piXL 28″ LED 4K Monitor Review – Affordable 4K?




/ 4 years ago

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How Much Does it Cost?

As I said before, it’s available at a lot of smaller electronic stores, both on the high street and online store, eBay, etc. They all list for around £200, give or take a few quid. There’s some on Amazon right now for just £202, which is exceptional value for a 28-inch 4K panel.

Overview

This monitor isn’t perfect, but I think the price reflects that. However, what minor issues it does have were very easily navigated. Firstly, the stand is fine, but I do think it’s a little short and a bit stiff to adjust. However, since it has a VESA mount, I’d just simply use my own stand, or even put it on the wall mount I currently use. £25 on Amazon will get you a height-adjustable one that can be rotated, a worthy upgrade for any monitor.

The colour accuracy is a bit whacky out of the box too, but a simple calibration was all it took to get things looking a heck of a lot better. So basically a few adjustments in the settings and you’re good.

Calibration

I normally use Spyder5Elite to calibrate the monitor professionally for a review. I’ll test at stock settings, calibrate, test again and check the improvement. I didn’t do that today though. This is NOT a professional class monitor, and realistically it’s unlikely to ever have a customer calibrate it in this way. I put the monitor settings to Gamma 1.8, I dropped the brightness a little, put it in Movie Mode, and set the colour temperature to Warm. That’s it. The improvements were significant too, giving us a near perfect tone response, a greatly improved grey ramp, and improved the colour accuracy too. Delta E on the cyan was still a bit high, but to the eye, the monitor looked absolutely fine.

Performance

With a 5ms response time, the monitor is great for gaming. It’s not an eSports monster 144hz panel or anything like that, but that’s fine. I play Elder Scrolls Online, and a few single player adventure games, and the monitor looks great running all of them. I even played some Forza Horizon at 4K60 and everything looked silky smooth, so can’t complain there.

Obviously, the increased resolution is great for productivity too. You can view a few windows side by side and still clearly read smaller details. For writing reviews, I find that really handy.

Should I Buy One?

There’s no shortage of great monitors for around £200. However, getting a 4K panel, four display inputs, good response times and a good size 28-inch panel really limits your options to a handful. The piXL is extremely competitive, and a great way to get into the 4K market at home or at the office.

Update: piXL has seen my review, and will be adjusting the default settings accordingly. So now it’ll have great colours right out of the box, how great is that!

Bang For Buck Award
piXL 28″ LED 4K Monitor

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