HP v28 4k Monitor (3840 x 2160), 28 Inch, AMD Freesync, (2 HDMI, 1 DP) - Black

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So let’s carry on with our HP V28 28 Inch 60Hz 4K Monitor review and explore the product’s pricing. The Color menu offers seven presets. The default is “Photography (P3 D65),and, as the name implies, is meant for use with the DCI-P3 color space. The web and a lot of movies and streaming you’ll be doing is in SDR though, so the U28 also offers an sRGB mode, Design for the web (sRGB D65). The OSD shows values for red, green, blue, white point and gamma for those two presets, as well as for the HD video (BT.709) and Design for print (sRGB D50) presets, but they aren’t adjustable.

The HP U28 4K HDR monitor is a smart buy in that it does what it promises. Its IPS panel is colorful and accurate. Whether looking at SDR content on the web or switching to the P3 color space for creative work or movies, the monitor comes with accurate color presets that make productivity and entertainment enjoyable and true-to-life. And its bright screen makes it a good fit for any room, no matter how sunlit.As you can imagine, pricing is one of the most important factors of any purchasing decision. We can find the perfect product for our needs, that fits the brief in every single way. But if it doesn’t fit our budgets, we simply can’t (or at least shouldn’t) buy it. Next up is material. Read through the product description for HP V28 28 Inch 60Hz 4K Monitor to get an understanding of the materials the product is made from. Some materials will obviously be known for delivering better quality item than others. You might also have decided that you’ll only accept a product made from a particular material.

Just before we get into the detail of analysing the price of this product, we want to briefly highlight the importance of setting yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a suitable product. It’s all too often that we get carried away when shopping and find ourselves buying a fantastic product, but probably actually overdelivers on what we need and therefore costs a lot more than we should have spent. So spend a bit of time looking around at the sort of price you can expect to pay for products in the PC monitors category and use that alongside your own financial situation to set yourself a budget. For web surfing and the like, the U28 chooses accuracy above oversaturation. All of the other monitors here oversaturate sRGB, but the U28’s sRGB mode covers nearly all the space without overdoing it, making it great for color-critical work or play. HDR Performance When it comes to the all important specs the max screen resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels, the refresh rate is 60 Hz, and the response time is 1 ms. and can run at 60 Hz. If the brand you buy is important to you, our best advice is to spend some time writing up your own list of ideal brands. That way when you come to the point where you’re comparing product options you can filter to only show the products from brands in your list. For Samsung Print products, enter the M/C or Model Code found on the product label. - Examples: “SL-M2020W/XAA”Boasting factory color calibration and accuracy worthy of video and photo editing and the like, the U28 just manages to deliver on its color accuracy claims. Its Photography P3 mode crosses the 3dE visibility mark by a hair, but we’ll give it to them. And with a 2.7 dE sRGB color error score, it’s fit for sRGB work as well. The brand of product you buy can vary in importance, from person to person. Some people will of course be much more particular about the brands they will use. Whilst others aren’t interested in the brand and are more interested in the overall quality or price of the product itself. Thankfully HP is a brand that many customers have grown to love over the years and is very popular for items in the PC monitors category.

BE IMMERSED – Escape into the latest action movie or high-octane video game with the HP V28 4K Monitor, built for low pixel latency and snappy response times Include keywords along with product name. Examples: "DeskJet 3630 paper jam", "EliteBook 840 G3 bios update" According to the spec there are no on-screen controls for sound and I suspect there are no speakers. In its default mode Color Mode, the U28 peaked at 461.7 nits brightness. That already exceeds its minimum maximum brightness claim of 400 nits; however, we found an even brighter image in the Standard Color Mode, where we squeezed out an additional 12.7 nits. This is a bright monitor, and on a sunny day with a lot of sun reflecting off snow and through a nearby window, I had no trouble working at just 45% brightness. The next brightest monitor in our comparison group is still behind the HP by 68.7 nits.The HP boasts of the U28 being factor color-calibrated, allowing for hobbyists to enter pro-level territory when editing things like photos and videos. When measuring the P3 and Standard presets against the P3 triangle and sRGB against sRGB, errors were virtually impossible to see. The P3 mode shows a 3dE color error, and 3dE is the visible threshold. Its color chart shows slight oversaturation of red at the 20-80% saturation steps. Blue also has some oversaturation while just missing the outer blue point by a smidge. But these are very small errors that you’re unlikely to see this with the naked eye. This is pro-level accuracy across two different color spaces, showing stellar performance. The Color menu also has presets called Standard, Gaming, Night and HP Enhance+, which you can set to Low, Medium or High. Standard looks very similar to the Photography mode, targeting the P3 color space, as we’ll see in the following tests. HP Enhance+, meanwhile, is supposed to sharpen the display, but I felt it looked artificial and made some text look oddly uneven. There’s also an RGB Gain Adjust section in the Color Menu with sliders (up to 1,023) for red, green and blue. The next step was to try and narrow down our search even more. So we’ve already looked the prices of products in the PC monitors category. Then we’ve also looked at the prices of products from HP. So this step combines the two and looks specifically at the price you’d expect to pay for HP branded products in the PC monitors category.

When it comes to the P3 color space, the U28 covers 79.7% in its designated P3 Color Mode and 79.8% in Standard mode. 80% would be good, so isn’t bad performance. However, it’s disappointing to see the cheaper AOC offer a little more color at 85.5% coverage. LOW BLUE LIGHT – Using Low Blue Light Mode makes colors warmer and whites more natural for increased eye comfort INCREDIBLE RESPONSE TIME – With 1-millisecond response times, motion blur is eliminated in exchange for crisp, fluid gameplay no matter what’s happening on screenHDR performance doesn’t quite match up, however. HDR mode isn’t tweakable, and its colors aren’t saturated enough and it doesn’t offer a noticeable visual upgrade over SDR. Some might even prefer to watch movies with HDR off in favor of more accurate, deep colors.