PHILIPS 328E1CA 32 Curved Monitor, 4K UHD, 120% SRGB, Adaptive-Sync, Speakers, VESA, 4Yr Advance Replacement Warranty

Its a great looking screen with a good feature set and good specs for the price. I really like the buttons and menus as they make it super easy to change settings, unlike many monitors these days. There are really only two things that prevented me from giving 5 stars: First, PBP/PIP feature only works with certain combinations of connections. Unfortunately, it does not work with HDMI on one device and USB-C on the other. So for my use case with a Mac Mini (HDMI) and Macbook Pro (USB-C), Im not able to do PBP/PIP. I ordered a USB-C to DisplayPort for the Mac Mini to see if this fixes the issue as USB-C/DP is one of the combinations that the manual says works. Second, the cable management is subpar. As you can see from the pictures on the item listing, its just a couple of tabs on the back of the monitor stand. The cables do not go through/hide in the monitor stand as they do with many other monitors on the market. The power cable specifically shows without using something else to hold it up (see photo) The PBP/PIP issue may be a deal breaker for me as I specifically bought this monitor over others for this function, but I can live with the cable management. Update: The USB-C to DisplayPort and USB-C combination worked for PIP/PBP. Using this monitor in combination with Logitech mouse/keyboard with flow technology allows me to very easily work with both computers side by side & switch peripherals easily.

I like it overall. The curved screen is really a good idea (I thought it might be a gimmick). The LCD panel is very uniform as compared to an LG monitor that I had recently purchased, and I cant find any bad pixels - all good things. I only have three negatives and they arent very big. First the blue splash screen when it starts up is blinding. If you leave the monitor on all the time and just let it sleep then this will not be an issue for you. Secondly, sometimes when the monitor wakes up the screen looks washed-out. Power cycling it fixes this. The final minor issue is that the minimum brightness is too bright to use the monitor in a dimly lit room.

The monitor features are exactly what I was looking for as a docking solution to my new Lenovo X1 Carbon; however, after many different attempts, I cannot successfully get all the features to work through a single usb-c cable. The laptop was tested on a Samsung monitor without issue. But when plugging into this monitor, there is apparently not enough power to support usb-c docking as the connection continually goes in and out until I plug in a separate charger to the laptop. This laptop uses a 65W charger, which is what the monitor is specd to handle. Moreover, even when running on a separate charger, the monitor fails to provide USB-3.2 support that is native to the built-in hub. I have had to lower it to the USB-2 setting for the connection to become steady. I have tried multiple cables known to work, so it is definitely something with the monitor. Contacting Philips support has provided so far no solution other than the potential to RMA the unit, but that has not yet been resolved.

color and brightness are ok for this price range. usb ports are a plus. screen started going dark intermittently after 2months. went out completely with horizontal lines after 4 months. get the amazon warranty so you dont have to deal with manufacturer.

This has been a great monitor except for 1 thing: There is alot of color banding - like there arent enough colors for different darks, so differences in shading dont blend, its a hard stop and start. Also wont support HDR. I thought I saw that in the ad, but I guess I was wrong.

The monitor itself was fine and had no real problems with it per se. But their warranty is something else. After it quit working after six months I contacted Philips and they refused to honor their own warranty. They said their warranty does not cover physical damage to the monitor itself. All I did was unplug it and used a new monitor to replace it for a few days and when plugging it back in it did not work. Philips may have won the battle but lost the war since I never will use a Philips product again period. They tried to make me out a liar and I do not appreciate it. I had the monitor six months and have used several of their monitors over my 69 years and the products have been OK. If you buy this product--be forewarned concerning their warranty coverage.

I bought this monitor for my work-at-home setup, replacing a laptop monitor and 21 monitor. I love the curved design, which makes it easy to work on files all the way across the screen. Having a monitor I could adjust up and down was also important since Im on the shorter side. The price was attractive too, compared to other brands. I use the LowBlue mode and decreased the brightness a bit, which made it perfect. The only hang-up we had in setting it up was with the USB cables. We plugged in my laptop using the USB-C cable, but couldnt make the wireless keyboard and mouse work when the receivers were plugged into the monitors USB ports. We happened to have an extra USB printer cable lying around, and that fixed the problem, however, the USB-C cable alone should have been sufficient. We need to plug things into the monitor because my laptop doesnt have enough USB ports for all the accessories. Overall, a great monitor so far (a few days in) that makes me feel super-productive :)

In recent years Ive been impressed by Phillips products -- quality, and innovation, so I got my 1st Philips 328E1CA 32 Curved Monitor with high expectations. Picture quality is perfect, color depth and brightness superb! Runs perfectly cool and quiet. Now I run 2 of these -- one on each side of my 16 MacBook Pro and VERY pleased -- I would recommend these to anyone. PROS: Good value, superb picture quality, tilt adjustable CONS: Only improvement might be height adjustable, but at this price point Im not complaining.

Six months ago, my engineering friend built me a powerful desktop and I had a nice 4K Asus Designo monitor. The problem is that my computer didnt have a graphics card. My friend assumed I didnt need one because Im not a gamer. However, the 4K Asus needed a graphics card. Unable to get my hands on the new-gen RTX 3080 models, I settled with a GeForce GTX 1050Ti. It worked better, but the screen would black-out during Zoom classes with my students, so I settled on this Philips 1080P curved frameless monitor. My daughters have the 24-inch model, which I like, so I got the 27 inch. Big mistake. With 1080p, the flaws show up in anything bigger than 24. Another problem: While my 1080p monitor no longer blacks-out during Zoom, it still lags, so it didnt really solve my problem. Worse news is that coming from a 4k monitor to this 1080 is hard. The letters on Google Docs and Windows are a bit grainy and blurred compared to my Asus. Video images are not as sharp and bright either. The overall look is cheap. I did improve the images a little by going into screen settings, and changing the default of 60Hz to 75Hz. But in truth, this Philips is just a stop-gap measure. As soon as I get an RTX 3080 graphics card, Im switching back to my Asus 4K.

I hate writing bad reviews, but this one is deserving. As a budget monitor, I didnt have high expectations, but I was still disappointed. Proves the axiom, You get what you pay for.. Pros: Really cheap, looked great on my desk, seems solidly well-constructed mechanically and reasonably well-designed. But: After much frustration, I returned this and grudgingly spent the extra $300 for a Thunderbolt Samsung. Probably fine for spreadsheets or kids gaming, definitely not fine for any sort of design work. Picture quality, color, and brightness were slightly below mediocre. I could possibly have lived with the meh quality if the monitor had at least connected to my devices and worked as it was supposed to. It didnt. The USBC connection worked on one of my laptops (Lenovo Yoga, and only at low refresh rate. 30hz), but stubbornly refused to reliably connect to the other (Microsoft Surface Book). It seems as if it simply could not handle the charging requirements of the Surface, so it simply refused to stay connected for more than a few seconds, despite multiple hours of trying. Definitely not an issue with my Surface. It works beautifully on the Samsung monitor I replaced this with. In retrospect, I wish I had kept this long enough to take a few side-by-side pics of it next to the Samsung. The difference in quality is truly striking. Bottom line, if you care about display quality (at all) or have a laptop with charging requirements over about 50W-60W, save your time and money and buy a mid-range Samsung or similar.