The official Philips BDM4065UC thread

philip2009 · 26 Jan 2015 at 19:57

Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
These will be available in numbers from 16th feb and sub £600 just wait a few weeks.

They are already available for around £550/60 (including VAT/shipping to UK) from European providers - I think 4K will be the new norm and prices will plummet.

Screeeech · 26 Jan 2015 at 20:07

gggrrrrrr was gonna order mine on Friday..

looks like i'll be waiting a while.

Dazboots · 26 Jan 2015 at 20:20

JediFragger said:
Sorry to hear that Daz

Don't forget you'll need a Mini DP cable for the 295x2 for when you get another Philips

Yeah ordered the StarTech.com 6" Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Video Cable

all is good.

Dazboots · 26 Jan 2015 at 20:22

Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
These will be available in numbers from 16th feb and sub £600 just wait a few weeks.

thank you didnt know that. @ least thats good news.

JediFragger · 26 Jan 2015 at 20:32

Dazboots said:
Yeah ordered the StarTech.com 6" Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort Video Cable

all is good.

6 inches!!???? Good luck with that

richardsim7 · 26 Jan 2015 at 20:50

JediFragger said:
6 inches!!???? Good luck with that

That's what she said

Dazboots · 26 Jan 2015 at 22:01

JediFragger said:
6 inches!!???? Good luck with that

its a mini dp to female cable. use normal display port cable attached.

Vanilla · 26 Jan 2015 at 22:22

Is it better to use display port cable rather than HDMI?

khemist · 26 Jan 2015 at 23:30

Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
These will be available in numbers from 16th feb and sub £600 just wait a few weeks.

The day after my birthday and start of my weeks hols, i don't think i will be able to resist.

philip2009 · 27 Jan 2015 at 02:36

Mmm, just seen the monitor on sale in Europe for sub-£500(inc VAT and shipping). On the one hand that's pretty tempting, on the other the price is probably going to drop again.

weird_dave · 27 Jan 2015 at 06:57

Vanilla said:
Is it better to use display port cable rather than HDMI?

You need to to get 60Hz native.

ICDP · 27 Jan 2015 at 08:32

Gibbo said:
It is designed for gaming, this is not a monitor for professionals, I suspect a professional grade version with calibrated panel would be 2-3x the cost.

After using mine I agree, no way a professional monitor this size would cost less than £2000.

ICDP · 27 Jan 2015 at 08:38

philip2009 said:
Mmm, just seen the monitor on sale in Europe for sub-£500(inc VAT and shipping). On the one hand that's pretty tempting, on the other the price is probably going to drop again.

Don't forget that customs import charges may need to be added onto that.

Mason168 · 27 Jan 2015 at 09:23

ICDP said:
Don't forget that customs import charges may need to be added onto that.

Theres no customs/import within EU as for as I know.

ICDP · 27 Jan 2015 at 09:41

Mason168 said:
Theres no customs/import within EU as for as I know.

True, but then there are warranty problems if something goes wrong or you get a faulty one. If the price is significantly cheaper then you may wish to take a chance. I have bought plenty of IT gear direct from EU and in some cases import duties apply.

Vanilla · 27 Jan 2015 at 10:01

weird_dave said:
You need to to get 60Hz native.

You mean the reason I need to use the display port is to ensure i get 60hz native?

(I know little of these matters)

spoffle · 27 Jan 2015 at 10:06

ICDP said:
After using mine I agree, no way a professional monitor this size would cost less than £2000.

They are that much mainly because professionals have the money to buy this sort of stuff for that sort of price, especially with righting it off against their tax.

There it's really any good reason why pro computer hardware costs so much outside of people will pay it.

It's like the Titan, there wasn't actually any reason why it was so expensive with regards to cost. The bill of materials of Titans is around the same amount as the cost of the GTX580. That's of course not factoring R&D, but realistically it wouldn't have been much different to the 580.

Yet the price was firmly in pretend land, simply because they were seeing just how loyal some of the nVidia boys are, in terms of the ones who bought them solely for games.

weird_dave · 27 Jan 2015 at 11:49

Vanilla said:
You mean the reason I need to use the display port is to ensure i get 60hz native?

(I know little of these matters)

Yes, it's on the product page:

- Resolution: 3840x2160 (Only over DisplayPort at 60Hz)

- Connectivity: 2x HDMI (30Hz), 1x DisplayPort (60Hz)

ICDP · 28 Jan 2015 at 08:32

spoffle said:
They are that much mainly because professionals have the money to buy this sort of stuff for that sort of price, especially with righting it off against their tax.

There it's really any good reason why pro computer hardware costs so much outside of people will pay it.

It's like the Titan, there wasn't actually any reason why it was so expensive with regards to cost. The bill of materials of Titans is around the same amount as the cost of the GTX580. That's of course not factoring R&D, but realistically it wouldn't have been much different to the 580.

Yet the price was firmly in pretend land, simply because they were seeing just how loyal some of the nVidia boys are, in terms of the ones who bought them solely for games.

Political ranting aside, my point still stands

Azrael1 · 28 Jan 2015 at 12:43

Dazboots said:
Well got my monitor delivered today from Dpd. box had a gash just on top about 1 inch down. on looking at the inside the monitor is well over 2 inches away from the ripped box. on closer inspection the monitor looks ok no marks.
linked to pc ,and pc finds it but the monitor wont light up. tried a few hdmi leads and power leads still the same. phoned ocuk up and there picking it up tomorrow.
looked on the website now there out of stock,just my luck
ordered a ati r295x2 that comes tomorrow and i have no monitor

Yeah I had the same problem on mine I had to press the joystick and it came to life ( on the back of the monitor )