On 8 June 2016 at 14:30, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_ilkay@dinamis.com> wrote:
I bought this same 40" 4k Philips monitor for $699.99 at a Black Friday sale last year at BestBuy and it has been working great(*). The Wasabi Mango was an LG IPS panel. This one is a VA panel. Theoretically, the IPS panel is supposed to be "better" but I really do not have any objections to the video quality on the Philips. I have not noticed any dead pixels and the brightness is uniform throughout. It has an easy-to-use joystick control and a hard power switch. I have an ASUS GT 960 Strix video card running the nVidia binary driver on Fedora 23 driving the monitor through a DisplayPort cable.
(*) Once every few months, I have to update the binary driver (it's not automatically updated) when I lose X after a kernel update. Occasionally, I'll see a flickering of a window that is not in the foreground. If I move the mouse, the flickering will disappear, which has me suspect the video driver and not the monitor. It's not frequent enough to be anything more than a minor irritant. Neither of those things are particular to this monitor.
With a panel this large, I have not found any need for font-scaling. There is no way I could read text on a 28" 4k monitor without font-scaling. It would be hard to beat the price/performance of this monitor and with the weaker Canadian dollar, monitor prices have been firm. You will not see this monitor at this price very often.
In short, it's a great buy if you've been thinking of upgrading to a 4k monitor.
I assume you mean this: http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/philips-philips-40-4k-uhd-60hz-3ms-gtg-v... Is there any practical way to drive this from a Linux-based laptop that doesn't currently have an appropriate video card / output? (I don't consider "buy a new computer" to be a helpful answer: I'll be ready to do that in about 18 months. But I'll understand if the correct answer is "no." :-) -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com