The Westinghouse 32-Inch Ultra HD Home/Office Monitor, which we’ll call “Westinghouse Ultra HD” from now on, has a large screen with UHD resolution (3,840 by 2,160 pixels, also called “4K”) and costs about the same as other large screens. Even though it has few ergonomic features, some color issues, and a hard-to-understand onscreen display (OSD), it works well in Standard mode and is a cheaper alternative to UHD monitors with more features and higher prices. It’s a good buy if all you want is the highest raw resolution at this screen size without any extras.
The Westinghouse Ultra HD is 28.3 inches wide, 20.62 inches tall, and 9.7 inches deep. It weighs 13.2 pounds. The screen has a native resolution of 3,840 by 2,160 pixels and is 32 inches tall and wide. It has a matte black case with a half-inch bezel at the bottom and bezels that are almost invisible at the top and on the sides. This makes it a good choice for a multi-monitor setup.
[content-egg-block template=offers_logo hide=price]Specifications
- Screen Size: 32 Inches
- Resolution: 3840 x 2160 4K
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Panel Technology: Vertical Alignment (VA)
- Refresh Rate: 60Hz
- Response Time: 8 ms
- Contrast Ratio: 2500:1
- Brightness: 220 cd/m²
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In the back, the cabinet is attached to a shaft that ends in a tripod-like base. The base has a “heel” in the back and two arms that reach out to the sides in a V shape. The cabinet can tilt forward or backward, but the monitor can’t be moved in height, swiveled, or turned.
The choice of ports is good. You get two HDMI cable ports, one DisplayPort port, one USB port that goes upstream and two USB ports that go downstream, as well as an audio-out jack. (There are no speakers built in to the Westinghouse Ultra HD.) I would have liked to see a USB Type-C port, which can charge a laptop while transferring data or video using the DisplayPort over USB protocol. No luck like that here.
The physical controls for the monitor are five small buttons that are lined up vertically on the back of the cabinet, near the right side of the monitor. The bottom button turns the OSD on and off, and the top button opens the main menu. The two buttons below it let you move forward or backward in the menu, and the next button down lets you choose a setting.
Brightness, Contrast, DCR (dynamic contrast ratio), Mode (you can choose Standard, Movie FPS, RTS, or EyeSaver), Color Temperature, Aspect Ratio, Input (you can switch between HDMI and DisplayPort), Adjust (for color, gamma, and white balance), and Other are the first-level menu items (language, factory reset).