Philips Brilliance 241P4QPYES – Not a cheap TN

Not long time ago, cheap monitors were what you like providing that it is TN. Think of it as the latest version of MVA series, which is a special flavor of the VA (vertical alignment) LCD monitor.

That often means much better colors, contrast ratio and view angle. The only small disadvantage is the competition among $300 monitor group better than TN that is becoming hotter and hotter. Dell has sold eIPS monitors for a long time while BENQ prefers to go with VA technology. Meanwhile, Viewsonic has just launched IPS-based monitor, VP2356 LED. And actually, it is very good.

MVA – smart

About specs, Philips Brilliance 241P4QPYES is of course promising. The AMVA monitor is claimed to give 178^o view corner at two sides, 6ms response time and 5000:1 static contrast ratio.

If counting LED backlight and good connectivity, including HDMI, DVI and VGA, you have a promising package. You even have a fully adjustable base allowing you to rotate the monitor to portrait mode. An easier thing to predict is the combination of 24 inches in diagonal and 1,920 x 1,080 pixel grid. To use for PC, we prefer a choice of a bit higher 1,920 x 1,200, but that requires higher price.

Philips also brings a few image increasing options. We are not big fans of moving contrast ratio, but it is provided here and because it is changeable, all people win. The same thing is also right for overdrive pixel, a technology used to improve response time. It is also called Smartresponse according to Philips, and once again, it is completely changeable.

We see that it provides considerably better response when activated without showing any hot issue or inverse input source. With other image quality measure, most are quite impressive. Colors are diversified but are not over-saturated. Black and white ratio reveals excellent details, and there are few proofs about color compression. Gradient is showed perfectly and have quite a lot of depth for contrast ratio.

A thing not very impressive is the view angle which cannot be compared to the best IPS monitors. General brightness is not very excellent, which leads to rather dirty white.

While the chassis is easy to adjust and has many features, it appears to be cheap and 4 ports of USB hub are arranged inconveniently behind. In addition to good image quality, everything is going further quickly at this time and there are better monitors with the same prices.

It is very interesting to find another non-TN monitor with such cheap price. The main benefits are excellent colors and contrast ratio, and the fact that Philips has better pixel response compared to what we often see from the MVA monitors. It is quite impressive.

Important statistics Price: $298.5 Producer: Philips Web: www.philips.com Size: 24 inches Monitor type: MVA Natural resolution: 1,920 x 1,080 Input: DVI, VGA, HDMI VESA mount: 100x100mm

 

Verdict

1 year ago, this MVA monitor would be the one beating the whole world. What a shame for Philips, according to current standard, it is just very good.

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