1 00:00:05,960 --> 00:00:13,880 welcome to my unboxing and overview of my new best friend this my friends has 2 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:21,199 already been out of the box I've already seen it and it is absolutely gorgeous 3 00:00:16,119 --> 00:00:24,599 this is the ASUS PA 279 Q it has a 4 00:00:21,199 --> 00:00:27,320 10bit ah IPS panel so what that 5 00:00:24,599 --> 00:00:32,800 basically means is full support for deep color that is it can represent a broader 6 00:00:30,039 --> 00:00:38,399 range of colors and more intermediary steps between them so that you have very 7 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:44,800 fine shifts from one color to another or from one shade to another one even in 8 00:00:40,879 --> 00:00:47,239 between different Shades of Gray it okay 9 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:52,640 so on top of the 10bit panel it has a 14bit lookup table which means the 10 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:54,480 monitor itself can understand even more 11 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:59,320 information than it can actually display because all monitors are going to 12 00:00:57,039 --> 00:01:05,400 approximate they have to approximate most monitors are capable of displaying 13 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,720 around 16.8 I think it is million colors 14 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:13,000 and so anything that isn't one of those 16.8 million discret colors has to be 15 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:18,400 approximated to one of those 16.8 million colors so what a 14bit lookup 16 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:23,479 table and 10 bit panel means is fewer approximations and much more True toli 17 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:28,479 Colors this is particularly important for Creative professionals such as photo 18 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:34,360 or video editors that want to have the most accurate whoops color possible in 19 00:01:32,159 --> 00:01:38,720 their photos or videos but it can also be something that's valued by General 20 00:01:36,119 --> 00:01:42,640 users as well the first thing we find inside the box is the included Hood so 21 00:01:41,399 --> 00:01:47,880 this is if you have bright ambient lighting and you want to maintain the true to life colors that the monitor can 22 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:51,960 produce if I had to criticize something about this monitor which I guess I 23 00:01:49,479 --> 00:01:55,399 probably should it would be this it it's not a very good implementation it's 24 00:01:53,320 --> 00:02:00,000 flimsy plastic it has what appears to be a non-reusable adhesive on the inside so 25 00:01:57,360 --> 00:02:03,200 you just have to decide once only once whether or not you want to use it and I 26 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:07,399 think I'm going to opt not to going instead for controlling the ambient 27 00:02:04,840 --> 00:02:12,920 light and using the panel itself you get a usb3 cable A to B you get a mini 28 00:02:10,959 --> 00:02:17,840 DisplayPort to full-size DisplayPort cable you get an audio cable for the 29 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:21,400 integrated dual 3w speakers which are actually surprisingly not bad you get a 30 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:26,280 power cable which you can see we've already used a full-size DisplayPort to 31 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:32,160 full siiz DisplayPort cable a dual link DVI cable driver dis don't use that and 32 00:02:29,480 --> 00:02:36,920 finally an HDMI cable but don't use this either because HDMI in is not going to 33 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:41,840 be capable of driving the massive 2560x1440 resolution that this monitor 34 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:46,080 supports for any kind of professional application you're going to want to be 35 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:48,879 using DisplayPort in order to get full 36 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:54,000 res and deep color support but much in the same way that lots of bass in music 37 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:57,840 is not necessarily good lots of colors that are oversaturated and ugly are not 38 00:02:56,319 --> 00:03:02,040 necessarily good but don't worry this is a PA monitor which means that it comes 39 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:08,360 with a calibration testing report so they show you the equipment they're using and the results that were obtained 40 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:10,400 on this exact monitor this does add 41 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:13,840 additional cost to the manufacturing process but on proart monitors they want 42 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:19,040 you to know that you're getting what you paid for it comes with a guaranteed 43 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:22,959 Delta e of less than two this is a huge step up from the promised Delta e of 44 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:26,840 less than five on previous Pro art monitors and for those of you who aren't 45 00:03:24,519 --> 00:03:30,599 familiar with Delta e it is basically the difference between what the color is 46 00:03:28,879 --> 00:03:34,640 supposed to look like and what it actually looks like on the display 47 00:03:32,599 --> 00:03:38,280 itself now they use a couple of tricks in order to make sure that the 48 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:43,239 uniformity of the colors on the monitor are is as good as possible and one of 49 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:46,920 them is called uniformity compensation so that ensures that you're not going to 50 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:50,239 have uh brightness and color that is dramatically different in this corner 51 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:54,239 compared to a central reference point and the same goes for any other segment 52 00:03:52,720 --> 00:03:58,400 of the Monitor and that's included on your calibration report as well so let's 53 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:03,120 have a look at it physically it's got all the usual adjustments height 54 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:07,200 adjustable stand as well as tilt 55 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:11,159 pivot and or swivel I guess this one's called and finally pivot that's right 56 00:04:09,599 --> 00:04:16,280 portrait mode so you can put it in this setting if you really really wanted to what I usually use this for is to plug 57 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:21,000 in my port so you've got a nice solid base and then wow all the expansion you 58 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:26,960 could pretty much ever want so there's your your USB 3 in there's three USB 3 59 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:29,280 ports for the included Hub DisplayPort 60 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:33,039 okay hold on DisplayPort in and out so this support ports daisy chaining so 61 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:35,759 this is the output so what that means is you can actually hook up multiple 62 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:41,400 monitors up to four depending on the resolution from One DisplayPort port 63 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:43,320 HDMI don't use that DVI and then we've 64 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:47,440 got audio in as well as a pass through for your headphones should you so desire 65 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:51,560 power in is here and a dedicated power switch as well as Kensington lock are 66 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:55,880 down here on the bottom lots of ventilation you can see pretty much the 67 00:04:53,280 --> 00:05:00,000 entire back of the monitor is covered in perforations because it does need in 68 00:04:58,000 --> 00:05:03,800 order to have you know really fancy Electronics inside it some passive 69 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:07,400 cooling although there is no cooling fan included and then finally on this side 70 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:12,919 you've got a couple more things so that's three more usb3 ports and an SD 71 00:05:11,039 --> 00:05:17,360 card reader that supports all the latest standards on the other side you don't 72 00:05:14,680 --> 00:05:21,800 find a whole much of lot of anything other than the onscreen display which is 73 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:26,199 on this side of the panel right here and uses a bit of a different implementation 74 00:05:23,440 --> 00:05:29,720 so you can now browse the menu by using it as a bit of a joystick up down left 75 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:34,919 right and then pressing to confirm and and there's all the other stuff here you got some programmable buttons and 76 00:05:32,520 --> 00:05:40,319 whatnot for presets as you can see we've fired up the monitor now this amazing 4K 77 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:44,600 clip was shot on the Sony fs700 not by us guys you can click The 78 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,919 annotation or check out the link in the video description to see it we didn't we 79 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:54,240 didn't shoot it I want to be really clear about that but it looks amazing even like 2 in from the screen how much 80 00:05:52,120 --> 00:05:58,880 detail there is especially when watching on a greater than HD monitor but before 81 00:05:56,919 --> 00:06:02,960 we get too much further into this guys word from our sponsor sponsor are you 82 00:06:00,319 --> 00:06:07,960 going to BlizzCon if so great if you're not then that's great too Intel's giving 83 00:06:04,840 --> 00:06:10,720 away two HP Elite pad 900 tablets as 84 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:16,080 part of their BlizzCon Extravaganza all you have to do is 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natural because the light is 95 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,560 being emitted out the front of the panel so not all of it is going to reach your 96 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:59,599 eyes obviously if you're looking at it from an extreme angle but maintaining 97 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:03,319 color accuracy from an angle is extremely important for professional use 98 00:07:02,039 --> 00:07:07,160 so we're just going to go ahead give you guys that full range there man it looks 99 00:07:05,400 --> 00:07:11,319 good and according to the video review done by digital versus we're looking at 100 00:07:08,960 --> 00:07:15,960 about 30 milliseconds of input leg which is actually not bad now one thing that 101 00:07:13,599 --> 00:07:19,560 makes it not really optimal for gaming is the fact that it does exhibit reverse 102 00:07:17,720 --> 00:07:23,599 ghosting which is kind of like ghosting where there's an image trailing the 103 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:28,840 other image except that those are reversed in terms of the colors so red 104 00:07:26,520 --> 00:07:32,039 would be green etc etc so it can be a little bit more distracting than regular 105 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:37,240 ghosting personally I've been dealing with this kind of ghosting since my old 106 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,759 Ben or rather Dell 2405 fpw so it 107 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:43,280 doesn't really bother me anymore but if you're not used to it then there you go 108 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:47,000 uh very decent speakers as I mentioned before but I actually can't find them so 109 00:07:45,159 --> 00:07:49,280 I'm not sure exactly where they are because they're they're not visible on 110 00:07:48,199 --> 00:07:55,639 the front they're probably hidden somewhere behind all these grills in the back but both slick and I were surprised 111 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:58,960 at how usable they are if you don't need like a subwoofer and a you know 112 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:02,720 dedicated gaming speaker setup and you mostly use headphones I think you'll 113 00:08:00,639 --> 00:08:06,440 find yourself not really requiring any additional desktop speakers which is 114 00:08:04,319 --> 00:08:11,520 quite nice they have a completely new onscreen display control mode so I 115 00:08:09,080 --> 00:08:14,879 actually found it extremely easy to navigate so they've got their usual 116 00:08:13,199 --> 00:08:22,479 Splendid stuff you can see it supports srgb RGB as well as ntsc somewhere in 117 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:23,199 there so it does 99% Adobe RGB 100% srgb 118 00:08:22,479 --> 00:08:28,000 And 120% ntsc they've also got some unique 119 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,919 picture and picture settings so you can actually do picture and picture or well 120 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:38,560 okay obviously we don't have two monitor set up but you can do picture in picture or picture by picture for pretty much 121 00:08:36,240 --> 00:08:42,159 any of the inputs which is extremely flexible so it's it's really nice to see 122 00:08:40,479 --> 00:08:46,839 that again this is really easy to navigate I actually quite like it so you 123 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:50,800 can turn uniformity compensation on and off it's nice that they give you control 124 00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:54,040 of stuff like this because not everyone necessarily wants that again this is a 125 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:58,000 professional monitor so being able to adjust things like color temperature is 126 00:08:56,279 --> 00:09:02,440 again very very important and they've also got although I can't find find it 127 00:08:59,959 --> 00:09:06,720 right now but they've also got a pretty unique six AIS independent color control 128 00:09:04,959 --> 00:09:11,760 setting that allows you to actually adjust each of the different colors 129 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:17,000 independently without affecting any of the other ones so how do you take 130 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:19,440 advantage of its greatness because not 131 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:23,240 every application is going to I mean not every computer is even going to be able 132 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:29,040 to Output 10 bit color so every part of the chain has to support 10 bit color 133 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:31,680 your application your hardware and the 134 00:09:29,040 --> 00:09:36,440 monit itself in order to take advantage of deep color so okay the monitors for 135 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:40,120 Creative professionals whether it's photo editing or video editing or anyone 136 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:45,040 who has to work with color in any kind of accurate capacity but what about 137 00:09:43,160 --> 00:09:49,360 Gamers why am I interested in this monitor or even General users well it's 138 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:53,640 less fatiguing to look at even if you aren't taking advantage of 10bit color 139 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:56,800 man it's beautiful it is absolutely unbelievable so while I wouldn't 140 00:09:55,600 --> 00:10:00,959 recommend it to someone like a competitive gamer where you want as many 141 00:09:58,959 --> 00:10:04,720 updates on the screen per second as possible you're going to want a 120 HZ 142 00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:09,000 monitor preferably with a strobing backlight so that the image is extremely 143 00:10:06,600 --> 00:10:11,839 crisp um in order to get like every last Competitive Edge for you I wouldn't 144 00:10:10,519 --> 00:10:16,040 recommend it but for someone who's more of a sightseer maybe you play Batman or 145 00:10:14,120 --> 00:10:20,600 maybe you play games like Skyrim and you just want to be as immersed in as 146 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:26,200 beautiful a fantasy world as you possibly can you know what if you're 147 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:29,800 willing to spend the money it's not a terrible recommendation this is my new 148 00:10:28,079 --> 00:10:33,680 personal favorite monitor I'm one of those people who believes that a monitor 149 00:10:31,839 --> 00:10:36,880 is something a part of your computer you spend more time looking at than any 150 00:10:35,240 --> 00:10:40,720 other component and it is worth investing heavily in them once in a 151 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:44,720 while versus doing frequent upgrades from one TN panel to another cruddy TN 152 00:10:43,360 --> 00:10:48,600 panel that might be slightly better than the old one I've only bought two 153 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:52,560 monitors in about the last eight years because again I spend about $7 800 on 154 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:57,560 them and then I expect them to last for multiple upgrade cycles of the rest of 155 00:10:54,720 --> 00:11:01,880 my components so in conclusion not for gaming for professional use serves its 156 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:05,959 purpose extremely well is absolutely beautiful and not fatiguing to look at 157 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:09,880 has great on screen options however I personally plan to use it for General 158 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:12,720 use and gaming because it's absolutely beautiful extremely well built looks 159 00:11:11,320 --> 00:11:16,519 great on your desk and all those other good things that are about it but yes it 160 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:20,320 is extremely expensive so like this video if you liked it dislike it if you 161 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:23,959 disliked it leave me a comment letting me know what you do for your monitor 162 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:28,079 upgrade cycle how often do you upgrade how much do you expect to spend and last 163 00:11:26,279 --> 00:11:33,490 but not least guys don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips unboxings 164 00:11:29,959 --> 00:11:43,940 reviews and other computer videos