Philips 272E1CA - 27 Inch FHD Curved Monitor, 75Hz, 4ms, VA, AMD FreeSync, Speakers, FlickerFree (1920 x 1080, 250 cd/m², VGA/HDMI/DP)

My last monitor was a 24 inch asus monitor that I've had for around 5 years then I decided to look for something a bit bigger and this one has ticked all the boxes. The first thing I noticed was the default brightness/contrast settings hurt my eyes as it was way brighter than my old monitor. I eventually settled with brightness set to 25 and contrast set to 55 (both quite low) and a warmish colour temperature (as opposed to the low blue mode). Not much idea how accurate the colours are at this point as I have just tweaked it for eye comfort. What I like: Lovely curved screen Great contrast Sharp image to my eyes Lots of scope to adjust image settings Can be wall/bracket mounted 75hz refresh rate Has worked well with the games I've tried so far no tearing. Motion as good as expected. No noticeable input lag Standby/adjustment buttons under bottom right corner (not at the back like my previous monitor which was quite awkward). Bargain What I dislike: I bought a displayport cable in the hope freesync would work with my nvidia GPU. It does not appear to work as after I enabled g sync and disabled vsync I noticed screen tearing in games. Edit: So I looked further into getting freesync working and it turns out the monitor was installed as a generic PNP monitor in device manager. I downloaded the drivers from the Phillips website and it now shows the monitors correct name. Next I downloaded the pendulum gsync demo from Nvidia. With gsync enabled there is now no screen tearing as there was before and motion looks smoother. It's hard to notice a big difference from regular vsync but this is still proof that something is happening as before updating the monitor driver gsync enabled looked just like vsync disabled. Lesson learned download manufacturers monitor driver. So far overall its a great monitor EDIT: 22/01 2020 I've reduced Brightness down to 15 and yes its still plenty bright enough for my eyes. So my overall experience has been good but the gsync compatibility is not perfect. So the motion definitely looks smoother (as seen in the nvidia pendulum demo) but I am seeing some screen tearing in some games/videos. I can't quite get to the bottom of the reason for the issue but I suspect it is something to do with the monitors inability to reach the lower frequency's. For example its good for frame rates between 50 and 75 but struggles to sync with frame rates between 25 and 50. If I enter the on screen display and go to setup/information I can see it fluctuates between 48 and 75hz so it can't be syncing at the lower frame rates?? I'd be interested to know if my theory is correct or if anyone else knows anything on the subject.

Ordered the Philips 272E1CA 27" Widescreen from Appliances Direct - UK, scheduled for delivery in 3-4 days time but actually arrived the following day ! That's the way to do customer service - under promise and over deliver! Very pleased with the monitor, nice design, good picture quality with LowBlue Mode making it easier on the eyes over longer viewing periods. Easy to adjust settings via the buttons on the underside of the screen on the right hands side..

Best purchase of the year so far. Use it to connect my laptop to, to have it as an extra screen. Perfect quality and the sound it not so bad either, better than some of the other ones I've seen/ heard. Highly recommend this.

Great product. I like the feel and makes my work very sweet

I am using the screen for working at home the screen is nice and wide to enable you to have multiple screens open and has good picture quality!

I am very happy with this monitor. It is slim, not too heavy. With wfh due to COVID I have 2 now, with a Von Haus bracket.

Absolute rubbish lasted just over the warranty period, contacted customer services who asked me to send loads of pictures along with copies of the purchase details for them to say after two weeks that I was out of warranty

Purchased to replace two Samsung 28” monitors that go either side of a 17.3” Alienware laptop screen. It’s not the screens’ fault that 32” turns out to be too large for the purpose, but it does show that this resolution is too coarse for a screen of this size, unless viewed from a distance. What I can blame the screen for is that maximum brightness isn’t quite bright enough and colour matching is atrocious! I played with every single setting until it was just about bearable, but it’s still very poor. Speaker sound is just about adequate, but no more. I certainly wouldn’t recommend these monitors.