Philips Brilliance 499P9H 49" SuperWide Curved Monitor, Dual QHD 5120x1440 32:9, USB-C Docking, KVM Switch, HDMI/DisplayPort, Windows Hello Pop-Up Webcam, SmartErgoBase, LightSensor

Pros:- Stunning monitor, bright, crystal clear, works just like any other monitor attached to a Windows machine- For laptop users with a USB C connector and power source, this will act like a hub, charge your laptop and transmit video/ethernet/USB via your single USB C cable (you'll need to supply a quality cable, not just a charge cable)- Sound built inCons:- Like multiple reviewers the camera doesn't seem to operate well. It will come on and then it freezes and you can never get it going again without at least a reboot. Unusable.- HeavyThis is a big monitor, four feet of solid screen in front on any desk really fills your field of view. I can't say I feel "immersed", it might be because I have the monitor pushed back or it might be because the curve while useful, is pretty gentle.Relatively easy to connect to my laptop; a couple of gotcha's; the USB default setting is to power down the USB ports when the monitor goes into power save mode (you can override that in the monitor settings), also the USB ports are set to USB 2.0 by default. The result was at USB 2.0 it didn't recognize my wireless keyboard, and then once I fixed that it disconnected the keyboard when the monitor went to sleep. Both quick fixes.Unless you want a ridiculously HUGE monitor stand on your desk you might want to look at a monitor arm -- there are very few that are rated to handle the weight of this monitor. WALI Single Monitor Gas Spring Desk Mount Heavy Duty worked fine for me; I had to crank the gas arm adjustment quite a few turns but it stiffened up nicely and now the monitor can be adjusted with a single touch of a finger.Sound is acceptable, and the software you can download from Philips gives you at least basic ability to modfy the brightness through an on screen control rather than endless monitor menus. It's likely you'll want to adjust the brightness down, this is just a bright monitor, but I was able to get it to an acceptable level (though I reduced it almost all the way to the minimum).With a USB C cable this is a one connection to your laptop (or PC) monitor, you have a limited number of ports on the monitor (to make it more aesthetically pleasing you might want to get a hub at (or below) desktop level to hide cords -- this could look silly having 3 or 5 cords hanging from the bottom of the monitor. I find that the USB C cable can be a little too easily pulled out, so the less hanging cables the better.Video playback (like youtube) seems problematic, at least when I have the monitor set to it's maximum resolution. I had to turn off HDR playback and go down to 480p (which still, however, looked stunningly like high def). This is likely due to my video card in my laptop not being very high grade -- frankly, I'm happy enough that it runs this monitor without any noticeable delays or artifacts (Intel UHD 620 with some memory on board).Totally satisfied with this purchase and the price, hopefully they'll fix the camera drivers (in the meantime I used a plug-into-the-usb-hub fingerprint reader for Windows Hello).

I like this monitor so much I’m leaving a review. I’ve spent my entire day migrating to a new computer with this monitor. KVM switch works well going to both my laptop and PC (although it’s a two-step process switching). I learned that while my laptop has a USB-C output, it is data output only and not video output, which means I have to use an HDMI cable along with the USB-C, which although disappointing I realize it has nothing to do with the monitor. I ended up calling support to figure out how to get KVM working (had to reset monitor once everything was connected and that fixed my problems), googled Philip’s number, pressed one prompt and got connected with a guy in the US. He was working off this same monitor so he was able to explain how everything worked pretty easily. So I liked their service, guy was actually helpful. Overall I love this monitor! Using it primarily for business and I can have Outlook open in a wider pane docked to the left, and three full page portrait sized windows to the right of it. Running both PC and laptop in 5120x1440. In addition to switching monitors (step 1), the KVM switch will also switch keyboard and mouse connected to usb hub (step 2). Haven’t used the camera and don’t plan to, I like that you can just pop it down and out of the way for privacy. Speakers are decent, but of course my stand alone set with woofer is better. That’s everything I can think of that was important to me. For business, video editing, photoshop, and the like of which I do primarily, I’m glad I picked this one over other 49” 5120x1440 monitors that had better imaging specs (and were a couple hundred more expensive, although that didn’t influence my decision since this was for my job). The KVM and data hub are way more useful to me than having a better refresh rate or better color output. If I were gaming I would have gone with one of the more expensive ones with higher refresh rate, color count, etc. I spent forever looking at reviews for all of the 49” monitors with 5120x1440 resolution, so hope this helps!

I am overall pleased with this display. However some opportunities for improvement.1. Cable Routing - there is no way provided to hide the cables dropping off the back of the display. I will be moving it to a monitor arm which has cable routing and that should help a bit.2. Navigating the Menus - the unit did not come with remote as it said in the packaging and the vendor says they do not supply it. So setting things up on the display are not so easy as the menus are touchy and the monitor response time is slow when affecting changes.Overall image quality good for my work. Gaming ok. Overall, and this is not unique to Philips, the screens are just too darned bright, and often impossible to dim.'I am happy in general with this display and the price I paid.

The product is fine but the lack of customer service is extremely disappointing.