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the market share for ultra-wide monitors is uh you guessed it getting wider and in fact twenty percent of the displays bought by our audience members this year have been ultra wide but what if I told you that you could get many of the benefits of an ultra wide without abandoning the 16 by 9 aspect ratio that you've grown to love introducing the ultra wide and super tall BDM 40:37 you Ultra HD curved monitor from Philips hold on to your mind kids because it's about to get sploded cuz this thing is 40 inches diagonally sigh bye powers line up of gaming desktops feature intel seventh generation core i7 processors check them out on amazon at the link below so 40 inches is nothing for a TV these days but when it's sitting right in your face on a desk it's a different story all together seriously no one can walk by this thing without making it comment about how it's so big something that I'm totally used to by the way but seriously the slim bezel the 3000 are curved and the sheer size of the Philips BDM 4037 you make for an utterly immersive experience that's unlike anything I've used before and this is especially true if you tilt it down towards yourself a little which may in fact be necessary since the height can't be adjusted out of the box though there are some things I like about the stand it somehow does a surprisingly solid job of mitigating screen wobble given the 25 and 1/2 pound weight of this behemoth and I love the minimalistic and compact look the stand has a tendency to loosen causing unwanted rotation that can drive you absolutely bonkers I expect a little more from the stand that's holding up a thousand-dollar monitor overall I described the BDM 40 37 you I'm going to start calling it Phil as streamlined it has no buttons or i/o at all on the front or sides and in fact if I wasn't pretty good at the old reach-around I probably still wouldn't know how to turn it on and off at all this is a classic case of business in the front party in the back we've got one HDMI 2.0 port and another HDMI 1.4 both with MHL in case you wanted to mirror your phone or tablet display and to DisplayPort 1.2 a ports moving up back in time we've got a VGA port followed by audio in an headphone out good thing too on that second one because the on-board speaker sound like a cell phone at the bottom of a well and then moving right along we have a generous four type a USB three five gigabit ports which is not bad bill in 2017 I'd like to see one of these trade it in for a type C and finally another legacy port four separate sync or sync on green and an input for the five-foot power cord that was too short for my setup but I ain't even mad because there's no external power brick and all of these cords came in the box picture quality should impress most consumers and even earn a close but no cigar from design professionals it's a VA or vertical alignment 10 bit LCD panel boasting wide 170 degree viewing angles and a brightness of 300 nits max out of the box that covers 99.98% of the sRGB color space with Delta e values just under three and a gamma of 2.29 with an extra credit loving pat on the behind for covering over 83% of the Adobe RGB color space the already good contrast was made for X ish during our tests by their smart contrast feature which uses brightness adjustments to make the contrast ratio a little wider so with some calibration this puppy can actually get you a long way and it's got some cool features too like picture-in-picture & multi-view which allows you to use all those outputs putting up to 4 1080p systems on one screen it's great for control rooms trade shows or like those cool stock market desks that you see in the movies so at 40 inches phil is as wide as the ultra wide in my office but with an extra 4 inches in height not to mention 40% off the price this means we give up some gaming prowess so no 75 Hertz refresh or free sync and slower pixel response times but we keep the productivity benefits and immersiveness of a curved ultra wide and the tried and true 16 by 9 aspect ratio and while watching 21 by 9 movies or playing games on an ultra-wide is about as close as you can get to a cinema like experience I suspect a lot of folks would prefer letterboxing their movie content to pillarboxing there everything else content especially given Phil's excellent black depth and when it comes to gaming for the titles with proper horizontal plus support you can manually set an ultra wide resolution and then just run native 4k for everything else and I guess that's the bottom line versatility you can watch movies you can do some photo editing you can use it like an ultra-wide I mean hell you can even use it as a small TV I personally add an arm for height adjust but other than that Dan I'm really starting to like this thing tunnel bear Takes the bear crap out of setting up a VPN it allows you to browse the internet privately and enjoy a more open Internet experience with tunnel bear turned on your Wi-Fi connection is 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