Have I bought this monitor is MM (reduced sample) and am very satisfied with the purchase.
Now what will we offer this Samsung U28D590P?
He brings 4K finally at a moderate price in your living room to have to take a second mortgage on his house without.
This monitor is therefore not intended for professional image editing, but should only allow a low-priced entry-level model in the UHD world.
So if you buy this monitor in order to generate professional photos or image processing, which will thus not be completely happy. Although it offers a good range of colors and the resolution, brightness and contrast reproduction is very sharp. But against a professional device with IPS display, this monitor can not arrive.
The illumination is good, but not perfect.
However, this is to forgive in this price range, as you can not expect that the Samsung U28D590P poses a serious competition for other monitor, the loose the 4-10 times cost!
So we come to the strengths:
- UHD is unique in this price range. Anyone who has 4K and has experienced the change will never again FullHD or WQHD.
- The brightness and contrast strength is sufficient and can be set well above the HUD. Similarly, the colors, which can be adjusted separately. Of course, pre-settings can be selected, which includes 5 different color space adjustment. From cold to hot, and more.
- The monitor is very economical to use. Requires only 30 watts and can therefore be safely sometimes a little longer in operation.
- He has a DP1.2 port and 2x HDMI and a headphone jack.
- He also has the function of PIP / PBP what makes it possible to divide the screen in two different displays. Thus, you can connect two computers to the monitor, each with different tasks.
It is also possible for both the DP1.2 and to use the HDMI port. As you work links to the PC via DP1.2 and justice can watch a movie in full HD on the Blu-ray player.
Or hangs a game console and can during the calculation on the computer to kill some time. This is going well and without any problems, even under 60Hz, since HDMI is limited only at UHD resolution to 30Hz.
- This picture-in-picture function, you can also define freely, in other words, you can adjust the size of the second image, and the position of the image. However, this is subject to this limitation, that is, you can only use predefined areas.
- The response time of 1ms is very fast and can be adjusted in addition in 3 stages to compensate for any streaking.
- This monitor also has an upscaling. Thus, it is at all no problem to connect the signal sources that do not support UHD. Bluray players, game consoles ect. be clean represented in up to 60Hz.
- Another positive aspect is the joystick-function control of the HUD. This is some getting used to at first, but learned quickly and much faster and easier to use than the 4-5 barely visible Blanked other monitors, where you always have to look to get the correct key.
There is only one and that goes easy on the hand. Did you get used only once to the motion sequence, so it is more comfortable to browse through the menu.
- In addition, the monitor has a time circuit which disconnects it after a certain time. Anyone who thinks that the monitor has a fault, because he shuts down suddenly, to go into the HUD and simply turn this feature off.
- The piano finish as a monitor edge is very well regarded. Also, do not bother.
Neutral:
-There Is no USB hub and no card reader on the monitor. But what is certainly to get over and actually I have never used the USB to my previous monitor. The PC next to me has enough USB ports and that's enough actually.
-The Power supply is maintained externally, but also not disturbing because it can not be seen under the table.
Negatives:
- To be regarded as negative, and which then includes a star deduction is the lack of ergonomics of this monitor. It is neither in the height adjustable, pivoting or even tilted. From Pivot we need not even talk. Even the pedestal is not very stable. Do not bother me though because my table is clear. But with loose desks, it can lead to a disturbing swinging.
Since I can not understand why they have not built this feature Samsung. The 50 euros extra would certainly have made the monitor is not much more expensive, but much easier to use.
- Also, there are no 100x100 VESA holes on the back of the monitor. 28 inches are ultimately not just small, they can already be used as a wall monitor. That would at least compensate for the lack of ergonomics, if you could buy a correspondingly adjustable wall mount to flat.
Samsung, here you really have nothing thought!
Conclusion:
What you get for your money now?
The monitor is, except for the missing ergonomics absolutely top well suited for players and home use works.
The TN panel is perfectly adequate and the angle of view, it is equally.
The many options can be a little forgotten the lack of IPS / PLS panel. While it would be the crowning achievement, but certainly not to have in this price range.
Here now a few tips for the correct setting.
The brightness should be well above 80-85%. Also, the contrast should reach 70-80%.
The focus must be placed on 60-70%, as this can lead to blurring between black text on light background otherwise.
Then you should adjust the gamma value of the monitor via a software "QuickGamma" (freeware) to 2.2, which represents the optimum.
Only then the image is right to look good and colorful.
Anyone who wants can still fine-tune the color saturation around.
There are also restrictions on the operating system. Win7 is not optimally designed for example to 4K. One must therefore increase the font size, otherwise you get problems with reading because everything looks so small.
This of course is not a disadvantage of the monitor, but rather a side note to anyone who uses the Win7.
I use it and it does not bother me.
In addition, all previously mentioned negative points have not been submitted by other Rezendenten. The monitor works perfectly. He finds the signal sources without complaining and has no problems with its two internal displays. Everything is displayed as it should be. Is operated, the monitor on a Powercolor R9 290 AMD.
Pixel fault I could also not mattering. Have used a test program, which controls the colors individually ect.
Also no disturbing noises are to make and that's where my PC runs on water cooling and is very quiet.
A huge disadvantage, however, there yet.
The graphics card is too weak! Now it is again upgrade, as was in the good old days when full HD coming ^^
Also, one inevitably comes with 4K to the realization that "anti-aliasing" is no longer necessary. The famous staircase formation, at low resolution is as good as no longer recognizable at UHD.
I own about 110% vision at close range, but can not find steps in the graph.
This creates an effect that one is in tune extremely positive. Antialiasing is a filter, which will blur the starting material. You can use this filter effectively a higher resolution simulated by oversubscribed step formation.
This naturally changed the actually original image. It becomes blurred and hazy.
Now it is so that we already have a higher native resolution and therefore must soften anything.
The result is crisp sharp contours without corruption! Toll !!!
I can say again it only. 4K UHD or the future.
Now just need to finally the connections appear, which are important for 4K. And the IPS technology to slip in affordable regions and you're supplied with 4K monitor for a very long time. More you really need no more then ...
