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Can someone else test their monitor on a full screen dark grey and let me know if they are seeing a similar issue? Its about the only real deal breaking for me on this monitor and drove me nuts
I did a quite writeup aswell: http://www.terranmedia.com.au/blog/2015/1/20/d1ww71ckcav9ye59y6jtyy21k7d50y
I dont know why but every time I try to attempt to overclock to 75hz I get mad frame skipping in the UFO test on both IE and Chrome. What am I missing?
1. I downloaded and installed the inf from philips website
2. I use cru to set up a profile 3840x1440 @75hz and 1920x1080 @75hz (both frame skip)
3. I created the custom resolution in nvidia control panel. (using gtx 980)
any help would be greatly appreciated!
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...t-4k-uhd/dd34e63d-dbf8-4d0e-adff-a1a9bbfcb92b
looks like with the newest intel drivers it works now at SF3Pro UHD@60hz
First of all thanks for your help!
For general productivity, if you're sitting close enough that the decreased size isn't an issue, then yes you'll get a lot more real estate to work with, and a real display is much better than a TV for reasons such as input lag, full RGB, etc. If on the other hand the text would be too small at your viewing distance and therefore you wouldn't benefit from the added real estate and would have to enable scaling to make things usable, then this would arguably be a step backward in terms of overall experience for you.Thank you for the comprehensive reply. The TV is 1080p. If I ran the Philips at 1080p surely the text would be sharper/smoother as each character would be composed of 4x the pixels? However, it seems I wouldn't be gaining enough all round to justify the outlay.You didn't specify the resolution of your Panasonic TV, but assuming it's 1080p, text would indeed be roughly half the size (slightly larger since the Philips is a larger panel). If the TV is 720p, text will be even smaller than half the size. However, 30 Hz can be a real drag even for general usage. The mouse cursor looks choppy when moved around, and even video can be problematic. 24 fps video will use 3:2 pulldown like the earlier DVD days, and 60 fps video will of course only be half as smooth.
As to whether your viewing experience will improve, it depends a lot on how you want to use it. If your TiVo only outputs 1080p, then the extra resolution on this panel will deliver absolutely zero benefit. Of course there's more to image quality than raw resolution, but without knowing more about your TV, it's hard to say how the Philips would compare -- although even if I did know more about your TV, to be honest I'm not going to research it extensively to give you an estimate, since that's the type of pre-purchase research you should be doing.
But then there's still the question of whether you'd even notice the additional sharpness from your viewing distance. If a 37" 1080p TV has been sufficient for you until now, I assume your viewing distance is several feet away, in which case the sharpness improvement probably won't be as significant as moving from a regular to Retina display, for example. According to this chart, a 37" display would need to be viewed from ~2 ft away for 4K to be fully noticeable, and if you're sitting ~5 ft away or more, you wouldn't notice any improvement at all over 1080p.First of all thanks for your help!
I am still running into problems though.
Im now only using CRU and reset all my nvidia cp settings to default.
I installed the patcher
I tried 2 resolutions 3840x1440 @70hz and 3840x2160 @66hz
both are still giving me frame skips.
I don't know if it's me or if it's really happening but I feel like the monitor is smoother at native 60hz
Also note I can see the frame skips on the ufo tester visibly w/o using my camera.
Using my camera took me 36 tries to catch the frame that was actually skipping as well.
Also also note I do have a qnix OC'd to 112hz so im not an extreme noob when it comes to these things.
. Apart from all that though are you enjoying the screen? love the black levels on this thing absolutely wipes the floor with IPS imho.I'm still tempted to order one having read about SwitchResX (thanks for the heads up). My viewing distance across my desk is approx. 34 inches except when watching TV when it is much further. I assume it will scale the 1080i output of the TiVo to full screen?If you held the physical size of the text constant and the OS knew what you wanted to do, then yes you're right that text would be sharper -- as would graphics when high-resolution assets were available. But your Mac (and Windows boxes) won't default to that behavior with this display; instead of giving you 4x as many pixels to represent a given image, they'll use the extra pixels to give you 4x as much space. As a result, 12 pt text for example would have the same level of sharpness since it's comprised of the same number of pixels on each display, but on the Philips the text would only be about a quarter of the physical size of your Panasonic TV (half as large in each dimension, ignoring the 3-inch panel size discrepancy).
On a Mac, you may be able to use an application like SwitchResX to get the Mac to essentially treat this as a Retina display so that you maintain the existing "1080p-equivalent" real estate but with much sharper text and graphics as you say, but I don't know if anybody here has attempted that on this display. And on the Windows side, scaling isn't nearly that easy and clear cut anyway.
That's odd compared to mine, If my camera wasn't wrecked by the mrs. i would be able to capture the frames and identify it properly. Will have to borrow my mates 1000fps camera to test true frame skipping on mine now.
If it turns out mine isn't skipping then there truly might be an issue with the internal components used between regions. Hopefully (to my detriment) this isn't the case as that would not bode well for Philips' sales.
Thank you for replying with the tests
Some more good news for US-based members today, looks like it's coming sooner than we thought.
