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at a mere $300 the Philips 276e is the

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first quantum dot display that I have

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yet had the pleasure of putting my grubby little hands on but does it

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deliver or does it

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disappoint let's start with the monitor itself the 276e features only what I

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would consider to be basic inputs VGA DVI and HDMI with no DisplayPort it

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resorts to an external power brick something I don't usually mind

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personally though I wish the cord was a little longer on this one so it reached

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the floor more comfortably but is considered a design compromise by many

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it has no Creature Comforts to speak of so no USB hob and it not only lacks any

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ergonomic adjustments other than tilt in its admittedly attractive though metal

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base but to add insult to injury does not feature vase amount points so other

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than putting a riser or some books under it on your desk nothing can be done to

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adjust the height the bezels are of average thickness so no complaints there

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but while some people may be into white monitors to go with their oh I don't

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know 2006 model MacBook or whatever the

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use of glossy plastic anywhere that we might have to look at it is a pretty

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sore spot for me as are the touch sensitive buttons on the bottom right

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right for what must be the worst onscreen menu controls that I have yet

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encountered while it's true that they are at least labeled unlike the genius

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ones on Acer's predator x34 and the contextually switching ones that force

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me to navigate deep within the menu just to change a bloody input on this Ben Q

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the labels do me very little good when they are positioned in such a way that I

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need to lie my head down on the desk to see them PSA to monitor makers all of

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them not just Phillips here glossy plastic is bad tactile feedback and

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labels we can read on navigation buttons are

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good okay lonus cool story bro but the

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reason I'm still watching is that I want to know if quantum dot which by the way

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is actually as cool as it sounds and involves a sealed tube with these dots

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that react to Blue Light by shining red and green learn more here is enough to

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make this puppy worth any of the compromises that you might be making by

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buying it and for you my friend I will reveal the

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answer it depends on who you are and

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what you want to do because a quantum

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dot monitor much like all the buzz and

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marketing nonsense around LED monitors

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is still at its heart an LCD monitor it

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inherits many of the same characteristics that you would expect

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from any LCD in this case the

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unexceptional black levels of our IPS ads panel make dark scenes look more

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gray than black and while casual gamers won't notice the difference its pixel

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response times are nothing to write home about for competitive Gamers but what

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you get in return is the as advertised

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wide color gamut support in the form of true 99% coverage of the Adobe RGB color

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space this in spite of the unexceptional

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outof thee boox color accuracy is a huge

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Boon for digital imaging hobbyists and prosumers who will be super amped to

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have the ability to work on photographs that they've taken in Adobe RGB mode on

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their camera natively on their workstation to get the best possible

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printing results at an unheard of price point the

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276e even alongside a decent Colorimeter

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for calibration is still going to be fighting in a much lower price class

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than other monitors with similar color space support but that doesn't make the

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276e a slam dunk and I have one more

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major issue with it the way it's presented in the marketing materials and

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in the reviewers guide as more vibrant

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thanks to its ability to represent a wider range of colors is really

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irresponsible as far as I'm able to tell unless you color calibrate it and set up

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an ICC profile to correct this native

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Adobe RGB monitor to the smaller srgb

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color space which is used almost exclusively on the web and the PC you're

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going to end up with inaccurate oversaturated colors think of it this

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way a program like uh let's say your web browser will call for 100% green

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assuming a fully srgb pipeline then the

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monitor is going to go to town delivering a 100% Adobe RGB green that

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the program had no idea that it could display compounding the issue is the

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fact that even profiling is not a perfect solution while macOS handles

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color Corrections pixel by pixel

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systemwide on Windows it's handled on an

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application by application basis with many common programs like games for

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example not being ICC aware so using

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this monitor you're going to end up with TV display model syndrome where your

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saturation is too high in a way that might make it look Punchy next to a

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competitor on a shelf but actually displays the content in a way that the

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Creator did not intend most monitors

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literally every single one that I've ever seen with wide gamut support deal

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with this simply by having an srgb mode often with a quick switch button within

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the onscreen display but for some reason

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the 276 e doesn't work properly I got

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the exact same 9 9% Adobe RGB coverage

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in srgb mode and Phillips's response

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telling me that the oversaturated greens were probably because I'm not used to

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wide gamut displays demonstrates that while at least I don't believe they are

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intentionally misleading customers they also don't seem to really understand the

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issue here which leads us finally to a couple of conclusions number one is that

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whether this monitor is for you or not wide gamut support is coming to the

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mainstream thanks to quantum dot woo freaking who at this kind of pricing I'd

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be surprised if every LCD doesn't support it in a couple years time what a

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cool technological advance to tide us over while we wait for OLED to deal with

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its Burnin and cost issues and this is

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conclusion number two we all need to practice new technology use responsibly

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it's all fine and good to be ahead of the feature curve but it's important not

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to lose track of the way that most people will use the product in the

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process I'm not saying that the 276 is a

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total flub of a product but in my humble opinion it is best suited for use as a

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secondary display for a hobbyist or a

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prosumer photo editor for example where ICC aware applications can be dragged

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over to it but other applications like games can be runon one with proper

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