I have been using IPS monitors for the past 10-20 years and my primary monitor is a BenQ.
I needed to add another monitor and wanted it to be an HDR 4K.
This 32-inch unit, EW3270U, has great reviews, often named "the best overall 4K HDR monitor", so I decided to give it a try. Prior to buying, I read a lot about VA panels, liked the idea of blacker blacks, but had a lot of doubt.
Once the monitor arrived, all my expectations, both good and bad, were met 100%.
1. This monitor has tremendous black levels. Just beautiful. It was painful to look at my BL2711U side by side with this unit as you could clearly see how IPS has much more glow.
2. However, viewing angles on EW3270U are only acceptable if you watch a movie on it from a 2-meter distance.
My use is software development, and I need uniform colors. When seating about 70 cm from the monitor, I really loved the size of it (much better than 27 inch), but a full screen window would have black background in the middle and shiny gray on both left and right edges. So, for office use viewing angles are unacceptable. What is worse, because you see different brightness from left and right eyes, the whole picture looks shiny. Instead of matte gray, you see shiny gray and that starts hurting your eyes pretty quickly.
3. The VA and text crispness. From the very first second, I thought something was wrong with scaling. Text and lines all looked fuzzy and soft. I played with Windows scaling and everything, ClearType etc, but just could not fix it. The main reason for me to use higher than 1080p resolution monitors is to see nice thin lines and crisp text, e. g. very visible on Windows Task Manager CPU Graphs. For a couple of hours of experimentation, I thought something was wrong in my configuration.
Then I started reading, and found out that quite a few people note that VA panels in general, due to their specific subpixel arrangements, are not able to reproduce crisp thin lines becase they dim half-pixels and thus make "holes" in the picture.
That was a major disappointment because by that time I already fell in love with the deepth of the blacks of this monitor. I played more, but nothing could fix it. I had to conclude that's just the VA panel. From the Internet, it seems some people are OK with it and some cannot stand it.
End result: had to return and ordered an IPS replacement. I will miss the blacks, but if you are like me and use your monitor primarily for data (fit a lot of beautifully looking text), then learn from my mistake and do not buy a large VA monitor. Fuzzy text and color shifts from side to side (and the shine resulting from it) will drive you nuts.
If however you are already using VA and these (viewing angles and text clarity) are non-issues, then EW3270U is undoubtedly the best buy on the market. Huge monitor with impressive colors and everything.
Finally I should say that build quality was good; backlight bleed was observable only on one of the four angles which I think is better than average for today's monitors.
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