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to the right of me here we have the Philips 32 8 m6 which is a curved monitor with 1800 curvature and comes in in Australia at 649 Aussie dollars if you're in America or in the UK I currently can't find at the sale it may be under a different alias I'm not too sure but I will update the description below when I learn more on this but today we're gonna be going through the most important figures 1440p panel 31 and a half inches of diagonal screen 16 by 9 and also supports a hundred and forty four Hertz refresh rate as well as supporting free sync and also adaptive sync out of the box so you will need an AMD graphics card that will for freesync support look that aside get your knives and forks out because we're gonna start eating those meat and potatoes right after the intro welcome back to tech yes City now Phillips our advertising on the box for milliseconds great array response times so we had to test this for different modes off fast faster and fastest essentially overdrive the UFO tests showed that both the faster and faster settings were pretty good at 144 Hertz as for the fast and the off modes I do not recommend them though starting with off this was transitioning over 15 plus milliseconds which made three different images at once being displayed on the same frame this will confuse your eyes make no mistake about it fast on the other hand did help drop this though we still had transitioning over to frames where at 144 Hertz the average frame transition between a frame is around 7 milliseconds thousand divided 144 so ideally we want response times that are faster than this in a perfect world under half of this is optimal so around 3 to 4 milliseconds of course one millisecond being the best but you're not going to get that on a VA panel which is what this features right here it also has 1800 R curvature and quantum dot technology so that is helping bring out the Reds and also the Greens as opposed to the Blues but faster however back to the response times this provided eight to nine milliseconds of average response time still however slightly transitioning over to images in the same frame' and then we go into fastest which provided a very playable 5 to 6 milliseconds transitions on greater greys and also dark Gray's though the whites were still slightly lacking a little bit but optimal and csgo regardless now there is an input lag on and off option which ironically did not just help with the input lag so you want to leave it on of course but also when it was turned off it made the pixel response times go crazy and noticeably bad the 1000 FPS camera showed this as well where we got slower response times as well as slower input lag so go figure it's not just the actual response time settings but it's also the input lag settings so there with it on we had the best frame coming in at nine milliseconds total input lag on the system very very impressive and then averaging out to about 15 to 16 milliseconds with the worst frame coming in at 24 milliseconds again this is the total system input lag and these are very very impressed numbers scoring up there with some of the other monitors without around here like the view Sonics and the azusa's so I'd guess anywhere from zero to ten milliseconds with low input lag option switched on would be realistic for this monitor though basically regards to response times and input lag I think there are only two options for this monitor if you are gaming and that is the low input lag option switched on from the monitor OSD as well as 144 Hertz enabled with either the faster or the fastest setting for the pixel response times me personally I prefer the fastest setting playing csgo for a little while did make this the most comfortable setting for my eyes also at 144 Hertz however when I did drop it down to 60 Hertz there was some very noticeable overdrive kicking in here artifacting and they were huge I mean you could see the blacks clearly popping out where they shouldn't be so basically I don't recommend playing games on this monitor with anything by 144 Hertz now also going through the OSD it's very clearly laid out very simple to use one button with a directional setting like a d-pad and you can access everything very quickly brightness settings as well as contrast as well as manual color control white balance and also a low blue light mode which has three different settings besides officer four in total to enable low blue light if you're using it at night however me personally I still prefer flux from the actual software itself because that's automatically controlled very quickly mentioning power consumption with this monitor we had about 40 watts at 160 ccd brightness and then a max brightness setting of a hundred we had about 60 watts usage now with the LEDs turned on or off there was about a 2 watt difference as well there speaking of brightness they advertised 400 CCD on the box we were getting about 250 in the real world with this thing calibrated at srgb setting with max brightness on 147 setting gave us a hundred and sixty CCD which is what I prefer personally and then the white uniformity was really good across this whole panel the grays and the dark Gray's as well were pretty good but on the whites there was a slight shift to the right of the panel and then the backlight bleed wasn't noticeable there was no visible cross-hatching as well when we pulled up an orange backdrop now quickly continuing over with color balance and the monitor itself there is different modes they've got FPS and a few other preset modes however I would like to see a cinema mode with higher saturated colors lower gamma setting and also a dedicated image editing mode as well say for instance turning the srgb on with the brightness of 160 ccd there was pretty plain settings the FPS being good for FPS games where ups the gamma and also ups the blue as well and the color balance so you can see shadows easily but besides that it was lacking a few options in the preset menu but also speaking of the color balance itself it was very accurate out of the box I'm surprised this thing was really as close as it gets to a calibrated monitor without Philips themselves calibrating this out of the factory it was so close in fact that only really the darker tones were slightly off all the colors were really accurate the mids and the high keys were pretty much spot-on as well so very impressive job if you're into gaming and doing video editing and you only can afford one Monda this might be the monitor to consider but let's move on now with some extra things on this monitor first of all the speakers as stereo speakers and surprisingly the audio coming out of these speakers is very good so good to the point where if you are predominantly a headphone user but you wanted backup speakers these would definitely do the job of course it's a little bit tinny due to it not having a subwoofer but the mids are definitely present and they do give out an enjoyable experience both gaming and listening to music and the volume is great if you're just sitting at a normal 80 centimeter position from the monitor now also they advertise flicker free when I was testing up to eight thousand Hertz on the camera it didn't show any flicker at all and there's an ambient lighting under the monitor itself which you can set to a static color if you wish to or if you leave it on auto it will match the colors on the desktop itself and then change the lighting to that it's also got different brightness settings to choose from too also before we get on to that conclusion little intricate there is a smart contrast setting and also a pixel orbiting setting when I turn these on I didn't notice a whole lot of difference viewing angles on the both vertical and horizontal angles were phenomenal so it is a really good upgrade from a TN panel and then of course the colors out of the box are pretty solid though out of the box you will want to put this on low input lag mode and set it to srgb and drop the brightness down to around 45 to 55 in my opinion those are little nitpicks with this monitor we've got big LEDs on the bottom I think they're 5050 and they're diffused five on each side they do flicker and they do look a little bit obvious I would like to see them to fuse these LEDs a bit more as well as the coating on the monitor itself it is a tad bit stronger than what I'm used to so I'm used to more of a little bit slightly semi-gloss finish this is a little bit more on the side of a matte finish to a gloss finish so your mileage may vary of course it blocks out the Sun very well but there's also no ultra low motion blur setting and also HDR which has an auto setting and when we turn this on in Windows it just looks bad on everything I have tested other monitors in the past where HDR did look good depending on the scenario but I turned it on in this and everything's just washed out even on demos on YouTube and games it just looks bad in general so I recommend just turning HDR off on this monitor in general I would like to see a demonstration where it actually works better than the original picture that you're getting out of this monitor anyway here we are now at conclusion time this monitor right here phenomenal build quality the stand is very high quality looks very modern it's also got height adjustment as well and tilt but it doesn't have both horizontal nor vertical swivel so that is something I would like to see especially the horizontal swivel but it does have a lot of input options you've got SVGA you've also got two display ports both supporting 1.1 and 1.2 standard and a HDMI 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 in so 5 display inputs in total and that leaves us at the price range now 649 Australian dollars that's where you can currently pick this thing up for and at this price it packs a lot of value they're trying to differ themselves by offering some ambient lighting on the bottom but in terms of the make itself and the overdrive settings they've done a phenomenal job I like this monitor probably the best out of all the 32 inch 144 hertz panels I've tested the fastest setting at 144 Hertz low input lag mode is really good not to mention the speakers on board are really solid as well will give out a great sound and then the picture itself is beautiful as well so Philips have done a great job and this is the first Philips monitor I've had come through in review so ultimately I can recommend this thing I don't know when it'll come out in the US or the UK but I will update the description once I have more information but besides that I hope you guys enjoyed this review if you didn't be sure to hit that like button and also if you try to fill this monitor before let us know in the comments what you thought of it do you think it was worth the money if not let us know why not if so let us know why lover your thoughts and opinions as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye