Philips Launches Massive 43-Inch 4K Monitor For PC Gaming

They say you can never have too much screen real estate. Well, they don’t, but it sounds like sound advice, although perhaps Philips has gone a little too extreme with this mantra when it comes to its gargantuan new 43” 4K IPs PC monitor. Just to put that into perspective, that has a 221% larger surface area than your bog-standard 24” display.

That’s basically front room television size, and it’s also packing a 4K 3840 x 2160 resolution. Plenty of 4K TVs suffer from 30Hz displays but the Philips BDM4350UC PC monitor offers a 60Hz refresh rate which should help for gaming purposes. Some might balk at the 5ms response time but it’s pretty decent for a larger 4K display. It also packs a 178 degrees viewing angle and support for both HDMI 2.0 and DisplayPort connections.

There's an element of barminess to this monitor compounded by MultiView. Philips MultiView is a feature which allows users to connect up to four separate sources at the time same time. This would only be useful because of its immense size, but it means you can connect four entirely different 1080p sources simultaneously. In effect you could halve the display between your PC and your laptop, or have four machines powering the displays on each of the four corners. A little bit on the crazy side but someone’s sure to get some use out of it.

Here’s the full specs of the Philips BDM4350UC if it takes your fancy but be warned, this doesn’t come cheap. This particular model will set you back a hefty £1169.99. A massive price tag to match the massive screen size then.

• IPS LCD panel.
• Panel size 42.51 inches / 108 cm.
• 3840 x 2160 @ 60 Hz.
• Viewing angle: 178º (H) / 178° (V)
• Brightness: 300 cd/m².
• Brightness uniformity: 96% ~ 105%.
• 1.07 billion colours (10 bit)
• MultiView
• PiP (two devices), PBP (four devices)
• USB: USB 3.0 x 4 (1 w/ fast charging)
• Signal Input: VGA (Analog), DisplayPort x 2, HDMI (2.0), MHL x 2
• Sync Input: Separate Sync, Sync on Green
• Audio (In/Out): PC audio-in, Headphone out

What do you make of this display, could it be the money no object monitor of choice? Or is 43” just unrealistically large for a desktop display? Let us know what you think!