So, you don’t get that razor-sharp image quality, that photorealistic detail, that’s characteristic of smaller 4K screens. A 4K 32-inch monitor, by way of example, is around 140PPI. But stretched over such a large screen it only makes for 109 pixels per inch. At 7.4 million, it’s not far off the 8.3 million pixels of full 4K. No question, 5,120 by 1,440 is a whole lotta pixels. What’s consistent for all games is the relatively low pixel density. Much depends on how flexible a given game is with the location and configuration of persistent on-screen features like menus and status bars, along with the aforementioned FoV issues. Your mileage will vary with other game genres. The result is suboptimal: a very obviously stretched image. Most competitive online games, like say Fortnite, cap your field of view to prevent ultrawide panels from providing an unfair advantage. But the extreme aspect can also be problematic. Having pretty much all your peripheral vision filled makes a real difference. In a broader gaming context, the crazy 32:9 aspect has pros and cons. That’s a bit tiresome, albeit a common fault among monitors with low-end HDR support. So, you’ll need to toggle HDR mode as and when rather than leave it on all the time. What we can say confidently is that SDR content looks like trash in HDR mode. That said, it’s not obvious that the 498P9Z actually looks any better running games like Cyberpunk in HDR rather than SDR mode. A ray-traced graphics fest like Cyberpunk 2077 is truly spectacular on a panel of this scale with this much zing. But the combination of that 550 nit backlight power with the excellent contrast of a VA panel really sizzles. You can’t have both.Īnyway, fire the Philips Brilliance 498P9Z up and it’s immediately obvious how punchy it is. Philips does actually offer a very similar panel with USB Type-C ports if that’s important to you, the 499P9H. In other words, you don’t get USB Type-C. A four-port USB hub rounds out the connectivity. You need HDMI 2.1 to drive a display with this many pixels at high refresh rates. Connectivity: DisplayPort 1.4 x1, HDMI 2.0 x3Īs for connectivity, well, the single DisplayPort 1.4 socket is the only way to get that 165Hz refresh going.
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