Don't you think the many forum posts, now many months old (they start in Feb), from people with these monitors would point out any raging extreme risks like them commonly bursting into fire?
You realize, too, that these are EXACTLY the same LCD panels used in Dell and Apple monitors, from the same factories, right?
I think the consensus is that they are not exactly the same. These may be panels that were rejected from high quality batches. And that only speaks to the panel itself. Do we trust the other components? I was shopping for panels in this price range and went with the Dell e-IPS monitors. I just trust them more.
This is reminding me of a college student job as a PC tech:
We had about 20 labs, 3 of them had 1-year old Dell Precision workstations with 22" Dell LCD monitors. During the summer, we noticed the monitors developing a weird wavy waterline-ish streak along the top 2" of the LCD. The LCD still displayed fine, but everything above this waterline was noticeably darker. The wavy waterline was different on each monitor - on some it only extended down a centimeter across one corner.
Eventually half of the monitors in these 3 labs developed this strange mark. We RMA'd in batches; eventually we learned the glue holding the LCD layers together was failing. The older (and newer) Dell LCDs didn't have that issue.
That's the kind of thing I'd worry about here, especially since there's likely no recourse. Will these LCDs have strange issues, like a watermark caused by the failure of cheap glue?
I think it's pretty obvious that if there was no risk involved, the market would drive up the prices on these panels to where Apple/Dell/HP charge.
There is obviously risk. You're ordering from the other side of the world, little customer support, the manual is in Korean, the description itself states that the panels are inferior to the type you'd get from the big boys ... not to mention anything of the electronics, and the units come with a funny plug to top it off.
And that's just the stuff you know off the bat.
For the majority of people, this alone, is unacceptable.
Then again, I'm the sort that's perfectly fine opening up the LCD and replacing a blown cap with a soldering iron. Been there, done that.
The panel itself could be exactly the same part number that Dell and other use. This does not mean at all that it is the same quality or specification panel delivered to the large manufacturers at all. These could be substandard in a lot of ways, some obvious, some not so.
That said, they could be perfectly good too. Your guess is as good as mine.
You realize, too, that these are EXACTLY the same LCD panels used in Dell and Apple monitors, from the same factories, right?
http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/content/dgm_ips-2701wph....
Do a Google search for the LM270WQ1 label you see on the panel in those pictures, and notice how often the words "Apple" and "Dell" appear.