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If you live in Europe you can order one from amazon and try it, if you don't like it you can always return it and get a refund, if you don't well yeah you pretty much need to trust the reviews, there isn't much anyone can help you with, the monitor isn't perfect, and none of them are, it has...

Hi, that's normal, if you look closely you will find a few mentions on this thread, there is really nothing to be done about it, the closest thing to solving the issue is lowering the brightness, since the problem is less noticeable with lower brightness. You can also change the background to...

Which isn't really the same thing either, but yeah don't buy a 4k monitor if you're going to be playing at 1080p (assuming gaming is a significant use of the monitor), with two 780 there is no reason to play at 1080p, from my experience it's far preferable to use another resolution and have...

Hmm ok, personally I bought it from amazon because of issues such as these (amazon even ships the replacement first), but yeah it can definitely depend on how good the supplier is.

Did the place where you ordered it from not had any more of them in stock? Because if they did it would have probably been faster to just send it back to them, since they would have to give you a new one in return. BTW while crap QA is always going to be crap QA, and honestly don't think...

No idea about the colors, but as for the blocky thing, I assume you are running it at 4k right?

You would have to sit pretty close to say use a 27" the same way you use a 40", this is ofc especially true when speaking of non entertainment uses, where good luck using 4 1080p windows without gluing the 27" to your face, or without increasing the size of things making those 4 1080p windows...

It's just straight up factually wrong really, unless the reviewers got hand picked panels and normal ones differ significantly from those, after calibration the colors are quite close to what they should be, also if anything judging by the readings it would be too over-saturated especially on...

While it is true that they do have good TV's, should be said that over-saturation is not what I would consider stunning picture quality, and that is clearly what the user is after (nothing wrong with that). Now that being said for that purpose, if the Samsung TV is anything like their phones, it...

If you buy a good hardware calibrator it will make the colors you are seeing be closer to how they would look like in real life, which for most people is not really what they want, so unless what you are after is accurate colors, there is no point in buying it.

I would advise you trying with another game, screen tearing when running with vsync is pretty much always game related, and judging by the google hits it very much seems like a game problem.

Should clarify that I don't have nor have I ever had the Samsung, I have the Philips, that being said would be extremely surprised if you couldn't change those basic settings while using the PC mode, generally speaking in monitors the only modes that don't allow those changes are usually modes...

Your question was why people seemed to prefer the samsung, not why you should choose one over the other, they are significantly different questions. Unfortunately for the later you will have an hard time getting anything that resembles a conclusive answer, since I don't think that there has...

The biggest factor is related to stock I would say, in the US you can't really get the Philips easily without importing it, while you can get the samsung right away for even less money than the price of the philips, even in the EU there is a stock issue, which also leads to those that have more...

Adding to that, a TN regardless of what ever else they do with it, is still going to be crap as far as color accuracy and viewing angles is concerned, it's also a market ripe for marketing bullshit, like those 10bit TN panels, like anyone that needs 10 bit and has the hardware for it is ever...

tftcentral reviewed the monitor tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/philips_bdm4065uc.htm they use a photosensor with an osciloscope http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/response_time.htm which can test any resolution, or really anything that emits light. As for why it makes a difference, the way a 4k...

Could be from the cable, I have had the monitor for 3 months too and that never happened to me.

The problems with RMA were likely related to a general lack of panels, usually in Europe if you get something that is broken and want a replacement product they need to fix it much sooner (assuming it's within the first 14 days), and companies like amazon will even send you a good unit before...

Haven't had any such problems, mine has never changed from 60hz, the only time I had a similar problem was when I changed the resolution to 1080p to try something, and when I tried to go back to 4k I was only seeing 29hz option, but turned out that it was nvidia control panel that for some...

Oh ok, in that case yeah it was a good purchase, the price is already far more close to what it should be as well, I paid around the same for mine, and that was without VAT. Also at least as far as amazon.de and amazon.co.uk is concern they are literally the same company based in luxemburg...

Unless you have already paid for it, it would be much better to order it from amazon.it, you get the same quality from amazon.co.uk the only disadvantage is that you probably can't get live chat in English, but they will still answer in English if the communication is done by email. I usually...

Generally speaking VA panels do have poorer color accuracy than IPS panels, worse viewing angles, and worse response times, ofc IPS also has poorer contrast (by a very significant amount usually), and like all panel technologies their own set of disadvantages/problems. Should be strongly...

I fail to see where I was complaining about the problem, or even the quality of the monitor (if I was displeased I would have returned it to amazon), you asked for clarification regarding the contrast color issue, and me and other users explained it.

Nop, for starters you need the necessary graphical hardware to run at 10 bits, also as I said it's a problem that shows up on more than photoshop, if I used a dark grey image as my background and a white image in the middle I would be seeing the same thing, it's pure an simply a general problem...

I would be extremely surprised if there wasn't a gsync 40" coming in 1 year or two, considering how popular the philips has been, and that it isn't part of the panel, but of the electronics which are changed when going from TV to monitor. The 144hz might take a bit longer to come around, not...

That's because it isn't always a yellow line, even that line isn't really yellow, basically it's a problem that you get when there is contrasting colors side by side, there is a color distortion affecting the darker color (I believe it's always the darker), for example I get it on steam chat...

Oh ok it was 5 months ago, that explains why I didn't see it when I looked a bit back, I assume you didn't try it at 100% brightness just to confirm if it was PWM or something else with the monitor (not that it would be a real option either way)? You are more likely to get that answer on the...

My bad then, I even went back to see if I just had skipped it, but never saw any post mentioning that you got headaches from using this monitor.

The issues Seinfeld had with this monitor were unrelated to the pwm as far as I know. You had 1 user that got headaches, but it was unrelated to the pwm since he used the monitor at 100% brightness, and the monitor has no pwm at 100% brightness. So nop, there are no reported issues on this...

Have 2 EVGA 970 ACX 2.0 in SLI, and can see the bootup (bios and so on) just fine.

Bad luck, that's definitely not normal on this monitor, although doubt it's the bezel creating pressure, honestly seems like the panel itself was badly assembled. As for resolving the situation yeah you will need to return it for a refund, this monitor has been having stock problems since it's...

Wouldn't it be possible to lower the resolution and get the 60hz through HDMI that way? If it's possible I know I personally would prefer to have it that way until you get the DP cable, than leave it at 30hz, which is just horrendous. BTW really weird that it didn't came with a DP cable, I...

As I said almost all, not everything is a VA problem, but yeah almost all the issues relating to image quality are. As for image persistence, even if it's there, it's quite likely that at this point no one has reported, it took I believe more than half a year to see a report of it, and even...

What issues? Because all or at least almost all of the issues talked about, are problems with the VA panel technology, so they will most certainly not be a batch problem, they will also be present in any other VA panels, to varying degrees. I think the only exception to this is the non square...

Honestly you're comparing completely different monitors, the acer being a TN is just simply going to be weaker in what concerns image quality, you're also going to have problems when not in games, since you will need to scale stuff due to the PPI. Basically it's convenience, size and image...

Yaps, would be surprised too, either way thanks for sharing the mod, it's still easy to implement without the screws, hot glue or double sided duct tape is likely more than strong enough to hold it firmly in place, and it's easily removable if there is ever need to send it to warranty.

That's because the person reviewing the monitor likely turned the monitor around, so his left is actually the right, so assuming you are facing the panel, you must press the joystick right while turning it on, after that you need to open the menu by pressing right again, and then press up (or...

I'm not talking of all the standby power on all the devices, neither were you I believe since you quoted the 1.5 yearly kw. I was talking of the standby power on this specific device, it is enough to look at the tables presented there to see that almost all of the devices presented on that list...

If you like that look, you should know that when you replace the dell, you will need to replace it with another wide gamut display, since all 8 bit panels will give you the "dull" look.

Considering it's a 10 bit panel, they might actually be excessive.