Philips 27E1N1300AE 27″ 100Hz Monitor Review
Peter Donnell / 5 months ago
Performance
The display is nice, especially for this price range, and with 250 nits brightness and a half-decent IPS panel, it looks pretty good right out of the box. The contrast looks good, and the colours are bright and vibrant, with maybe a little too much brightness on the blues, but that’s pretty common on monitors of this type.
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Full HD is more than enough for daily work and a bit of light gaming, and readability is good thanks to the 27″ panel giving you plenty of workspace.
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Even side by side, I didn’t need to tinker with the scaling to make things readable, but three windows side by side would be pushing it too far.
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For media consumption, I find 27″ to be a nice sweet spot, the pixel density is decent for Full HD, but for any panel larger than this I’d at least want to move up to a 2560×1440 panel at the very least.
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Colour reproduction looks good, with good white and black levels. The 250-nit brightness is plenty for working during the day, but the monitor can be dimmed right down for evening viewing without straining your eyes.
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Only in the most extreme cases was there any clouding from the backlight, with black borders here and very bright main content, and even then it’s only really noticeable when I use my camera to take a slightly longer exposure.
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In real-world testing, the backlight does a great job and black levels are maintained with good contrast even with brighter content on the screen (see the cat in the middle for example).
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The refresh rate is a welcome boost too, Windows defaults to 60Hz when I set up the display, which handles motion pretty much as you would expect.
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However, this monitor supports 100Hz and as you can see, there’s significantly less overlay of frames in the 100 fps shot vs the two comparisons below it, it’s much smoother!
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I wouldn’t say it’s the most colour-accurate model from Philips, but for a bit of casual photo editing, it’s not so bad, but again, given the price range, this monitor is hardly targeted at professional editors.
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Now, let’s get it on the Spyder Calibration Tool and look at how those colours hold up!
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