On 08/06/16 02:45 PM, ted leslie wrote:
I got the same monitor. Only worry was the frequency oscillation feature to achieve dimming, but I don't notice it, but some claim they do.

I use the "SmartImage" feature to switch between modes every day. My monitor is in a room with plenty of natural light, too much sometimes, so I'll use it in the "SmartUniformity" mode during daylight hours and switch to "Economy" when it is dark outside. I do not notice any change in video quality when it is darker and I am usually pretty sensitive to flickering.

Back joystick is a bit of a pain as I do flip back and forth between inputs.
When my system goes to sleep, and it wakes up and i turn the monitor on, it sometime does the sync flicker (even goes black) and repeats and generally looks screwy for about 10 seconds,
but once its running, never had any issue.

I have seen the same behaviour with one difference. Infrequently, it will not sync on power on or wake up so I'll Ctrl-Alt-F4 to switch to a console, which will cause it to sync, and Ctrl-Alt-F1 back to X where it will sync without problems. I do not know if that is a monitor or video driver issue and again, it's so infrequent and the workaround so easy that it's a minor irritant, at best.

Is well worth the money! The monitor is sooooo bit, that you have to really move eyes, or even turn head a bit, so certainly I doubt i would ever
want bigger, accept that in having this monitor, I can now REALLY see the attraction of a curved monitor.

I have had to fine-tune the distance of the monitor to find the sweet spot between having to move around to see the edges and being able to focus with my reading glasses. More fine-tuning with the prescription of reading glasses may help.

I would have no interest in upgrading to say a 44"+ 4k monitor unless it was 
very curved so you don't have a distance issue as you look to the left/right edges over the closeness of the middle. In fact the odd person may even find the 40" to big, and want it to 
be curved. Of course one issue is you have to buy a expensive video card to use it, unless you happen to already have a 9 series.

I paid $240 for my video card. Over the life of this system and for the productivity gains I got from going to 4k, it's well worth the price. I expect prices will drop on the lower end cards that can do 4k because a newer generation of cards, like the 1000 series, are coming on the market now.
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Clifford Ilkay

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