{"video_id":"9iovKELkvNk","title":"ASUS VG278 3D Vision 2 Lightboost Ready LED Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":485,"segments":[{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":15.759,"text":"welcome to an action-packed an exciting unboxing of the ASUS","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.36,"end_s":18.039,"text":"vg278 3D monitor with a couple of cool","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.759,"end_s":23.32,"text":"features that really set it apart from some of the previous generation 3D","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":20.64,"end_s":28.8,"text":"monitors including ASUS's own if you guys remember we gave away one of those","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":25.24,"end_s":31.199,"text":"24in 3D ready monitors in the Duke Nukem","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.8,"end_s":35.84,"text":"contest and it's also the 3D ready monitor that I use on my home 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light","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":465.199,"end_s":473.479,"text":"boost 2 light boost compatibility a built-in 3D Vision IR emitter a matte","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":470.8,"end_s":480.0,"text":"screen an LED backlight and that makes for one pretty wicked looking monitor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":477.84,"end_s":486.639,"text":"from ASUS don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":482.159,"end_s":486.639,"text":"other computer videos look bu yours","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to an action-packed an exciting unboxing of the ASUS vg278 3D monitor with a couple of cool features that really set it apart from some of the previous generation 3D monitors including ASUS's own if you guys remember we gave away one of those 24in 3D ready monitors in the Duke Nukem contest and it's also the 3D ready monitor that I use on my home test bench which you guys will see during some of my late night benchmarking session videos and whatnot so hopefully this is a worthy successor and let's go ahead and get started getting this opened up so we got a couple bits of uh assembly Hardware here in a place where you're bound to notice it so I'm guessing you'll need that we've also got a VIP member notice and okay we've got 3D Vision 2 glasses right here so why do we have 3D Vision 2 glasses well the reason is that this monitor is actually optimized for 3D Vision 2 we have a dual link DVI cable let's keep opening things shall we shall we yes we have an audio cable we have some 3D Vision drivers some 3D Vision glasses quick start guide some general instructions and whatnot we have the base uh which I can't get out yet we have some more cables including a VGA cable although really guys if you're going to run this monitor off a VGA cable just go home we have a power cable and we have the 27 in monitor hopefully I don't drop it itself okay so give me a sec I'm probably actually no wait don't give me a sec I can do this All right so I just need the base which I just have to force it when in doubt force it that's like uh computer tech class 101 it doesn't fit push harder all right there's our base it's uh looks very similar to the base from the 24 in model uh it's got that 3D sort of logo looking thing on it if it's similar to the other one then it probably rotates y there you go so it actually swivels okay I would be robbing you guys of the unboxing experience if I turned off the camera to remove all the packing materials right is that is that how this works some days I actually don't know so we're going to go ahead flip this bad boy over then we're going to go ahead and put this right over here okay and then we're going to rotate it back to Center and grab that Hardware which has fallen to the floor know it hasn't which is here we're going to undo that take these which are here and we are going to screw them in okay maybe I'll come back after I screw these in all right so the vg278 has its base attached now we're going to go ahead I'm going to pull this pin which is going to allow me to adjust the height oh that's a pretty robust height adjustment actually feels very solidly built actually it's been my experience with all the ASUS monitors that I've had the pleasure of using so so far build quality is as I've come to expect from ASUS excellent so let's keep on opening it there very very very shiny shiny shiny base all right overall it's a very shiny monitor um not something that I personally prefer although a lot of people do like the shiny thing going on with their peripherals so I can't can't really fault them for going that route okay let's uh keep taking these off so over here here we've got the splendid button Splendid is basically like a OneTouch color enhancement button so it's not going to be necessarily accurate colors that Splendid is going for but it would be sort of more like uh vibrant colors so the kind of thing that would be good for a store display where you know if you want someone to pick your monitor then you want to show like you want to show off the full color capabilities of it um this is an LED backlit panel so that's a big improvement over the previous generation 3D Vision monitors I believe there was only one previous generation LED backlit 3D ready Monitor and it wasn't the one from ASUS so ASUS has added that to its repertoire uh what we also have U moving around the edge of the monitor oh look at this matte screen I didn't even noticed that before that's the part about it that is not shiny which is the critical part there you can see how little reflectiveness there is in the screen I'm going to point it right at slick and you're not going to be able to see him because that's how map the screen is that is is outstanding two thumbs up ASUS for a matte screen LED back lit 27 in 108p 3D Vision ready monitor which incidentally the reason it in includes the 3D Vision two glasses is because it supports where is it light boost so that gives you in theory due to the way that 3D Vision 2 operates with inserting extra frames between the left and the right image gives you in theory double the brightness when you're running stereoscopic 3D applications so I believe it's a it's a combination between the Monitor boosting it up whenever you launch something 3D and the way that 3D Vision 2 operates that gives you that functionality very cool what else we got in here LED backlit 120 HZ it better be 120 HZ if it's 3D 3D Blu-ray ready so that's over HDMI 1.4 uh and finally tilt swivel and height adjustment so why don't I show you guys all that so there is your swivel look at how far that goes those what really does it go all the way oh look at that that's cool so you can actually angle it any direction you want that's where it stops I've never seen that before all right so here's the angle adjustment oh yeah you want that from the side I guess that makes sense there you go and height adjustment is quite height adjustable huh neat okay so I'm going to go ahead and pull the rest of the plastic off here and then let's have a look at the inputs and outputs oh oh wait no no hold on hold on there's yet another thing that makes this a very very NVIDIA 3D Vision ready Monitor and that is right here that is your IR emitter you do not need a standalone IR emitter to go with this monitor because it is included all right so let's have a look at the inputs and outputs which we will find on the bottom of the monitor well no okay I guess we've got our on screen display first so here are all of your menu items item including selecting your Source navigating the menu all that good stuff and finally your power button which has a little LED on the front of it then what's going to be a good way to show this hm trouble okay here's power here's HDMI 1.4 DVI VGA please don't use this and finally there's your audio in and your headphones out I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say so in in summary 27 in which is better and larger and awesomer than previous generation 3D Vision monitors which makes sense because the new 3D Vision 2 glasses have bigger lenses which allows you to take in a larger image without any issues light boost 2 compatibility or light boost 2 light boost compatibility a built-in 3D Vision IR emitter a matte screen an LED backlight and that makes for one pretty wicked looking monitor from ASUS don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos look bu yours"}