Philips Evnia 7000 Series 34M2C7600MV, 34"

The Philips Evnia 34M2C7600MV offers an immersive 3440 x 1440 (21:9) experience, with a moderate curve adding a bit to the sense of depth. We found this curve entirely natural feeling and easy to adapt to, largely forgetting it’s even there at all after a few days of use. The monitor includes HDMI 2.1 and has a ‘4K’ UHD downsampling setting to appeal to console gaming, though this is only intended to be a secondary use for ultrawide models like this. The setting was also limited to 60Hz, rather than allowing 120Hz which the monitor has the bandwidth to support. The monitor offers good ergonomic freedom and has a refreshingly different design to many others on the market. It felt nice and solid, with metal stand neck and reasonably weighty ‘marble-effect’ base. The OSD was fairly comprehensive with quite a few options to tweak the image – but notably lacking was the ability to adjust colour channels. This sort of restriction is expected with an ‘sRGB’ mode active – and this model did include such a setting, with adjustable brightness (a new addition for this manufacturer) – but this restriction existed even outside of that mode.