally glossy panels again. Last one i had was an acer ferrari 20” and still miss it. Wasnt really super good but the colors popped on that screen.

Viewing angle is important. I use a big 48" LG CX OLED as a Gaming Monitor. Since it is a TV is also has the glossy finish. My big deffused LED Light on the ceiling doesn't reflect that much since it is offaxis. My Second Monitor, which is matte, doesn't reflect on the TV. The only thing that is reflecting in the bottom corner is my Keyboard-Backlight. I have no other RGB in my room. Before that i had a LG 27GL850 which not only was matte and pretty gray in the dark areas, but it also had BLB in 4 colors over 70% of the Screen...but BLB is not a defect...

I hope EVE as a company manages to deliver and deal with the whole customer side of things. Screen sure looks nice tho!

I think most computer monitors for years have had the matt finish by default due to many buyers being people who work in offices, or people in brightly lit spaces. However a good proportion of people now work from home and can control the lighting. And most gamers I know prefer to game in a dark environment anyway. I am a big fan of glossy displays.

Can't wait for the Alienware OLED ultrawide with the antireflective coating, that'll be a stark contrast to my IPS with matte

I think Dave2D covered this in the past about the GLOSSE finish in a monitor. I think it depends upon your preference in the end.

I have been using the same glossy monitor for my pc for about 10+yrs. Always thought they looked better than matte

Brings me back to the CRT days with the reflections on screen. It definitely looks sharper but I'd prefer to stay with the anti glare since the sharpness doesn't amount to anything when there is a big glare spot on the screen. I know because I used to experience it.

Much love, as always, amazing review. 👍 Alienware QD Oled when? 😁

About ten years ago I used a glossy Samsung s27a750d. It's advertised as 3d and not gaming, but it has 120hz refresh rate and game mode in OSD menu, so I used it mainly for gaming. It also came with 3D glasses, something we haven't seen for a long time. To summary, the image quality was superb and I had no trouble with reflection whatsoever. Too bad my unit died after three years and Samsung stops making a successor to this model.

never pre-order is the one thing I've learnt when it comes to anything hardware or gaming.

I am super dívided with this topic. I recently bought my first 1440p monitor and for some reason the matt coating was really apperant, espacilly with a white background. It was so apperent that I actually had to send it back. Since then I am really interested in a glossy Display, but like you said the huge impact of the surronding light depending on the time of the day holds me back. I mean since they only plan to use the glossy coating for the 1440p 240 hz and 4k 144 hz it should not really concern me since I am neither rich enough nor interested in those specs for a monitor. But awesome Video like always

I get that monitor meant for offices should be matte as there are usually multiple sources of bright lights in an office and an individual have little control over the lighting. But as for gaming monitors, they are almost always found in the comfort of a gamer's home with full control over the lighting and positioning. Both my phone and iPad have glossy screens and I never once find reflection to be an issue.

I think after seeing the difference I totally want a glossy panel now. I'm all about that picture quality and as far as the reflections go, I can just turn off some of the lights in the house and move things around a bit to not get any reflections. My mom had a iMac some years ago and I always liked the build quality of that if nothing else. Now that I remember it, a big part of that was its excellent glossy screen. So I want the glossy PC monitors to come back.

Even with direct bright light shining on it, glossy looks so much better. I can actually still see the image. I’m blinded by the smearing horrible mess of the matte panel. I hope my Alienware AW3423DW doesn’t look too bad with reflections.

I had a glossy screen on my laptop back then, and as you've already said, it's all just personal preference. For me though, if I'm just staring a still image when editing photos or any work that needs the image to be clear, I'd say stick with the glossy panel. When gaming however, the reflections of my hands when I'm gaming is just so damn annoying and distracting. I just hope that they'll be able to combine the best traits of both one day.

nice panel but im waiting on the alienware oled coming out end of month with glossy panel, hope you make a review of that monitor, im stoked about it, 1st of its kind

Dave2D had a video on this too. I love glossy monitors and still miss my iMac for that reason. Hopefully more companies get into the glossy bandwagon

Finally. I've been a fan of glossy for years, because the benefits usually far outweigh the drawbacks in an environment and lighting under the users control.

I miss glossly monitors. I used to use my sisters mac desktop PC which is an all in 1 PC and loved the glossy screen with its brightness. The contrast is more vivid, image is sharper, and feel like its just looks so sleek over all. I didnt mind the glare either cos it swas bright enough.

Small correction, i believe the glossiness is not the product of a glossy coating per se, it is simply glossy due to a lack of a mat coating. (i could be wrong)

If manufacturers gave us a choice, I'd probably always go with glossy. I can definitely see why other people would choose matte though.

When I use my MacBook outside, the reflections on the glossy screen creates a second image that makes it really difficult to focus on the content on the screen. Matte screens are really welcome if they don’t have the disadvantage of worse image (or have minimally like in this case).

Good IPS panel and Matte Coating is always the best combination for me.

I'm definitely interested in the glossy coating. I just wish they would make a 32 inch version, Then I would definitely get one.

People who have been using TVs as monitors are probably familiar with receiving better image quality. I've been using large TVs as computer monitors for a long time. I have experience with previous gen Samsung TVs. I'm currently using the UN50EH6000F. Although most TVs have glossy screens and they easily show reflections, the image quality you get from them is noticeably better than your typical computer monitor.

Dream monitor for night users!

I have thought about this when I saw the reflection of my monitor on my Iphone and the reflection just looked more crisp. I would really like a glossy screen, literally dark in my room at all times

I've had glossy gaming monitors many years ago and definitely prefer matte. The image quality hands down is better on glossy but it's frustrating always trying to remove items that are reflecting off the screen. Or watching yourself game, lol.

The premium glossy panels from the Samsung qled line up has a moth eye coating where it almost complete sucks in any light that hit's the screen. the new QD oled monitor should have the same coating from the mother glass, don't know if you can get a review sample for testing and review, looking forward too it if you decide to test it. ✌️

Hi love the video. Are u going to do a review on the phanteks evolv shift xt? And if so when?

What monitor arms are you using? Love your videos man! I really like the detail almost ocd like. It feels comfortable to me.

I always use anti glare screen protector on my phone 🤣 I just love the texture

I personally use both. I have my gaming monitor as my main display with a matte screen then i have a 4k 10 bit hdr panel with a matt screen. I appreciate the matte both for professional use and gaming, no light distractions and is a consistant image. I do have a third and 4th glossy screen that i like but are not critikal for work in any way. idk glossy means casual, long term viewing for media consumption etc. matte feels more serious and professional to me.

I think the choice will also depend on people's habits and rooms. In my case I sometimes play in the afternoons and the windows are behind me, so the glossy panel will be risky. If my schedule only permits night time gaming and I have a lot of other things I can do on weekends while the sun is out anyway, then I might switch to a glossy panel, especially now that my monitor is starting to crap out.

I've been waiting 3 months so far for the matte version, so good luck getting a spectrum lol

Yesterday I watched reviews about it! I want a monitor for my Mac now that the 5K iMac is discontinued

I've been waiting for something like this for years. I have always preferred glossy coating and never understood why manufactures wouldn't make both matte and gloss to let the consumer decide. Glad to see Eve doing this.

Thank you for making this video! This is my #1 monitor on my Wishlist next to the new Alienware OLED ultrawide monitor. Been eyeing on this since Dave2D has covered this months ago. Yet, I have a bit of a trust issue with Even Spectrum after reading/hearing the bad stories of them from the past... (many still haven't gotten their refund). I have a LG CX. My room is really dark since I cover all my windows yet I have RGB lighting around my room Yes.. sometimes my lighting can reflect on my CX but I can simply turn it off. Overall, I'm gonna wait for more reviews from those who are preordering this. Or might as well wait for LG/Samsung to make a 32 inch OLED TV. LG CX is used for "casual gaming" with my xbox controller and PS5/Xbox Series X. I want this new monitor for sweaty FPS games like COD, Battlefield, etc.

Which monitor was the glossy one? The one on the right side? Thanks a lot.

I used an iMac since ever, my family had one as the m]family computer. Than I had a MBP and in 2018 I bought a 5K iMac. I used glossy displays since ever and really like them. I even had the LG OLED C1 on my desk for couple of weeks but being used to a 5K iMac, the pixel density was just not enough for me. So I found a 5K iMac with intact screen and broken motherboard, found a display port driver board on AliExpress and now my main gaming display is a 5K iMac screen. Games like Cyberpunk, Far Cry, GTA V, Ghost recon are beautiful on this screen.

Matte was a mistake.

Still rocking my 27" Korean ips monitor using the LG panels used in macs. Upgraded driverboard to 75hz. Would be nice if there were more 4k glossy panels but I guess I'll need to upgrade to the diy 5k now

Super interesting video. Personally, I tend to game in a darker room and feel as though I view more dark content than bright so the reflections from a glossy finish would bother me. Also, if this finish were to be applied to an ultrawide monitor, those reflections would be EXTREMELY noticeable/annoying on any content that isn't 21:9 and has black bars.

Good luck getting one lol. They only send actual units to RU-vidrs and the consumer orders and is left holding the bag.

Honestly, always wanted to have a matte TV as well because I always found glossy panels highly distracting. I'd take that slight diffusion every day/hour for less distraction and actually being able to see what's displayed :p Guess my eyes love the matte though I totally get the glossy appeal.

The only ambient lighting in my room is a bright led lamp behind my monitor so I think glossy would suit me well.

My dude, your arms are looking JACKED

Matte screens hide the dust and other dirt particles much easier, glossy you have to constantly clean them, more so in laptops where you are closer and tend to get more dirt.

I wouldn't say it's the first of it's kind. I had a glossy 144hz, 2560x1600 Yamasaki monitor about 8 years ago . It was a random Korean brand you could only get off eBay and made with reject panels from some big manufacturers. Despite the poor color accuracy (10bit and poorly calibrated) and backlight bleed it looked amazing in the dark.

What monitor arms are those? They look really sleek! I wouldn't mind getting my own.

I would be interested in 1440p glossy variant but I already have 3 expensive monitors :( would be very nice for my set up too since I sit in a dark room with ambient lighting behind my monitors so reflections wouldn’t be an issue

I was really on board with the glossy when I first saw it, but now after watching this I realize that was all due to the viewing angles. I can barely tell a difference in the colors straight on, while the reflections are way more prominent. Matte is probably worth sticking with.

Interestingly almost all public screens/displays are glossy.. For example the IKEA terminals.. Every smartphone is glossy.. But for whatever reason they dont sell the exact same type of screens for PC TVs and PC Monitors..