today we have something pretty interesting to unbox I got cameraman
helping me today we have the pro art series LCD monitor PA
246 from ASUS now what makes this unique
with quite frankly any number of monitors on the
market that are 24 in okay they have a
black bezel you know height adjustment potentially uh you know built-in USB hob
built-in card reader uh it does support picture and picture which is kind of
neat but what separates this from every
other monitor on the market with a black bezel and a 24in
diagonal screen well we're going to get into that a little bit cuz yeah I what I
realized about monitor unboxings is that they take a really long time cuz
monitors are big and I'm like weak and from the internet so and yes I stole
that from Crazy Russian he says it all the time that he's from the internet and
I'm like okay um so yeah what I realized
is that LCD unboxings take a long time cuz they're big and bulky and kind of
ungainly to deal with and I always tell you guys everything about the monitor
before I actually open the box so I'm not going to make that mistake today I'm
going to unbox the product and then when
I can show you the product itself I'm going to tell you all about it so here
we have the accessories under the bottom layer styrofoam we get lots of different
accessories this is terrific we got a cable tie oh two cable ties no it's one
never mind mind it's just one I was I was getting pretty excited there for a second next we get uh support
CD and a VIP member notice it's a
notice okay all right I
noticed I noticed it quick start guide excellent plug the thing into the thing
hit the power button probably something along those lines ooh check this out
okay so I didn't I didn't get to save this for when the uh the monitor
actually was was unboxed but check this out so this is a color calibration
testing report this report was run on
your serial number this is not batch
color calibration that is why this monitor is expensive this is an outof
thee boox calibrated LCD monitor that is
why it is called a pro art so I'm going to finish showing you guys the yeah yeah
there's that don't put this bag over your own face or your baby's face or
your face is done okay so we'll get into more of the
features that are professional oriented later ah thank you cameraman here are
the cables that are included we have one DisplayPort cable so I'm going to go ahead and jump out on a limb here and
assume the monitor supports DisplayPort we've got VGA cable don't use that
crying out loud please don't buy a $500 Monitor and then use that and we have a
DVI cable we also have a power cable pretty standard as well as a USB A2B
cable or printer USB cable for the built-in Hub so I'm going to go ahead
and hold on to these accessories and let's deathless monitor opened up there
is by all appearances no real assembly
required to speak of I'm going to go ahead and take off the plastic here uh
we've got our height adjustable stem it's pretty sweet oo I like the uh I
already like the the base on the uh mounting ARM feels very very very smooth
when you're adjusting things compared to uh some of the less expensive ones that
I've seen okay so why don't we go through all the range of motion that we
can do with the ASUS uh PA 246 so we can
go up and down so here's the very bottom you can see that the monitor is actually
almost resting right on the base we can go up this High all right tilt we can go
way up here we can go way down there
okay I mean very few people sit and look up at their monitor so that's you know
doesn't need to go too far down it's better if you look at this from this side I think okay uh pivot look at that
it can pivot all the way to that side and all all the way to that side so
that's like uh that that's that's pretty good seems to me okay uh you can
also do this actually I believe this is
called uh oh yeah no this is swivel that's right so it can swivel it can go
into portrait mode can't quite go upside down okay go ahead and do that uh let's
have a look at the physical characteristics of it it's quite thick
this is not a thin monitor it's not like a a dainty monitor this is meant for
professional use so it's going to be built up as much Hardware as they deem
necessary to put inside it they're just going to do it they're not going to try and make it thinner so it's going to
have lots of uh ventilation holes all along the top here actually only about
half of these are ventilation holes same thing here on the back um right here
this is kind of funny to me but almost everything on this monitor has um
centimeter and centimeter and a half markings on it oh no it looks like it's
inches on the uh on the oh no okay there's in and centimet there that's
kind of neat but so yeah you can see that's marked you can see down here is
also marked and then there's an indicator at the front so it actually
shows you okay you're you're that far off now and then there's a little dot to
indicate okay you're at the maximum so there's halfway and then Max and then
same thing here at the back for the height adjust everything is
marked it's kind of neat okay let's go ahead and have a look at our inputs so
I'm going to go ahead and tilt it back check out the bottom here
um I'm not sure if we're going to have enough light from that angle I'm going to actually tilt it this way and then
you can have a look from that side Okay so we've got our USB in that appears to
be audio we have VGA DVI oh yeah okay
there's the 7 in1 card reader as well as the two USB ports on the side okay we've
got HDMI in DisplayPort in so we have pretty much every option we could
possibly need as far as inputs go we've got our power as well as a power switch
there's a warranty void if seal damaged thing on the bottom here so that's a
make sure you don't do that all right um
let's go around to the I don't know what
he's on about sound I already said that
yeah yeah has speakers right maybe it doesn't okay hold on we'll be
back yeah okay so those are just for the HDMI and DisplayPort inputs so that you
can actually plug headphones into the headphone jack on the bottom of the
Monitor and you can hear sound that way so cameraman is now showing you some of
the features that I promised to talk about once we got the monitor out of the
box and that is that this uses an IPS panel so IPS is out of the three main
LCD uh panel technologies that is TN VA
which would be PVA MVA or IPS this is
the highest end one in terms of color accuracy as well as uh professional use
so that's why it is the pro art something else that I wanted to point out to you guys this is a 1920x 1200
monitor it uses a proper PC 16x 10
aspect ratio instead of the more theater and movie oriented 16 to9 that gives you
that extra little bit of vertical that gives you more space to work when you
are using a PC desktop as opposed to watching a movie I mean for gaming 1080p
is great but for professional work I really do prefer to have that extra
little bit of vertical okay we've also got they advertise here okay it uses
Adobe RGB we've got the color accuracy is down to a Delta e of less than five
which I'm to understand is quite impressive uh that basically means that
the color is very accurate six axis color adjustment supports picture and
picture the ergonom Mi stand we've definitely looked at already as well as
the USB hub and 7 in-one card reader now
here's something that I thought was pretty darn cool so you can see all up
the right side of the monitor there are little marks as well as all along the
top those are all in inches so you've got inch half inch and/ qu in marks and
then all along the left side and all along the bottom of the mark uh the
bottom of the monitor is a metric so that's in centimet and half CM
increments so I I thought that was hilarious uh I don't know why but I
thought it was uh on screen menu we don't normally show this on Tech tips
but since we have the monitor plugged in anyway we might as well so you got a few different modes here got some color
settings got some image settings got some picture and picture settings you
can select your input which is much easier to do with the input button as
well as system setup uh there is a quick fit button which it requests that I try
so why try it whoa look at that
sweet that's actually really cool so it puts an overlay right over top of the
screen in centimet or in inches and I'm going to go ahead and
assume oh look at look at this oh that's
cool so you can quickly find out how big the thing
you're working with is just by using this button so there's your 8x10 there's
your 5x7 huh
that's cool hey and yeah okay it doesn't
actually line up with the ones on the side of the monitor so these seem to be mostly for show but this this is a cool
feature okay well I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my
unboxing of the pro art pa46 Q from Muse
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other videos and actually before we finish up right here I got to tell you guys the color in the image looks about
right up until about this angle for me so Cera man can come over here where I
am right about there so the viewing angle is phenomenal actually really
impressed with that you come to expect that from an IPS panel also it's not a
matte screen so there are no there are no um or rather it is a matte screen
there's it's not a glossy screen so there's no um use a really shiny screen
to make the the contrast and the colors look more vibrant tricks going on here
it's all just the quality of the panel the quality of the backl and it is using
a matte screen which is preferable for color accuracy