Which 43" would you pick...

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...and more importantly, which should I pick? I'm no longer into gaming, so it would be used day in day out for software dev, productivity, web access, and the very occasional movie.

Overclockers sell these monsters...
My basket at Overclockers UK:
Total: £2,482.46 (includes shipping: £22.50)​
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Good question. If my understanding is correct, most TV's don't support chroma sub-sampling at 4:4:4, which means text is displayed poorly. As it's a dev machine, text is super important.
 
Had the LG briefly, thought it was excellent. Only returned as it advertised having Freesync yet didn't, gutted (tbf to etailers this was a mistake on LG's part).
 
From what I hear some of the TVs these days support up to 120Hz refresh rate. Though a quick google suggest that it's marketing BS, since even monitors with 4k 120Hz are few and far between these days.

If I had to choose from the above selection, I'd go with the Acer just due to value for money. However, I am wary of the old IPS panel lottery and I've not been looking into monitors recently to know whether current 4k IPS panels are affected by those old issues or not.
 
The DSR is your friend here. Personally, I’d start out with the Acer and work up from there if it’s not good enough.
 
DSR? Distance selling regs? So buy, try, and return if no good?

Having read quite a few reviews, the acer seems to be the front runner anyway. Surprisingly, the Dell (most expensive) seems to universally get the worst reviews. Looks like the LG and Phillips are the same panel, the LG has better connections.
 
I went through 3 acer to get an acceptable one and it still has a couple of flaws. It seems like they have no quality control.
 
I personally don't believe any monitor manufacturer does quality control... not to the extent we would expect anyway. I think the bar for a 'pass' is set low because if it weren't, they would soon go bankrupt at the number of monitors that don't make it off the production line. They accept that many people will keep returning monitors until they do get a good one, but also that many people won't. It's simply cheaper at the end of the day for them NOT to bother. I can only assume manufacturing/production line processes are simply not of a high enough standard to ensure that faults don't occur.

The incidence of horrific bleed/glow, dead/stuck pixels and/or dust/dirt under the panel is just WAY too high to suggest otherwise. I've been through countless monitors with faults over the years, not once receiving one that I could classify as 100% faultless. My advice to anyone would be to not even bother chasing that elusive dream... give it a few attempts, if you're not happy, give up, try another model... eventually you'll just settle, dejected and miserable. Buying a monitor is probably one of the most stressful and depressing PC purchases you can make... unless you're INCREDIBLY lucky.

Good luck! :rolleyes:
 
Thanks for the input everyone. It's definitely a two horse race now, between the LG and the Acer.

@Participant Interestingly, part of the reason it's hard to select a monitor is that most of the reviews are for gaming, and hence often focus on high refresh rates as their key metric.
 
I just got the acer myself, and so far I've seen none of the ghosting or burn in that people have complained about, and the thing is a beast. My only gripe is having to reach behind the screen to access the controls.
 
btph said:
Good question. If my understanding is correct, most TV's don't support chroma sub-sampling at 4:4:4, which means text is displayed poorly. As it's a dev machine, text is super important.
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Older TVs maybe. However, I’m looking for a new TV at the moment and noticed that many do support 4:4:4 at 4K. I am looking at the higher end of the TV scale so it could well be that 43” TVs are considered by the manufacturers as to be worth of so called high end features.

Someone also mentioned 120hz support. The TVs that do support 120hz only do so at 1080p. 4K is out the window here. Obviously not too important to the OP but thought I’d mention.
 
Are any of those curved?

At that size I wouldn't go for a flat screen, curved only, especially for coding.

I had the 40" Phillips and got rid of it for multiple smaller monitors. My housemate has more recently got the curved version though and it's much nicer to use. Personally I'd only go 40"+ for PC and near sighted desk use if it's curved
 
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