Sony27” INZONE M9 4K HDR 144Hz HDMI 2.1 Gaming Monitor with Full Array Local Dimming and NVIDIA G-SYNC

STANDBY ISSUE: There are many people complaining that this monitor fails to come out of standby when connected to a computer. The root cause is a bug in the monitor firmware when dealing with Windows power management. To avoid this problem, go into Windows control panel and select Power Options. Do the Change Plan Settings and then configure the "Turn off the display" to "Never". When Windows turns off the display, the Sony M9 somehow glitches and is not able to come out of standby unless you unplug the DC power cable from behind the monitor to "reset" the monitor. You can still set the Windows screen saver to blank the screen after so many minutes.The image is excellent when turning on HDR in Windows. The brightness levels on this monitor are amazing. You just have to go into Windows Display Settings and into "Windows HD Color settings" and turn down the "HDR/SDR brightness balance" somewhat for handling white sections of the screen and youtube videos.Setting Local Dimming to High when using Windows HDR presents an excellent result. The FALD backlight sections will actually turn down so that medium brightness pixels and colors show up much more real and without that typical LCD backlight washout effect.

Absolutely love gaming on this monitor! From the first moment I set it up, I was able to see the brightness and color difference even before I started gaming on it.Set-up was very simple and took me about 5-8 minutes to get it put together on my desk. doesn't take up a lot of space on my desk and and I can adjust up and down as well as tilt the monitor for perfect viewing angles.Gaming - very smooth motion and that 1ms response time is noticeable in everything. Much easier on the eyes and makes it more comfortable during extended gameplay. My main game I play (Starcraft) does not support 144hz and are only 60hz but even on 60hz it definitely outperformed my previous gaming monitor I had. I picked up Forza Motorsport 7 to check out how 144hz is and just WOW! Amazing and cant wait to try out more games that do that. Was so impressed I moved my PS5 into this room and will game on this from now on rather than my TV.Viewing - I like to use my PC for watching Movies/Sports from time to time (when my kids are taking over the living room TV) and it looked soooooo good! The HDR600 and Full Array Local Dimming really comes out and shows its power. The brightness and colors that this monitor gives rivals anything i've experienced.Would absolutely recommend this monitor!!

Very easy to set up. Comes out of the box smoothly. You would not have any problems with flickering or dead pixels.Mainly use it for & it looks great. All the ps5 titles look good. It has so many good functions for all kinds of games.You get what you pay for. You get your money's worth. Premium price for a premium monitor.

My first Inzone M9 was purchased from amazon and arrived promptly in an undamaged box. It was easy enough to set up, ignoring the fact that these monitors don't come with cables - I already had cables, so that's fine. The monitor has custom software that lets you manage all its settings from your PC, which is awesome, but that isn't terribly important. Installing firmware updates for this monitor is kind of a pain, but the good news is that doesn't matter much, because you shouldn't buy one.The first M9 I bought had distracting backlight problems - basically dirt or scratches *inside* the monitor that were present from the moment I first powered it on. Not the dead pixels you may be used to. Unfortunately they were close to the middle of the screen, which made them an active nuisance for image editing and other use cases. So a return was issued and I bought a new one.The second one, also from Amazon, arrived. The box had already been opened once - from the bottom for some reason - but when I took the monitor out I didn't see any damage. Unfortunately, the moment I powered it on, it became obvious that I had an even worse monitor than the first time - a massive bright purple splotch, visible the moment you power the screen on, either damage to the panel or the backlight. If you look around you can find other complaints about this problem with the M9.So, take it from me: Sony's quality control for the M9 is miserable. They don't properly check these things for damage or defects before shipping them out, so you shouldn't buy one. As a bonus, their warranty is written such that you would need a massive number of pixel failures before they would consider repairing your screen under warranty, so you can't trust 'em to take care of you if it develops issues later.It's a shame. The HDR was kinda nice.

The Monitor is amazing but when I received the box it was missing power cord & two screws

Have not had any issues with picture quality reported by a handful of other users. Can set HDR to on and forget about it and everything from SDR to HDR will look great. Unlike my previous monitor where I had to set it manually because otherwise colors will look funky and washed out with any non-HDR content. Contrast is excellent with deep blacks and bright whites while retaining all the details; it doesn't give you a perfect pitch black, but you don't want that anyway because the same deepness tends to subsume details.Overall, a very nice monitor worth buying if you are looking to upgrade to a 4K/144hz monitor with great colors and contrast.Be sure to get the Inzone hub app which will make change settings a breeze.Lastly, in case you have trouble updating firmware, try connecting USB-C on the monitor to USB-A on the PC. USB-A to A did not work for me.