315 3840x2160 VA Curved

I am now using it for month and can only say I am loving it, No regrets quality is absolutely amazing and the curve makes games and videos look so much better

I'm a software engineer and needed a larger screen area. It works extremely well for that purpose. This is my first curved monitor and I was slightly worried that it would be difficult to get used to, but it wasn't at all. The curve helps a lot to make a wide screen more usable, so much so that I'm considering getting another one to go alongside it. [Edit: I did, see below.] The resolution is excellent, text is very crisp, and there were no dead pixels.I'm not doing colour-accurate work, but the custom RGB mode provided sufficient adjustment to match the white balance with my other monitor (it was quite heavy on the green by default). Colours are quite uniform across the screen, and there's none of the distracting sparkling you can get in bright areas on some monitors. In general it's very bright, so bright that I have the Brightness control set to minimum. There's a drop in relative brightness when viewing the left and right side of the screen at an angle, but it's not too noticeable unless you're viewing it at more than about 45 degrees. I don't really do gaming so I don't have any comments on how well it performs for that, although I suspect you'd want a higher refresh rate for gaming.I'm currently [when I wrote this] using it over DisplayPort, in a dual-monitor setup with an older Dell monitor. It was not difficult to get it running at 60 Hz at full UHD resolution on Linux, after a bit of faffing with the monitor preferences app. (That app has some usability problems but I don't attribute those to the monitor.) I ran into a problem that Linux has with DPMI power management on some dual-monitor setups when one or both are connected via HDMI: after the screens have switched off, they switch back on again after a few seconds. This problem doesn't occur when both monitors are connected via DisplayPort (or when the Philips monitor alone is connected via HDMI).The OSD buttons are a little bit awkward (they're mounted on the bottom of the panel). The power LED flashes slowly when the monitor is in power-saving mode; not ideal for a bedroom but I'll probably just put some black tape over it. These are very minor nits on an overall excellent monitor. I'd say it is one of the best 60Hz UHD curved 31.5" monitors for the money.----Edit: I've now been using the original monitor for about two months and I'm still very happy with it. I decided to get another one to go alongside and that works brilliantly. Again no dead pixels. Both are connected via DisplayPort from a Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB, and both are running at 60 Hz at full UHD without any apparent problems.The curve is perfect for a side-by-side dual monitor setup; just right to allow you to get the maximum benefit from the extra screen real estate and not have to view the edges of the screens at too oblique an angle.Initially there was a worrying flickering of the desktop background when I first connected the second monitor, but I put that down to a temporary software glitch, not the monitors themselves. (I guess 2x3840 desktop width isn't particularly well-tested in Linux!) Switching to mirroring and then back to dual display caused that problem to go away and I haven't seen it again.There seems to be some minor variability in the RGB response between supposedly identical monitors, but again, it was easy to correct for that in the custom RGB mode. The resulting colour match is close enough by eye for me to be happy with it.The stand doesn't allow height adjustment and currently there's a few millimetres difference in height between the two monitors. [Edit: fixed with a stack of paper underneath the stand of the lower one.] (They have standard VESA fittings if you want to replace the stand.)Overall, using two of these monitors is a very cost-effective and productive option if you need the extra screen area.Later edit: The dual-monitor setup is still working great 8 months after purchase of the first monitor (7 months after the second). It also works when dual-booting to Windows 10.

Buscaba un monitor secundario para mi despacho, y estoy satisfecho con la opción elegida por el precio que tiene, pero hay que tener en cuenta algunos aspectos si estás pensando en comprártelo.Por una parte, la calidad de la imagen no es mala, pero si vas a tenerlo junto a un monitor de mayor resolución (como en mi caso, que el izquierdo es de 2560x1440, y este es de 1920x1080), vas a notar a veces la trama de pixeles, al tener menor resolución para un mismo tamaño (en mi caso los dos son de 27").Además, la luminosidad no es de las más altas. He puesto una foto de cómo lo tengo configurado yo, para que se vea parecido al otro monitor (que está configurado con bastante menos luminosidad). No es mayor problema, ya que mientras puedas configurarlo así tendrás suficiente probablemente. Pero nos indica que la calidad del panel no es la mejor del mundo.Donde más se nota es en el ghosting. Si mueves por la pantalla un objeto oscuro sobre un fondo claro, por ejemplo, vas a ver perfectamente la estela que deja. No tiene un tiempo de respuesta muy rápido, y por eso creo que no es el monitor más recomendado para gaming.Es compatible con soportes VESA como podéis ver, y bastante ligero, así que queda muy bien cuando lo pones en un brazo. En mi caso, el monitor principal es recto, y este es curvo, porque quería tener más "inmersión" cuando miro hacia la derecha, además de que así queda más hueco libre por detrás suya.Recomiendo activar el Pixel Orbit, que ayuda a que, si dejas una imagen mucho tiempo en la pantalla, no se quede ya "quemada" dicha imagen. Creo que es muy recomendable, a menos que uses un protector de pantalla o algo así.*** COMPRARÍA ESTE PRODUCTO SI:Buscara un monitor para trabajar, sin querer gastarme demasiado, y que me interesara que fuera curvo.Buscara un monitor secundario a buen precio, y envolvente.*** NO COMPRARÍA ESTE PRODUCTO SI:Buscara una muy buena calidad de imagenBuscara un tiempo de respuesta muy rápido, sobre todo para jugar (si no es para jugar, te va a dar un poco igual)¡Espero que esta reseña os sea de utilidad! Si es así, agradezco que la marquéis como útil.¡Gracias!

The screen is large, crisp and has great contrast - fairly inky dark blacks, and bright whites. For design work it was fantastic. However I also planned do a little gaming and watch movies on it, and in that regard it was pretty terrible. The games and movies looked great while static, and bright games and footage had wonderfully clear motion. However, in darker scenes, there was very obvious ghosting and smearing - motion trails that lingered on screen like some trippy effect, making the motion terrible and potentially giving you a headache or motion sickness.I know it's just a 60Hz VA monitor and this is often the case with cheaper screens, but some reviews I'd read led me to beleieve this monitor handled motion fairly well despite that. I can safely say it does not handle motion (particularly in dark areas of the screen) well at all.

The screen is good. Just good. Let me explain.Pros: Curvature is great, reasonably easy controls, good size, good resolution (4K)Cons: No audio control on Mac, the stand cannot be adjusted in height and its position is very low, there is a bezel at top, left and right about 1cm big, at 4K it works only at 30Hz.Don't use HDMI for best picture quality, use displayport.

I needed a 4K monitor as I'm working with web graphics and needed that resolution to work on some of the files I was using. I also use my computer for gaming so wanted a monitor that could handle that too. Final requirement was that it must have speakers as it's just awkward having extra external ones. This monitor seemed to tick all the boxes. I was a bit sceptical at first as I've seen some bad things written about VA panels (vs IPS) but I wanted a technology that gave vibrant colours and deep blacks. I needn't have been concerned :-) I've been extremely pleased with this, very bright, colours are rich and blacks are deep. Much better than my previous IPS panel. The main drawback with VA is reduced viewing angles but with the curved screen this puts you right dead centre on the screen anyway so no problem as a computer monitor. I've not noticed any blur on my games either so all-in-all very pleased.Two things I will say - use a DisplayPort connection rather than HDMI as HDMI doesn't have the required bandwidth capabilities to run 4K @ the full 60Hz refresh rate (this is a connector limitation not the monitor!). Also, I changed the colour temperature in the settings to 9300K which gave a much better contrast on grey shades than the default setting.