NEW YORK: Dell’s first 27-inch curved monitor SE2716H is a modest affair in both features and price.
The $599 monitor, which uses a vertical alignment (VA) screen, loses out to more expensive monitors that use in-plane switching (IPS) screens.
The difference readily showed when I compared it to its IPS sibling, the 27-inch Dell U2715H ($819).
The curved SE2716H has a 1,920 x 1,080-pixel screen resolution with fewer pixels than the U2715H (2,560 x 1,440 pixels). The colour gamut of the SE2716H is lower than that of the U2715H.
VA displays, which are seen as a cheaper alternative to IPS ones, share the latter’s wide viewing angles. However, they look less vibrant than IPS screens. This showed up in measurements with my colourimeter, although I found the SE2716H to have good colour accuracy.
In other words, you can expect good, but not great, picture quality from this monitor.
