Philips BDM4065UC/00 UHD 40-Inch Monitor (16:9, 3840 x 2160)

I had a Ezio panel previously as I had been impressed with their picture quality before but unfortunately they have started using IPS panels which have absolutely awful black levels. When I saw this was a VA panel and less than half the price of the 28" Eizo I decided that it might have a good picture and it certainly does. Excelling with all content. As mentioned it does require display port to connect and run properly. Phillips Smart Control software works well. Just remember to choose save the 60 hz pre-set once created and tick the check box to always enable it at start up. Occasionally my computer drops the connection and the screen drops back to 30 hz but windows detects this and give a notification. It just requires a reboot to get it back to normal. I'm pretty sure this is a driver conflict on my machine though so I doubt it will affect everyone. 4k gaming is just awesome on it and I've been replaying a lot of game because they just look so much better. Fallout 4 is just fantastic at 4k. The realism can be a bit overpowering at times, climbing the highest view points in Assassins Creed gives me vertigo. Blu ray and 4k video look fantastic of course. I run Windows 7 and enabling large icons makes it perfectly usable at 4k. It is an LCD so the off centre viewing angle picture quality isn't so good, but for a monitor this does not matter. It's fantastic from the viewing position. Also the original stand isn't adjustable but I bought an adjustable stand on Amazon for about £16 and that just works fine. I have mine sitting about 60 mm above my desktop absolutely vertical and that works for me. I have an illuminated keyboard and it did reflect slightly in the screen but I used part of the keyboard box which was black to cut a mask that sits between the keyboard and the screen and this stop the keyboard lighting reflecting in the screen. If the screen sat higher the lights wouldn't be a problem anyway but I always like my monitors to sit low down. If you want a big 4k screen and good black levels at a bargain price this is the screen for you. You can run this screen at other resolutions as well as 4k though and it still looks very good as it scales extremely well.

Its been a week since I've been using this monitor so I've decided to highlight some of the + and - of using it. + very large 40" clear bright screen (took me a couple of days to get use to the sheer size) + 110ppi 4k over 40" which is equivalent to using a 28" 2560x1600 monitor. i cant see any of the pixels and im sitting about 65 cm away. the text is definitely sharp and I've run a 4k demo and looks very crisp in terms of the display. + having two web browsers side by side works like a charm. + though its only 28ms in terms of lag according to HDTV website (they have a review) I've played bf4 on pc and street fighter 4 on PS3 through hdmi and haven't noticed any lag. seems very quick and im comparing it to my w955b Sony TV with is the fastest gaming tv around. + theres no need to adjust the icon sizes or text over 4k looks fine with the default setting windows 8.1 but i made it smaller thats suited to my own preference. + my pictures looks incredible on this display (so big and sharp!) much better than outputting pictures on my 55" 1080p tv u can clearly see the difference in terms of sharpness. - annoying thing is when i turn the pc off, the monitor goes into standby but.....the small power indicator keeps flashing and its so annoying my old monitors standby light use to turn into static orange but not this monitor, in order to stop the flashing white light, you have to physically hold the power button at the back for 3 seconds then it turns off. but that means u have to hold it for 3 seconds again when u want to power it up. i brought a monitor not a tele so why do i have to keep doing this. i don't think there's a workaround I've tried everything. - the monitor wont boot up from standby mode when i turn my pc on.....hmmmmmmm, my mate said to update the bios on my motherboard so that the pc recognises the monitor, ive did this so far its ok. it does recognise it but it was a pain to begin with. good thing to do would be to update your mpotherboard bios and also download the windows 8 monitor driver from philips website. - sometimes the monitor loses its 60hertz over display 1.2 setting and i need to reset the computer and manually reconfigure it in the windows display setting to get it back to 60herts again which is annoying. - the power connecter sticks out at the back (see pic) which is annoying if you want to mount this on a wall (vesa 200) should have been at the bottom. so far im happy with it though im definitly keeping it. im having some of the slight problems in the - section ive mentioned in this review but i dont know if thats down to the monitor, my graphics card drivers or windows 8.1. im keeping it though i dunno if i can go back to any other monitor. download windows 8.1 drivers from here http://www.philips.co.uk/c-p/BDM4065UC_00/brilliance-led-backlit-lcd-display/support bit tricky to install but follow the instructions from the "Drivers for Windows 7 - Download Readme files" on the same page. theres things i havnt mentioned as they already have been on previous reviews written here im just sharing my own experience with this monitor. hope this helps.

Lots of technical reviews on here, and generally speaking most are right. You can have the same resolution on smaller monitors (as high as 5k on a 27" iMac) but the detail can be lost sometimes, even when sitting inches away. This monitor is big and the PPI is great but not fantastic or class leading, colours are accurate, I don't play games so can't comment. On a Mac all scales with no issues but you must have the 1.2 connection Whilst doing my job at home a day a week its brilliant for all the boring stuff like Word, Outlook, web browsing and Excel is unbelievable (No more scrolling left/right up/down to reveal more cells!!!) personally I like photography and use Aperture and Lightroom which again is an improved experience by the size and resolution. Don't over complicate things, it's big and accurate and relatively basic but does a brilliant job of the basics and the cost is more than justifiable for what you get. If your a gamer who wants higher frame rates then spend a grand on a smaller monitor that will give you what you want, if your a pro photographer/colourist etc.. and want 100% Adobe colour accuracy then spend 2K on a smaller monitor else where with that feature, but if your not one of those 6% of people who absolutey need those high end features then for a little over £530 english pounds there is little better in the 30" size category, and if I'm not mistake to only 40" offering on the market. Only issue is that it's so big I can't fit two side by side on my desk or I would, Chuffing marvellous!!

Really excited about this monitor. I had been looking forward to this thing since first reading about its APAC release late last year. This upgrade is taking the place of 2 other screens I had previously had in my mancave/game play/dev/programming haven. I previously had a 48'' Samsung 1080p LED TV (~ 2010 or so.. ), and a 27 '' Apple Cinema Display . Previously I didn't think monitors could get any better than that 27'' Apple Cinema Display, but I am LOVING this upgrade. Going from the 1440p of the ACD to the 2160p of the Philips is astounding. I have been casually eyeing 4k monitors since the release of that main Samsung 28'' model that everyone has. That thing is absolutely great, but you can't really take advantage of the desktop space provided by 2160p if you are on a screen that small. The colors are definitely notably more "cool" on the Philips than the near-reference color reproduction on the Apple Cinema Display. I think this could be a deal breaker for someone who sensitive to that stuff. I think I definitely wouldn't want the two monitors used side by side as the differences would be a bit too much. That said, used on its own, I think the colors still look great, they just have that "cool" feel to them. Full screen video looks amazing. Games look amazing. Looked up some recommended color settings on the internet and I was good to go. Tech stuff: My GTX 680 at home had no problem doing 4k60hz over Display Port, ( you do need to set the display options to use Display Port 1.2 in the menu, like a lot of others have reported ). My Nvidia Quadro 5000 at work however ( a much pricier graphics card!! ) could only push the display at 30 hz.. If you are buying this thing, you want to make sure you are getting 60hz. Even just using the desktop at 30hz feels subtly painful. If you are thinking of using HDMI2.0 for this, just do your homework on your graphics card to make sure it will all work. Then again, if you are buying this instead of a 4k Samsung TV for monitor use, you are probably doing it at least somewhat because this thing supports display port ( which will get you 4k60 with much older hardware ). Game stuff: I wasn't really planning on running a load of games at 4k on my somewhat modest GTX 680, but I fired up Far Cry 3 for a minute and was able to get like 20 fps on ultra with 4k.. Wouldn't play through the whole game like that I don't think, but it was amazing to see the detail on objects super far in the distance. Really cool. Looking forward to playing more game at 4k once I upgrade graphics cards later this year or next year. Besides that, I will be playing mostly just at 1080p on ultra and blow it up for the most part. I also occasionally fire up the ol' PS4 in the office ( what the 48'' Samsung was used pretty much exclusively for ), this thing looks great doing that job as well. There are some super cool Picture in Picture settings on this monitor as well. You can display a bunch of 1080p inputs at the same time side by side or on top of each other. It works great, but the menu on the monitor used to turn it on / off is a little unwieldy. It works, just makes you work for it a bit. Display lag: the negatives that people might mention about this monitor usually have to do with its VA panel. Some people don't like the color reproduction ( others swear that VA panels like this give the best color reproduction ), that is a bit subjective, but what isn't is the display lag that comes with a VA panel. Here is the jist: this thing on paper has worse display lag than a lot of other monitors, but that number on paper is still super low in the grand scheme of things. I think the display lag is like 30ms or something, which is high compared to a lot of other computer monitors ( some of which have like 4ms display lag ), but its pretty low if you compare it to 4k Televisions ( which I did a lot of research on and purchased earlier this year, so I was familiar ). Basically, I am pretty sensitive to this stuff and this monitor is just fine in this regard I think. But maybe if you were playing like Rocksmith ( or another game with an interface that requires pin point timing ), you would have a bit more trouble than with a monitor that is focusing on a low display latency. I have also heard of some people complain about ghosting with this monitor, but I haven't been able to pick up on it at all. Overall, its a great monitor for programming / desktop work. It essentially gives you 4x 1080p monitors in a single screen. I have visual studio windows everywhere!! XD. It also performs great if you want to use it for gaming. I am a big fan of watching like youtube videos and s*** while I work. This allows me to have Visual Studio take up half the screen real estate, while my program I am working on, a youtube video, and an ancillary web browser window can be open on the other half, its absolutley amazing and now when I come into work to my 30'' 1600p / 24'' 1080p combo, it makes me wish I was back home! XD

Great product and perfect size for easy on the eye low-strain 4K resolution. Built in speakers are stronger than expected but in general still as to be expected built in quality. 60 frames per second gaming on the DisplayPort supported 60hrz is great clarity. Only downside I can think of would be if you shut the monitor off at night it will default all your windows to a small portion of the top left of the screen. So all I do is put on a blank screen saver which shuts it down without modifying the active programs.

I was waffling on a 4K monitor for some time. IPS was too expensive and not big enough. The big ones only ran at 30Hz. The smaller ones that could do 60Hz (e.g. a 28" 4K monitor) everything was too small. I'm a coder and support engineer, so I have a lot of windows open at once doing multiple things. I need readable text and lots of windows open at aonce. So I got the Philips, because it would be a 40" 4K monitor at 60Hz (running on an early 2015 Macbook Pro Retina). To put it simply, this thing is big. There are a lot of pixels. Here's the good and not as good: Good: Big 4K (4x1080p screens, basically) Menus are awesome and easy to use Lots of good inputs, audio passthrough, etc. Not IPS but has EXCELLENT viewing angles. I was surprised by this. No complaints. Brightness/contrast is good. Pixels. So many pixels. I can't go back! Not so good: I have an ergotron arm that supposedly holds monitors up to about 50lbs. However, even with the tension at full, this drags it down despite its low weight. Odd. My 30" Dell weighed just a hair less.. Also, the VESA pattern is 200x200 so you need an adapter to mount it to an arm. The displayport is on the left of the monitor, but everything at my desk puts my laptop on the right. Cable management isn't super easy with this monitor The power cable and USB ports come straight off the back vs. underneath or to the side, so you can't put this RIGHT up against a wall or something unless you have right angle connectors. The display sometimes takes a bit to wake from sleep, and may occasionally (once waking up) flick off/on again once or twice until it's fully awake. Odd.. Window management needs rethinking. I was using Spectacle on OS X for window management before and it worked great. With 4K, doing thirds and the four corners for window placement feels like overkill, so I switched to using Hammerspoon and wrote my own LUA config, mapped to similar hotkeys as Spectacle, and use that for window placement. I now have 8 quadrants with the ability to resize in/out vertically or horizontally at a whim. This is overkill for most people but since I use a keyboard 99% of the time, including to move windows around, for productivity this was critical for me. Note: This review is posted after about 2 months of using the monitor. So far so good!

The monitor is great, just 2 small things to know: There's a small real power switch near the soft switch and it is not written in the manual, so I tough the monitor was dead and nearly sent it back until I found the real switch, The monitor is configured as DP1.1 by default and the refresh rate is at 30hz max, but in the menus you can change it to DP1.2 and there comes the 60hz and it become more fluid, also the monitor flashed 2 times when going out of sleep and it's now corrected with DP1.2. The stand is fixed so I had to shim the back to tilt it downward. For the price it's a correct monitor, I don't play games, mostly internet browsing, excel and remote assistance, which don't have to be zoomed down to fit the screen. Another small thing, the monitor is made in 2015, but I bought it new in 2022 ! Maybe someone found a lost pallet somewhere as the box looked new ?

I've bought this monitor due to the screen real estate it offers for coding, and so far it has met my expectations in all but a few areas. To start with, the contrast is incredible compared to my IPS monitors. The black levels are amazing. The backlight uniformity could be better, the display's corners are a bit darker than the rest of the display, even with "smart uniformity" enabled. On my display without smart uniformity the left side was noticeably darker than the rest, but that was fixed by enabling it. Another thing I noticed is color banding on gradients, which is particularly noticeable when applying any kind of blur filter to photos. This kind of banding is not present on my IPS displays (both 8 bit panels like this monitor), so I'm not sure where that's coming from, especially considering Philips' spec of 1.073 billion colors for this display. I did not notice the banding in everyday use nor while watching movies. (I've attached a few images showing the effect) I saw other reviews mention color bleed on grey background, but was unable to reproduce that on my display. The other major problem I found with this monitor is ghosting, that is most noticeable when scrolling bold large text on white background, or pretty much moving any dark object. The ghosting is not noticeable on small text, so you may not see it in everyday use that much. I did not notice ghosting while watching movies at all. (In the attached image you can see an example of ghosting, the page was zoomed in 200% to make the effect more apparent) Overall I'm happy with my purchase, as the huge real estate this monitor offers outweighs any issues I've had with it, none of which were bad enough to interfere with everyday use.