Philips Evnia 49″ 5120×1440 240Hz QD-OLED HDR Ultrawide Gaming Monitor Review
Peter Donnell / 1 year ago
OSD
The Evnia series seem to all use the same OSD, as we saw this one on the previous model. Of course, that’s not a bad thing, as it’s packed with features! It uses an analogue stick on the back of the monitor, so it’s easy to navigate, and as you can see, all the obvious features are presented right on the first page.
There are various gaming features, such as Adaptive Sync, Crosshairs, DarkBoost, crosshairs, and more, again, all easy enough to set up should you need them.
The Ambiglow is also hardware controlled by the monitor and can be set to a fixed colour, rainbow, or to match what is currently on screen.
The monitor has 4 x 7.5W speakers built-in which are shockingly loud, but you can customise their audio EQ mode or set a custom EQ to suit your taste. They’re actually very usable too, with more bass than most monitors likely due to the overall depth of the housing. There’s a built-in KVM switch too, making it easy to manage multiple systems, especially handy if you’re running two systems on the display in side-by-side mode.
Finally, with this being OLED, it comes with a suite of OLED technologies and protections too, such as pixel orbiting, screen savers, auto-dimming, and more. There are also HDR profiles, with a peak brightness mode for brightness junkies but the locked HDR True Black caps it at 400 nits for the best black levels, and that’s the one I suggest you go for.
