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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Make sure that you enable GPU scaling when you set that custom resolution. This display might not scale a true 21:9 resolution properly, but with GPU scaling enabled, the GPU actually adds the black bars on the top and bottom of the content as part of the video signal so that the display... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Assuming you're talking about buying new, outside of promo/discount codes and temporary sale prices, a long time. That would be a 37.5% discount off of Amazon's price (and 50% off of US MSRP, apparently), so I don't think this particular display will ever fall that far; it's far more likely to... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Of course this would just add to the cost, but it can do some pretty amazing things to mitigate the ambient light issue. Check out some of the videos: http://www.screeninnovations.com/materials/ambient-materials/black-diamond/ -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I think the only way to make displays much larger than 40" feasible is if you're sitting in a rolling chair and have either multiple keyboards and mice spanning your desk or have some sort of apparatus on your chair that allows you to take them with you as you roll around. That would allow you... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
.... Even if we assume that something larger than 40" is usable as a display (which is unlikely), what happened to people who bought 24" displays when 30" displays came out? What happened to people who bought GTX 800 series GPUs when the 900 series came out? What kind of a question is this... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Could be due to consumer protection laws up there. I know Australia for example has some pretty strong laws in that regard that can cause vendors to have different support/return/warranty policies there. Not sure if it's gas or not, but it doesn't make a popping noise. Why are we talking... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I'll assume that that last sentence should have read "Otherwise the arm could NOT hold the weight", but the purpose of the Tall Pole is for people who might temporarily need to raise their display higher off the desk (e.g. swinging it from one side of their desk to the other if they have a... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Funny how for many people the appeal of this display was that it was the right size to make 4K resolution usable without having to enable OS scaling, and now people want a display this size that requires scaling to be usable. :D 8K at 60 Hz is still a ways off just on an interconnect basis (at... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
What is this nonsense about being partly flat and partly curved? Curved displays aren't flat in the midsection and then angled on the sides; they create one continuous arc, so for better or for worse, the entire image you see is curved regardless of how much or what region of the display it... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
4K up to 25 ft isn't the same as 4K @ 60 Hz up to 25 ft. Martona's issue was that he could only get 4K @ 30 Hz on his original cable. Whether or not there's a formal 1.2 certification, real-world experience shows that not all DP cables are equal when it comes to pushing 4K @ 60 Hz -- so... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Intel 4600 -- didn't do any gaming with it, but 4K @ 60 Hz works fine, including 4K video playback. Interesting, I've always had good luck with StarTech cables and other equipment. I guess there's always the possibility of a bad product from a solid manufacturer, or maybe just a bad batch of... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Probably not unless you know how to write and flash GPU firmware. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
None of the current owners has felt that it's an issue in actual usage. It's measurable if you put up a large perfect circle/rectangle in Photoshop and get out a ruler, but when I had the display, I never said to myself, "Hmm, this image looks a bit stretched," even though I had already biased... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I can't say from direct experience, but I remember you saying you looked through the EDID information and saw 60 Hz there. If you're asking why it's not available in your GPU settings, maybe the GPU tests bandwidth when it's connected to a display and ignores configurations that it determines... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I think it's unrealistic to expect a VA panel to match a good IPS panel on color, never mind a high-end one like the 31UM97. VA can outperform IPS on black level, but probably not color accuracy and definitely not gamut in this particular case (though unless you've got all of the other elements... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
As mentioned above, you probably need a different DP cable. Others have been unable to run 4K @ 60 Hz due to old/crappy cables and fixed it by getting a new, proper cable certified for DP 1.2 / HBR2. Surprisingly, most of the DP cables sold at Monoprice still only support 1.1, but they do have... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Nothing has been announced. If those features are important to you, I wouldn't buy this display, because even if it becomes available later (like Seiki has promised with their offering), it's not clear whether units sold before those features were added will be upgradeable somehow. That said... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
You're assuming someone is buying this display primarily for games. There are people who would love to have the real estate or sheer size awesomeness of a 40" 4K display for general productivity tasks and might want to play games only casually every now and then, in which case they wouldn't... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Probably for games given that even systems with multiple high-end GPUs will have trouble pushing 4K resolution with maxed out detail, and some people (myself included) may prefer to sacrifice resolution in order to maintain detail settings. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
You should probably read TFT Central's description of their own ranking system if you're worried since I was just paraphrasing from memory, but from what I recall they mean acceptable for FPS enthusiasts, but not world-class twitch gamers who play for money where every frame counts -- and who... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
TFT Central also provided a class rating with that measurement. That response time puts it in their Class 2 category, which they say is fine for general gaming. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
akg102 has two and posted a picture a few pages back, reposting here. As you can see, they're not side-by-side, but honestly side-by-side would probably be impractical given that your canvas would be six feet wide, so you'd have severe off-angle viewing issues for a lot of the area unless you... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I seriously doubt this will work. To make it really work, the display would need two controllers with each one set to expose half of the display area out of a single port (which is basically how MST displays work), and this display won't do that. Picture By Picture isn't the same thing, since... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Well if you're not gaming, you wouldn't need a ton of RAM even to drive 4K. Some people here just want it to have a ton of space for less intensive tasks like image editing, stock trading, monitoring dashboards, or just conducting normal activities without ever having to minimize anything... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
I have a different CPU, but it also has the HD 4600 and it drives this display at 60 Hz. The 4400, however, does not; it can only do 4K @ 60 Hz with MST displays. So unless that motherboard's design has hamstrung the CPU's display output capabilities somehow (unlikely on a board like yours)... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
It's widely known and discussed among people with HiDPI displays that Chrome doesn't render text well when scaling is enabled. Try the test you describe using Firefox or IE. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
The chart that I posted shows when the increaed sharpness of higher resolution becomes discernible to the viewer based on display size and viewing distance, not the maximum usable resolution for text on a given display size. Admittedly it pertains more to TV content than desktop monitor usage... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Sounds like you're using a Precision M3800? I have its sister system the XPS 15 with the same 15" 3200x1800 display, and in applications that support scaling properly, there is absolutely no contest between text sharpness at its native resolution with 200% scaling and driving it at 1600x900... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Yes, I understand that 4K @ 24" requires more scaling than 4K @ 27" or 32". You missed my point completely, which is the PPI differences between different sizes of 4K displays. Regardless of the scaling setting you choose, a 24" 4K display will have a higher PPI than a 4K display of a larger... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
The sharpness of 4K is very apparent on a 24" display when dealing with text. If you haven't seen one, have you ever seen a Retina MBP display? They have similar PPIs to a 4K 24" display and you can absolutely tell the difference compared to a non-Retina MBP. Of course you can argue that text... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
PWM at 40 or 60 would indeed both use a 240 Hz interval, but that just means that the backlight is told to power on at the same interval. The difference is that in the latter setting, the backlight stays on for a greater percentage of the time between those intervals, so I would imagine that... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
The TFT Central review said there was a hidden factory menu that could be accessed, but in the brief time I played with it, I couldn't gain access to it by following their steps. However, the screenshot of said menu has a "Show Logo" option, which I'm betting pertains to that splash screen, so... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
When I bought through OCUK and arranged DHL shipping (the only option), I did not pay any customs fees; I paid only what I paid OCUK (VAT was correctly excluded from the sale price automatically) plus a small currency conversion fee charged by my credit card company on the transaction... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
If you can't give up 144 Hz, there's always this coming out: http://www.pcgamer.com/acer-unveil-super-quick-144hz-g-sync-ips-monitor/ -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Yes, the VESA mounting holes on the back are M4-sized, which is apparently odd since typically 200x200 patterns use M6 holes, but there you have it. Yes, the MX comes with M4 bolts that are long enough to support the display. However: - The MX won't by itself support a 200x200 display such... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Fyi, according to TFT Central, adjusting brightness using calibration tools will adversely affect your contrast ratio, so you may want to start with simply lowering the brightness on the panel itself to see whether PWM is a problem for you before you take that approach. Nobody here has yet... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Same panel doesn't mean same electronics. The backlight, I/O, design, etc can all be different even if the panel is the same, which is why even if they do share a panel the Seiki could still end up being a 6-bit panel as the current information suggests. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
Ok, so now you'd have to find out where the nearest repair center is. And if it's not somewhere in the US, it's probably not worth the cost to get the repair. -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
(Correction: DP 1.3 does have enough bandwidth -- barely -- for 4K @ 120 Hz if it uses CVT-R2 blanking. But I still doubt we'd see it any time soon. HDMI 2.0 however does not have enough bandwidth unless you step down to 4:2:2, but even then it's not certain because of how HDMI encoding... -
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Philips BDM4065UC - 40" 4K 60Hz monitor thread
You may not have been following this thread long, but I mentioned a while ago that I looked at what it would cost to ship this display from the US back to OCUK after I decided I didn't want to keep mine. I figured if OCUK charged me 77 GBP for shipping, it couldn't be TOO much more to send back...