your eyes are delicate instruments one wrong move and you could damage them for
life which makes you kind of Wonder Could blasting them with light from our
monitors be hurting them is there a better
solution meet the paperlike
u253 a monitor by Samsung I mean daung
that is 25.3 in curved well kind of runs
at 3K resolution and most importantly
uses e in a panel technology that I have
never before today seen in a desktop
monitor it promises to change the game when it comes to Eye Health could it
make a difference or is dasung healthfully eyeing a way to game you of
your spare change iink is far from new technology but it wasn't until Amazon
introduced the Kindle about a decade and a half ago that it really hit the main
stream which wait that's 15 years how is
it that it took this long for someone to take that technology that people love
for how easy it is on the eyes and try to put it in a monitor maybe because
it's not a very good idea with that said
dung might be on to it even if uh you
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it's absolutely a head turner we had this out when people were doing tours
during LTX and literally everyone's like
wa what's that there are a few reasons why eink has taken so long to come to
the desktop and to understand those reasons we need to understand the
technology e in which is kind of the kleenex of electrophoretic displays
works by suspending charged pigment particles in a capsule that's filled
with viscous fluid these capsules are placed between two layers of transparent
electrodes that can send a charge attracting the particles to either side
of the capsule so if you zoom way in and slow things down a bit you can actually
see the individual capsules floating to the surface you put a bunch of those
capsules in an array and suddenly you have an e in display now you might think
hey this could lead to a few problems I mean if the particles are as big as they
are and they are physically moving through a viscous fluid how do we
refresh the display quickly that's the neat part you don't despite touting
ultra high refresh technology this monitor maxes out at a whopping 15 Hertz
15 times it refreshes every second but
before we get too into the weeds let's take a look at the features on this
thing one of my favorite things about it is watch this as I unplug everything to
show you guys the io it doesn't need power in order to
retain the last image that was on the screen I mean it'll degrade eventually
eventually but ah cool right anyway it's
got a built-in two Port USB hub built-in audio jack it has height adjust pivot
swivel and Power in DisplayPort USBC in
very nice as well as an HDMI port lonus
you missed the grills for the speakers uh it's not that I missed them it's that I just wouldn't want to use them I mean
okay all right the girl really they're
pointing out Sideways from behind the monitor how good could they sound right
I mean they're not going to sound great but they're there it's a nice option
it's true what he says honestly speaking I'm glossing through this as fast as I
can because I desperately want to try this I've had to look at this on his
desk for the last two flipping weeks is that as good as it manages to do
converting to gray scale I'm going to give you a quick little tutorial on how
to use it oh look you're learning thanks these six buttons are
very important they allow you to change
oo not backlight front light exactly
because eink is a reflecting display if you keep pressing that button you'll
find that there's different color front light reading mode yeah P yeah also it's
not really very even you can tell it's very edge lit reminds me of the Game Boy
s when you have it on does the C manually refresh the display yes so if I
could press this 15 times per second no no okay different modes graphic mode
text mode video mode hm why don't we
start with text mode it seems to be a contrast control of some sort exactly I
think the funniest part about this is that you can see that the heads up
display just kind of stays on if you get like a window unless it gets refreshed
exactly wow what a nice I know where could I get one like that LTT Store.com
oh okay I mean this is
um oh that logo is still burned in there
is that what clear does exactly if you've used e-readers before you'll
notice like when you change a page you see the whole screen flash it's refreshing every pixel a couple of times
to totally separate out the e in because when you have all those charged
particles in there if you have a bunch of positive particles and negative
particles they're going to be attracted to each other sometimes so they don't always 100% clean I can see that afraid
to know what it's going to look like if I just Mouse wheel down oh wow you can
see all these post counts in between here yikes wo wo go back go back go back
go back go back go back look at what that I don't understand there's many
things going on on the display that there like worth talking about one I
don't know why this happens but you'll notice that here where we're supposed to have like a gray background yeah it's
doing some dithering because e in you're either black or you're not or you have
to find sub pixels that don't exist on this monitor to make gray you just use
actual pixels meaning that your text is
not necessarily going to be that sharp unless you tweak your contrast and make
sure that there are no Shades of Gray and as you can see there's supposed to
be text up here oh no so you're saying
we found the one scenario where dark mode is not better yeah it's
substantially worse it's way more distracting to have bright ghosting than
it is to have dark ghosting I can tweak the contrast to make that show up it's
still not a great experience terrifying here well let's go to something that's
more of like an article uh as soon as I scroll it just turns into a
mess a readable mess
can I adjust the brightness yeah so if you want to adjust you just hold it you
hold that and you hold the light and then you press plus or minus man the
amount of just faffing about with this thing to get it to look decent and all
your different content I just clear it
you can download software but it doesn't offer a ton of benefits the best one is
that you can make a shortcut to clear the display or you can set it to refresh
every 30 seconds but that's super distracting cuz just randomly the whole
thing you're like it's very jarring we're experiencing some video whether we
intended to or not I mean it's watchable
one thing I want to take a look at is that I think we're currently in one of
the fastest modes I think it boots up at the highest refresh rate no I put it in
text mode no that's not that doesn't Define your refresh rate oh the
different modes defines like how it handles contrast okay how do I change
the other modes M and plus switches you
from the five modes you got fast you got fast Plus
you got fast plus plus you got fast plus
plus plus okay how many pluses are there there's four pluses now this is the
fastest refresh rate why would I ever turn it off of the fastest refresh rate
well you were complaining about the ghosting right oh I see it's terrible
it's a different kind of awful they're both awful yeah this is far more smear
yeah and the contrast is lower and I don't mean contrast in terms of how the
processor in the monitor is taking the input and assigning it to black or white
or gray I mean the actual level of black
and the level of white are closer to each other the contrast ratio and you
can really see it when you look really close on sort of dark colors you can see
it's just like not filled in yeah right that's cuz the in doesn't make it to the
surface in time for your refresh and it's much darker even if the ghosting is
absolutely still present I wasn't sure how fast fast was but I think I could
literally count it and I think it's four frames per
second time to view video I guess
everything's kind of nightmarish I think you're right I think it's about four frames per second I'm trying to move the
mouse around it's very challenging to be clear we didn't bring this in to hate on
it I was actually very excited to see this technology in a monitor and I think
for a certain user even this first
generation implementation and you know who you are you're probably
going yes this video did not kill the
Radio Star though this will like Etch A Sketch away I'm sure captions are going
to be a problem PlayStation logo any
text is really distracting but oh man
look at the smears from the headset just following it around we could mess with
the contrast a little bit maybe that'll give oh my God yeah that did not improve
anything Adam you actually you managed to make it worse substantially worse
good job okay yeah yeah right there
right there that's the spot you can save a single preset to this monitor so that
it will always boot into that one uhuh I don't know how to change it to that
preset once it's already on but it will boot to it which I mean it makes sense
if you go like I'm using this to type my scripts I need what's the best way to
make word look good yeah I would never have this as my primary monitor but as a
secondary display you really can't have this as a primary monitor because of
just how grayscale works when you have two colors that are different but have
the same brightness they look identical
you'd never know what's a clickable link versus what's just text on a page
exactly it can be really frustrating I was worried about this before and I was
right the longer you actually just let it run without doing a refresh the more
washed out it ends up looking you can see it's gotten pretty hard to look at
now I mean I do have to say the viewing angles on it are great oh man I can't
even tell that this web browser isn't open anymore that's rough they also say
that the best way to use this is by setting your desktop wallpaper to be Pure White so that you don't have that
kind of ghosting look at that gradient let's stop showing what it's not good at
for a bit though yeah how about just for word processing I'm going to put it in
text mode maybe tweak the contrast a little bit oh I'm going to slow down the
speed a bit too you definitely need to be a confident typist if you really want
to take advantage of the slower ones also the text doesn't look that good on
text mode and find it very frustrating yeah I mean this is supposedly 3200 by
1800 resol that does not look like a
3200 by 1800 display I think the issue is that text smoothing is done on a sub
pixel level which this doesn't have so it's just getting these really weird
signals of brightness and trying to like interpret them so it makes things really
grainy whereas when you have something like on your Kindle where it's a
dedicated OS it knows it's one to one no
sub pixels things just look smoother an obvious solution would be to adjust
clear type just turn it off that's going to work in the programs that use Clear
type this is the Kindle scribe man look how much better that gray scale looks I
can erase this and it refreshed it it
refreshes like part of it if that's all it needs and then if it needs more it's
like no no I need more I'll do the whole thing why doesn't this do that it's
receiving the video signal because dasung probably doesn't have the same
R&D budget as Amazon you know what for
just typing though it's really easy on the eyes of
like it really is though I would never want to use even the front light I would
just want to have a comfortable amount of ambient light in my room and just uhh
oh we haven't even played video games on it I can't even uh see dark steeve
adjust your contrast can it run crisis yeah for mode I'm kind of feeling video
mode DD overlays just chill I'll be I'll be your clear guy you just you just yell
clear whenever you want it and I'll press the button okay this is a good
solution clear oh look at that clean uh
clear clean clear wait can't we skip this intro
probably not it's 2006 now it seems like it's a good time to talk about the
letter that daong includes with the monitor oo a letter yeah we know that
eing products have distinct disadvantages but they also have
advantages and as long as you understand the shortcomings those can be worthwhile
depending on your use case which honestly I think I agree with that makes
me very excited about what they have coming in the future they're going to
release a color e Inc version of this monitor so we could be looking at a
product from them again very very soon one that I am way more exciteder about
yeah having the color will solve so many contrast issues make things a lot easier
to see has the potential to make a huge difference uh it's nighttime in this
part of the game isn't it speaking of the positives that they
bring up on their website I want to contest some of their claims as they're
a bit spous they claim things like it's good for people with myopia which is
nearsightedness there is no benefit to using an e Inc monitor if you're
nearsighted they also claim that it's good for digital I Trin but there's no
conclusive evidence that eink will help the issue of digital eye strain comes
from not refocusing your eyes and staring at the same thing for a long
long time eink doesn't change that it's still a monitor it's still not very far
away your eyes are still going to get strained but a big part of the strain is
a the lack of focusing and B that people forget to Blink as much and then your
eyes aren't lubricated and they dry out if you do have digital eye strain you
should try and follow the 20202 rule which is every 20 minutes take 20
seconds to look at something that's 20 ft away that way you let your eyes
refocus you work out some of the extra muscles for focusing your eyes it'll
help a lot how about you work out the muscle for clearing the display so I can see what the heck I'm doing here I don't
think it helped no it really didn't the only thing complicating this matter is
the cost it's uh $2,000 seems like a
value to me right there okay this is the
only setting that works at all what mode are you in I'm in game mode fast plus
plus plus plus is that four pluses four pluses of fast
clear um I think I got him wow keeper
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