im with you on that, Philips did change that recently, I hope it sells good and there is more of them, nice to see a 40inch display with displayport, I thought it would never happen when you see 4k TV's still with scart
with all the windows scaling issues I don't feel like squinting to see stuff
oled TV's finally coming down in price and interesting stuff like QD
I want to see displayport on all that not just hdmi2 ><
i want away from tn/va i want the next tech as soon as possible on pc
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I would like to comment on the Philips-part: I don't know how they handle computer monitor support, but I've had VERY BAD experience with their HDTV support. And from the looks of it, I'm considered as one of the lucky ones, as my issue is mainly with the color banding, rest of the TV is still in essence a working unit. Some people are practically out of a working unit (they only get blank screen), and fixing it themselves (by downgrading the firmware) would void the warranty. And from the looks of it, this is precisely what Philips is trying to achieve by not fixing the widely known bugs. Previously I was very happy with one of their old CRT monitors. But that was because I never had to deal with their support department. With their current support, they're actually making things worse all the time. And for some reason they refuse to go back to the working firmware iterations... (hmm, I made a review of my unit at some point, maybe I should make an update on it)
In summary: for the time being, I would recommend to stay away from Philips in its entirety. Same goes for TP Vision, which is directly linked to their TV sector.
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As for scaling issues: yes, that's one of the reasons I refuse to go above 1080p. And why the scaling issues aren't being looked at by the manufacturers or OS providers, I have no idea.
As for people talking about V-sync:
One thing now started to trouble me, with both G-sync and FreeSync:
if the V-sync is ON (within the specified range, 30-144Hz, for example), does it also cause the usual input lag associated with V-sync, or does the variable timing mitigate this? Or is the V-sync only a backup plan solely for out-of-range situations? From the linked video (from around 2:20 onwards), and frankly it was a little mixed message, but I got the notion that enabling the V-sync did affect the image/motion, even inside the specified fps range. Did I misunderstand that part or something?
He quite specifically points out in the video this is NOT a freesync or AMD limitation but specifically down to those panels and what the controllers(or could simply be down to the willingness of a company to get it working) are capable of.
The BenQ supports down to 30hz which is all g-sync does, the other panels support a smaller window for whatever that reason is but it's 60hz max because those are 60hz panels.
Hmm, I wonder whether manufacturers and retailers will start to advertise the functional range, or is that something that the customers have to find out by themselves from reviews, like we currently have to do with regards to input lag, PWM, etc.
As for the ranges in general:
I was hoping we could get stutter-free 24fps and 25fps videos, without the need to manually change the refresh rate.
(not sure if 24Hz and 25Hz are actually even available with computer monitors, but it's possible with HDTVs connected to computers, at least)
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