WEBVTT 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:06.879 high dynamic range or HDR everyone's telling you you need to get it it's an 00:00:04.720 --> 00:00:12.160 amazing thing but what they don't tell you is what kind of hardware do you 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:17.119 actually need to have a good experience so behind me i've got an assortment of 00:00:14.320 --> 00:00:20.800 monitors today everything from ASUS pro art pa32ucx 00:00:19.199 --> 00:00:27.199 this is a 4 000 HDR monitor intended for content 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:29.039 creators all the way down to this 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:36.160 i'm actually really excited about this one this is the new sync x250 fg0 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:39.920 165 used to be something else they got a sticker on there 00:00:37.440 --> 00:00:45.440 HDR so we're going to go all the way from the highest level of vasa 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:49.200 certification display HDR 1000 down to 00:00:45.440 --> 00:00:51.920 display HDR 600 down to 400 and down to 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:56.640 something that says HDR on the box but doesn't feature any certification 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:01.520 whatsoever and see if it really does make a difference 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:08.320 and we're also going to see if i can find a graceful segue to our sponsor 00:01:05.360 --> 00:01:13.040 origin pc get up and running fast with origin pc's new evo 16s ready to ship 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.320 streamer bundle this laptop ships within one to two business days and comes with 00:01:14.479 --> 00:01:21.240 multiple streaming accessories learn more at the link in the video 00:01:18.240 --> 00:01:21.240 description 00:01:28.159 --> 00:01:34.400 i just really have to know what's under this sticker it's got to be 144. my 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:37.600 original intention was to start with the cheapest monitor and then work my way up 00:01:36.400 --> 00:01:42.400 determining if the additional performance was worth the additional 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:47.600 cost but what i realized was that without the context of the god tier 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.280 monitor i would actually have to go back and revisit those cheaper ones because i 00:01:49.759 --> 00:01:54.720 might not have realized while i was looking at them what i was missing out 00:01:53.040 --> 00:01:58.240 on so i'm going to get my desk torn apart here 00:01:56.880 --> 00:02:02.880 and get this thing which i'm actually going to be seeing in person for the first time 00:02:01.360 --> 00:02:08.720 opened up your wall this one's really heavy this is really exciting this is as far 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:12.000 as i'm aware the first monitor with support for 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.959 HDR 10 dolby vision 00:02:13.360 --> 00:02:19.280 hlg and then i think there might even be one 00:02:16.800 --> 00:02:23.520 other HDR standard that it's compliant with and yes it costs four grand but 00:02:21.920 --> 00:02:28.319 there's a lot of tech that goes into making a monitor that delivers a really 00:02:25.440 --> 00:02:31.440 great HDR experience so it features over a thousand 00:02:29.599 --> 00:02:36.720 zones of local dimming it's got a quantum dot layer to enable 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:40.640 its otherwise you know pedestrian ips panel to achieve better contrast and 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:46.160 better color reproduction and of course it is meticulously 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:51.760 calibrated before it leaves the factory hence the 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:53.519 calibration report 00:02:51.760 --> 00:02:56.879 would you look at that the stand doesn't even cost a thousand 00:02:55.920 --> 00:03:02.560 dollars courage holy crap 00:03:00.640 --> 00:03:08.640 the move to OLED cannot happen soon enough for 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:12.159 professional displays i don't remember 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:14.519 the last time i saw a monitor this 00:03:12.159 --> 00:03:19.200 thick that wasn't from like 2002 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:22.400 turning HDR on i'm 00:03:20.720 --> 00:03:25.599 not necessarily convinced that that kicked in 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.200 got it sorted it didn't look good because the room was under bright studio 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:33.760 lighting so i've dimmed the room a little bit now and this is a spectacular 00:03:32.000 --> 00:03:38.959 scene to use as an example of what a good HDR display will do for you we can 00:03:36.239 --> 00:03:44.000 see all the dimly lit details exactly as they would look to our eyes inside the 00:03:41.360 --> 00:03:47.599 weapon shop here but when we switch back to this shot where we can see people 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:51.280 walking around in the bright sunlight the look of our indoor characters 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:54.959 doesn't change while these guys you can actually make them out shockingly well 00:03:53.360 --> 00:03:59.920 on this monitor obviously this isn't a gaming focus 00:03:57.040 --> 00:04:05.120 display but in games that support HDR you can see a very similar difference in 00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:09.599 the environmental lighting where shadows are dark and gloomy but still detailed 00:04:07.760 --> 00:04:14.159 and then bright points like the sun shining through the foliage are kind of 00:04:11.680 --> 00:04:18.959 blinding to your eyes as you're slinking about you know looking for a jaguar to 00:04:16.639 --> 00:04:23.759 fight or whatever the case may be man this is a pretty game in HDR the 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:29.199 headline difference between HDR 1000 and HDR 600 is obviously 00:04:27.280 --> 00:04:34.400 the difference in uh peak brightness it goes from a thousand 00:04:32.080 --> 00:04:40.560 nits down to just 600 nits but one slightly less obvious difference 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:43.759 is that on an HDR 600 monitor 00:04:40.560 --> 00:04:46.440 the manufacturer is only required to hit 00:04:43.759 --> 00:04:54.479 for a sustained period 350 nits compared to 600 in HDR 1000. 00:04:52.080 --> 00:04:58.880 wow that's a heavy monitor digging around in the menus as you can 00:04:56.240 --> 00:05:02.720 see just like our display HDR 1000 model our 600 model also supports local 00:05:01.280 --> 00:05:06.320 dimming when they created the specifications the vase organization 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:11.280 said they didn't think that with modern technology 600 or 1000 levels would be 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:14.560 achievable without local dimming so i guess that uh has stood up pretty well 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:19.280 so far HDR might have turned off when i was 00:05:17.600 --> 00:05:22.000 hey no sweetie 00:05:22.080 --> 00:05:30.240 all right some honest feedback for the plex team you guys got to fix your your 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:33.039 zoom options here you should never have 00:05:30.240 --> 00:05:38.720 black bars on all sides of a video immediately you can tell that the 00:05:35.520 --> 00:05:41.280 darkness inside the weapon shop is not 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:46.960 as dark now to some people's eyes this is probably going to look a lot better 00:05:43.919 --> 00:05:48.880 but the difference between the darkest 00:05:46.960 --> 00:05:54.479 representations of our scene and the brightest ones outside is clearly not as 00:05:52.400 --> 00:05:58.240 wide as for whether i would look at this and go yeah i really need to spend 00:05:56.479 --> 00:06:03.919 hundreds if not thousands of dollars more on a monitor 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:08.479 probably not at this stage in the game interestingly we see the exact same 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:13.520 behavior at least to my eyes gaming in shadow of the tomb raider so once again 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:17.840 the highlights like the sun reflecting off of this branch here are are bright 00:06:16.479 --> 00:06:22.080 enough that it makes sense to me that the detail in 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:27.840 them is kind of clipped but 00:06:23.440 --> 00:06:30.160 all of this darkness here in the foliage 00:06:27.840 --> 00:06:34.160 it looks less like darkness and it looks more like uh 00:06:31.919 --> 00:06:38.319 like a boosted gamma filter over it you know like a black equalizer gaming 00:06:36.400 --> 00:06:44.720 feature or something like that with a 1080p 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:44.720 144 hertz ips panel 00:06:45.759 --> 00:06:51.120 the vg271 pbmi ipx 00:06:49.440 --> 00:06:56.960 great product naming scheme you guys have got over there acer 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:59.440 seems on paper like it ticks a lot of 00:06:56.960 --> 00:07:04.720 the most important boxes and at just over 200 on promo at the time of filming 00:07:02.560 --> 00:07:08.880 this especially when you consider that it includes 00:07:05.840 --> 00:07:11.199 HDR certification it seems like 00:07:08.880 --> 00:07:14.400 basically the way to go of course for it to end up with a recommendation it's 00:07:12.800 --> 00:07:18.560 going to have to live up to what it says on the outside of the box and i 00:07:16.400 --> 00:07:23.120 discovered something fascinating almost right away 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.639 no HDR enable button and if we go into 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:28.960 the monitor settings you can see that it's actually the same 00:07:26.400 --> 00:07:33.680 situation it's grayed out well as it turns out some of these more budget HDR 00:07:31.840 --> 00:07:39.360 displays actually are equipped with displayport 1.2 rather than displayport 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:45.520 1.4 ports that means there's a reason acer included an HDMI 00:07:41.919 --> 00:07:46.800 cable in the box in order to run HDR 00:07:45.520 --> 00:07:52.479 you're gonna have to hook up to your graphics card over HDMI 00:07:49.840 --> 00:07:55.599 it looks awful that's okay because we should be able to enable HDR in the menu 00:07:54.560 --> 00:08:02.160 now there we go the good news is these are HDMI 2.0 ports so we get to take 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:06.479 advantage of that smooth 144hz refresh rate the bad news is popping open the 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:10.400 NVIDIA control panel you can see we can't enable 00:08:07.840 --> 00:08:14.800 g-sync on this freesync display because we're not hooked up via DisplayPort so 00:08:12.720 --> 00:08:19.120 you're going to have to pick one or the other in the scene in the weapon shop 00:08:17.039 --> 00:08:23.440 the shaded areas look quite similar to our display HDR 600 monitor but 00:08:22.080 --> 00:08:27.680 where we really see the difference and this is interesting is actually in those 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:32.399 characters in the background this is where the lack of full array local 00:08:29.520 --> 00:08:36.719 dimming is going to hurt this display so see this instead of 00:08:34.159 --> 00:08:41.120 brightness in the hair and off the you know shoulder armor of these vikings 00:08:38.560 --> 00:08:45.120 walking around back here we just see clipped white 00:08:43.200 --> 00:08:49.440 so you're losing detail in the image there our gaming test shows this really 00:08:47.279 --> 00:08:53.279 well again while the shadows don't really look that different to me than 00:08:50.880 --> 00:08:58.080 the display HDR 600 monitor so they still got kind of that gray haziness 00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:02.240 it's here in the highlights where we run into real problems so instead of seeing 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:06.160 the sun shining through the foliage we've just got a completely clipped zone 00:09:04.640 --> 00:09:10.399 where you can't even see the trunk of a tree here like you're losing a lot 00:09:08.480 --> 00:09:14.640 of the image because it simply can't represent it coming into this brightly 00:09:12.560 --> 00:09:21.279 lit colorful clearing though we see a good example of the game looking better 00:09:17.920 --> 00:09:23.200 in HDR even HDR 400 than it would in 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:27.279 standard dynamic range the problem though is that the whole 00:09:24.640 --> 00:09:32.640 game doesn't look like this on a display that just can't handle HDR well and if 00:09:30.480 --> 00:09:36.480 your low lights are awful then you're not giving your highlights a chance to 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.519 shine through and yes 00:09:37.680 --> 00:09:45.519 that was a completely intentional double entendre can you just die please whoops 00:09:42.800 --> 00:09:51.360 that was a bad shot now for the new sync x250 fg0165 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:56.240 HDR this one is very interesting to me because you 00:09:53.760 --> 00:10:02.720 might think gee Linus you're already only spending 200 on a brand name 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:05.440 monitor to get that one from acer 00:10:02.720 --> 00:10:09.640 how much lower do you really need to go well this puppy was purchased for just 00:10:08.640 --> 00:10:15.760 around 150 bucks it's 50 dollars cheaper 00:10:14.160 --> 00:10:21.440 there's already some compromises compared to the acer unit this stand is 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:22.720 about as wimpy of one as i've seen in 00:10:21.440 --> 00:10:26.320 the last little bit but it is made of metal to its credit 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:31.440 and the power supply rather than being integrated into the monitor is actually 00:10:28.240 --> 00:10:33.760 just a power brick with a super janky 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:38.800 adapter on it two new syncs credit the inclusion of a DisplayPort rather than 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:42.000 an HDMI cable seems to suggest that it's 00:10:38.800 --> 00:10:44.320 got a displayport 1.4 connector but we 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:48.640 will find out very shortly if that's the case 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:50.800 look at that it does there's my 165 00:10:48.640 --> 00:10:56.720 hertz refresh rate hey it's got a joystick type menu oh it's backwards you 00:10:54.000 --> 00:11:00.800 go this way to confirm oh that's curious HDR is clearly enabled but it looks like 00:10:59.200 --> 00:11:04.880 absolute bud yup that's working wow even in this 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:10.720 scene though you can really see that clipping in the 00:11:07.760 --> 00:11:13.680 ferns here this rock the sun coming over here 00:11:11.680 --> 00:11:19.040 oops i didn't actually screw that in i'd say the main issue for me so far though 00:11:15.360 --> 00:11:21.600 is actually the green cast oh wow 00:11:19.040 --> 00:11:25.600 okay i lied the main issue is the dynamic range 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:28.880 compared to our last one you know with display hdr400 certification rather than 00:11:28.079 --> 00:11:34.959 just the ability to accept an HDR signal on 00:11:32.640 --> 00:11:37.600 the like processor level is 00:11:35.920 --> 00:11:41.120 night and day there's almost nothing left of our 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:45.760 background characters here look at this you can barely see his pecs 00:11:43.760 --> 00:11:50.959 okay i've got very low expectations for the rest of this let's move on to gaming 00:11:48.320 --> 00:11:56.240 yep it's even worse the clipping extends all the way down to here we're losing 00:11:53.600 --> 00:12:00.399 detail not just in like a tree trunk like i bet i can lose that whole tree in 00:11:58.560 --> 00:12:06.240 the sun shining behind it that is that is truly remarkable right 00:12:03.920 --> 00:12:10.800 there and our shadows barely even look like shadows it just looks like the 00:12:08.399 --> 00:12:15.440 whole scene is shot in like a like a camera cinematic mode in fact we could 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:20.079 probably use that camera up there to show what ungraded cinematic footage 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:23.440 looks like versus once you've applied a grade to it 00:12:21.440 --> 00:12:27.600 there you go that's definitely worse than just playing the game in sdr on 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:30.240 that subject why don't we just try that look at that 00:12:28.800 --> 00:12:34.320 look at that so much better it's still got a green 00:12:32.160 --> 00:12:38.480 cast to it still not a great display but this is it 00:12:35.680 --> 00:12:43.399 sdr game looks way better so in conclusion then 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:48.639 HDR not a gimmick but if you're looking to 00:12:46.639 --> 00:12:52.160 spend more than a couple hundred dollars you're probably going to have to wait a 00:12:50.079 --> 00:12:56.160 little bit before you can have the HDR experience that everyone is talking 00:12:53.680 --> 00:13:00.480 about and saying is so great with that said if i was looking for an 00:12:58.160 --> 00:13:05.200 entry-level HDR display i would definitely go for one with vasa's 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:10.720 display HDR certification versus one that wasn't able to get it because it 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:13.519 actually encompasses far more than just 00:13:10.720 --> 00:13:16.880 the darkest darks and brightest brights on the display it also specifies that it 00:13:15.360 --> 00:13:20.560 needs to be able to cover a certain color gamut and other important specs 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:24.079 like that so new sync monitor 00:13:22.560 --> 00:13:28.639 maybe not a terrible budget gaming display if you need a 165 hertz 1080p 00:13:26.800 --> 00:13:33.279 display and you're 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