276E8VJSB

Arrived quick, great price, setup was effortless, appearance is generally fantastic. But I'm kinda realizing this isn't the perfect desktop monitor for intensive coding/reading/long hours of text viewing. I was used to a 30" 2560x1600 monitor, so small text and tiny icons aren't new to me, but 4K is a little too much detail for a 27" monitor. No slight on the manufacturer, the picture is gorgeous, but I'm forced to squint, move unusually close to the screen, use a lower resolution, or scale my screen - all drawbacks to me. Running it at 1440x2560 now, and it's not bad, but I'm wasting a fine monitor's potential. Maybe in time I'll find the best tweaks for Windows 10, or at least my favorite IDEs, to work well at 4K, but for now I'm thinking 4K is overkill for a desktop monitor. Edit - reducing from five to three stars. Like others have mentioned, I have begun having problems getting my computer output to display when awakening from sleep mode or monitor power save mode. Fiddling with the monitor menu controls won't help, the only answer I can find is to disconnect and reconnect the HDMI cable. Presumably powering the monitor off and on would work as well, but it has no power switch. While not fatal, this is a serious nuisance. I'll try replacing the cable or finding a hotkey to send PC back to sleep so I can retry, but this is aggravating! Resolved awaken to black screen issue! Under power settings, advanced settings I set PCI Express Link State Power Management to Maximum power savings. The monitor now "wakes up" operational every time. Restored 5 star rating.

This review is for the 276E8VJSB 27" Monitor, 4K monitor. If it hadn't been for the 4 year advance replacement warranty on these I probably never would have tried them. The name Philips didn't invoke thoughts of quality. I have been in IT for 30+ years and remember Philips way back when and hadn't really heard of them since. After looking over all of the 27" 4K monitors on Amazon I finally ordered a single unit to test. I opened my "test" unit and was shocked to see a DP to DP cable as well as an HDMI cable, both thick and hefty. I attached the DP to DP to my new Dell XPS desktop and was totally blown away with the quality of this monitor. The blacks are black, the whites are white, the colors and saturation spot on. In both HD and UHD the quality of the images and videos were stunning. I ordered a second unit and received it the next day. I connected in to the HDMI on my XPS. Both monitors displayed the exact same colors, brightness and saturation. One might expect that but I can honestly say that I've rarely seen it occur straight out of the box. I would have to say that this set of monitors was just absolutely perfect! They do not have and did not claim to have speakers, but do have an audio out from DP or HDMI transference. IPS with excellent breadth of angular visual consistency. Excellent contrast and brightness. Amazon has a bad policy of grouping reviews for a manufacturer across many product lines. When I read reviews for this monitor I quickly noted that most reviews were for other models. Even those, people talked about sputtering displays and bad pixels. I think most "sputtering" displays are because people were using 4K displays on older computers without active cables, Bad pixels? Hardly even see those on any monitors these days. I'm so glad that I put aside the idea that I thought Philips was probably a Walmart quality monitor and that collectively the reviews on this weren't the best (because, as I said they aren't review of THIS monitor). I'm glad that I put aside these thoughts because after thoroughly testing this monitor I have to say that it is absolutely stunning!

The monitor is nice and bright. It is also quite clear. Even if you come from better than Full-HD to 4K, you'll like the crispness -- at least once you get used to figuring how to make your fonts bigger. Haven't used all the features, yet. Will enjoy having two computers hooked up side-by-side on the same monitor, when I do. But hey, a 4K monitor for $280, its almost a winner. This monitor is bright and pretty. Of course, one will have to debate whether a 4K TV with some terrible AI installed is what you'd rather have -- those are cheaper for VESA mountable larger screens. It is quite stylish with its non-VESA base. Yet, that is its major problem. It was designed so that you buy this one, and later, when you find you really want it mounted, you buy another. VESA is the standard for mounts that manufactures tend to use if they want to allow their monitors to sell well in the corporate or in-the-know home market. There does not seem to be any lag on how well it shows images. There is no blurring or ghosting with normal office work or simple games. I've not tried it with real games requiring a GPU other than what Intel does on the CPU. There is the nice feature that it warns the user that burn in may occur if the same image is displayed for long periods of time. It actually mentions 30 minutes as the time. It gives that warning almost as soon as it detects a video mode about to cause burn in. Its kind of a disembodied floating text box. I've used it with both Mac OS X and with Pop!_OS. The picture shown is that of a game, Bomber, played on Pop!_OS. If using a Gnome based User Interface, I suggest that you use Backslide with only a five minute change of the background picture to help avoid burn in. When the Pop!_OS login screen shows up for X-Windows it tends to make the monitor go black if there is no user interaction. When using a Macbook Pro, or likely any other modern Mac, you'll need to have a HDMI 2 to Thunderbolt converter. There are a ton of those around. So, if you don't like having a converter, then, you'll likely not want this monitor. If you are anywhere near two meters tall, then, you'll want to have something to raise up the monitor so to keep good posture. Cause, you'll not be happy with the non-adjustable mount for the monitor. At the time of this review, I have used the monitor for about 13 hours. Most of them doing textual work. I bought it just before the next wave of trade-war with China tariffs hit and as it was first offered on Amazon. The following are the features I've not tried yet: 1.) LowBlue 2.) MultiView 3.) DisplayPort 4.) More than one HDMI

The 276E8 monitor is excellent. Crystal clear images. Philips has SmartSize technology in many of its monitors (it's in this one). 27'' monitors are too big --too much info can reduce comprehension, and 21.5'' ones on the market are all 1080P (lack clarity). With this monitor you can set the screen size to 21.5'', and get 21.5/27*2160 = basically '1720P', 2.5x the pixels vs 1080P. Or set the size to 23'' and have 23/27*2160 = '1840P', 2.9x the pixels. High clarity, on 21.5-23'' screen. Students and people who work on the computer a lot should seriously look at this and other Philips models with SmartSize. Might double / triple your productivity.

Affordable price and high quality

Excelente pantalla 4k IPS a un costo inmejorable. Demasiado brillo (no que sea malo), la uso en brillo "0" así que cualquier condición será apta para su uso Con cable thunderbolt tengo 4k@60hz con una Macbook Pro 15" mid 2014

Been using this monitor for almost 2 years with my macbook 2018. The display quality is really good and the clarity is amazing despite being matte finish. This is way better than other matte displays since they're more hazy and make the image blurry, but this one doesn't. For people complaining about the refresh rate, you are not using the correct cable. Use an HDMI 2.0 cable or a Display port 1.2 cable and make sure your computer's ports support these display standards as well.

Good to Use