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Ridiculous burn in
The monitor is big and the picture looks great, but the burn in is inexplicably bad. I get it after just a few minutes of a window being in place. The monitor hilariously warns you not to keep anything in place for 30 minutes, which sounds like they were thinking that they were talking about a TV instead of a monitor... You unavoidably have things in place for 8 or even 48 hours on a monitor all the time. Some uses that people have for monitors, like say a conference room display, might show the same image in the same place for months on end. Screen burn in used to be a problem for monitors like 20 years ago, but to produce a monitor where screen burn in is a problem in 2016 seems pretty absurd.
So far, the burn in hasn't been permanent. It fades after a few minutes. Maybe faster if I move another window around over the burn in spot. But it does make me nervous that it could become permanent if I leave something on the screen for too long.
Case in point, just in the time I've been writing this review, when I moved my browser window just now, I see an after image of the browser there on the desktop. I can make out the Amazon navigation bar, see where the search box is, etc. A bug this glaring should not have made it through quality control and Philips should figure out a way to make it right for folks.
August 2016 · Electronics · verified purchase