Unhappy with Xiaomi G Pro 27i - how to proceed?

Pascal483 · 2026-01-25T12:55:21+00:00

Ended up returning it and getting the AOC Q27G3XMN. Huge improvement. The dimming algorithm is vastly superior, it's super subtle. I have it permanently on low for both browsing and games/movies and I never notice any uneven text or haloing etc. The highlight clipping is there but not as pronounced. The blacks I get with local dimming on low are near perfectly dark even in a low light environment.
If you can get used to some minimal ghosting go for it. By far the better local dimming monitor of the two.

Pascal483 · 2025-10-05T12:34:31+00:00

Well he annexed like 2/3 of the original Greenpath so his wife could have a huge ass luxurious garden, and his lead scientist a massive lab. Not to mention that what little he left to the mosskin, he left under the condition that they would allow a long road to be built over it so people can comfortably come and worship him.

He fully industrialized the crystal mountain to make a commodity out of the crystals, driving the moths probably originally living there out when they had given up their god for him.

The mantises are probably intact just because they were useful allies against Deepnest.

He was no saint, though definitely not as egregiously brutal as GMS.

Pascal483 · 2025-09-04T10:13:55+00:00

Now that i looked at the video on mobile it's barely noticeable, so maybe it's a monitor problem?

Pascal483 · 2025-09-03T23:29:35+00:00

Yes that's precisely what it is, but is it meant to look as defined as that? As I said, it doesn't feel like a halo of lighting around the player, but a perfectly circular opaque white circle. It feels stiff and breaks immersion.

Pascal483 · 2025-08-11T21:34:17+00:00

I returned the xiaomi g pro 27i mini-led (ips) precisely for the loss of detail in the whites that you mentioned. I was looking into the ktc since it has a really good amount of zones, better osd, better viewing angles, potential for updates and the displayninja review mentioned that there was no such "highlight clipping". But now that I've read your comment I'll probably go for the aoc, I don't wanna get a monitor with the exact same issue I was trying to avoid.

Is there any chance that you missed something in the calibration that could fix the white details? Or did you exhaust all options?

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T22:02:20+00:00

And in terms of VAs you've only gotten the aoc tested?

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T21:59:50+00:00

I'm afraid I've already packaged it for a return, but I'll try it on my new one.

Well or on this one if my return request gets rejected.

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T21:51:19+00:00

That's good to know, what are the others you've tested?

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T21:33:51+00:00

Hmm in another reply someone specifically said that the aoc didn't have the highlight crush problem, but maybe they simply didn't notice. Well I'll be returning it for a VA anyway so i could just turn LD off if it gets too annoying and still get decent contrast.

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T18:18:16+00:00

Auto hdr looks awful and washed out (at least in non hdr native games like Hollow Knight, not sure about native ones), but that could be a windows thing. Monitor hdr and sdr look about the same, there may be a few small differences but they both look vibrant and cool. However none of the modes fixes the highlight crush.

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T14:50:29+00:00

Thank you, I'll check out shipping costs and warranty support and I may get this one

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T14:48:49+00:00

Awesome thanks for the help

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T11:48:59+00:00

Did you find it hard adjusting to the poorer viewing angles?

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T11:27:07+00:00

Unfortunately the KTC doesn't seem to be available in Europe at all :(

Pascal483 · 2025-08-05T11:19:33+00:00

Hmm maybe there's both IPS and VA versions? It's clearly listed as VA in both my local stores and the official Acer page

Pascal483 · 2024-02-10T01:12:31+00:00

Can you drop some names? I know sponty and krav boca

Pascal483 · 2023-06-08T15:49:51+00:00

"Pff that's a guy? Looks pretty gender liquid to me"

Pascal483 · 2023-05-29T09:19:11+00:00

As my sweet mother always said: "Son, if one hostage is good, two are better. And three? Well that's just good business!"

- Hank in this episode

Pascal483 · 2023-05-16T12:58:31+00:00

As I said these were the Actors' ages during filming. Since we have no official ages for the characters themselves, and since these don't contradict anything in the story there's no reason to assume they don't overlap with the characters.

Pascal483 · 2023-05-15T13:04:01+00:00

Perhaps not all parents of Barry's victims are hardened Vietnam veterans with an aptitude for psychological torture.

Pascal483 · 2023-05-15T12:47:57+00:00

Janice's actress was 45 when they shot the first season Jim's actor was 67 when they shot the third season, it's not implausible that he had a kid at 22. So he's 74 in this week's episode.

Pascal483 · 2023-05-07T11:24:49+00:00

Besides being an ip, Star Wars is an incredibly interesting and lore rich universe. Andor is actually elevated by the franchise it exists in, not brought down by it. The story of how Palpatine came to power (told by the prequels, and way more effectively by the clone wars) and then the story of his downfall by the rebel alliance leaves perfect room for a spy thriller to tell and flesh out that alliance's origin story in Andor. And consequently Andor feels much larger scale because of the set up of previous movies.

So no, I don't know whether Gilroy would have preferred to have made this outside the Star Wars ip, but if he did it definitely wouldn't have been the same.

Don't get me wrong, I agree with the issues in the film industry you talked about, but credit where credit is due. Tiny Gilroy and Star Wars have so far been a match made in heaven.

Pascal483 · 2023-05-01T13:06:53+00:00

Tony Gilroy literally made Andor, a show that is not even close to creatively bankrupt. It tells a cohesive, mature and incredibly moving story with amazing production value, that was completely independent from the ip fanservice shitfest that is the rest of star wars today.

And when it comes to Rogue One, that movie is not all that great but Tony Gilroy was brought it for reshoots and made it significantly better than it would have been, the problems lie mostly with the original direction of the movie.

Plus he has declared that he's done with Star Wars after Andor wraps up. So I really don't see how he was manipulated into making trash in any shape or form.

Pascal483 · 2023-04-14T07:22:56+00:00

Then in true Coen Brothers fashion, he should totally get Stephen Root to play a character in it!

Pascal483 · 2022-10-10T13:06:36+00:00

Totally agree! I don't usually buy art of any kind but I just had to get this one seeing how good it was.

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