Philips Goes Big With 43-Inch UltraClear 4K IPS Display

[kewlguy239]

Philips announced a new 4K IPS display featuring an impressive screen size of 43 inches. If nothing else, the new Philips UltraClear 43-inch class 4K Ultra HD IPS LCD display is pretty huge.

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[ohim]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

 

[TechyInAZ]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

LOL yeah really. I'd much rather see them put a VGA to HDMI adapter in the box instead.

 

[DotNetMaster777]

VGA provides only analog connectivity at 1920 x 1080. So, it is more like a option to connect to the screen.

 

[truerock]

43" is about the size I'd like for a 4K monitor. But, seriously... a VGA port? Are they insane?

 

[jasonelmore]

43" is about the size I'd like for a 4K monitor. But, seriously... a VGA port? Are they insane?

Who cares if they put it there or not?! there are 4 other inputs, a analog is just a bonus.

 

[Vesalius1]

Vga? Sweet 4k from my voodoo3!

 

[CaedenV]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

 

[CaedenV]

Every once in a while a product comes out and it looks like a manufacturer took a look at your wish list and checked all of the boxes! This seems fantastic on papar. I'll need to find a few reviews on color acuracy and backlight bleed. If the are pretty good then I just might go with one of these.
I have had my eye on a 46" Sammy 9000 series TV for a while now, and while I know that would work great, I have a really hard time throwing $1500+ at a display. At half the price, and specifically made for PC work, this might be a better fit.

 

[truerock]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

They should put a floppy disk drive and a PS/2 keyboard port on everything to keep the dinosaurs living in the obsolete technology past happy.

 

[jfkeenan]

Shut up and take my money. I have the Philips 40" BDM4065 and I love it! I have 2 GTX Titan X in SLI and it looks fantastic! Tomb Raider and GTA in 4K at 60fps is amazing. I can't wait to have the 43"!!!

 

[allanstrings]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

They should put a floppy disk drive and a PS/2 keyboard port on everything to keep the dinosaurs living in the obsolete technology past happy.

jesus people... read the damn article... "You can also use Philip’s MultiView technology to connect multiple devices to the display to view and work with more than one PC simultaneously." with tech like that available, it is great to have as many methods of connection as possible.

 

[alidan]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

They should put a floppy disk drive and a PS/2 keyboard port on everything to keep the dinosaurs living in the obsolete technology past happy.

except ps/2 keyboard is better than usb, at least for typing, but apparently you never had a keyboard that refused to let you into the bios or function till the os booted, there is a reason i keep a spare around.

i don't need my keyboard lighting up like a christmas tree, i hate leds, i hate the light, and i don't need drivers for my keyboard to work.

when the backwards compatibility costs next to if not nothing, and if i remember right, its sub 10$, then why not have it? this isnt an extreme budget monitor that where the cost of a vga will knock it out of price range for people, this is a 43 inch 4k ips at 60hz...

 

[eklipz330]

$800?! That's a damn good price

 

[SiggeLund]

Would be nice to have external millimeter measurements for a beast like this. Not every desk / room that fits it.

 

[JonDol]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

Just for that particular case you mentioned I still don't see the usefullness of the VGA port since there are lots of VGA to DVI,HDMI,DP adapters. Besides, it is just one more reason for the manufacturers to throw at us devices with that antique port thus providing crappy resolutions while we are in the 400+ ppi screen era.

I would prefer a DP 1.3 port instead of that VGA. There are almost 2 years since the standard was approved and there are no DP 1.3 devices on the market.

 

[Candre23]

It's only missing one feature: freesync. Hopefully it will get a firmware update to fix this oversight.

 

[spr1nt3r]

I tried 43" 4k TV for a monitor for a while. Too big. I could comfortably work on 32" 4k display and somewhat ok with 40" but not 43". It's just too large.

 

[Soaptrail]

What is the minimal size monitor to get if i want 4K? I have a 27" now with 1440p and i know 28" 4K would be too small.

 

[Candre23]

I tried 43" 4k TV for a monitor for a while. Too big. I could comfortably work on 32" 4k display and somewhat ok with 40" but not 43". It's just too large.

I have a 40" 4k seiki now. It's perfectly fine, and I honestly wouldn't mind the negligible increase to 43". The slightly larger dot pitch would actually be an improvement.

 

[Bjornlc]

I hope it does not have the color bleed problem their 40" has

 

[hardarse7]

I got a BEAUTIFUL 50" 4k Samsung TV (JU7100) for $749 on sale at Adorama a few weeks back and it is absolutely stunning. IMO 40" should be the *minimum* size of a 4k monitor. Anything smaller than that is just stupid unless you are 5" from the screen. That's like an array of 20" FHD screens. A 50" is like four 25" screens (without bezels), and it is glorious.

 

[compulsivebuilder]

I'm curious what the dot pitch is - 4k on a 43" might be back to a more normal dot pitch - maybe it's like HD on a 21.5" screen?

 

[SiggeLund]

Would be nice to have external millimeter measurements for a beast like this. Not every desk / room that fits it.

 

[alidan]

VGA on a 4k IPS 43 inch display ... why ?

because sometimes you are working on a PC with issues, and having that legacy port is SUPER helpful. I never use VGA on a day-to-day basis, but when a friend brings me a broken rig, or when troubleshooting a PC at work, that VGA port almost always works even when everything else is dead.
Besides... why not?

Just for that particular case you mentioned I still don't see the usefullness of the VGA port since there are lots of VGA to DVI,HDMI,DP adapters. Besides, it is just one more reason for the manufacturers to throw at us devices with that antique port thus providing crappy resolutions while we are in the 400+ ppi screen era.

I would prefer a DP 1.3 port instead of that VGA. There are almost 2 years since the standard was approved and there are no DP 1.3 devices on the market.

have a vga to hdmi, doesn't work.
not everything will work correctly with a converter, native support is always better than an adaptor.