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
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