welcome to my unboxing of the Samsung Series 9 970 monitor this thing is
just yeah it's pretty much as as maxed out as it gets when it comes to a
monitor so it uses you know what I'm not going to talk too much about what's on
the inside cuz we're going to open the box and we'll see that at some point so
experience color like never before they've got their natural color expert
as well as L to line switching technology this is a PLS panel I've made
it very clear in the past I am a huge fan of PLS panels which are at this
point exclusive to Samsung they are gorgeous whether it's on the Galaxy Tab
10.1 that in my personal subjective opinion has the best screen out of any
tablet that I've seen to date or or if it's on their other PLS panels which are
they have one available in 24 in and one that's available in a smaller size 1
billion colors okay wqd 260 x 1440 it's
not quite 2560 x600 but I'll let it slide this is an LED backlit monitor on
the back you're going to see some more sort of Glamour Shots of the monitor
itself but since we're going to open it up we don't have to worry too much about that on this side we see the actual
model code which is ls27
b970 dsen which is like I don't know if
uh if I was going to name this monitor I'd just call it like you know the junk
Destroyer or something like that because
just calling it like a series of numbers and letters doesn't do it justice so
we're going to take a quick look at the packaging inside then we're going to open this one up off camera just so that
you guys can uh instead of watching me open packaging for most of the video you
can bask in the glory of this gorgeous monitor I've already seen it outside of
the box so uh we're cheating a little bit here but what are you going to do
here's a dual link DVI cable included HDMI cable although I wouldn't use that
use the dual link DVI cable uh DisplayPort cable that one's okay wow they
included like every cable um USB A to B
as well as HDMI to Mini HDMI wow yeah they really include like everything you
need to hook it up user manual in there a hard foam but I don't expect it being
a problem it weighs what it weighs so unlike computer cases which once you
load them up with Hardware become a bit of a shipping Hazard uh it's not really
a concern yeah this thing is a thing of
beauty so we're going to go ahead and unveil it on camera here absolutely
beautiful although pretty pretty much all of Samsung's n series products are
just marvels of manufacturing at the end of the day I mean we've got one of their
other N9 series monitors over there that we took a look at a while back that's a
3D monitor again just just gorgeous so
this one brings a few new things to the table and I apologize for not having it
hooked up to anything we're going to do a full NCIX Tech tips on this one later
so it uses edgo Edge glass this is an
anti-reflective glass that is on here and that means that
yeah basically there's there's no seam there's no Shadow from the bezel there's
no you know the bezel masking the very the very edge of it or anything like
that it's just one gorgeous piece of glass and then a PLS panel underneath of
it it has a 5 millisecond delay which is actually pretty good for a high color
accuracy panel and it also uses uh did I mention 2560 X 1440 res I think I did
yeah I did okay 178° viewing angle which
is pretty much what I would expect from PLS display as as well as two speakers
so it has 7 watt time 2 speakers I'm not sure where the ah there they are right
there on the bottom 7 Watts time 2 it
also has minimum 90% uniformity that is built into the spec and now let's take a
closer look at the rest of the display so it's very thin we're going to do Ye
Old uh iPhone comparison to check out
the uh the thinness of the display itself so it's about double the
thickness of an iPhone which is just stunning compared
to I have one of Samsung's old highres displays the 305t Plus at home and
compared to uh to that this looks just like space
age but I'm not tempted to upgrade not yet no I am but I'll I'll stick with the
305t for a little while longer uh in terms of the overall build quality it's
just outstanding so back here we find the uh the same kind of brushed looking
plastic back that they have on the Galaxy Tab I a huge fan of this finish I
actually prefer it to brushed aluminum and the reason for that is that it is
way more durable way more scratch resistant it is
also far less likely to get stained and ugly you can clean it a lot more easily
um we've got a height adjust stand so it goes all the way from down there to all
the way up here I'm going to turn around and do it again so slick don't worry too much about that and the stand again is
just a piece of art cuz it's got you know like just like a shiny chromy thing
going on and then like a concentric Circle sort of effect going on on the
top they've really gone all out this is um this is sort of this is sort of an
interesting like artsy type design so the monitor seems to hover if when you
put it down it seems to kind of sit on nothing and that's because uh falling
away from the the top silver piece here sorry guys this is a show sample uh
falling away from the top silver piece here is like a black uh base that
includes a USB hm are those USB 2 yep
two USB 2.0 ports which are f by this uh
this USB uh B connector here display
port DVI and HDMI in are all accepted as
well as power right there there's some ventilation on the bottom for some of
those internal Electronics because there's no small amount of electronic
Wizardry that goes into building such high resolution displays here we can see
the construction again this is all metal
here no plastic up here at the top um other than the backing which once again
I told you guys I prefer that to aluminum looks just gorgeous you can see
the fit and finish of it is just Immaculate let's go to top and it's not
even that heavy like I can I can hold it with one hand fairly easily so it's h
that should tell you guys something about the weight in spite of the glass
panel so that's very very that's most of the weight of the top here you got your
Samsung logo on there I mean that's pretty much all there is to say until we
have a chance to fire it up so here let's uh let's just finish up up here oh
right sensitive buttons check it out so you can select your source and
navigate your menu with little touch sensitive buttons here very cool right
okay so uh no pivot for this guy
although we do have tilt oh sorry slick
sorry we do have tilt actually you should be looking at this from the side anyway so we have this much tilt and
then the height adjust I promised to show that from the front goes all the
way down to there and all the way up to there so
that looks like about
oh four 4 in 5 in of height adjust so
thank you for checking out our unboxing of the 970 series 9 monitor from Samsung
once again key talking points 2560 x40
PLS display with one seamless glass
front that I think is beautiful