14 DAY TRIAL // Another week, another monitor. Philips is the one introducing a display this time, and the company chose Mobile High-Definition Link technology as the “special feature” this time.
The new monitor that Philips released is called 284E5QHAD and, as some may be able to guess from the name alone, has a diagonal of 28 inches.
MHL is credited as the only highlight of the product. Philips, apparently, decided not to push too many unusual features into it, although the display still ended up with a pretty hefty price of $400 / €400.
Then again, the viewing angles are pretty good, at 176°/176° horizontally and vertically, despite the fact that IPS technology wasn't used.
Instead, an MVA panel was employed, or multi-domain vertical alignment, which sacrifices brightness and color reproduction in exchange for viewing angles and response time.
Nonetheless, the Philips 284E5QHAD still managed a brightness of 300 cd/m2 and dynamic mega-contrast ratio.
That said, its response time is of 5 ms and the native resolution is of 1920 x 1080 pixels (Full HD), which will look just fine on the 27-inch surface.
As for connectivity, it is fairly broad thanks to the presence of HDMI, DVI and VGA / D-Sub.
Finally, the Philips 284E5QHAD has a fairly thin stand with a round base and narrow pole holding it up.
For those that aren't totally sure what MHL technology is, mobile high-definition link allows you to stream directly from your smartphone to the monitor, over the air.
And we don't mean streaming just video, or playing music through the display's speakers. You can actually stream the whole Android user interface. Like operating your phone from your monitor as it were.
Monitors don't use it very often, but Philips might just not approve of TVs having a near-monopoly on the tech. We'll let consumers decide if MHL is enough of a reason to buy this thing over all other 28-inch displays out there.