40-inch Philips Brilliance 4K monitor launched at £549

[meson1]

I'll need a pair of 980's to drive it at 4K for games

I'm playing at 4K on a 760 GTX, and haven't had any problems yet.

Interesting. That means I ought to get away with the 780Ti I have.

This monitor is so tempting. But the non-1:1 pixel aspect ratio is the killer. But hopefully this product will make other manufacturers come forward and make their own 40" 4k monitors.

[jim]

Interesting. That means I ought to get away with the 780Ti I have.

This monitor is so tempting. But the non-1:1 pixel aspect ratio is the killer. But hopefully this product will make other manufacturers come forward and make their own 40" 4k monitors.

It's all about balancing things in my experience. If you go in all guns blazing, AA and AF then it will fall over, but AFAIK you don't really need AA @ 4K, and if you dial that down along with the bits that don't matter so much to me (like shadows) then it tends to work OK.

The one thing I have learned is that downscaling to 1080p looks pretty bad, but I assume that's mainly because 28" is too large for 1080p to look any good (irrespective of whether it's 4K or 1080p native).

[CustardInc]

I'm playing at 4K on a 760 GTX, and haven't had any problems yet.

What games/framerates/details?

[DevDrake]

Nice looking monitor and the price looks reasonable. But 40", that's not a desktop monitor, that's a living room TV! (And as such I've got no chance of persuading the other half to let me upgrade).

If they could have done a 24" version for £300 (or less) then I'll dig out the credit card now...

+1, anything over 27" is too big for a desktop IMO. On the other hand, plug this in to the appropriate hardware and it'd be a well priced 4K smart TV for the living room or monitor for a conference room in an office.

I am today using 37" as primary desktop screen, its only too big if you want to grasp all the information from the screen at once - if you are using it as a pannel it is ok.

i would want to have this one insted of having 4 stacked HD screens...

It just popped on my wish list.

[jim]

What games/framerates/details?

The most recent games I've been running are Rome 2 Total War and Bioshock Infinite. Haven't had all the settings on high, for sure, had to dial them down, but it works and looks fine - generally tried to keep the textures high as that's what I notice.

Haven't checked framerates but haven't had any problems with slowdowns in use.

[kammak743]

That's TV size not monitor size.
I don't think it will enhance productivity because you will constantly have to move your head to see the whole screen.

[Biscuit]

I actually have 40" TV in my bedroom and I just looked over and it and thought, "no way could you use that as a monitor"
On your average desk, or even on a pretty damn deep desk, you would almost definitely pull a muscle in your neck.

[MrRockliffe]

I used to use a 32 inch TV as a monitor, and it was just too big (although brilliant for games).

27 is a good size for a monitor, but for gaming I prefer the bigger screen.

[eugenius]

It's the first 4k monitor that makes sense IMO. I even want a 46" version with FreeSync and even better input lag (even if this one is quite good at 20ms).

Just say no to bad scaling and have extra desktop real estate you can use.

[Clydonian]

this monitor is now available over at overclockers, I'm going to wait for some reviews though before I pull the trigger.