Philips monitors.. what can I say... Wow

Diagro · 1 Jan 2018 at 13:52

So.

I had a 40" 4k Philips monitor.
I bought it from eBay around 20 months ago.

The other week, it decided to fail on me. Half the screen was dying, fuzzy lines and flashes half the time.

Philips simply asked when I bought it, and asked for it's serial number. Then informed me that they no longer stocked the old 40" monitor and asked if I would accept a compromise. A 43" 4k monitor!

I jumped at the chance, it arrived within 2 days and DPD took my old one away and have me the new one.

It's sat on my desk... And I must say... It's too big

Squid Vicious · 1 Jan 2018 at 18:26

Sell it, buy another 40" and pocket the difference if you're lucky

peahead · 1 Jan 2018 at 23:37

You don't really hear much about Philips monitor support on here good to hear they sorted it for you and upgraded you without hassle.

Its only 3" bigger surely not too big

tamzzy · 2 Jan 2018 at 03:02

Diagro said:
It's too big

peahead said:
Its only 3" bigger surely not too big

so what did she really say?

Dempsey22 · 2 Jan 2018 at 06:58

That worked out very well in your favour.

ToTheMax · 2 Jan 2018 at 11:23

My original 40" 4k Philips is still going strong, but this is good to know.

MagicBoy · 2 Jan 2018 at 11:57

We use the 22"s at work. Very reliable and the support on the handful of occasions we've needed it has been excellent.

JediFragger · 2 Jan 2018 at 16:15

peahead said:
Its only 3" bigger surely not too big

That'll do nicely Sir

richardsim7 · 31 Jan 2018 at 10:32

Hah, same. Except mine's had the screen flashing issue (with fuzzy lines) when waking from sleep pretty much the entire time I've had it. I just decided to email them a couple weeks ago and they said they'd replace it, and like you, it's out of stock so they offered me the 43" model

richardsim7 · 31 Jan 2018 at 16:26

Oh, my mistake, they offered me the curved 40" one

Vega · 2 Feb 2018 at 16:07

I've always had good luck with Philips products.

4K8KW10 · 19 Oct 2018 at 22:07

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Legend · 19 Oct 2018 at 22:51

A friend of mine had his Philips 40" happily replaced by them when it got a thunderbug stuck in the panel. So yeah, they're pretty good with things like this.

Lartyconshayo · 20 Oct 2018 at 06:16

I have the 40 inch Philips bought from MM here actually. It does have the fuzzy lines and flashing when waking up sometimes but it always comes good so far.

Rroff · 20 Oct 2018 at 06:53

Lartyconshayo said:
I have the 40 inch Philips bought from MM here actually. It does have the fuzzy lines and flashing when waking up sometimes but it always comes good so far.

If there is audio on the monitor try turning it down to 0 or disabling if you have the option - 4K panels of that era had some weird bug with audio and power saving that could cause visual corruption.

Lartyconshayo · 20 Oct 2018 at 07:56

Thanks I will have a look