Controls and OSD

The KTC H27T22 uses a four-way joystick, which also works as a button for OSD navigation and monitor setup. You can quickly access settings like factory picture profiles, brightness, virtual crosshairs, and input selection, or dive into the main menu, where you can adjust everything that the OSD offers.

The four-way joystick offers an intuitive way of moving around the OSD, although I would prefer if it was positioned closer to the right edge of the panel. It seems that KTC wants us to access it from below rather than the side, which isn't ideal. Still, the overall experience using the OSD is quite nice, partially due to the OSD being well organized and to the point; you won't find dozens of vague or confusing options, as is often the case with gaming monitors.


The OSD is split into six sections: Display, Color, Gaming Setup, Input, System Set, and User Data. The main menu shows the current resolution and refresh rate, FreeSync/G-Sync technology status, and the exact firmware version. As a reminder, the H27T22 has a USB port dedicated to firmware upgrades, so it's convenient that a quick glance at the OSD's main menu is enough to find out the current firmware version. The Display menu lets you adjust the brightness, contrast, black level, aspect ratio, and sharpness, as well as cycle through factory picture profiles: Standard, User, Movie, Photo, RTS, FPS1, and FPS2. All of them, except User, come with a pre-adjusted brightness, contrast, and black level, which you cannot change. With that in mind, it's evident that the User profile is for anyone who wants full access to the monitor's settings.


The Color menu lets you adjust the color temperature, gamma, hue, and saturation, and activate blue light filtering, which can be set to 0-100 in increments of 25.


The Gaming Setup menu is where you can activate or deactivate adaptive synchronization technology, overdrive, HDR, dynamic contrast, MPRT (Moving Picture Response Time – backlight strobing for reduced motion blur), and RGB Light, which is the name of the RGB lighting system, located behind the panel.


The Gaming Setup menu has a Game Plus submenu containing the timer, FPS counter, and virtual crosshairs. Instead of throwing in a host of silly, elaborate crosshairs, KTC went with the ones that are preferred by most: a dot and a plus, both available in red and bright green color. There's one additional crosshair thrown in the mix, but let's be realistic, the dot and the plus-shaped one are what it's all about.


The Input menu lets you switch between inputs: one HDMI and two DisplayPorts.


The System Set menu is a collection of options that didn't fit elsewhere: language selection, OSD setup (position, transparency, timeout), audio output volume, reset, and USB firmware upgrade.


KTC even includes a User Data menu, where you can save all of your OSD settings to one of three profiles. Nice!