{"video_id":"0cbisTopFnY","title":"This $4,000 Monitor is THICC - ASUS PA32UCX","channel":"ShortCircuit","show":"ShortCircuit","published_at":"2020-05-05T14:58:16Z","duration_s":451,"segments":[{"start_s":0.439,"end_s":7.89,"text":"what's up baby in fact with another kick-ass monitor this monitor super cool","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.4,"end_s":12.15,"text":"has at least three weird things about it that I haven't really seen too much","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.94,"end_s":15.57,"text":"before number one it's a mini LED","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.15,"end_s":18.39,"text":"monitor super fancy number two it has a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.57,"end_s":22.439,"text":"brightness of 1200 nits that's really bright and number three this is one of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.49,"end_s":27.75,"text":"the first monitors from be first monitor to support Dolby vision HDR which 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monitors from be first monitor to support Dolby vision HDR which is cooler than HDR 10 that you might be used to this is the kind of thing you get when you get it like a workstation monitor that you would use for color critical work so it just tells you how close to perfect all the different colors are so it can be a very color accurate monitor yes this is the base what is this oh this is a shroud this is a monitor hood it's gonna unfold and go on the sides of the monitor so there's less glare and reflection just helps you to see the picture more easily ASUS VIP membership warranties thing I'm never gonna read that whoa this comes with a display calibration tool I didn't know that that's pretty cool this is a ASUS Pro art.i one display pro from X write a generic cardboard box containing I guess this could be a shroud to cover the i/o on the back a quick start guide and a bunch of cables looks like the base is assembled and there's this cable tie on here which I assume most people aren't gonna get that's just cuz I'm special okay well as long as it still has some stuff to peel I'm happy this has a pretty big wide base on it which is nice or stability this is a nice elegant stand it's got this little curvature to it a little nicer than corporate I call it executive okay and here's the main event I can already tell this thing is so thick it's like I'll tell you why it's because it's HD RAF high dynamic range AF and a free boat it's in there you 2 inches it's pretty big you can see all these little badges here basically showing off how awesome the color accuracy is on this puppy so it's a true 10 bit panel a lot of panels claimed to be 10 bit but with the really are as 8 bit plus FRC which is frame rate control it also says quantum dot technology which means there's a quantum dot film in here and that gives you really awesome colors and lots of them and you need all that color accuracy if you want to have a wide color gamut for awesome HDR let's check out the back I really like that goal that looks sharp plug for your power cord a switch just like you find on the back of a PC power supply a headphone jack 3 HDMI 2.0 B ports not HDMI 2.1 which would be cool but still too futuristic I guess a single DisplayPort port but it's DisplayPort 1.2 instead of 1.4 which is a little disappointing on this monitor but ok we can live with that then there's 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports these type-c ports down here and that's so you can pass through and daisy chain through this thing with Unreal 3 which is pretty cool and then we have three USB type aids over here a regular Cayenne a Kensington lock pretty nice looking buttons the feel isn't great honestly you can tell they're all kind of connected they all move together when I press one up here you can see these other ones move and then you got a joystick which I always like and this is a pretty nice some nice glyphs over here too and of course designed by ASUS in Taiwan obvious Apple rip off a lot of vents here see all this for the airflow because this thing at twelve-hundred nits is gonna have a fat backlight look how thick this thing is this is because it has full array local dimming which means the backlight is behind the screen and blasting light that way the reason it's cool that it's mini LED is that there's lots of different lighting zones with LEDs that aren't mini you might only have up to you know 384 lighting zones on a 16 by 9 monitor was pretty normal for a while there but that means that the lighting zones are all about an inch by inch so when you're moving your mouse around you're gonna see a big kind of halo around the mouse or if text comes up on the screen it'll just have bloomin white glow around it instead of being really sharp but this with over eleven hundred and fifty lighting zones they should be small enough to really mitigate that so we're gonna check that out here that's a pretty smooth adjustment got some have it Oh sick all the way to 90 how about the other way both ways and tilt and swivel wow that is a far swivel holy cow this is sweet and look how low it goes to that is a grade-a monitor stat the things that excite me alright we're here we're at 60 Hertz or a 10-bit color let's check out the menu blue light filter look at the colors in here brightness contrast saturation hue color temp data of 2.2 you want uniformity compensation interesting Bowlby vision is grayed out right now hmm so this is one of the first monitors with Dolby vision which sounds very cool but it's also a red flag because if it's the first that means you're probably an early adopter right well right now there's only two games I'd know about that support Dolby vision that was being Mass Effect Andromeda and battlefield not only that you need more than just the monitor and the game to support it you also need your OS Windows and you need your graphics card it's pretty bright in here so it's kind of hard to evaluate but I can see some halos around my mouse but it's really small it's basically like three millimeters on either side of my curser has a little glow not perfect we have to wait for micro LED or have an OLED monitor for that but not about darkest blacks compared to the brightest brights is quite a range the neon sign look totally lifelike look at the light hitting that balloon that kids firework over there yeah I can still see different clothing in the shadows that's awesome how its kind of blown out on that bird and it's so small it's just on the birds back pretty sweet showing in-game so let's check out some movies that is max volume because there are two three watt speakers man that light is so awesome this movie really has awesome lighting I love how there's just little bits of light just peeking through the shot all those little tiny glints off their armor and helmets where the rest is in shadow and dark it's amazing it's great it's just it's really good there's a lot more to say about this but this is ShortCircuit so if you want to learn a lot more about this watch the LTTE video that's a forthcoming I mean it should be great it's four thousand US dollars this is a piece of equipment for professionals it's not for me to watch the tracking movies in HD are so if you want to see a deep dive hit us up on our other channel thanks for watching ShortCircuit today I hope you liked this video if you did get subscribed pretty up with a thumbs up and also a comment because we'd like to hear from you see you later"}