Philips 328E1CA 32" Curved Monitor review

Philips 328E1CA 32" Curved Monitor review

Philips 328E1CA 32" Curved Monitor review

Pros:Vibrant Colors
Excellent Price
Low Input Lag
Attractive Design

Cons:Slight Backlight Bleeding
Gamut Needs Improvement
Prone to Blurring.

Specifications

This monitor uses a TPV panel, based on a 60Hz Samsung SVA CELL (panel without backlight) with custom backlight solution added. This has a 3840 x 2160 (‘4K’ UHD) resolution, a 1500R curve and supports 10-bits per subpixel colour output (8-bits + FRC). A 4ms grey to grey response time is specified, which as usual should be approached with caution (especially given the panel type used). Some of the key ‘talking points’ of the specification have been highlighted in blue below.

Screen size: 31.5 inches

Panel type: TPV TPM315WR1-FP01.S [Samsung panel with custom backlight] SVA (‘Super’ Vertical Alignment) LCD

Native resolution: 3840 x 2160

Typical maximum brightness: 250 cd/m²

Colour support: 1.07 billion (8-bits per subpixel plus dithering)

Response time (G2G): 4ms

Refresh rate: 60Hz (variable, with Adaptive-Sync)

Weight: 7.71kg

Contrast ratio: 2,500:1

Viewing angle: 178º horizontal, 178º vertical

Power consumption: 49.37W typical

Backlight: WLED (White Light Emitting Diode)

GENERAL
Dimensions (WxDxH)
27.9 in x 11.1 in x 20.6 in - with stand
Display Type
LED-backlit LCD monitor / TFT active matrix
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Native Resolution
4K 3840 x 2160 at 60 Hz
Contrast Ratio
2500:1
Color Support
1.07 billion colors
Horizontal Viewing Angle
178
OSD Languages
Multilingual
Vertical Viewing Angle
178
Viewable Size
31.5"
Pixel Pitch
0.182 mm
Panel Type
IPS
Brightness
250 cd/m²
Screen Coating
Anti-glare, 3H Hard Coating, Haze 25%
Horizontal Refresh Rate
53 - 84 kHz
Backlight Technology
WLED
Vertical Refresh Rate
48 - 75 Hz
Manufacturer
Philips

CONNECTIVITY
Interfaces
DisplayPort
2 x HDMI
Audio line-in/out

POWER DEVICE
Nominal Voltage
AC 120/230 V
Frequency Required
50/60 Hz
Power Consumption Operational
49.3 Watt
Power Consumption Stand by
0.5 Watt
Power Consumption (Off Mode)
0.3 Watt

MISCELLANEOUS
Features
Security lock slot (cable lock sold separately)
OSD Languages
Multilingual
Color
textured black
MTBF
50000 hour(s)
Security Slot Type
Kensington security slot
Flat Panel Mount Interface
100 x 100 mm

DISPLAY
Image Brightness
250 cd/m2
Image Contrast Ratio
2500:1
Type
LED-backlit LCD monitor

AUDIO
Type
Speakers - stereo
Output Power / Channel
3 Watt

ENVIRONMENTAL STANDARDS
ENERGY STAR Certified
Yes

MECHANICAL
Display Position Adjustments
Tilt
Tilt Angle
-5/+20

AUDIO OUTPUT
Output Power / Channel
3 Watt

ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS
Min Operating Temperature
32 °F
Max Operating Temperature
104 °F
Humidity Range Operating
20 - 80%

DIMENSIONS & WEIGHT
Dimensions & Weight Details
With stand (highest position) - width: 27.9 in - depth: 11.1 in - height: 20.6 in - weight: 17 lbs
Without stand - width: 27.9 in - depth: 3.5 in - height: 16.7 in - weight: 15.2 lbs
Width
27.9 in
Depth
11.1 in
Height
20.6 in
Weight
17 lbs

HEADER
Brand
Philips
Product Line
Philips E-line
Packaged Quantity
1

INCLUDED ACCESSORIES
Cables Included
1 x HDMI cable
1 x DisplayPort cable
1 x audio cable

DIMENSIONS & WEIGHT (SHIPPING)
Width (Shipping)
31.5 in
Depth (Shipping)
9.3 in
Height (Shipping)
24.6 in
Weight (Shipping)
23.17 lbs

CABLE DETAILS
Type
DisplayPort cable, HDMI cable, audio cable
Included Qty
1

DIMENSIONS & WEIGHT DETAILS
Width
27.9 in
Depth
11.1 in, 3.5 in
Height
16.7 in, 20.6 in
Weight
15.2 lbs, 17 lbs

TV TUNER
TV Tuner Presence
No

INTERFACES
Type
DisplayPort, HDMI, audio line-in/out
GENERAL
Manufacturer
Philips.

today i'm doing a review for the philips 32 inch 4k monitor here so this is the 328 e1ca monitor that's a mouthful and with this i didn't see a ton of reviews that was one of the incentives to get this the other thing is it it just checked a lot of the boxes that i had in terms of the things that i was looking for out of a 4k monitor and the whole reason i'm getting a 4k monitor is the new ryzen build that i have back here actually has a 2080 ti so i can actually take advantage of the high and ultra high settings and games with this so just wanted to check it out

so in terms of the video structure we're going to get into the specifications first then i'm going to showcase gameplay and then with that i'm going to talk about the things that i like about this monitor and the things that i don't like about this monitor and then we'll wrap everything up so let's go ahead and get into the specifications the philips 328 e1ca is a 32 inch 4k monitor it is a va lcd panel with a 4 millisecond response time and a pixel density of 140 pixels per inch this

has 1.07 billion display colors this covers 120 of the srgb scale and 97.8 percent of the ntsc color gamut although phillips says that this actually could cover typically 122 percent of the srgb scale and 99 of the ntsc color gamut this has a 2500 to 1 contrast ratio with a 1 500 r curve this features two 3 watt down facing speakers and on the back it has one dp 1.2 port two hdmi 2.0 ports one audio in and out port and then one audio out port this features a convenient cable

management system in the stand itself and then it has a vesa mount that is 100 millimeters by 100 millimeters the height isn't adjustable but this can tilt from negative 5 degrees to 20 degrees this has adaptive sync for a smoother gameplay experience and has low blue mode which filters out blue light from the monitor this features a 60hz panel that can be overclocked to 75hz although i haven't been able to do that with 4k i've been able to do it with 1440p and kind of

does it by default in certain games but utilizing the nvidia control panel i haven't been able to create my own setting where it actually overclocks to the 75 hertz with this and i've seen other people showcasing ways that you can do this with outside software i'm just going to need to spend a little bit more time with this in order to actually get that completely nailed down for the 75 hertz i bought this monitor i've seen sales where this has gone down

so definitely look out for those sales this also comes with a four year warranty which is huge for this just because a lot of these companies typically it's only a one year one so this actually comes with four which is really really awesome all right so let's get into some gameplay where i can talk about the things that i like about this monitor and some of the things that i don't like about this monitor i'm actually gonna showcase the two three watt speakers as well so you guys can get a feel for what those sound like so let's go ahead and start with red dead redemption 2.
so right off the bat gaming in 4k looks amazing i averaged 50 to 60 fps and i dipped down into

the 40s occasionally i noticed that tweaking the settings didn't have a huge impact going from ultra to medium high settings and i can tell a difference in the fps going from the 90 to 110 on my 144 hertz 1440p monitor but the resolution makes up for that shootout still looks smooth and overall this is a slower paced game compared to some first person shooters but for those who value fps over resolution this obviously isn't going to be a choice for you since 60hz will feel like a step back from a high hertz monitor but if realism and immersion are your fancy and

you're okay with 60 hertz this is an incredible monitor i'll be showcasing doom eternal also to highlight how it looks with a fast paced game quick side note this has a 1500 r curve to it i've typically gamed on 1800 r curved monitors and i tried to place them close together just to see if i could tell the difference and it's really hard unless you can stack them on top of each other the 1500r curve is supposed to be a little bit sharper but honestly i can't really tell and it looks fine

to me it just is something that i wanted to make sure everybody was aware of this isn't an official juicy compatible monitor but you can enable it and it had interesting results for me i ended up doing that after i review these but what i noticed is with red dead redemption it didn't offer much of an improvement at all but with subnautica below zero which is a game i'm more known for on this channel i did notice a difference as it was able to hold 60

fps just more consistently with that and the same thing with doom so i think it's going to be hit or miss with which games it's actually going to showcase an improvement with speaking of subnautica below zero i would be remiss if i didn't actually showcase some gameplay and this is a game that really just has a huge improvement in visual clarity when it comes to going from 1440p up to 4k and this for me is highlighting why you would want to get a 4k monitor if you

have the hardware for it now if you're playing games like ces go or something like that you're it's going to be a waste of your time because you're really just going to want the increase in frames per second with your monitor here but this makes it more immersive in my opinion and even though i typically run 130 to 144 fps on my other monitor i didn't notice a change in the animations so at 60fps they still look really really good with this it didn't seem like a step back

for this game but this is also not a very fast paced game so as you can tell the resolution is a big deal for me i've been talking about it for a minute here so that's the biggest pro of this monitor the two three watt speakers are adequate they're not phenomenal but they do have that which is awesome because some of these monitors you're gonna have to have your own external speakers with this and it can't tilt which is a nice touch i do like that as well and then i do like the cable management system in the back and i also like the curved screen i'm a huge fan of

curved screens in general i don't think i could go back to a flat monitor i don't notice the difference between the 1500r and the 1800r curve though but still the fact that it has it that is a huge plus in my opinion speaking of the speakers here let's go ahead and give a sound test really quick with doom eternal so as you can tell it they actually sound decent they're not the best and i don't like the down facing position with them but like i said the fact that it has it is a huge plus in my opinion with this doom eternal actually runs really smooth it holds 60fps

consistently and i think part of that's just having a really really good rig but i think the other part with this is actually going to be id software and just the amazing job that they did with this game and i had a great experience with it it definitely looks amazing in 4k and it still plays buttery smooth which is awesome and the 60fps going from that to the 144 on my other monitor i can tell a difference but it's not substantial in my opinion it's there but i just don't think it's a big enough reason for me not to enjoy the 4k with this and if you're watching this and you're

like man this guy is horrible at doom it just keeps shooting the bfg everywhere i was trying to make as many particles on screen as possible and just kind of throw as much as i could in terms of the animations and everything at this to see if there would be a dip in the fps and like i said it holds really really well so with that being said though let's go ahead and get to the things that i don't like about this monitor so the first one is no usb expansion that's usually something that i

look for with any monitor that i buy i know not everybody's gonna need that but it doesn't have it which is kind of a bummer with this one the second thing is gonna be it doesn't have height or pan adjustment with it but the workaround for that is the vesa mount although that is an additional cost that you'll have to consider when buying the monitor the third thing is going to be ghosting so going from a 240 and 144 hertz panel with my laptop and then my acer monitor

that i have downstairs that's just a change that i've noticed not so much with games but just when you're doing day-to-day stuff so when i'm closing and opening apps and then when i'm actually moving that window around on the computer screen you can actually see more ghosting with that but that's to be expected when you're going from a high refresh rate monitor back down to a 60 hertz panel and then the last thing it's going to be one of the bigger ones is that the menu and the different settings that you can do are okay they're not amazing but i'm also trying to keep in mind that this monitor is really designed more for photographers

videographers people that are using cad as well and not really just exclusively for gaming so some of the settings with this like the blue light filter just didn't look so great and then some of the other settings it just didn't seem like it was incredibly user friendly and it also doesn't have a ton of options with it it seemed pretty basic with that so that may be a deal breaker for some people i don't think it should be for most i think it's decent enough but you are going to be doing a lot of tweaking in the nvidia control panel versus just on the monitor when it comes to

your coloring and things like that because their presets aren't that good in my opinion but these are all very minor complaints i don't think these are deal breakers by any stretch i think overall this is an amazing monitor and i definitely would encourage anybody that's looking to get into 4k gaming to seriously consider this as an option so in conclusion here i think this is a great monitor for the price point it's a good entry point and do 4k gaming if you have the hardware

to actually take advantage of it without spending 800 1 000 1200 on a monitor that has some of those things that people do want like the higher refresh rate things like that but that's just a lot of money and these things are only going to get cheaper over time and hardware is only going to improve so i think as an entry point and then just kind of waiting out those other things just improving and getting cheaper is kind of the best option for a lot of people right now myself

included with that and even though it has some drawbacks with this for instance the adjustable stand there are workarounds you could put the vest amount on that and then it could make it an adjustable monitor for you so overall i am extremely happy with this thing and gaming in 4k just as long as you're playing those slower paced games is phenomenal so that is going to be it for this review.

the OSD on-screen display menu system as a Philips three to eight e 1c a the OSD is controlled by passable buttons and then located on the underside of the bottom bezel it's also a little white power LED it goes white when the monitors on and it flashes white when the monitor entered a low-power state so signal to the computer is lost there isn't an option to disable the power LED in the OSD but I didn't find it distracting and it's it is fairly bright but it's quite small so if it really does bug you then I would just suggest covering with black tape or something like that if

you press the first button that allows you to access the smart image game presets of the monitor the various different options here I don't like most of these but I don't really generally like presets I prefer manual control gaming one in game or two they're useful because they allow you to recall various different sets of settings and I use that myself so I use gamer 1 as my main test settings gamer 2 is something I've used in the evening for relaxing evening viewing it has a low blue light active and I'll go through that shortly low blue mode they're useful as well and I'll go through this in the main menu system smart uniformity that's the uniformity

compensation mode and that's explored in the written review FPS racing an RTS to be honest I don't really like them they just upset the image in various different ways you can see with the RTS mode there's a little box towards the top left of the screen that's actually something you can employ if you like on the racing FPS game a modern game of two settings possibly some of the other presets as well but you can disable this if you prefer as well even if you're in the RTS setting it's called smart frame and so it's just a smart frame setting there you can change the

size of it so you can make it larger if you prefer you can actually fill the whole screen with it if you'd like but the point in this is you can manually adjust the brightness and contrast that's digital brightness it doesn't affect the backlight brightness or anything like that so it's digital brightness control contrast control horizontal and vertical position you can change that as well as the size of the box the point is to just highlight an area the reason it's there on the RTS

setting by default is simply because you might have a map on an RTS game which you want to highlight because it's so important if you press the second button along when you're not in the main menu system you can cycle the input use by the monitors you can select one of the HDMI to ports or you can select DisplayPort the third button the long allows you to adjust the volume of the integrated speakers or anything connected to the 3.5 millimeter audio jack and then the fourth button along is the main menu system and there's a power button next to that as well I don't need to tell you what the power button does I'm sure you can work it out but the main

menu system is laid out in Philips usual modern style so the various different sections low blue mode that's a low blue light setting actually four different low blue light settings for the monitor so setting one is the weakest setting two is stronger setting three stronger again setting four is stronger again these are explored in the written review but essentially what they do is they lower the color temperature significantly they significantly reduce the power of the blue color channel so the intensity of blue light coming from the monitor some of them also slightly dim

compared to default but you can always adjust the brightness manually with these settings active and I would recommend doing that to minimize blue light output but it's useful in the evening in particular and the hours leading up towards bed because you don't want stimulating blue light it can disrupt sleep hormones I mean I'm not here to preach that to you too much but some users will be well aware of how useful low blue light settings can be this monitor certainly has some which you can use if you want to next as input so that's exactly what I showed you

earlier allows you to change the input used by the monitor this picture and that allows you to adjust the main settings of the monitor really so you can adjust the brightness the contrast sharpness the sharpness you can change in increments of 10 brightness and contrast as usual single unit increments I consider 50 to be optimal for sharpness as it happens but you kind of just start according to preferences if you'd like Smart Response the pixel overdrive settings of the monitor faster I consider optimal but those are all explored in the written review and

indeed shown in the review smart contrast to dynamic contrast setting of the monitor it's explored in the review as well smart frame I've gone through that before various gamma settings on the monitor 2.2 being the default he can also go to one point eight two point zero two point four or two point six just be aware that these don't necessarily correspond to the exact average gamma the measured gamma on my screen was a bit different to these two what these settings said but it was fairly close overall so really just use them as a rough guide to your

gamma pixel orbiting and what that does is it shifts the image by one pixel and then shifts it back every now and then it does it very occasionally I haven't really noticed it doing it to turn and to be honest so it's very subtle and it does do it and this is just to reduce image of attention I didn't had I haven't had any particularly issues with image retention on this model but to be honest Philips monitors almost always have this feature so it's there again on this model over

scan that's grayed out unless you're using some old legacy system where it's actually relevant so if using an older games console and you need to over scan the image so it appears to sort of flow off the screen if you like then you can do that it isn't relevant to PC users or modern games consoles and I'm going to talk about smart sighs I've got the game battlefield 5 running so I can talk about this feature and that's because the future relates to these scaling or interpolation

process used by the monitor when it's displaying non native resolution so I've got this running at full HD that's a non native resolution for this monitor if you've got the panel size option selected panel size 31.5 wide sixteen by nine that's the only option there the panel size all of the pixels will be used so the whole of the screen will be illuminated regardless of the resolution you've selected and an interpolation process is used to fill out the image if instead you select one to one that's one to one pixel mapping mode that will only use the pixels called for in the source

resolution so for the Full HD resolution you can see here you just get a small image in the center of the screen but there's no loss of sharpness or clarity because only 1900 by 1080 pixels are being used so whether you'd actually like to use this given the huge loss of screen real estate I'm not sure exactly how large that is diagonally I think it's around 20 inches I keep forgetting this and I haven't measured it recently but it's really very small compared to the overall size of the

monitor if you select two different resolutions so let's try to 560 by 1440 so the wqhd resolution it's got the one to one pixel mapping mode enabled again but you can see because there are more pixels used you get more of the screen filled up but I do explore the interpolation process used when you're actually using the full panel in the review and as I mention there it's actually quite decent so don't feel you have to use the one-to-one mode the panel size mode is quite

decent there's also aspect this is a bit of a weird one to be honest well this is supposed to do it's supposed to look at the aspect ratio of the saw resolution you're using in this case 16 by 9 it's supposed to match that but it's supposed to use just some interpolation without upsetting the aspect ratio we could probably see even in the review it's actually already squashed up it doesn't look natural at all it doesn't seem to quite work properly and this is something I've noticed with Philips monitors before this aspect settings a bit weird to be honest and it's perhaps a bit

clearer on the desktop and with the icons and stuff but it does looks a bit distorted it's not quite perfect but as I mentioned the panel size and you're using the interpolation both horizontally and vertically I think really that's that the third setting for most users so just to quickly show you I'm actually running up the native resolution now and above the aspect mode selected you can see things just squash together the wallpaper doesn't look right the icons look a bit

squished that way so just doesn't quite do the right thing in my opinion you can see that smart size is grayed out now that stuff got adapted to sink active in my graphics driver and he can't new you're smart sized with adaptive sync at the same time if you see this grayed out when it shouldn't be or in fact you can use it when you shouldn't be able to use it turn the monitor off then on again and it will re-establish whether adaptive sync is being used or not and the setting will be either greyed out or not appropriately next this audio this allows you to adjust the

volume of the integrated speakers or anything connected to the 3.5 millimeter jack there's a standalone mode and what this does is it allows you to get audio from the monitor even if there is an inactive video feed so you're not getting a video signal you can still have the audio playing you can mute the intricate speakers or anything connected to the 3.5 millimeter jack and you can control these source used for the audio so either DisplayPort or aged in my if you've got

HDMI connected or the audio input instead which is the 3.5 millimeter jack next there's color so you can change the color temperature used by the monitor 6500k is the default 6500 Kelvin you can have at warmer or cooler 5000 K is a little blue light setting it's actually one that I like to use for my own viewing comfort in the evening the reason for that is that whilst it's not quite as effective as the low blue mode setting if you reduce the brightness it's still very effective and it also has a more balanced look to the image because it reduces the green channel as well rather than keeping that strong so the image just looks more neutral to my eye and I prefer it

you can read a bit more about that in the written review in the calibration section there's also a native setting and all that does is it keeps the color channels at 100 their native value and that gives you maximum contrast but doesn't give you any color adjustments and you're likely to find that things are a bit off in terms of color balance for that setting and one new changes of red green and blue color channels as I've done here for my test settings srgb is not an sRGB

emulation mode on this monitor it's actually exactly the same as just setting it to 6,500 you might notice the image is different and that's because different brightnesses are assigned to these different color temperature settings so all it's actually doing there is reverting to the default brightness which is much higher than the one I was using before if that makes sense language you can change the language of the OSD is displayed in OSD settings you can change the horizontal and vertical position of the OSD on the screen you can activate a transparency

effect or increase the transparency effect if you like OSD timeout which I really should have increased before start in the video and that is how long after the last button pressed before the menu will automatically disappear or you can dis press the back button a few times to manually get rid of it finally there's setup but has a resolution notification and what this does is it just gives you a message on the screen if you're running at a non-native resolution to remind you

that you should be running at the native resolution for optimal performance so if that message is bugging you and you frequently use a non-native resolution just turn that off or keep that off DisplayPort version 1.2 for the full capabilities of the monitor if you using an older system doesn't support that then you can select one point one for compatibility purposes there's an option to reset everything to the factory defaults and there's an information section which

shows you a shortened version of the model code for the monitor the serial number and the refresh rate and resolution being used currently so that's all there is to the OSD on screen display menu system that the Philips 3 to 81 CA be sure to check out the full review on PC monitors by info there's a link to that in the description .

Philips 328E1CA 32" Curved Monitor review

the Phillips 32 inch curved monitor specifically the motor 3 to 8 c7 model , this is a 32 inch display with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 and obviously you can use the 144 Hertz feature the response time of the display is 4 milliseconds and the total weight of the screen that's without any of the packaging but with the stand this comes to about 7 kilograms the aspect ratio is 16 by 9 and this is a TFT LCD display it's also LED backlit and the display features approximately sixteen point seven million colors the screens design I really can't find any folks

in the first glimps design so like what you look at when you sit down for the first time in front of the screen the only thing I can see that's a little bit strange is the Philips little tag that's underneath the center of the screen it's got the Philips logo on it and it lights up with an LED you can actually turn this off I'll go into that a little bit later but anyway it just seems like a not-so-subtle way of putting the Philips brand on the display when they could have just put it as a

branded small subtle logo on the actual frame of the monitor but instead they choose to put it directly underneath as a tab that glows up seems a bit weird but hey that's the only real first look first impression design feature that stands out as a little bit iffy but the rest looks stunning the standard that comes pre built into the screen is very very well built and very sturdy it actually adds a fair bit of weight to the screen it also gives you that confidence that is a well-built and sturdy monitor that's not going to be collapsing anytime soon having said that the

monitor tilt is fairly restrictive and I do feel like they could have done a lot better by allowing perhaps a swivel or even just more flexibility so that you can tilt the monitor back more and forwards more for a big curved screen there is not much movement allowed on the screen which I guess is what they're going for but some people want to tilt it back and some people want to tilt it forward I guess that's just another small factor to be aware of but at 32 inches do you expect it to be that flexible and do you expect it to move that much I'll leave that decision

up to you the inputs on the back of a DVI port an HDMI port a display port a power port and an audio out port all the basics but they get the job done the power button is behind the screen and obviously this has confused a fair few people to the point that they've had to put a little sticker on the bottom right hand corner to show people that it is in fact behind the screen I really don't think it would have hurt the design aesthetic to have the power button and possibly a separate menu navigation button on the very front of the monitor just like your traditional

monitors where you reach directly down on the bottom of the screen in front of you to change the menu display the brightness and even the power on/off saying that though having the power button and the menu navigation on the back of the screen does allow for the front of the screen to be a lot cleaner a lot more sleek and just overall a better looking display as with any standard power button it's once the on and once for off however unlike other power buttons it also doubles as the menu navigation toggle button whatever you want to call it if you push up

this allows you to toggle between the input types these include VGA DVI HDMI and DisplayPort if you push left this allows you to enable a feature called image this basically allows you to choose between different profiles that changes the contrast and brightness with a few other settings to optimize your screen for whatever game or scenario you are playing included within smart image a few presets you can do gamma 1 and gamma 2 which allows you to save a customized setting so let's say you find the perfect setting of your screen for that certain game

you can save this to preset 1 or 2 another example of a preset would be the FPS 1 this improves dark themes in games allowing you to see hidden objects in dark areas or the racing one which adapts the display with a faster response time increases the color along with image adjustments so you can sort of see how they're trying to cater for all sorts of gamers and media consumers this is a really really nice idea however I'd have liked it if they did included a little bit more of a description for each of the modes describing roughly what it will do and how it will affect the

performance I really do think especially the presets that you can customise yourself it's a really really handy feature to have on such a big and impressive screen if you move the menu toggle down this will initiate smart size which will enable you to change the screen view of the Philips gaming display that you've got in front of you to suit your preference for example if you're playing a game that natively would rely on a much smaller resolution you can change this to go to exactly that resolution meaning you're playing or consuming whatever media in the

resolution that it was designed and intended for moving the toggle right brings up what I would refer to as the main menu which consists of the input menu picture here you can change the brightness the contrast turning on and off smart response smart contrast smart frame and much more you also have the audio menu this allows you to mute as well as change the volume of the inbuilt speakers they're pretty good but they're monitors speakers so they're as good as you would expect they're not really intended to be your main speakers that you use all the time

but when you need them they do the job then there's smart size this allows you to change your display resolution to pretty much any other which i think is a hidden as sometimes for certain applications and games it is actually nice to be able to use other resolutions so that you can use them as they were intended instead of upscaling to the modern large sizes an example I can think of for this would be if you were using an emulator to emulate let's say an old ps1 or ps2 you could decrease the resolution so much that it would look like you were playing the ps1 on a

screen instead of having it emulated it just it just has a nice of feel to it to play it in its native resolution rather than playing it on a large scale resolution in a small window I don't know that's what I would prefer to use it for I'll let you guys figure your own uses out for it but a really smart hidden gem nevertheless then you have color this allows you to change the color temperatures along with language then it's OSD which stands for on-screen display essentially you can change the settings of the menu that you're looking at you can change things like how

long it takes for the menu to automatically go away from the screen so that you can focus on your media as well as the transparency the last one on the menu is the settings one this allows you to change the screens horizontal and vertical positioning as well as allowing you to turn off that Philips light-up tab that's on the front of the screen you can also change how bright this LED is you've probably just heard a few words there in that last section that don't really make

any sense but allow me to elaborate and explain to you exactly what they are Smart Response this is the technology within the philips displays that speeds up pixel response if motion blur is an issue smart contrast smart contrast is basically when the contrast of the screen will automatically change depending on what the screen detects for example if you're looking at a light or a very bright Word document the contrast will change and it will also change if you're

looking at something very dark essentially it's trying to give you the best viewing experience it doesn't always hit the nail on the head but it comes very close and I am quite impressed with it when it comes to the actual performance of the screen and using the 144 Hertz display feature you have to remember that you need a fairly decent graphics card to be able to fully utilize the 144 Hertz display because for example if you're trying to play games at a high frame rate let's

say 120 fps but you only have a 60 Hertz monitor like most standard you will run into problems such as screen tearing because the monitor will be refreshing the image that is displaying 60 times a second whereas you are trying to force it to display 120 frames per second so it's going to cause problems there so make sure you have a beefy graphics card that will fully utilize this display it's also a waste of time to actually run more friends per second than your monitor can handle because essentially you're rendering frames that you're not seeing so it's wasting

resource that being said though running 144 Hertz on this screen is absolutely amazing it's stunningly smooth you can see all of the frames per second in all of their glory is absolutely worth going from 60 Hertz to 144 Hertz and this display right here proves that categorically the really fast gameplay with first-person shooters and racing games is really incredible on this screen it really does highlight the technology behind it and the massive refresh rate of 144 Hertz just like it would in any other game just like any other monitor review that you're going to see

on YouTube I would really recommend going to either a friend's house that's got one a text or that's got one set up just so you can see the massive difference and the value of the high refresh rate that screens like this give you it's that first gameplay going from what you're used to using to 144 Hertz to when you realize how smooth it is at such high frame rates that's when you know you've made the right decision and I really do think this screen will make you think that as well I also use this screen heavily for video editing I've gone from a 23 point something inch

Dell screen to this 32 inch screen and I can say the color the sharpness and the size of the screen really does allow me to use Sony Vegas put all the clips in the timeline have everything visible drag and drop cut all in one big display so I can see what's going on at all times I just feel a lot more efficient with this screen instead of tabbing in and out of maximize windows thinking oh wait a minute I need to import this from here I need to reopen that and Croesus uh yeah it's just these big screens with such good display like this I just like them a lot again

there's probably some bias having come from a smaller screen but I'm just giving you my honest opinion about what I've found a my daily use whether it be gaming or video editing it excels at both I also decided to run a few ghosting tests and I could not see any noticeable problems with the full millisecond panel we have here so if you're worried about that don't be go ahead and plug up any PlayStation for any high-end PC run FPS is racing games wherever you want you will not see any ghosting overall then despite these slightly strange navigation

and/or menu system and a somewhat restrictive positioning system for the screen like the tilting forwards and backwards this is actually an excellent display that performed really well in a multitude of scenarios be it video editing or playing fast paced games and if you're looking for a reasonably priced high-end monitor to enjoy your multimedia and games on them and

this monitor is absolutely worth it and you definitely consider it either way 1080p 144 Hertz 32 inches curved for the price you really can't argue with that and you look online a similar screens this one is a direct competitor thanks very much .