Philips 288P6LJEB 4K Monitor Review

Want a 4K monitor for not a lot of money? Philips has your back with their Brilliance 288P6LJEB 4K monitor – see what we think about it here on TechteamGB!

Welcome to our first 4K monitor review, personally, I think we have a good one to start us off (and an even better one coming next week!) This Philips display is a 28 inch beast compared to my two 1080p 24 inch monitors I currently use, and due to space (and the fact I have to send this back) I won’t be staying with the huge screen. But enough blabbing, let’s get on with the physical overview.

On the bottom right you’ll get a series of responsive, capacitive buttons, and a single (crazy bright) white LED power light. These buttons surprisingly work very well, with my only gripe being that the monitor takes a while (respectively) to turn on, so sometimes I hit the power button twice thinking I didn’t hit it the first time – but that isn’t the button’s fault.

Further down, you’ll get a relatively skinny cable management hole in the large stand (large base). Something to note about the monitor is that it isn’t skinny. Including the I/O, this thing is just over 2 inches thick, not including the stand at all. Taking a look at the bottom, you see the included speakers, the ventilation space and the rear I/O, comprised of audio in and out, VGA, DisplayPort, HDMI and DVI – a good selection, and means you can run it at 1080p with other devices if you wanted to.

Further along, you’ll find the power in, which happens to be a clover leaf plug, strange as that’s normally found in laptops, versus the more common kettle lead, but the cable comes in the box, so there isn’t too much of an issue here.

On the side, you’ll find the USB hub, with the downlink to the PC on the side – a bit strange, and for anyone who cares about cable management, they might find this annoying. For I/O here, you get two USB 2 ports, a charging USB 3 port and a regular USB 3 port – as well as a hardware power switch, something I personally like to see.

The back of the monitor is fairly plane, where you see just the stand and some ventilation. Let’s talk a little bit about the stand – because it’s quite cool. You’ll be able to move the monitor up and down by 150mm, rotate it 90 degrees to be in portrait mode, you can swivel it 65 degrees each way and tilt it 20 degrees up and 5 degrees down – pretty cool.
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The on-screen menu works very well, with the capacitive buttons reacting quickly to inputs, and the menu seems to be well filled with cool options, none of which I had to touch, besides one. One thing you’ll have to remember when running at 4K over DisplayPort, is to change the DisplayPort mode in the menu to 1.2, otherwise it won’t run at 60Hz – although ours seemed to have a technical issue where the screen would artifact and make loud popping noises when running at 60Hz – although I’m sure this is just because we have a review sample which has been ‘around the houses’ so to speak!

So. 4K. Wow, even at 28 inches, everything is TINY! I must say though, the ability to have almost anything on screen, and  a whole load more than a 1080p screen, is freaking awesome. I’d recommend getting a screen management program such as AMD’s old HydraGrid software, as re-sizing windows gets pretty tedious after a while.

Since Windows 10 doesn’t get released until next week, there are still a whole load of scaling issues that need to be addressed, and a lot of web content just straight up sucks at 4K, but that’s what you get for being a fairly early adopter!

Just to prove a point, here is my index finger next to the replay button on Youtube… Seriously small.

Now, onto the reason you are here. Gaming at 4K – is it possible, or worth it. First thing’s first, remember this monitor, while still good value, is still £350, about the same you’ll spend on a GPU to run this – so don’t expect anything that cheap here, big kids only. We tested this monitor with an R9 390 (review on Wednesday), and was surprised at the results. At 4K we were averaging around 45FPS in GTA V on medium settings – not bad! I’ll be testing more games in the system review, but just to give you an idea, it works pretty damn well!

So, would you go 4K now, or are you waiting for it to be more mainstream?