wtf you think the design you have atm is marketed too? It isn´t that there never was gendered electronics, because usually its men, who use it or will pay extra money, an just no one was extra mentioning it. Why, when there is just one target audience. Imagine even your Airbag and Seatbelt is made for men, because there is no real Woman like Test-Dummy to check it on.
I hope they listen to your feedback. I like the aesthetics, and if they came out with a sub $1,000 IPS-based mini LED ultrawide I would consider it, at least.
I like the all-white, all-Cooler Master setup featuring the MM731, SK622 and the NR200. It complements the monitor very well. That said, there are better monitors that can be had for less.
Nice review, this is a solid improvement over your older monitor reviews :) I like those overdrive settings. No overshoot, no overshoot, no overshoot, way too much overshoot. This monitor feels like a low effort entry level product but the price tag is outrageous.
OMG that wobble. Looks nice though. I was very near considering the Evnia QD-OLED until I saw their mount "solution" and noticed the warranty doesn't cover burn-in.
Oh I bet... I STILL marvel at how amazing my circa ~2009 Panasonic plasma looks, even after it has been relegated to being the patio TV and sitting outside in AZ summer temps, it still has a perfect picture with perfect color.
Very nice review, thank you! It’s pretty hilarious to see the price trend of this monitor, it started at €3000 in The Netherlands and is now less than €800 1 year later.
Thanks! And yeah they're getting discounted really fast. Still not sure I'd buy one with 34" QD-OLEDs becoming much more affordable as well (if you're OK with the burn-in risk).
Very good video, as thorough as you could ever want. At 1500 whatever - because it'll be around that in any currency - you detailed every reason why I wouldn't get one, including the OLEDs. I'm sat here wondering what the decision process was. At what price would you buy a 165Htz monitor with Ghosting? Personally I wouldn't and you said what they should have done. Good job from you. Bad job/decisions to the point of baffling from them.
@@marrow94 News flash: Electronics aren't aimed at a "gender". Girl gamers can happily buy the same monitor as anyone else. All that matters is buying a good one for a fair price. Done.
A monitor could be marketed to women by having vibrant colors (light orange, light blue, pink, white, etc) using women in the promotional images. But yes a monitor is a monitor. It’s not really for anyone in particular.
@@ptown77 True als not every lady likes those bright colors. Usually you'd only buy what suits budget & needs. If they market it like that this lady'd say hell no I'll pass gimme a nice dark one with barely any/no bezel.
The brand is about catering to women’s needs that a typical blah blah wouldn’t be doing. So it’s pretty much a cash grab. Let’s apply the pink tax to computers and electronics. Why not…
Great review. Shocking to see that a new brand is launching such a disappointing product. You'd think they would want to introduce themselves to the market with a product that doesn't suck... At the very least, considering they are launching yet another 34" QD-OLED option, they should have started with that monitor given the QD-OLED panel is a proven performer.
This and Viewsonic XG341C-2K, they seem to be using the same panel. Ghosting is also quite bad on the Viewsonic. They should really work on how to cut down the price. Otherwise in no world could they compete with those QD-OLEDs.
Are they serious? "A more diverse audience", especially women, or... "Lets create an (in many ways) inferior product, overcharge massively for it--but make it (the moral equivalent of) pink, so women gamers and creators will be dazzled into buying it anyway." Thank you, no. I'll just hang onto my "manly" black gaming monitor, and not worry about it being "pretty enough".
I read subtitles sometimes and yours is quite funny. It says the panel "is a 34 inch Ultra wide Quad HD V8 panel." My first thought was, at first glance, what the hell is a V8 panel? Is it something that drinks gasoline or V8 vegetable juice!
Hello! many people, including me, detest a wobbly Monitor. I think the manufacturers could remove the wobbles if they cared enough to design a better base especially on the high-priced models. Its the least they could do for the money customers pay for their product. People like LG could do it quickly if they put their mind to it. I await a wobble and wiggle free future. Thanks for listening and I enjoyed the video, as usual. I feel better now .
Marketed to a more diverse user base specifically female gamers, it never occurred to me that PC components are gender specific, I wonder if the color should be more diverse also as it might not be inclusive enough with it just being white, very strange company
Bought this month the new 40 size for 1100€. Great monitor. I pick this model because of warranty and poor Samsung reputation about G9 overall quality, despite being 100€ less in my region.
@@ivanmalinovski7807 Yeah I got the Alienware QD OLED one with the gsync ultimate module for $850 open box it's amazing how good, crisp and smooth the image quality is. Mini LED monitors do look kind of interesting though.
I wish more monitor makers had at least options for non black monitors. As for the rest, I am not interested in ultra wide monitors to begin with, plus I have no ovaries that I know of, so obviously this is not for me. Plus I am poor. Thanks for the good video review.
Philips TVs are really great, probably monitors too. I would love to see your review of the "LG 27GR95QE-B" and "ROG Swift OLED PG27AQDM". Btw. Great review as always. 🙂
Philips was formerly one of the largest electronics companies in the world, but is currently focused on the area of health technology, having divested its other divisions. Koninklijke Philips N.V.
Well 9 months on and this now sells in the uk for just over 600 pounds, I am currently looking at buying a new monitor for gaming but I am thinking where you said this is slow, it sill might be not a good choice ?
I don't know what your alternatives are. It's obviously a different story at close to 1/3rd the original price, but it's still not "fast". Most affordable and mid-tier VA panels aren't and this does have some nice extras, but you'll have to see if you have any well reviewed (with response time data) alternatives at the same price that might be better if you care about fast(er) games.
Thank you, I have just seen the Samsung Neo G8 oled is now selling for 850 pounds so I am thinking of going for this one, what do you think and thank you for taking the time too reply, happy christmas@@TechTesters
I recieved mine tihs morning and wow this neo g8 is awesome for the price too I got it from GradeATechnology, ordered yesterday and 16 hours delivered too my door, so happy@@johnboylan3832
I bought one for 500€ At this price its a no brainier, specially if its for work or games that are not competitive and need a fast pixel response. Using the latest firmware, 1.12 improved a bit on ghosting but it still, in some games can be seen, but in others there is the normal VA panel ghosting. Were it shines is in HDR, unfortunately only one mode works correctly, lets hope Philips releases a FW that could address this issue along with local dimming not working in SDR. Nonetheless in games that have a good HDR implementation like GOW, RE: Village, Uncharted etc it looks spectacular. All in all, considering the current price, 500€, despite the slow panel, its a winner. Lets hope Philips keeps it supported trough updates in FW.
If there's one thing I'm sad about... Good Lord, the marketing is pure eyerolling to me. I've seen so many white + RGB builds from all sorts of people. It's not "diverse", it's just white + RGB. It being kinda "eh" for $1500USD is yikes though... It being that even higher potential price of $2000 would've sold absolutely none of them lol
So I bought that Kingston SSD you review the other day, and after taking an Acronis 2021 backup of the present SSD (Micron), it restored fine, but then the new system does not boot. It seems a driver is missing, but it seems inconceivable, according to Kingston, they use default drivers, so they do not offer one for download. There is a special Acronis tool to add drivers to the boot media, but it asks for an inf file, while the default drivers seem to be sys files... for now, I do not know what to do, it should be recognised by W11, obviously. I ordered the same SSD I already have double size used on Ebay, want to see what happens with that...
The last (consumer) SSDs that actually had specific drivers for it were Samsung Gen3 SSDs, so that isn't anything strange. I don't know exactly what can cause this but I do know that cloning software has given me nothing but issues in the past, so I always recommend a clean install instead. It's a good time to get rid of old Windows bloat and start new. I'm generally up and running with a reinstall after an hour or so, not counting game downloads :)
@@TechTesters No, this install must never die :) There is too much shit that is tied to the machine and other software that will be an absolute pain to get running again with all the keys bla-bla.... there is a weirdness, because if I check size of windows and all installed stuff, it is about half of the drive, but system says it is full except 5 GB and I cannot find what that hidden bloat is...
ik vind het jammer dat er nog steeds geen opvolger is voor de LG 38GN950, het is na mijn idee de beste gaming monitor qua formaat, resolutie en verversingssnelheid. ik zou alleen een oled of mini led variant hiervan willen of een DP 2.1 variant met wat zal het dan worden? 240 hz? en een echte HDR waarde 1000+ ipv 600. ik denk dat ik mijn hoop voor zo`n widescreen opgeeft en de volgende monitor een Big format oled scherm wordt 41 inch, DP 2.1 Oled. waarbij je evt een widescreen van kan maken want ja, de pixels zijn toch echt zwart zonder backlight bleed dus dan maken die zwarte balken niet uit.
No local dimming in SDR, not interest for me. This is the same mistake as the AOC AGON AG274QXM (miniLED). The most important feature of this kind of monitors is the miniLED backlight with local dimming. It is absurd that Phillips has blocked it for content in SDR. Nice video. Regards from Spain.
It's not "gendered" electronics dear co-commentors. They just advertise the Evnia line with a home story of Kenyan e-sport player Sylvia "QueenArrow" Gathoni Wahome and emphasize the inclusiveness of e-sports. Given that Sylvia mostly played Tekken 7 professionally, she probably wouldn't care for color accuracy, but the transitions from dark pixels are certainly jarring. Their best option IMHO would have been to have an additional lower contrast mode (similar to IPS levels) where pixels don't go full dark and can recover more quickly. Then you can still enable the full contrast when watching movies or in slower paced, dark games and reviewers could have turned a blind eye to the response time. 😉 I use a 60Hz 1080p VA monitor. It has the same downsides, but it certainly cost less at €160 and adapts brightness to the environment which is nice-to-have. In all seriousness, a €1000+ monitor shouldn't have such obvious problem areas and I don't see how this product is going to save Europe's last electronics giant. 😥
Also hate the slow response time on the iPad Pros. It’s an insult on such a monitor. You pay so much for a gaming monitor then get smearing trails of pixels wow
With QD-OLEDs at the same price, those are much, much nicer. If you want to avoid burn-in risks with OLED, get a nice fast 4K IPS display for the same price.
@@TechTesters I already had a nice fast IPS, and it's beautiful other than the fact that IPS doesn't really do blacks. Picked up the Alienware QD-OLED, I love it, but I'm not sure it was a smart buy, as it's really only a small improvement and then really only in the dark areas. The monitor it replaced is an Acer X34 GS, which is a stellar monitor other than the non-existent blacks. In brighter areas, you'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between the two monitors. I'm still going to keep the Alienware, just because I can and it really is the best of the best, but if I was cost sensitive I would not.
@@TechTesters regarding my previous comment, I finally played some Far Cry 6 yesterday and was in some darker areas that weren't in bright sunlight, and yeah the OLED does look way better in those. Bright looks about the same as the Acer, dark looks way better. That said, I would NOT say it's "vastly superior" to my 2022 TCL R655 min LED TV, which how amazing games look on that is really what prompted me to start looking at monitors in the first place The TCL (obviously) has much brighter high points than any OLED and about the same blacks (maybe not to instruments, but to the eye in a less than completely dark room, there's no difference).
@@phxrider950Yeah, mini-LED is my choice too. I have an OLED TV and its overall low brightness bothers me, it makes some games look flat. OLED excels in games with dark scenes punctuated by bright lights, like Cyberpunk. Mini-LED is better in games that are bright as it doesn't suffer from automatic brightness limiting that OLEDs need.
1500+ dollars for this? They are out of their minds! The way they market this monitor makes me think they're trying to cash in on the female gamers who don't know a great deal about display technology.
Isn't that just us making assumptions as to what others may have thought? Maybe they decided this screen was especially suited to a wider audience because of the design? Maybe someone in marketing had the idea of trying to address a wider audience. Maybe they did it for political reasons. Yes they screwed up with the panel but I think you're really reaching here.
@@kazumakazuma5814 "Isn't that just us making assumptions" I never said it wasn't, did I? I literally said "makes me think" so of course it's just my opinion. And the worst thing about this monitor isn't the panel, it's the price...
Firstly as a bloke, a gamer, and lover of white builds this monitors aesthetics are perfect 🤩🥰……. Secondly I love this monitor so I must be woman 😅😂🤣. Secondly, if this is a ‘woman’s’ monitor …… is the ‘wobble’ a male inspired thing to say women have flab 😱🤯….. omg what ridiculous marketing BS!! White is used by many gamers of any sex🤦♀🙈🤦🤦♂😌. Phillips marketing team needs to be given a boot up butt for such nonsense. Thirdly, that monitor wobble needs serious addressing asap imo.
for that price??? you got other better options.. Its a weird marketing decision as well, targeting a "more diverse" user base but racking up the price just because they can
I don't get it. QD OLED isn't an alternative. I do 80% Programming with static content and 20% gaming. OLED would burn in in 4 months. Not an option. not at all.
Als dit een monitor is voor vrouwen, zou dat in uitdrukking moeten komen in het kleurenschema. Vrouwen zien anders dan mannen kleuren met warmere tinten. Het mag dan een gaming monitor zijn, maar daar zal het vast niet alleen voor gebruikt worden. Wat ik mis zijn de resultaten met bijvoorbeeld tekstverwerking en spreadsheets. Zijn de karakters goed te lezen en lopen de lijnen in een spreadsheet recht of verbuigen ze door de kromming van het beeldscherm.
From their website: "Evnia (Greek: Εύνοια) stands for eu (good) + nous (mind) and literally means 'well mind' and 'smart thinking'. Evnia is used as a word to show interest to support someone or something. It’s often used in the context of luck."
$1500 for a VA 34 inch? yikes. The average 34 inch is IPS and $800 or less. Good look Evian with their new monitor. For that price you could get 2 monitors from their competitors that perform way better.
"The monitor just doesn't look right." Sure can't say the same about you! Your attire sure is better than the blue dress. The monitor shakes more than your earrings. Phillips did make some good B&W TVs back in the day. Those support stand LEDs look great: if you are looking at the backside of the monitor. Guess a large mirror on your wall would solve that. Thanks for telling us the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Yes, I'm a retired lawyer who won many of my cases.
Monitors for women lol. The stuff that marketing teams come up with. It seems to be pricier than it perhaps should be but I do like the white design. Something different.
Wait, so this is a VA panel with mini LED? At that price? No thanks. Garbage. But an Alienware 34" ultrawide 4k gaming monitor for $1100. Better color, contrast and faster pixel response time. Wobble not included.
