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right now you're watching the very first Linus tech tips video in high dynamic

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range or HDR or if that is you're

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watching it in HDR if you're on an hdr10 compatible display and video platform

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one reason it took us so long to do this was that we didn't have the budget for

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an appropriate HDR mastering monitor that is until now

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introducing the product that we are both reviewing today and creating today's

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video on the ASUS pa-32 pa-32ucx

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it's a 32-inch 4k mini led monitor with

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over a thousand full array local dimming zones and support for HDR 10 hlg and

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dolby vision all at a whopping 1

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200 nits of brightness but at a definitely too expensive for

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normal people yet somehow still cheaper than the apple pro display xdr price

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of 4500 who exactly is this monitor for

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the answer is fascinating

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almost as fascinating as today's sponsor the rs15g features Intel's 10th gen

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features check it out today at the link in the video description

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here's something fun let's start with who should not get this monitor if

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you're a professional doing color critical work but you're not doing HDR

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video or if you're like a tech trend setter showing off for your friends

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then there's no reason to buy it save your money graphic artists buy a tv

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influencer gamers on the other end of the spectrum if you're mastering a 200

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million dollar hollywood feature film in HDR well it's probably not wise to bet

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the farm on a consumer display you're better off with a sony bvmx 300

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mastering monitor or one of the newfangled ones with dual layer lcds

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this is for the in-betweeners independent filmmakers vfx artists or

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even colorists or quality control personnel at large youtube channels

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which okay don't get any ideas another potential customer is game developers

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who want to see how their work renders in multiple HDR standards on a display

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that can actually fit on their desk now many tvs would fulfill this function but

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think about it a studio can't exactly put a 55-inch tv in everyone's cubicle

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though that may actually change with lg's new 48-inch cx OLED which is on its

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way right now subscribe for that review because i'm really excited about it for

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now let's see what the pa32ucx can do

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out of the box with no additional calibration our set performed well

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there's just no other way to put it phenomenally i mean we're already used

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to seeing 95 plus percent coverage of the dci p3 color gamut on OLED and other

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displays that have quantum dot films but check out this coverage of bt 2020

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that is huge in terms of accuracy ours did

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oversaturate blue and under-saturated red a little bit but it still managed to

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keep the delta e average under two so we're talking about deviations that

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would be imperceptible to the human eye and if you want to go to the next level

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you can immediately calibrate it yourself which will be especially easy

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given that the north american models are going to have an x-ray i1 display pro

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calibration device right in the box that's a pretty good value considering

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that they're 285 dollars on xrite's store even if you don't calibrate it

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right away you're going to need to do it at some point though you might not know

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but monitors don't stay tuned forever and you should be recalibrating the

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modes that are important to your workflow at least every couple of months

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one thing that's cool about this monitor is that calibration profiles can be

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saved on the scaler's integrated circuit rather than on the pc so you don't have

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to fiddle around with any settings if you move this puppy in between devices

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not that you would want to the pa-32ucx

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is straight chunk at nearly 15 kilograms

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including the stand which by the way i've got to say i'm a real fan of it's

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not sold separately and has a wide stable base 28 degrees of tilt 120

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degrees of swivel 13 centimeters of height adjust and full 90 degree pivot

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both ways the reason this thing is so big and so

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heavy is because of the backlight technology the pa 32ucx has full array

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local dimming which means that the lights are right behind the panel as

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opposed to at the edges and it uses mini

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leds which at 200 microns wide are about

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a fifth the size of traditional leds so this army of around 720

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000 little lights is then divided up into

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1152 dimming zones meaning that in theory this display should be able to

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illuminate objects as small as five millimeters wide while leaving the rest

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of the screen inky black with no halo effect now in practice the blooming is a

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little bit bigger than that but it's still very good and this is really fun i

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don't know if you've ever noticed this before but you'll even still get blooming on an OLED display where each

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individual pixel is an independent light source turns out that's because of

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something called veiling glare which can actually occur in your eye so to some

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extent halos are inevitable kind of like callouts to lttstore.com

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speaking of leds the brightness of this monitor is something to behold it holds

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vasa's display HDR 1000 certification

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which means that it's got to be able to hold a thousand nits across 10 of the

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screen or a full screen flash

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but it actually takes it to another level not only does it do a thousand it

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does 1200 nits and it can sustain that brightness across the entire screen for

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long periods not just flashes now that

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will cause the display to heat up to the point where its cooling fans kick in but

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the good news is that in our testing the monitor stayed pretty quiet even after

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20 minutes of blasting pure white so the

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thing is even though many movies are mastered using 4 000 nit displays

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there's only about 20 of those in existence so more and more features are

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being mastered at a thousand nits which means that the pa-32ucx can handle that

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nicely plus a little bit of headroom on the flip side for content consumption

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ASUS has given us three options for how to interpret HDR signals that contain

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values beyond 1200 nits you can either hit the ceiling and

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display everything at 1200 nits you can roll the top end off so that at least

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you get some gradation at the highest brightness levels or you can normalize

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the whole curve so if you own this monitor and you're wondering what in the

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heck these options mean you're welcome one other feature that's

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clutch when you need it is HDR preview mode now ASUS advertises this as a

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function that triggers all content to be HDR simulated which sounds like a weirdo

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sdr to HDR conversion that nobody should actually use but it turns out it's for

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situations where your source is HDR but

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the metadata isn't sending because like let's say your sdi to HDMI converter

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isn't passing it through or something so this mode lets you manually configure

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the monitor to have the same settings as the source and force it to display HDR

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without a handshake pretty cool now to acknowledge the elephant in the room

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apple's pro display xdr has some clear advantages it's higher resolution it

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boasts a higher peak brightness its software control through macOS is way

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more convenient than mashing buttons on your display and despite having half the

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number of dimming zones we actually observed similar levels of bloom looking

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at our units side by side but the thing is

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the decision between them is kind of made for you because once you plug the

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pro display xdr into a pc most of its benefits evaporate plus it's anywhere

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between 500 to 2500 more depending on

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the glass option you choose and whether or not you want to stand the good news

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is that even if it's not quite at the level of the pro display xdr it's close

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enough that pc shops who don't want to switch their whole ecosystem over to

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apple and final cut have a legitimate choice

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which still doesn't mean that i'm buying

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one for you today's video is brought to you by

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check them out at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys

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if you want the full scoop on the other pro display the pro display xdr go check

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out our complete review of that it really is a fine piece of machinery as well