{"video_id":"6TOEWPDrnwQ","title":"The Pro Display XDR… for PC - (ASUS PA32UCX)","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2021-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":547,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":7.919,"text":"right now you're watching the very first Linus tech tips video in high dynamic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.88,"end_s":10.32,"text":"range or HDR or if that is you're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":7.919,"end_s":15.12,"text":"watching it in HDR if you're on an hdr10 compatible display and video platform","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.559,"end_s":19.84,"text":"one reason it took us so long to do this was that we didn't have the budget for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":16.88,"end_s":24.16,"text":"an appropriate HDR mastering monitor that is until now","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.08,"end_s":30.64,"text":"introducing the product that we are both reviewing today and creating 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that it really is a fine piece of machinery as well","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"right now you're watching the very first Linus tech tips video in high dynamic range or HDR or if that is you're watching it in HDR if you're on an hdr10 compatible display and video platform one reason it took us so long to do this was that we didn't have the budget for an appropriate HDR mastering monitor that is until now introducing the product that we are both reviewing today and creating today's video on the ASUS pa-32 pa-32ucx it's a 32-inch 4k mini led monitor with over a thousand full array local dimming zones and support for HDR 10 hlg and dolby vision all at a whopping 1 200 nits of brightness but at a definitely too expensive for normal people yet somehow still cheaper than the apple pro display xdr price of 4500 who exactly is this monitor for the answer is fascinating almost as fascinating as today's sponsor the rs15g features Intel's 10th gen processors and is a pro gaming notebook with strong performance battery life and features check it out today at the link in the video description here's something fun let's start with who should not get this monitor if you're a professional doing color critical work but you're not doing HDR video or if you're like a tech trend setter showing off for your friends then there's no reason to buy it save your money graphic artists buy a tv influencer gamers on the other end of the spectrum if you're mastering a 200 million dollar hollywood feature film in HDR well it's probably not wise to bet the farm on a consumer display you're better off with a sony bvmx 300 mastering monitor or one of the newfangled ones with dual layer lcds this is for the in-betweeners independent filmmakers vfx artists or even colorists or quality control personnel at large youtube channels which okay don't get any ideas another potential customer is game developers who want to see how their work renders in multiple HDR standards on a display that can actually fit on their desk now many tvs would fulfill this function but think about it a studio can't exactly put a 55-inch tv in everyone's cubicle though that may actually change with lg's new 48-inch cx OLED which is on its way right now subscribe for that review because i'm really excited about it for now let's see what the pa32ucx can do out of the box with no additional calibration our set performed well there's just no other way to put it phenomenally i mean we're already used to seeing 95 plus percent coverage of the dci p3 color gamut on OLED and other displays that have quantum dot films but check out this coverage of bt 2020 that is huge in terms of accuracy ours did oversaturate blue and under-saturated red a little bit but it still managed to keep the delta e average under two so we're talking about deviations that would be imperceptible to the human eye and if you want to go to the next level you can immediately calibrate it yourself which will be especially easy given that the north american models are going to have an x-ray i1 display pro calibration device right in the box that's a pretty good value considering that they're 285 dollars on xrite's store even if you don't calibrate it right away you're going to need to do it at some point though you might not know but monitors don't stay tuned forever and you should be recalibrating the modes that are important to your workflow at least every couple of months one thing that's cool about this monitor is that calibration profiles can be saved on the scaler's integrated circuit rather than on the pc so you don't have to fiddle around with any settings if you move this puppy in between devices not that you would want to the pa-32ucx is straight chunk at nearly 15 kilograms including the stand which by the way i've got to say i'm a real fan of it's not sold separately and has a wide stable base 28 degrees of tilt 120 degrees of swivel 13 centimeters of height adjust and full 90 degree pivot both ways the reason this thing is so big and so heavy is because of the backlight technology the pa 32ucx has full array local dimming which means that the lights are right behind the panel as opposed to at the edges and it uses mini leds which at 200 microns wide are about a fifth the size of traditional leds so this army of around 720 000 little lights is then divided up into 1152 dimming zones meaning that in theory this display should be able to illuminate objects as small as five millimeters wide while leaving the rest of the screen inky black with no halo effect now in practice the blooming is a little bit bigger than that but it's still very good and this is really fun i don't know if you've ever noticed this before but you'll even still get blooming on an OLED display where each individual pixel is an independent light source turns out that's because of something called veiling glare which can actually occur in your eye so to some extent halos are inevitable kind of like callouts to lttstore.com speaking of leds the brightness of this monitor is something to behold it holds vasa's display HDR 1000 certification which means that it's got to be able to hold a thousand nits across 10 of the screen or a full screen flash but it actually takes it to another level not only does it do a thousand it does 1200 nits and it can sustain that brightness across the entire screen for long periods not just flashes now that will cause the display to heat up to the point where its cooling fans kick in but the good news is that in our testing the monitor stayed pretty quiet even after 20 minutes of blasting pure white so the thing is even though many movies are mastered using 4 000 nit displays there's only about 20 of those in existence so more and more features are being mastered at a thousand nits which means that the pa-32ucx can handle that nicely plus a little bit of headroom on the flip side for content consumption ASUS has given us three options for how to interpret HDR signals that contain values beyond 1200 nits you can either hit the ceiling and display everything at 1200 nits you can roll the top end off so that at least you get some gradation at the highest brightness levels or you can normalize the whole curve so if you own this monitor and you're wondering what in the heck these options mean you're welcome one other feature that's clutch when you need it is HDR preview mode now ASUS advertises this as a function that triggers all content to be HDR simulated which sounds like a weirdo sdr to HDR conversion that nobody should actually use but it turns out it's for situations where your source is HDR but the metadata isn't sending because like let's say your sdi to HDMI converter isn't passing it through or something so this mode lets you manually configure the monitor to have the same settings as the source and force it to display HDR without a handshake pretty cool now to acknowledge the elephant in the room apple's pro display xdr has some clear advantages it's higher resolution it boasts a higher peak brightness its software control through macOS is way more convenient than mashing buttons on your display and despite having half the number of dimming zones we actually observed similar levels of bloom looking at our units side by side but the thing is the decision between them is kind of made for you because once you plug the pro display xdr into a pc most of its benefits evaporate plus it's anywhere between 500 to 2500 more depending on the glass option you choose and whether or not you want to stand the good news is that even if it's not quite at the level of the pro display xdr it's close enough that pc shops who don't want to switch their whole ecosystem over to apple and final cut have a legitimate choice which still doesn't mean that i'm buying one for you today's video is brought to you by drop.com and the sennheiser pc37x gaming headset it features angled drivers and an open back design and the drivers actually come from the same family as the hd598 and hd 600 series headphones it offers excellent stereo imaging and locational accuracy and comes with a noise cancelling microphone they've sold over 40 000 of these things and new users who sign up to the website are going to get 20 bucks off their purchase if it's over 50 which these headphones would be so go check them out at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys if you want the full scoop on the other pro display the pro display xdr go check out our complete review of that it really is a fine piece of machinery as well"}