The official Philips BDM4065UC thread

GSXR Gaz Mc said:
@SGTMASON

sorry to be off topic...but do u do anything to stop ya chair moving backwards while playing dirt rally....i cant use my wheel on my wood flooring as i keep sliding my chair everywhere and soon as i brake im goin backwards across me room lol
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Dude! A friend of mine gave me a great suggestion today! Non-slip caster/furniture cups...

Rubber cups that your chair casters sit in to stop it from sliding!

I'm ordering some from "the bay" ;)
 
Scooby-DoobyDoo said:
Weird, tried twice and have to roll back to win 8.1.

Monitor reports as generic one and I can't change it.

Safe mode get the full 4k res. Normal flickering can barely see the screen and low res / flickering like a crt set at the wrong refresh.
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Sorry your having such troubles mate! :(

Not sure what is causing that to be honest?
How are you connecting? Whats your settings?
Resolution set via AMD catalyst or Nvidia control panel?

I'm running via display port cable connection, Nvidia control panel setting as (PC) native 3840x2160 resolution 60hz and the monitor has been changed from default Displayport mode 1.1 to 1.2... (to get the 60hz obviously)

Don't know if anything in this would help?...

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/philips_bdm4065uc.htm
 
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Mine arrives tomorrow, hope it's in good condition and I'm probably going to have trouble sleeping, feel like a kid at Christmas. lol
 
Looks the business on my new Obutto R3volution

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SGTMASON said:
Haha! Nice one!
Let us know your impressions when its all hooked up! ;)
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I will do and of course will post some photos. I did manage to get 45 minutes sleep and well here I am again... lol

These Philips Monitors look like they take power supply exactly the same as LG TV use? A kind of 3 pin connector, just a little smaller than say a PSU in a computer?

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Looking at this photo:

http://4k.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Philips_BDM4065UC_04.jpg

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It now looks like the Philips Monitor uses the standard PC PSU and monitor power supply leads. Can anyone confirm? Thanks.
 
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WATTS said:
Mine arrives tomorrow, hope it's in good condition and I'm probably going to have trouble sleeping, feel like a kid at Christmas. lol
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Should arrive undamaged, the packing is pretty good and the couriers would have to do something spectacularly stupid to damage it. In my case I had the same manufacturing defect(twice!) so in my experience I'd worry less about damage in transit and more about Philips quality control.
 
Just got mine, I love it, I can run 4 screens inside this and negates the need for my triple screen monitors. Going to take a few days to get used to it but it's amazing and the quality is far superior to my horrible Dell IPS light bleed monitors!! ha ha

Also I have 0 ghosting so not sure why some have mentioned it. Maybe some suffer from 144hz syndrome? (They have trained their eyes to such fast refresh rates they see anything?).

I am well impressed and next on the list is a new video card and although I want a 980ti I am going to wait it out for the 2016 new NVIDIA GPU.
 
philip2009 said:
Should arrive undamaged, the packing is pretty good and the couriers would have to do something spectacularly stupid to damage it. In my case I had the same manufacturing defect(twice!) so in my experience I'd worry less about damage in transit and more about Philips quality control.
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Yeah it arrived okay but I have defects in the screen. A kind of dust behind the panel and 14 pixels in a line and in both sides and centre Phillips section is not straight at all.

I've contacted Philips and gave them proof of purchase and some photos and they are going to make a decision of i can get a repair and will know more in a few days.

Bottom line the defects are real and I won't rest until I get a new 100% perfect screen monitor.

It's a drop off and pick up swop so at least I won't be without a monitor but they better not try and wriggle out of sending me a new replacement!

Did you have any issues with Philips at all once you sent your images and proof of purchase in?
 
Here's how my RMA went - spoke to Philips by phone and they asked for photos of the monitor and a PDF of the invoice to be sent to them(made them confirm they'd send out a new, not refurbed, monitor). Did that and think about a week later Repairtech phoned me to arrange pickup, picked up(DPD courier) on a Wednesday. Then heard nothing when surprisingly there was a knock at the door the following Monday and a guy(TNT courier) delivered a new monitor, tracking label said it was sent from Rotterdam.

So for me there was a gap of a few days in the monitor swap, however don't get too disheartened because once you get a working monitor you will definitely be happy you stuck with it.

Shame Philips have such **** quality control, all the defects I experienced could only have been missed if the quality control staff were literally blind. I'm not just talking about the odd dead pixel but large physical defects, awful quality control. :rolleyes:
 
philip2009 said:
Here's how my RMA went - spoke to Philips by phone and they asked for photos of the monitor and a PDF of the invoice to be sent to them(made them confirm they'd send out a new, not refurbed, monitor). Did that and think about a week later Repairtech phoned me to arrange pickup, picked up(DPD courier) on a Wednesday. Then heard nothing when surprisingly there was a knock at the door the following Monday and a guy(TNT courier) delivered a new monitor, tracking label said it was sent from Rotterdam.

So for me there was a gap of a few days in the monitor swap, however don't get too disheartened because once you get a working monitor you will definitely be happy you stuck with it.

Shame Philips have such **** quality control, all the defects I experienced could only have been missed if the quality control staff were literally blind. I'm not just talking about the odd dead pixel but large physical defects, awful quality control. :rolleyes:
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Yeah i think that's probably the worst thing, the quality control but if they will get it sorted out for anew one then i'm okay with that i guess.

Take a look at my issues:

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Middle out of alignment and scratch on the front.

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I counted 14 affected pixels in a line going down on this when zoomed in AND another one to the right of that.

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More dust lines / dead pixels?

I've also just noticed the bezel round the screen lets a little of the black through if you get what i mean, i think thats meant to be hidden behind the monitor so the last pixel is at the edge of the plastic bezel.

You don't think they will try and refuse me a new monitor do you? I think those defects are bad enough to warrant a replacement.

Thanks.
 
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I can't confidently say what their exact policy is on new monitors other than the 14 day window for reporting(apparently used to be only 7 days). You may just have to ring them up after a few days and see how your claim is progressing.
 
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