{"id":81193,"date":"2015-09-10T15:30:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=81193"},"modified":"2015-09-10T15:46:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T13:46:37","slug":"turns-out-philips-also-has-a-34-inch-curved-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81193-turns-out-philips-also-has-a-34-inch-curved-monitor","title":{"rendered":"Turns out, Philips also has a 34 inch curved monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MMD, the brand license partner for Philips Monitors in South Africa, has launched\u00a0its first curved display \u2013 with an UltraWide 21:9 format \u2013 in SA.<\/p>\n<p>The curved 34-inch display boasts a resolution of 3,440 x 1,440 pixels, and \u201cenriched sound\u201d through integrated speakers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81203\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BDM3490UC_Philips-monitor-front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81203\" class=\"wp-image-81203\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BDM3490UC_Philips-monitor-front.jpg\" alt=\"BDM3490UC_Philips monitor - front\" width=\"600\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81203\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philips BDM3490UC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81201\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BDM3490UC_Philips-monitor-back.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81201\" class=\"wp-image-81201\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/BDM3490UC_Philips-monitor-back.jpg\" alt=\"BDM3490UC_Philips monitor - back\" width=\"600\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philips BDM3490UC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The display can differentiate between over one billion colours, and provides 99% sRGB colour support.\u00a0It also features various connectivity choices: DisplayPort and HDMI 2.0, MHL technology, and USB 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Pricing and availability information is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And here ASUS had us thinking that their <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80935-worlds-first-and-only-34-inch-curved-display-thanks-asus.html\" target=\"_blank\">ROG Swift PG348Q monitor<\/a> had the only 34\u201d Ultra-Wide, curved display.<\/p>\n<p>To be fair to ASUS, they did have the first, an achievement unto its own. Moreover, each monitors looks to target an entirely different market.<\/p>\n<p>With integrated audio and the sorts of colours producible by the Philips BDM3490UC monitor, courtesy of its QuadHD AHS-IPS panels, it looks to target a more general audience, and their marketing seems to speak to that.<\/p>\n<p>ASUS\u2019 ROG display, on the other hand, as is the case with any piece of ROG tech, is designed almost entirely with the gaming enthusiast in mind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81197\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81197\" class=\"wp-image-81197\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display1.jpg\" alt=\"asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display\" width=\"600\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_81199\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display_21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81199\" class=\"wp-image-81199\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display_21.jpg\" alt=\"asus_rog_swift_curved_ips_display_2\" width=\"600\" height=\"485\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-81199\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You don\u2019t equip a 100HZ IPS monitor with NVIDIA\u2019s G-Sync unless you\u2019re interested in attracting gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Heck, the aesthetics of each monitor alone speaks about their intended use.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Written in collaboration with an article that originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/138002-philips-curved-34-inch-monitor-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Let&#8217;s keep the display talk going<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81005-an-r9-nano-powers-this-nearly-r100-000-10-tflop-pc.html\">An R9 Nano powers this nearly R100, 000, 10 TFlop PC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80935-worlds-first-and-only-34-inch-curved-display-thanks-asus.html\">World\u2019s first and only 34 inch curved display: thanks ASUS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80899-gtx-990m-notebook-gpu-is-as-fast-as-a-desktop-gtx-980.html\">GTX 990M notebook GPU is as fast as a desktop GTX 980<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/80601-amds-radeon-r9-nano-half-the-size-of-the-gtx-980-just-as-fast.html\">AMD\u2019s Radeon R9 Nano: half the size of the GTX 980, just as fast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it&#8217;s equipped for a high quality experience like you can&#8217;t believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":81195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15717,15715,15721,15801,14010,1085,15713,1969,6612,15803],"class_list":["post-81193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-34-inch","tag-15715","tag-asus-rog-swift-pg348q","tag-curved","tag-display","tag-hardware-2","tag-monitor","tag-news-2","tag-philips","tag-quadhd-ahs-ips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}