LG 34U60ZB-B UltraWide WQHD Curved: Specs, Pros & Cons
The 34U60ZB-B is LG's plain-clothes ultrawide: a 34-inch 3440 by 1440 curved panel with a 120 Hz refresh rate and no gaming branding, sold on the premise that a wide, fast, inexpensive screen is useful to more people than gamers. It sits at the bottom of LG's curved ultrawide range, and the choices LG made to get it there are the whole story.
The panel is VA rather than IPS. That buys a 3000:1 contrast ratio, roughly three times what LG's IPS ultrawides manage, and costs some viewing-angle consistency and the slower pixel response VA is known for; LG rates it at 5 ms grey-to-grey in its fastest overdrive mode. Brightness is a modest 250 nits, colour coverage is 99 percent sRGB with no wider gamut claimed, and the HDR10 badge is a signal-processing feature rather than a real HDR display at that brightness.
The 1800R curve is gentle, the refresh is genuine rather than a burst mode, with variable refresh support, and the pixel density works out to about 110 per inch, which is the sweet spot for ultrawides – text is crisp without scaling.
Connectivity is where the price shows: one DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0, no USB-C, no USB hub, no KVM. The stand tilts and does nothing else, though there is a 100-millimetre VESA mount for an arm. LG's Switch app handles window tiling and there is a one-year warranty.
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Where the LG 34U60ZB-B UltraWide WQHD Curved beats the average
- A bigger screen ?34" (86.36 cm) vs 28.97" (73.58 cm) (avg)
- Has variable refresh rate ?
Where the LG 34U60ZB-B UltraWide WQHD Curved trails the average
- A much slower response time ?5 ms vs 1.46 ms (avg)
- A much lower contrast ratio ?3000:1 vs 499721:1 (avg)
- A lower refresh rate ?120 Hz vs 213.58 Hz (avg)
- Much lower peak brightness ?250 nits vs 677.45 nits (avg)
- No height adjustment ?
- No USB hub ?
- No USB-C ?
- Fewer HDMI ports ?1 vs 1.7 (avg)
- No swivel adjustment ?
- No pivot adjustment ?
Editor’s note
The honest way to describe the 34U60ZB-B is that it is a very good panel bolted to a very basic monitor, and whether that is a bargain depends entirely on what you were going to plug into it.
The panel is the part I like. VA depth gives dark scenes and dark-mode interfaces a richness no IPS at this price can match, the refresh makes scrolling and window-dragging noticeably smoother than the office ultrawides it competes with, and the density is exactly what I would pick for text on a screen this wide. For a home-office user who also plays games in the evening, that combination is hard to beat for the money.
The monitor around it is where the compromises live. The two inputs cover a desktop and a console and nothing more; a laptop that expects to charge and connect over one cable gets no help here, and there is no hub to save you a dock. The stand is the other tell – most people will want a VESA arm within a month, and that is a real cost to add to the price.
VA's known weakness is smearing in fast dark transitions, and LG's response figure is quoted at the most aggressive overdrive setting, so competitive shooter players should look at the IPS or OLED alternatives. Everyone else will not notice.
The part that would make me hesitate is the modest brightness in a bright room, and an HDR badge that means very little at that level. Treat it as an SDR monitor and it is honest; expect HDR and it disappoints.
I would buy it for a desktop-based home office or a mixed work-and-play desk on a budget. I would pay more for LG's USB-C models if the main machine is a laptop.
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The bottom line
The LG 34U60ZB-B UltraWide WQHD Curved earns a VS Score of 27, trailing most of the 102 monitors we compare here, at least on the spec sheet.
- Who it’s for
- A desktop-based home office or work-and-play desk that wants the ultrawide workspace, deep contrast and a genuinely smooth refresh for the price of an ordinary 27-inch monitor.
- Who should look elsewhere
- Laptop users who need USB-C power and docking, colour-critical work that needs a wide gamut, and competitive shooter players who will notice VA's dark-scene smearing.
- The trade-off that matters
- A better panel than the price suggests because LG stripped the monitor around it. The screen is the bargain; the inputs and ergonomics are the bill.
- The main alternative
- LG 34WQ60C-B – the IPS sibling at similar money for buyers who prefer IPS viewing angles and colour consistency over VA contrast, and can accept its slower refresh.
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