Non Vesa Monitors Mini Rant!

[buggs]

I am in the market for a new monitor and decided I wanted something that would be future proof so I started looking at 4k monitors. I saw this samsung  4k UHD monitor with  a "premium metallic stand" ( Model Number: U28D590D ). I ordered it from future shop along with a hydraulic monitor arm. when I went to the store I was talking to a employee in customer service and he was saying stuff about the Samsung 31'' 4k widescreen monitor, and he then said " I don't know why this one you bought doesn't include a vesa mount". I imedeately went out to my car with the monitor pulled up the specs on my phone and sure enough he was right " NO VESA! ( I went right back in and returned it).   P.O.S

 

Why the hell in the year 2015 as standardized as Vesa mounts  that  they not on $500 monitors! my current monitor was $150 lg 21.5" and it has a flippin Vesa mount. i understand that it is a very thin monitor, but why the hell would they limit us to the crappy non adjustable " premium metalic stand " this is obsered!

personally I dont think enthusiasts would care if the monitor went from .5" to 1" if it had a vesa mount. 

 

SCREW YOU SAMSUNG

[Hans Christian | Teri]

To be fair it is a budget monitor (while $500 may initially sound like a lot, it definitely isn't for a 4K monitor), in this price range 99% of people are never going to even think of mounting it in another fashion than the included stand. Also you could have just read the damn spec sheet to begin with. Very few "non-professional" monitors have VESA mounts (at least none of Samsungs monitor do AFAIK), hell some "professional" monitors don't even come with that luxury.

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Maybe they were trying to lower costs or something even though it is expensive enough to include it.

I have no idea, there must be a reason.

[buggs]

To be fair it is a budget monitor (while $500 may initially sound like a lot, it definitely isn't for a 4K monitor), in this price range 99% of people are never going to even think of mounting it in another fashion than the included stand. Also you could have just read the damn spec sheet to begin with. Very few "non-professional" monitors have VESA mounts (at least none of Samsungs monitor do AFAIK), hell some "professional" monitors don't even come with that luxury.

Yes i do understand it is cheap for a 4k monitor but why?,  does it really cost that much for the mount? i would argue that 99% wouldnt mount it any other way. all my friends and alot of setups online use monitor arms. Yes you are right I could have red the specs but i assume a $500 monitor would have a pretty basic option right?

 

Maybe they were trying to lower costs or something even though it is expensive enough to include it.

I have no idea, there must be a reason.

I agree it cant be that expensive. my personal thought was the thickness. if you look at the monitor the back pannel where the connectors are doesnt look big enough for the vesa mount. it cant be hard to extend that out a bit, put in the mount, and raise the price a few dollars

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Yes i do understand it is cheap for a 4k monitor but why?,  does it really cost that much for the mount? i would argue that 99% wouldnt mount it any other way. all my friends and alot of setups online use monitor arms. Yes you are right I could have red the specs but i assume a $500 monitor would have a pretty basic option right?

 

I agree it cant be that expensive. my personal thought was the thickness. if you look at the monitor the back pannel where the connectors are doesnt look big enough for the vesa mount. it cant be hard to extend that out a bit, put in the mount, and raise the price a few dollars

 

Funny, I don't know a single one. As for the thickness, I would very much assume that most of their customers would value a thinner, sleeker looking screen over the option to custom mount it which they're never going to use.

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Funny, I don't know a single one. As for the thickness, I would very much assume that most of their customers would value a thinner, sleeker looking screen over the option to custom mount it which they're never going to use.

i have seen them alot. It wouldnt affect thickness if they went with my solution because it is allready that thick but they are extending that portion out a couple of inches possibly

[Vypr]

I have P2715Q 4k monitors, almost the same price as the samsung but w/ IPS (they go on sale often) plus dat sexy VESA mount.               

[arnavvr]

I have a Dell S2440L and it doesn't come with a VESA Mount, but you can just buy a bracket: