The official Philips BDM4065UC thread

It's not a case of being unhappy, it's a very vibrant panel, it's just not up to IPS standards. It's great for games and movies but attempting to get vivid colours caused me too much trouble, the semi-gloss display made for very bright whites that were uncomfortable on the eye, maybe it's a calibration issue or an expectation of too much from a VA panel. I guess there's a give and a take with every monitor but the downside to this monitor is one I'm absolutely willing to live with for the upside.
 
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Hi El_MUERkO

Thanks for you post.

Can I ask what is it about the colours that aren't good enough for you? It supports virtually 100% sRGB (not sure how good it is with Adobe RGB though), and I've seen a Chinese review which shows it displays sRGB very favourably.

I'd be interested to hear why you aren't happy with the colouring on yours and what setting did you have it on? Hoping it's not another hernaldo situation! :D
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I'm thinking it's something to do with an incorrect colour profile, or being used to an IPS panel that hadn't been calibrated so it was overly vibrant.

I recently calibrated my IPS monitors and they ended up less vibrant than they were precalibration.
 
Could be something as simple as being miscalibrated, that can play havoc with colours. I'm wondering what I've been missing with IPS screens, I've always been happy with the Dell 2709W and that's a VA screen apparently so hopefully I won't see much of a difference.

The semi-gloss aspect could be a bit of a concern, anything reflective could be a problem...
 
spoffle said:
I'm thinking it's something to do with an incorrect colour profile, or being used to an IPS panel that hadn't been calibrated so it was overly vibrant.

I recently calibrated my IPS monitors and they ended up less vibrant than they were precalibration.
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Agreed, exactly what I was thinking coming from Dell IPS.

Since this morning gone from disappointment to falling in love with this thing.

Trade offs going from IPS -> VA are minimal and the benefits far outweigh the negatives. Finally I have proper blacks and whites, the glossyness provided you don't have a window shining light at the screen is fantastic, just the right level without being too glassy and elity style over substance.

Always detested AG coatings with a passion, giving that horrible granulated image taking all the freshness out of things.
Screen is super bright, a bit jarring on the eyes at first but it's balanced well, whites are definitely not blown out and blacks aren't crushed. The panel definitely isn't uniformly lit the corners are dark as are the sides, but it's really nothing awful and just the way it is with a VA panel. It's not something that seems like a negative, just not ideal.
There's nothing negative that I can see so far. (There's a feeling of "oh that's not perfect or could be better for ghosting, but it's not distracting and it's all stuff you can genuinely adapt to - to the point that even if it was perfect you wouldn't appreciate it anyway after a few hours use)
Might be a bit non technical a post, but it should put across the feeling of going from a quality IPS calibrated screen to this.


*disregard my previous comments earlier in the thread. Turned off all the stupid settings and all is well. :D

Good riddance IPS panels, unless I ever get a job that demands one, which will be never.
 
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Hello All,

My monitor arrived today. My ergotron widescreen stand arrived yesterday. I spent less then £675 for all the parts. Fitted them all and been playing games past 2 hours.

A different stand is a must by the way as it means i can lower the screen and my eyes hit the top of the monitor - perfect !.I looked at the included stand and its junk !

First thing I did was put it on display Port 1.2.However Gaming was so bad it was unbelievable. I then noticed I was stuck at 30FPS in Titanfall and did some research and found out I had not changed the refresh rate from 30 Mhz to 60 Mhz. ( what a muppet ). I then changed the refresh rate in windows.

Now tried gaming and omg its amazing. I never believed the 4k Hype and primary just wanted a big gaming screen.I mean I have a 1600P dell already - how much better can a game look ?

Well after experiencing Battlefield 4 in 4K WOW WOW WOW. It looks amazing.

This screen is lovely - while it is not quite as vibrant as my dell 3014 ( second monitor in potrait ) theres no Backlight bleed that is noticeable.

Wow also looks lovely and plays lovely on it.

Also to note for some reason when I installed the monitor windows 8.1 pushed the scaling to 250% ??? I'm guessing because all the first 4K monitors were small 28 inches.
 
Wow, you got some good deals Azrael1. What model of the ergotron did you get?

Would it be possible for you take some side profile pictures please, with the arms of the stand and the monitor pushed as far to the back as possible, so that the arms are flush with the back of the desk. So it's essentially in the most recessed position possible as if the desk was pushed up against a wall?

Ideally it would be nice to know the measurement from the front of the screen to the backplate of the desk mount do know the total depth of the setup :)
 
i think most of us bought the stand version

http://www.ergotron.com/ProductsDetails/tabid/65/PRDID/242/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

picture from Smurfin.

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my stand delivered today too but i am still waiting for monitor.
 
Does that Neoflex Widescreen allow 90 degree rotation for portrait mode with the 40" Philips? Suspect it might be too big for this, which would be the only explanation I can think of for the Ergotron website giving 32" as the max size supported.

Not that I think I would ever need to put it in portrait - but curious to know...

Other than that, the stand looks fine for landscape use from the pics.

Also, how low can the screen be on the desk?
 
@D3lirious i think Smufin said that lowest to 1" between screen and table . ( but from the stand manual i think it can go as low as touch the stand itself )
it look like the screen is too wide to use in 90degree as the stand isn't high enough.
 
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