The market share for ultrawide monitors is uh you guessed it getting wider. And
in fact, 20% of the displays bought by
our audience members this year have been
ultrawides. But what if I told you that
you could get many of the benefits of an ultrawide without abandoning the 16x9
aspect ratio that you've grown to love?
Introducing the ultra wide and super
tall BDM 4037U ultra HD curved monitor
from Phillips. Hold on to your mind, kids, cuz it's about to get exploded cuz
this thing is 40 in diagonally.
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a TV these days. But when it's sitting
right in your face on a desk, it's a
different story altogether. Seriously, no one can walk by this thing without
making a comment about how it's so big.
Something that I'm totally used to, by the way. But seriously, the slim bezel,
the 3000R curve, and the sheer size of
the Philips BDM 4037U make for an utterly immersive
experience that's unlike anything I've used before. And this is especially true
if you tilt it down towards yourself a little, which may in fact be necessary
since the height can't be adjusted out
of the box. Though, there are some things I like about the stand. It
somehow does a surprisingly solid job of mitigating screen wobble given the 25
12B weight of this behemoth. And I love the minimalistic and compact look. The
stand has a tendency to loosen, causing unwanted rotation that can drive you
absolutely bonkers. I expect a little more from the stand that's holding up a
$1,000 monitor. Overall, I'd describe
the BDM 4037U. I'm going to start calling it Phil, as streamlined. It has
no buttons or IO at all on the front or
sides. And in fact, if I wasn't uh
pretty good at the old reacharound, I probably still wouldn't know how to turn
it on and off at all. This is a classic case of business in the front, party in
the back. We've got one HDMI 2.0 port
and another HDMI 1.4, both with MHL in
case you wanted to mirror your phone or tablet display, and two DisplayPort
1.2A ports. Moving uh back in time,
we've got a VGA port followed by audio
in and headphone out. Good thing too on that second one because the onboard
speakers sound like a cell phone at the bottom of a
well. And then moving right along, we have a generous four type A USB 3 5 GB
ports, which is not bad, though in 2017 I'd like to see one of these traded in
for a type-C. And finally, another legacy port for separate sync or sync on
green and an input for the 5-ft power
cord that was too short for my setup. But I ain't even mad cuz there's no
external power brick. And all of these cords came in the box. Picture quality
should impress most consumers and even earn a close but no cigar from design
professionals. It's a VA or vertical alignment, 10-bit LCD panel boasting
wide 170° viewing angles, and a brightness of 300 nits max. Out of the
box, it covers 99.98% of the sRGB color space with
delta E values just under three and a gamma of 2.29 with an extra credit
loving pat on the behind for covering over 83% of the Adobe RGB color space.
The already good contrast was made
4xish during our tests by their smart contrast feature, which uses brightness
adjustments to make the contrast ratio a little wider. So, with some calibration,
this puppy can actually get you a long way. And it's got some cool features,
too, like picturein picture and multiv- view, which allows you to use all those
outputs, putting up to four 1080p
systems on one screen. It's great for control rooms, trade shows, or like
those cool stock market desks that you see in the movies. So, at 40 in, Phil is
as wide as the ultra wide in my office, but with an extra 4 in in height, not to
mention 40% off the price. This means we
give up some gaming prowess. So, no 75
Hz refresh or free sync and slower pixel
response times, but we keep the
productivity benefits and immersiveness of a curved ultrawide and the tried
andrue 16x9 aspect ratio. And while
watching 21x9 movies or playing games on
an ultrawide is about as close as you can get to a cinema-like experience, I
suspect a lot of folks would prefer
letter boxing their movie content to
pillar boxing their everything else
content, especially given Phil's excellent black depth. And when it comes
to gaming for the titles with proper
horizontal plus support, you can manually set an ultrawide resolution and
then just run native 4K for everything
else. And I guess that's the bottom line, versatility. You can watch movies,
you can do some photo editing, you can use it like an ultra wide. I mean, hell,
you can even use it as a small TV. I'd
personally add an ARM for height adjust,
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