Sub-$500 Mini-LED 34-Inch Ultrawide... what's the catch? - Innocn 34M1R Review

Oh hey, hi, yes, its me, one of the people you blinded with the monitor at PDXLAN!

Hey Jeff @craftcomputing, some B-roll of the back, connectors, buttons, stand, etc. would be useful for these kinds of reviews for our decision making process.

I would buy a 400$ version with a basic stand and no soundbar. No matter how good the soundbar or the stand get, it won't ever get close to proper speakers and a monitor arm.

U need to set the maximum brightness via Windows HDR Calibration from Microsoft Store, default is 450nits

Doing my part to keeping the lights on.... Mine arrived yesterday! So far Loving it! Keep up the great work Jeff!

Nice to see reviews of these less known brands.. Loving my KTC 240hz 1440p oled i got for $500...

Love your reviews. Thanks for your hard work and detail.

LOL my youtube resolution is so fantastic that the Innocn logo reads moon

Great review! Sounds like this screen isn't for me but it's progress in some areas and that's good news. I really appreciate being given the pros and cons without any sugar coating

I'm guessing the soundbar is really just a cover-up for a giant bezel, they couldn't make it thinner without the speakers.

Lil tip for the future: More b-roll shots of the monitor from all sides, especially the inputs. Also, which vesa is it? 75x75 or 100x100? And this being an ultrawide, dimensions matter

For the price it's not bad, but it would compete so much better if the soundbar was removed to lower the price further, or improved to acceptable levels and the price raised a little to compensate. Nice to see smaller companies doing well! Just gotta work on the marketing honesty and quality of secondary components like the soundbar.

We definitely need more UW options in mini-LED for mixed usage scenarios. I won't use OLED for my productivity machine that I also game on, mostly due to the sub pixel layout, but also for burn in. Too bad this falls well short of true HDR10.

I suppose the lack of user presets especially ruins the KVM aspect...

At this amazing price point this would be top tier.

Do you use ClickMonitorDDC or similar to avoid the monitor's built in menu? Also 27"-32" OLED is getting to around the same price. I think anyone would go for the OLED. Also pro gamers like a 24" screen?

I was considering getting this until you mentioned the brightness. I really like ultrawides and wanted to see if there was a good mini LED ultrawide. At that brightness an OLED is just a better option.

Oh please, It's perfectly fine for Marvel as their color pallet doesn't differ much from mud.

Do you know by any chance if this one is similar to Acer X34 V3? Looks like the latter, and also has VA panel with 2304 dimming zones. I am looking forward to it because my productivity work would definitely result in burn in and I would like some HDR for my gaming as the space for screen is quite limited (no chance for two monitors). Not many choices since there's Phillips Evnia and Lenovo both UWQHD but Evnia is the smearing one and there is still only few revievs of Y34wz-30 present (some customer reviews in my country adress poor KVM management and only 384 zones). I thought couple years ago that minileds would be affordable passage between lcd and oled. Sholudn't they be by now 😂?

What is the minimum brightness setting, though?