The BIGGEST Monitor We've EVER Seen
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,109 words · ~5 min read
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The market share for ultrawide monitors is uh you guessed it getting wider. And
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in fact, 20% of the displays bought by
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our audience members this year have been
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ultrawides. But what if I told you that
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you could get many of the benefits of an ultrawide without abandoning the 16x9
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aspect ratio that you've grown to love?
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Introducing the ultra wide and super
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tall BDM 4037U ultra HD curved monitor
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from Phillips. Hold on to your mind, kids, cuz it's about to get exploded cuz
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this thing is 40 in diagonally.
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processors. Check them out on Amazon at the link below. So 40 in is nothing for
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a TV these days. But when it's sitting
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right in your face on a desk, it's a
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different story altogether. Seriously, no one can walk by this thing without
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making a comment about how it's so big.
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Something that I'm totally used to, by the way. But seriously, the slim bezel,
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the 3000R curve, and the sheer size of
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the Philips BDM 4037U make for an utterly immersive
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experience that's unlike anything I've used before. And this is especially true
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if you tilt it down towards yourself a little, which may in fact be necessary
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since the height can't be adjusted out
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of the box. Though, there are some things I like about the stand. It
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somehow does a surprisingly solid job of mitigating screen wobble given the 25
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12B weight of this behemoth. And I love the minimalistic and compact look. The
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stand has a tendency to loosen, causing unwanted rotation that can drive you
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absolutely bonkers. I expect a little more from the stand that's holding up a
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$1,000 monitor. Overall, I'd describe
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the BDM 4037U. I'm going to start calling it Phil, as streamlined. It has
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no buttons or IO at all on the front or
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sides. And in fact, if I wasn't uh
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pretty good at the old reacharound, I probably still wouldn't know how to turn
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it on and off at all. This is a classic case of business in the front, party in
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the back. We've got one HDMI 2.0 port
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and another HDMI 1.4, both with MHL in
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case you wanted to mirror your phone or tablet display, and two DisplayPort
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1.2A ports. Moving uh back in time,
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we've got a VGA port followed by audio
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in and headphone out. Good thing too on that second one because the onboard
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speakers sound like a cell phone at the bottom of a
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well. And then moving right along, we have a generous four type A USB 3 5 GB
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ports, which is not bad, though in 2017 I'd like to see one of these traded in
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for a type-C. And finally, another legacy port for separate sync or sync on
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green and an input for the 5-ft power
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cord that was too short for my setup. But I ain't even mad cuz there's no
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external power brick. And all of these cords came in the box. Picture quality
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should impress most consumers and even earn a close but no cigar from design
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professionals. It's a VA or vertical alignment, 10-bit LCD panel boasting
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wide 170° viewing angles, and a brightness of 300 nits max. Out of the
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box, it covers 99.98% of the sRGB color space with
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delta E values just under three and a gamma of 2.29 with an extra credit
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loving pat on the behind for covering over 83% of the Adobe RGB color space.
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The already good contrast was made
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4xish during our tests by their smart contrast feature, which uses brightness
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adjustments to make the contrast ratio a little wider. So, with some calibration,
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this puppy can actually get you a long way. And it's got some cool features,
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too, like picturein picture and multiv- view, which allows you to use all those
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outputs, putting up to four 1080p
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systems on one screen. It's great for control rooms, trade shows, or like
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those cool stock market desks that you see in the movies. So, at 40 in, Phil is
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as wide as the ultra wide in my office, but with an extra 4 in in height, not to
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mention 40% off the price. This means we
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give up some gaming prowess. So, no 75
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Hz refresh or free sync and slower pixel
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response times, but we keep the
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productivity benefits and immersiveness of a curved ultrawide and the tried
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andrue 16x9 aspect ratio. And while
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watching 21x9 movies or playing games on
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an ultrawide is about as close as you can get to a cinema-like experience, I
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suspect a lot of folks would prefer
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letter boxing their movie content to
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pillar boxing their everything else
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content, especially given Phil's excellent black depth. And when it comes
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to gaming for the titles with proper
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horizontal plus support, you can manually set an ultrawide resolution and
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then just run native 4K for everything
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else. And I guess that's the bottom line, versatility. You can watch movies,
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you can do some photo editing, you can use it like an ultra wide. I mean, hell,
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you can even use it as a small TV. I'd
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personally add an ARM for height adjust,
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but other than that, damn, I'm really
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