The official Philips BDM4065UC thread

hernaldo · 13 Dec 2014 at 18:20

Thanks for the stand price heads up

About to order now, felt £100+ was a bit much but at £50...crikey can't really say no to that.

eyetrip · 13 Dec 2014 at 18:35

Does this really only have one displayport?

phill1978 · 13 Dec 2014 at 18:35

Azrael1 said:
Its soo sharp ! Its lovely. I wonder if some things look washed out as the detail not up to spec.

I will give you an example if I play BF4 at 1600p res on this then it looks so so but soon as I put it to 4K Res - WOW WOW WOW.

Wow looks lovely in 4K and runs fine. Also tried Dragon age I as well.

I'm never going back to smaller then 40.

Alien Isolation looks espcially lovely as thats a dark game.

sounds great.Im very tempted by it

I saw a 48" 4k set recently and i have to say yup it blew the 1080p sets away, surprisingly it was hugely better not just a bit.

UberTiger · 13 Dec 2014 at 19:29

TheBigCheese said:
What I'd really like to see is Command and Conquer Red Alert at full 4K! The OpenRA project allows custom resolutions, not sure of the size it goes up to, but being a fan since the beginning it's one of the things I'm really keen to see...it'll probably fit the entire map on the screen at once!

OMG, can you imagine? You could have the entire map onscreen and no scrolling

Smurfin · 13 Dec 2014 at 19:33

Only a single dp, although there is a mini dp too.

Someone was asking about the small front panel with Philips written on it. You can't remove it unfortunately - I tried! Although it's a two part panel the back half is moulded to the chassis ....

eyetrip · 13 Dec 2014 at 19:51

Smurfin said:
Only a single dp, although there is a mini dp too.

Someone was asking about the small front panel with Philips written on it. You can't remove it unfortunately - I tried! Although it's a two part panel the back half is moulded to the chassis ....

display port + mini displayport is ok... just so long as there is more than one it is worth considering.

edit: can it do 60hz at 1080p via hdmi?

UberTiger · 13 Dec 2014 at 20:24

Has anyone tried the MultiView yet?

You can read more about it on page 9 of the manual.

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/b/bdm4065uc_61/bdm4065uc_61_dfu_eng.pdf

Can you confirm if the [PBP 2Win]: Picture by Picture splits the screen evenly in two with a break in the centre?

The diagram on page 10 makes it looks like there will be horizontal bars. Plus it notes

The black strip shows on the top and the bottom of the screen for the correct aspect ratio when in the PBP mode.

I'm wondering if you can change the resolutions to fill the whole monitor with no black bars. So 1920x2160 portrait mode for each half.

hernaldo · 13 Dec 2014 at 20:40

UberTiger said:
Has anyone tried the MultiView yet?

You can read more about it on page 9 of the manual.

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/b/bdm4065uc_61/bdm4065uc_61_dfu_eng.pdf

Can you confirm if the [PBP 2Win]: Picture by Picture splits the screen evenly in two with a break in the centre?

The diagram on page 10 makes it looks like there will be horizontal bars. Plus it notes

I'm wondering if you can change the resolutions to fill the whole monitor with no black bars. So 1920x2160 portrait mode for each half.

There's no dividing bar.
There's an option to set the size of the pbp picture, I just tried setting it with the same input used for both pbp windows, but the option for size and a couple others stayed greyed out?...not sure how to make them not greyed out...
I'm knackered today don't have inclination to check if it's just for certain inputs that it can be modified but I'll post tomorrow if nobody else has checked by then.

El_MUERkO · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:09

Someone asked about motion. I've played with the monitors settings a bit over the weekend, the preset modes are to be avoided. Game, in particular, was horrible.

Here are the changes I made. I set the input to be DP1.2 (default DP1.1), screen to 1:1 (default 'Widescreen'), Smartresponse to' Fast' (default 'Off'), Pixel Orbiting to' Off' (default 'On').

It seems as smooth as my Dell. I have no complaints

Smurfin · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:15

Will try those settings later

What did you think to game mode in-game?

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:18

El_MUERkO said:
Someone asked about motion. I've played with the monitors settings a bit over the weekend, the preset modes are to be avoided. Game, in particular, was horrible.

Here are the changes I made. I set the input to be DP1.2 (default DP1.1), screen to 1:1 (default 'Widescreen'), Smartresponse to' Fast' (default 'Off'), Pixel Orbiting to' Off' (default 'On').

It seems as smooth as my Dell. I have no complaints

Good to hear.

I know someone said before it had both displayport and mini displayport - can you just confirm that for me?

Also, can you try running 1080p over hdmi and tell me if it allows 60hz?

UberTiger · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:21

Manual lists this

VGA: 1920 x 1080 @ 60Hz
HDMI: 3840 x 2160 @ 30Hz, 2560 x 1440 @ 60Hz
DisplayPort: 3840 x 2160 @ 60Hz,

It also shows all the ports on the diagram.

http://download.p4c.philips.com/files/b/bdm4065uc_61/bdm4065uc_61_dfu_eng.pdf

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:25

You sir, are a star.

Think am going to go for this over the samsung ultra wide - I can always create my own ultrra wide custom res

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:27

Can you tell me, does standby over displayport work on this?

Does it go properly into standby? Does it resume properly?

Smurfin · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:29

eyetrip said:
Good to hear.

I know someone said before it had both displayport and mini displayport - can you just confirm that for me?

Don't you believe me then?

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:31

Smurfin said:
Don't you believe me then?

It's not that... am just double checking everything to be as sure as possible. Having a crap time trying to find a monitor without issues, and keeping reading the spec list on OcUK site, it doesn't list the mini displayport.

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 10:44

If any of you have a free moment, think you could create a custom res of 3840 x 1280 and show what it looks like on screen?

That's not 21:9, but rather 3:1;

I think 21:9 would be 3840 x 1635

eyetrip · 14 Dec 2014 at 15:59

Have gone ahead and ordered this. Hopefully still get in on the pre-orders for those coming tomorrow...

hernaldo · 14 Dec 2014 at 19:09

eyetrip said:
If any of you have a free moment, think you could create a custom res of 3840 x 1280 and show what it looks like on screen?

That's not 21:9, but rather 3:1;

I think 21:9 would be 3840 x 1635

Just done that, it looks exactly like you'd expect. Black bars top and bottom, image takes up whole horizontal screen, no scaling, pixels are mapped 1:1.

hernaldo · 14 Dec 2014 at 19:11

El_MUERkO said:
Someone asked about motion. I've played with the monitors settings a bit over the weekend, the preset modes are to be avoided. Game, in particular, was horrible.

Here are the changes I made. I set the input to be DP1.2 (default DP1.1), screen to 1:1 (default 'Widescreen'), Smartresponse to' Fast' (default 'Off'), Pixel Orbiting to' Off' (default 'On').

It seems as smooth as my Dell. I have no complaints

Smartresponse seems to reduce input lag at the expense of ghosting.
Turning to off for me didn't make input lag terrible but eliminated all ghosting and looks slightly better on that front than setting to "Fast".