Philips BDM4350UC... not fit for purpose?

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So, after much consideration, thought i'd take the plunge and hope for an acceptable one (i.e no screen burn, IPS glow etc)...

Received today and this monitor is fundamentally flawed and quite frankly I'm amazed nobody has mentioned this ANYWHERE before!

The panel is clearly set relatively deep behind the front glass / screen and so when looking at the monitor straight on, the edges of the picture are slightly obscured (and I know this is a design fault as went through several Hisense TV's with exactly the same issue)... it's a cheap design issue.

How can anyone using a PC not notice this?! The indicator bars on the start bar do not show fully and if you look at the vertical edges in Excel etc, you can see that a few mm of picture are obscured and any text looks to be "floating" slightly above the background.

Eurghh. :(

On a side note... what % scaling does everyone tend to use for 4K?
 
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So, after much consideration, thought i'd take the plunge and hope for an acceptable one (i.e no screen burn, IPS glow etc)...

Received today and this monitor is fundamentally flawed and quite frankly I'm amazed nobody has mentioned this ANYWHERE before!

The panel is clearly set relatively deep behind the front glass / screen and so when looking at the monitor straight on, the edges of the picture are slightly obscured (and I know this is a design fault as went through several Hisense TV's with exactly the same issue)... it's a cheap design issue.

How can anyone using a PC not notice this?! The indicator bars on the start bar do not show fully and if you look at the vertical edges in Excel etc, you can see that a few mm of picture are obscured and any text looks to be "floating" slightly above the background.

Eurghh. :(

On a side note... what % scaling does everyone tend to use for 4K?

Shouldnt use Scaling at all above 32".
 
100% makes the startbar / Chrome tabs almost ridiculously small...

In fact, at 100%, you cannot see the open program indicator bars AT ALL (There's like 12 or so pixels obscured).


Anyone got the smartcontrol software working? All the options are greyed out.
 
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