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welcome to an unboxing that is actually pretty fascinating for me so this is a

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this is going to be two different unboxings at the same time this is going

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to be the color monkey from xrite and the i1 display Pro from x-rite these are

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both uh display calibration devices

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which have a couple of different well differences so the color monkey for

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example for starters can be used for either displays or for

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projectors and it can be used in a couple of different ways to achieve that

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the whole setup process takes about 5 minutes and it is useful for a number of

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different things so number one is it actually allows you to so it has a

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sensor that you here and I've opened this before I've

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actually used it already so I'm pretty impressed with the results so I decided

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to do a video about it so it's got a color sensor here which you basically

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put up against the the screen and then it takes some readings it changes what's

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on the screen and then it basically adjusts the profile of your of your

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video output in order to make it match as closely as possible to what's real

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now what's cool about this is that you then take it and stick it on your desk

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where it acts as an ambient light sensor and it will continue if it's still

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plugged in by USB to your computer it will continue to adjust your monitor

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settings according to what the ambient light situation is to make sure that

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you're always looking at as accurate an image as possible which is very cool

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like outstanding um so why would you want the most accurate possible color

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well if you're working with anything to do with print then you want to make sure

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that these colors are as calibrated as these colors and they're both as similar

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as possible that's very important um if you're doing anything to do with graphic

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design you want to make sure that whatever you're working on is going to look correct no matter where it's being

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viewed or as close as possible and you want to again be working with as

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accurate as possible colors and no this will not turn your TN panel into you

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know a perfect display for graphic

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design and photo work unfortunately not you will still need a good highquality

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display and there's no getting around that but this will take your nonf

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factory calibrated Monitor and almost no monitors unless they're very high in

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professional ones or something like ASUS's PA series we got one over there

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that we use for our uh monitoring while we're filming right there Pro art um

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those come factory calibrated but most of them do not so here you go you got a

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monitor calibration ambient light measurement as well projector

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calibration by setting it up on a little stand like this there's a there's

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a way to do this you're going to have to trust me on this there you go you can uh

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calibrate your projector that way very cool stuff so before and after automatic

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display control y y y new state-ofthe-art etc etc it's also not

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that expensive I mean it used to be it wasn't that long ago that any kind of

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color calibrator device was going to be running a couple hundred bucks but

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that's not really the case anymore so something like the color monkey is something you could actually buy just

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for home use no big deal now the i1 display Pro the biggest difference that

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we found was oh oh right it can be right so it can be used for FL fluorescent

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back lights LED as well as wide gamma

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LCDs so you don't have to worry about what kind of LCD you have you know is it

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going to work is it not going to work it will work so this guy right here not

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only can It calibrate your display or your projector it can also be used for

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qcing displays so let's say you are a I

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know graphic design studio or something and you're not buying you know $1,500

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each monitors that are come pre-calibrated and are perfect so let's

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say you're like you know a real company that's not running on like a baller

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budget you grab one of these and then the displays that you bring in you can

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use this to QC them you can go okay um I

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hold on just a sec right so you can specify what kind of Deltas you expect

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and you can actually display quality check and trending over time so that's

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really cool because you can get it to pay attention to oh yeah right and you

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can actually Match multiple monitors and work groups as well so this is all neat

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because let's say you have like a lab and you're buying 10 monitors every quarter or whatever else you can use

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this to keep track of are they getting better are they getting worse are they

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all matching so that if someone moves from one workstation to another one

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working on a project day one to day two they don't have to make a bunch of

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adjustments and they won't think that something's wrong so that's the

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difference between the more professional oriented one versus is the color monkey

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so there's also okay what else they got here so you guys can see what they have

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going for them you can actually check out the xray site if you want to get

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more information um trending over time

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trending over time is more of an issue with um ccfl backlit monitors LEDs don't

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really suffer from that nearly as much um as well as projectors that's a big

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deal with projectors and I think that pretty much

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covers it so thank you for checking out this dual unboxing of the i1 display Pro

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