Aside from the slow 12ms response time, it looks a great monitor, not for gaming but for work purposes...

It's funny..I'm using 32" LCD TVs since 2007 for professional Viz-work. When correctly set up, they are in many cases even better than the so called monitors (and way, way cheaper). Sometimes i'm visiting clients and while there, checking out their LCD monitors - many of them i could describe as awful compared to my TVs, especially in terms of color quality.

That's because the vast majority of available displays are garbage. That and you're comparing a color calibrated LCD HDTV to it.

the graphics cards cant handle 4k yet, i just cant see point in 4k gaming at 30-40 fps , for a workstation doing work yes i can see a single 4k monitor is better than having 3 monitors to get the workspace, but gaming no, you need 4k to be the performance you get on 1080p now with single gpu then i get a 4k monitor for gaming

And the price is????

the graphics cards cant handle 4k yet, i just cant see point in 4k gaming at 30-40 fps , for a workstation doing work yes i can see a single 4k monitor is better than having 3 monitors to get the workspace, but gaming no, you need 4k to be the performance you get on 1080p now with single gpu then i get a 4k monitor for gaming

Its all dependent on personal taste. Id rather play medium/high settings @ 4k then ultra settings at 1080p. Using DSR to 5k, BF4 looks alot crisper @ high settings then ultra settings @ 2k on my monitor. I dont mind turning down settings to high/medium depending on the game to use higher resolution in new games. Its nice to crank old games way high with 5k DSR.

Aside from the slow 12ms response time, it looks a great monitor, not for gaming but for work purposes...

If the maximum response time is 16.6ms or less you will get perfectly smooth 60fps gaming. I have seen reviews of many TN panels which claim 1-5ms reponse time, but in the reviews the maximum response time is up to 25ms which gives more stutter than any realistically rated IPS panel. TN panel ratings are like a car manufacturer of TN cars saying their cars can do 0-60 in 2 seconds, but what they don't tell you is they got that rating driving down a steep incline with 500kg of lead in the boot. Then along comes an IPS 'car' maker and says there care does 0-60 in 4 seconds, but theirs does it uphill, the worst possible scenario, and yet people cry and bitch and claim IPS sucks. The reality is that the IPS monitors often have no worse performance under real black to black conditions than a TN panel.

^ Thanks Emille & Teawithgrief for your responses. Good to know IPS panels aren't too bad. I personally own one and love it to bits. Excellent and accurate colours with DEEP blacks & stunning viewing angles... Looking forward to purchasing an OLED panel in the near future once prices have dropped and they are more common.

^ Thanks Emille & Teawithgrief for your responses. Good to know IPS panels aren't too bad. I personally own one and love it to bits. Excellent and accurate colours with DEEP blacks & stunning viewing angles... Looking forward to purchasing an OLED panel in the near future once prices have dropped and they are more common.

Yeah, the car explanation is great 🙂 However if you want an OLED panel, you'll have to wait quite a long time or pay a lot of $$$. Just look at IPS monitors - they've been here for some time and only recently the prices dropped after they hit mainstream market. And I'm afraid we're not there yet. I think that non-TN LCD market will continue growing, leaving very little room for OLEDs. IPS panels were used professionally and they were expensive. It was a tradeoff, but people used to spend more money to get the job done. IPS panels are so good now, that there's not much one can improve, especially with GB-LED backlight calibrated for uniform luminosity, which for some reason is lacking in this Phillips monitor. I'd risk saying that it was Apple who made IPS mainstream, especially in laptops and I wouldn't really expect OLED monitors being commonly used before Apple or Samsung decide that it's the way to make laptops even thinner and lighter.