Philips 322E1C – 32 inch FHD Curved Monitor,75Hz, 4ms, VA
Philips 322E1C – 32 inch FHD Curved Monitor,75Hz, 4ms, VA, AMD FreeSync, Smart Image, Flicker free (1920 x 1080 , 250 cd/m² VGA/HDMI/DP/)
Less eye fatigue with Flicker-Free technology
Due to the way brightness is controlled on LED-back lit screens, some users experience flicker on their screen which causes eye fatigue. Philips Flicker-Free technology applies a new solution to regulate brightness and reduce flicker for more comfortable viewing.
LowBlue Mode for easy-on-the-eyes productivity
Studies have shown that just as ultra-violet rays can cause eye damage, shortwave-length blue light rays from LED displays can cause eye damage and affect vision over time. Developed for well being, the Philips LowBlue Mode setting uses a smart software technology to reduce harmful shortwave blue light.
SmartContrast for rich black details
SmartContrast is a Philips technology that analyses the contents you are displaying, automatically adjusting colours and controlling back light intensity to dynamically enhance contrast for the best digital images and videos or when playing games where dark hues are displayed. When Economy mode is selected, contrast is adjusted and backlighting fine-tuned for just-right display of everyday office applications and lower power consumption.
Cable management reduces cable clutter for a neat workspace
For a cleaner workspace, this monitor features an elegant solution for cable management. No need to bundle cables with extra ties. An elongated slot provides hidden storage for cables. It conceals cables and looks great in most environments, especially for a small space or a desk facing a wall or a window. This design cleans up messy cables for a more organised desk.
| Weight: | 7.5 kg |
| Dimensions: | 1.57 x 7.87 x 11.81 cm; 7.5 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Philips Monitors |
| Model: | 322E1C-00 |
| Colour: | Black |
| Batteries Included: | No |
| Manufacture: | Philips |
| Dimensions: | 1.57 x 7.87 x 11.81 cm; 7.5 Kilograms |
Bought for our accounts person. Screen image is not really readable unless in front of the screen. Easy to set and use and eye strain good as eliminated for the operator.
This is a nice monitor, good colours (If you set to RGB colour settings in Mac Mini M2) then the desktop will look great… However, I’m not sure if this a VA type screen issue only but if watching video are opening a large browser window, the screen will flicker and very fine lines will appear (it seems to happen with dark content).
I have used a non 4k monitor with the Mac Mini and all was ok, so I’m trying another make monitor using USB C and another with an IPS screen to see if I can solve the flickering. I have tried Dell 4k and Phillips both have the same issues using HDMI. Thanks to Amazon’s return policy I can hopefully find something that’s compatible.
Picture quality excellent using this ad main monitor working from home highly recommended
Works extremely well with MacbookAir in clamshell mode.
Bright clear and responsive, sound OK.
My previous Acer 27″ 1080p monitor was great for what I wanted it for, mostly gaming and video, but I wanted to upgrade. I wanted a larger, curved screen and a much higher resolution. After much research I found that this monitor would suit my needs perfectly and I was right.
The higher resolution is beautiful and the colors are perfect. This monitor has a refresh rate of 75hz which is ideal for most games. For about 30-40 euros more I could have gotten a similar monitor with a refresh rate of 144hz but I think this one is fine and looks amazing.
To top things off the monitor arrived much sooner than I expected and in perfect condition.
If you want a crystal clear picture where you can see the every hair follicle in Ryan Reynolds beard, then this monitor just isn’t for you.
But if you want a decent quality screen that’s cheap and works great for emails and spreadsheets then this monitor is probably for you. It’s good, does what it claims to and it’s pretty big so I can fit a fair chunk of dull data onto it.
The curve is alright if you look at it straight on, but if you’re giving side eye at your desk mate’s curved screen your eyes might go a bit funny. But all in all, no issues and it looks cool.
And it works for Mac because of the refresh rate. Let’s not go into boring technical details, it just works.
Buy it, plug it in, and you’re good to go. Easy.
Excellent monitor. Bought for my son for gaming and its excellent quality for the price.
Very happy with this purchase given the Black Friday sale price. I don’t do gaming so it is ideal for what I need. It was easy to set up and there appear to be enough options there to suit everyone’s preferences. The internal speaker is a bonus as it allowed me to get rid of two old speakers that were taking up room on my desk.
One small gripe that others have mentioned is that the cable from the back of the monitor to the transformer is too short with the result that it hangs slightly above the floor. It just needs another 10-20 cm in length.
I bought this during the Black Friday event. I had been looking for a larger monitor for work and gaming. The 32″ and 4K capability was a massive draw. Allows me to now have multiple windows open on an M1 Mac. Just made some small changes in the mac display options and use an app to snap windows in place. PS5 has also been connected. As a casual gamer, this is an ideal setup for me without breaking the bank and 4K graphics are great. I just made a few changes to the monitor, lowering brightness which was really bright. Then a couple more small tweaks to effectively handle the 4K. A good purchase. Looks smart on desk.
I bought two.. Amazing quality for 269.. I bought my first for 335 but even then it was awesome
so Im super pleased to get a bargain this time around.
Good quality monitor, as advertised. Bought mostly for day-to-day use with my desktop, so nice to have some basic built-in speakers.
only reason for the 4 stars is that it turned up in an open box, other than that, I cannot complain, it looks good, is very clear and works well
Very good sharp picture. I purchased this monitor to connect to an Network Video Recorder. I have four IP CCTV cameras showing on it with absolutely perfect pictures. I purchased a second monitor to connect to a PTZ camera again with a perfect picture . Definitely recommend this monitor.
I’m so glad I got this screen – super easy to put together and the size makes it really easy on the eyes. Adjusting the brightness and contrast can get the perfect viewing for sunny days. The curved screen is really lovely and perfect for my home working set up
One for me, two for presents. All my girl friends and girlfriends now have laptops, monitors wired keyboard and mice plus a stand to keep the laptop high enough that they would have to be very creative to spill liquid one it (after one of them inevitably frazzled/shorted half the circuit board). Unrecoverable except the SSD!
However, it doesn’t adjust up and down, so I find it slightly too high with no way to make my chair any higher. You can tilt it forward and backwards a bit though.
It comes with an HDMI cable, but no Display Port or VGA cable which was a bit of a pain if your graphics card doesn’t support HDMI.
I’m sure there’s a correct terms for it, but watching or viewing an image with a solid dark colour on the screen shows up a sort of pixelation rather than nicely blended colour which was a bit disappointing.
Overall though, a good monitor. I’m pleased with it and it’s improved my home office by a huge amount. I don’t use it for gaming, just work and a bit of video and graphic editing.
This is fab. Big but fab. Used as a second screen and big enough to have a couple of docs open at a decent size together. Very easy to set up, def recommend.
The wide screen is great for having two windows side by side and especially good for applications such as looking a family trees, where the width allows you to see more. The picture quality is good, I love this monitor.
It has Vesa, which was important (I had ordered a Samsung, very washed out screen and NO Vesa), and is quite light so the desk arm does not struggle.
Despite order tracking said it would takes weeks to come – I tried to cancel when I realised, as it was coming from Spain – it actually came quite quickly. I couldn’t be bothered to return it in the end, as it’s a very competent monitor.
You need to have this monitor at exactly eye-level, otherwise the bottom of the screen seems to fade to grey and so is very unclear when looking down towards the bottom.
Also, because the product is not sold from the UK, it only came with a European 2-pin plug. The kettle-flex type. I don’t like the idea of jamming a pencil in the UK Earth slot and forcing in the two pins, so bear in mind if you don’t have a spare UK lead you’ll need to order one on top of the purchase of the monitor.
Great monitors but dont expect IPS performance. I quickly got used to the look of them and the curved layout is just wonderful for reducing eyestrain and making long sessions a pleasure. I do graphic design, print, CAD and general computing and find them good for all.
But the image itself was really good, so I’ve ordered another one (new this time).
Two things I will say – use a DisplayPort connection rather than HDMI as HDMI doesn’t have the required bandwidth capabilities to run 4K @ the full 60Hz refresh rate (this is a connector limitation not the monitor!). Also, I changed the colour temperature in the settings to 9300K which gave a much better contrast on grey shades than the default setting.
This is a great screen – after nine months of use, I cannot rate it highly enough. Although it is not 4K, the lower quality is not really that noticeable unless you are right up against the screen. The curve is slightly strange when you first use the screen as the edges and corners are not quite where you were expecting them to be, however once you are used to it this works well, particularly if you have limited desk space. The only snag was the screen arrived with a European rather than a UK plug, though Amazon customer service quickly rectified this by allowing me to purchase an adapter and refunding me the cost.
Brilliant monitor, the colours are bright and vibrant and easy to adjust if needed, although mine was perfectly set up from the start.
Very easy to use, I just plugged mine into a laptop and used as an additional screen which was very easy to set up and use.
The curve of the monitor is great too allowing you to see the screen easily from most angles.
It came with a European plug which wasn’t ideal but I got sent an adapter free of charge.
Setting up was easy, it just worked out of the box and I was able to get it to the highest resolution possible. I find the picture is clear, the colours are fine and there’s no bleeding around the edges that some people have complained about.
I’ve never used a curved monitor before, and adapted to it pretty well and find it comfortable to use. I find that thanks to the high resolution I spent less time flicking around with windows and can have all the documents and stuff I need on the screen at the same time.
I don’t play games, so have no comment on how it can handle fast moving graphics. There are no USB ports on this (Not an issue for me) .
I love this. It’s a great size, great value for money. Mine thankfully had no dead pixels and arrived quickly. It is absolutely brilliant – I love the curve (it’s not too much but subtly adds to the experience) and it’s a perfect external monitor.
The only negative is that the ports on the back are in the middle of the screen. This meant that when I was attaching it to a VESA mount that I had to saw of the bottom of the mount in order for the cables to be able to plug into the screen.
I was worried about getting this, but now that I have it I am very happy with it. I needed a new monitor for work since I’ve been using a really old tv, that was very bad for what I was doing. Didn’t support certain resolutions and was very difficult to get it to work with my laptop, also I wanted to mount it on a monitor arm which I couldn’t. Some of the other monitors I was looking at didn’t have good reviews for mounting or didn’t have good menu controls. This ticks all those boxes, it was easy to mount, I used this mount from Amazon – https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07QS9RKBQ/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s03?ie=UTF8&psc=1. the picture quality in terms of pixels is stunning, I am having issue configuring the colour and contrast, but I’m sure I will be able to get that perfected with a bit of tweaking. The speakers on this are decent, I think they are great but it was not a critical feature for me but nice to have. The downside for me was I had to wait for a really long time to get this, almost 2 months.
For work, its great. I don’t need any bigger to see all my tasks as it fills my entire visual field. The curvature is nice, it makes me feel more immersed and present, but it doesn’t add to the quality for me.
Picture quality is great, colours are good but not always accurate. Much better than my previous Lenovo T23I
I now game on my laptop monitor instead with 144hz refresh rate. I would 100% recommend *not* getting this for gaming due to the 60hz. Its too jumpy and a bit disorientating with the curvature. I would also say this is too big for gaming, as you cant always see all the screen at once.
Speakers are rubbish so I wouldn’t add that into your decision making – they sound hallow.
The color is not very vivid compare to my macbook retina screen. However, I am using it for coding, so it works fine. However, I guess the quality is not adequate for gaming purpose. The low blue mode is quite good for reading. For those who haven’t use large screen before, it may takes some time to get used to the curved monitor. Overall, it is a bit expensive for the quality.
Its nice and big and clear – as I going a bit old man blind and Specsavers is shut its good to see what I am typing again.
However I spent an hour or so trying to work out why I couldn’t get any sound coming out of it, reinstalled drivers, restarted PC, bit of googling etc – then spotted another reviewer confirming it didn’t actually have any. would have been nice but no big deal for me. Its cheap enough so I don’t mind splashing another 30 quid on some monitor speakers.
Cracking screen.
The resolution is so high that I have had to use scaling for text to read it comfortably, but that helps keep the overall info high on the screen.
Particularly nice when using several windows to view different design elements at the same time.
I am Using with a 4k KVM , and this allows all three of my dev machines to share the resolution, without apparent quality loss.
Should have bought this ages ago….
Pros: Curvature is great, reasonably easy controls, good size, good resolution (4K)
Cons: No audio control on Mac, the stand cannot be adjusted in height and its position is very low, there is a bezel at top, left and right about 1cm big, at 4K it works only at 30Hz.
Don’t use HDMI for best picture quality, use displayport.
I’m not doing colour-accurate work, but the custom RGB mode provided sufficient adjustment to match the white balance with my other monitor (it was quite heavy on the green by default). Colours are quite uniform across the screen, and there’s none of the distracting sparkling you can get in bright areas on some monitors. In general it’s very bright, so bright that I have the Brightness control set to minimum. There’s a drop in relative brightness when viewing the left and right side of the screen at an angle, but it’s not too noticeable unless you’re viewing it at more than about 45 degrees. I don’t really do gaming so I don’t have any comments on how well it performs for that, although I suspect you’d want a higher refresh rate for gaming.
I’m currently [when I wrote this] using it over DisplayPort, in a dual-monitor setup with an older Dell monitor. It was not difficult to get it running at 60 Hz at full UHD resolution on Linux, after a bit of faffing with the monitor preferences app. (That app has some usability problems but I don’t attribute those to the monitor.) I ran into a problem that Linux has with DPMI power management on some dual-monitor setups when one or both are connected via HDMI: after the screens have switched off, they switch back on again after a few seconds. This problem doesn’t occur when both monitors are connected via DisplayPort (or when the Philips monitor alone is connected via HDMI).
The OSD buttons are a little bit awkward (they’re mounted on the bottom of the panel). The power LED flashes slowly when the monitor is in power-saving mode; not ideal for a bedroom but I’ll probably just put some black tape over it. These are very minor nits on an overall excellent monitor. I’d say it is one of the best 60Hz UHD curved 31.5″ monitors for the money.
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Edit: I’ve now been using the original monitor for about two months and I’m still very happy with it. I decided to get another one to go alongside and that works brilliantly. Again no dead pixels. Both are connected via DisplayPort from a Sapphire Radeon RX580 8GB, and both are running at 60 Hz at full UHD without any apparent problems.
The curve is perfect for a side-by-side dual monitor setup; just right to allow you to get the maximum benefit from the extra screen real estate and not have to view the edges of the screens at too oblique an angle.
Initially there was a worrying flickering of the desktop background when I first connected the second monitor, but I put that down to a temporary software glitch, not the monitors themselves. (I guess 2×3840 desktop width isn’t particularly well-tested in Linux!) Switching to mirroring and then back to dual display caused that problem to go away and I haven’t seen it again.
There seems to be some minor variability in the RGB response between supposedly identical monitors, but again, it was easy to correct for that in the custom RGB mode. The resulting colour match is close enough by eye for me to be happy with it.
The stand doesn’t allow height adjustment and currently there’s a few millimetres difference in height between the two monitors. [Edit: fixed with a stack of paper underneath the stand of the lower one.] (They have standard VESA fittings if you want to replace the stand.)
Overall, using two of these monitors is a very cost-effective and productive option if you need the extra screen area.
Later edit: The dual-monitor setup is still working great 8 months after purchase of the first monitor (7 months after the second). It also works when dual-booting to Windows 10.
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.