Looking for 5K or more pixels - I'm looking to replace my 40" 4K monitor, but struggle to find something perfect

[ActualViking]

My trusted Philips BDM4065 has started showing signs of its age. Its no less than 11½ years old as I bought back when 4K monitors was a very new thing, still doing mostly good except it has developed a few brighter areas where the backlight slips through a little. So it is not great for photo work and I wonder if it will just die someday soon.

The trouble I struggle to find a replacement that is on the same time a real upgrade, as I think I can't be the only one maybe we can help each other finding a good choice. I am considering the Dell Alienware AW3926QW, but I would have liked it to be slightly bigger and flat.

Here is what I don't care for.
- Any random 40-43" 4K 3840x2160VA unit that is essentially what I have. Meaning current DP, HDMI and USB3 will of course be nice, not much of an upgrade.
- Anything much smaller than 40"
- Anything bigger than 40-43" must have more than 3840x2160

Must haves is:
- 2160 pixels or more vertically
- 3840 pixels or more
- 2xDP inputs
- 1xHDMI input
- 60 Hz (anything has this)

Ideally I'd like:
- 5K, 6K or more pixels
- OLED with years warranty covering burn it
- Sub-pixles to be arranged RGB vertically arranged
- If the format is 16:10 or more, then the dream is a shape changing one
- Glossy or great ani-reflection that doesn't hamper the image clarity
- 2xDP, 2XHDMI, USB3
- Lots of Hz

I'm unsure about curved screens, maybe with something like a 49". With a 40" it seems more like unneeded or maybe even a hindrance. I worry about reflections as well as having to sit at an exact spot all the time.

 

[ActualViking]

A update, maybe my experience will be useful if someone reads this. My Philips died on August 11, as in the backlight stopped working for more than ½ a second after powering on. This made my quest much more urgent, as in I had to make a choice and go with was available. I went with a:

Samsung Viewfinity S8 40" (https://www.samsung.com/us/monitors...k-high-resolution-monitor-sku-ls40h850tanxza/)
5K: 5120x2160
VA, not OLED
1 DP and not 2, but there is a USB 3 which makes up for it
1 HDMI and not 2, not ideal but manageable
144 Hz, AMD FreeSync
1000R curve

The thing has build in KVM functionality, which when I get my self a longer USB cable to hook it up with my game rig should be neat - it is in the mail. Currently I only use the USB part of the monitor with the company laptop, so no KVM.
A bonus is also the USB3<->laptop think, it is something the screens at work does and using the one cable for power, LAN, video, audio and USB is really nice.
The curve thing is weird. No question that having the left and right edges closer is nice when looking at those part of the screen, however when you notice the curve while looking at something squared it is strange. I'm not doing graphics work, so I think the pros beats the cons. Time will tell.
21:9, so far I have not done much gaming - it seems to me that some games will be great immersion wise, while with other games it is more about what goes on in the center only. For watching video it depends, mostly things are of course in 16:9 so the extra pixels are just black and a bit annoying (they are not OLED black).
144 Hz, so not the response rate found with gaming monitors. Only the 144 Hz is fine since driving 5K pixels with hundreds of frames per second is tough.

The bad
This may just be about me finding the right configuration, but there is also a couple of things that are not great.
When going from using the laptop to the PC and wise versa, as in using one and shutting it off while booting up the other then sometimes the monitor doesn't switch source and instead reports "no signal" and powers off. The fix is then to turn on the monitor by a hard button and switch input.
Brightness level changes with the image on screen. Like when typing this where the background is mostly white the screen is bright, but if I then go to a image that is mostly darker the monitor turns down the brightness! What happens is not massive, but clearly visible once you've noticed as the fade takes like a ½-½ second.

Summary
I can see that some interesting OLED's are just about available and had my Philips not died, then I'd be waiting for those before making a choice. Thankfully I am still sort of able to do that, in that the S8 is provided by my employee ie. it is free for me and therefore lets me save my € till the perfect monitor comes around (and the S8 has lifted the bar, as for me 5K is superior to 4K in almost every way).