welcome to my unboxing and overview of my new best friend this my friends has
already been out of the box I've already seen it and it is absolutely gorgeous
this is the ASUS PA 279 Q it has a
10bit ah IPS panel so what that
basically means is full support for deep color that is it can represent a broader
range of colors and more intermediary steps between them so that you have very
fine shifts from one color to another or from one shade to another one even in
between different Shades of Gray it okay
so on top of the 10bit panel it has a 14bit lookup table which means the
monitor itself can understand even more
information than it can actually display because all monitors are going to
approximate they have to approximate most monitors are capable of displaying
around 16.8 I think it is million colors
and so anything that isn't one of those 16.8 million discret colors has to be
approximated to one of those 16.8 million colors so what a 14bit lookup
table and 10 bit panel means is fewer approximations and much more True toli
Colors this is particularly important for Creative professionals such as photo
or video editors that want to have the most accurate whoops color possible in
their photos or videos but it can also be something that's valued by General
users as well the first thing we find inside the box is the included Hood so
this is if you have bright ambient lighting and you want to maintain the true to life colors that the monitor can
produce if I had to criticize something about this monitor which I guess I
probably should it would be this it it's not a very good implementation it's
flimsy plastic it has what appears to be a non-reusable adhesive on the inside so
you just have to decide once only once whether or not you want to use it and I
think I'm going to opt not to going instead for controlling the ambient
light and using the panel itself you get a usb3 cable A to B you get a mini
DisplayPort to full-size DisplayPort cable you get an audio cable for the
integrated dual 3w speakers which are actually surprisingly not bad you get a
power cable which you can see we've already used a full-size DisplayPort to
full siiz DisplayPort cable a dual link DVI cable driver dis don't use that and
finally an HDMI cable but don't use this either because HDMI in is not going to
be capable of driving the massive 2560x1440 resolution that this monitor
supports for any kind of professional application you're going to want to be
using DisplayPort in order to get full
res and deep color support but much in the same way that lots of bass in music
is not necessarily good lots of colors that are oversaturated and ugly are not
necessarily good but don't worry this is a PA monitor which means that it comes
with a calibration testing report so they show you the equipment they're using and the results that were obtained
on this exact monitor this does add
additional cost to the manufacturing process but on proart monitors they want
you to know that you're getting what you paid for it comes with a guaranteed
Delta e of less than two this is a huge step up from the promised Delta e of
less than five on previous Pro art monitors and for those of you who aren't
familiar with Delta e it is basically the difference between what the color is
supposed to look like and what it actually looks like on the display
itself now they use a couple of tricks in order to make sure that the
uniformity of the colors on the monitor are is as good as possible and one of
them is called uniformity compensation so that ensures that you're not going to
have uh brightness and color that is dramatically different in this corner
compared to a central reference point and the same goes for any other segment
of the Monitor and that's included on your calibration report as well so let's
have a look at it physically it's got all the usual adjustments height
adjustable stand as well as tilt
pivot and or swivel I guess this one's called and finally pivot that's right
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
in my port so you've got a nice solid base and then wow all the expansion you
could pretty much ever want so there's your your USB 3 in there's three USB 3
ports for the included Hub DisplayPort
okay hold on DisplayPort in and out so this support ports daisy chaining so
this is the output so what that means is you can actually hook up multiple
monitors up to four depending on the resolution from One DisplayPort port
HDMI don't use that DVI and then we've
got audio in as well as a pass through for your headphones should you so desire
power in is here and a dedicated power switch as well as Kensington lock are
down here on the bottom lots of ventilation you can see pretty much the
entire back of the monitor is covered in perforations because it does need in
order to have you know really fancy Electronics inside it some passive
cooling although there is no cooling fan included and then finally on this side
you've got a couple more things so that's three more usb3 ports and an SD
card reader that supports all the latest standards on the other side you don't
find a whole much of lot of anything other than the onscreen display which is
on this side of the panel right here and uses a bit of a different implementation
so you can now browse the menu by using it as a bit of a joystick up down left
right and then pressing to confirm and and there's all the other stuff here you got some programmable buttons and
whatnot for presets as you can see we've fired up the monitor now this amazing 4K
clip was shot on the Sony fs700 not by us guys you can click The
annotation or check out the link in the video description to see it we didn't we
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
detail there is especially when watching on a greater than HD monitor but before
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so without further Ado this monitor man
I love it so we're going to do the usual things where we do our tilt test so you
can see that not only is the color extremely uniform but even at extreme
angles you're not going to lose that color accuracy yes some of the
brightness goes away but that's perfectly natural because the light is
being emitted out the front of the panel so not all of it is going to reach your
eyes obviously if you're looking at it from an extreme angle but maintaining
color accuracy from an angle is extremely important for professional use
so we're just going to go ahead give you guys that full range there man it looks
good and according to the video review done by digital versus we're looking at
about 30 milliseconds of input leg which is actually not bad now one thing that
makes it not really optimal for gaming is the fact that it does exhibit reverse
ghosting which is kind of like ghosting where there's an image trailing the
other image except that those are reversed in terms of the colors so red
would be green etc etc so it can be a little bit more distracting than regular
ghosting personally I've been dealing with this kind of ghosting since my old
Ben or rather Dell 2405 fpw so it
doesn't really bother me anymore but if you're not used to it then there you go
uh very decent speakers as I mentioned before but I actually can't find them so
I'm not sure exactly where they are because they're they're not visible on
the front they're probably hidden somewhere behind all these grills in the back but both slick and I were surprised
at how usable they are if you don't need like a subwoofer and a you know
dedicated gaming speaker setup and you mostly use headphones I think you'll
find yourself not really requiring any additional desktop speakers which is
quite nice they have a completely new onscreen display control mode so I
actually found it extremely easy to navigate so they've got their usual
Splendid stuff you can see it supports srgb RGB as well as ntsc somewhere in
there so it does 99% Adobe RGB 100% srgb
And 120% ntsc they've also got some unique
picture and picture settings so you can actually do picture and picture or well
okay obviously we don't have two monitor set up but you can do picture in picture or picture by picture for pretty much
any of the inputs which is extremely flexible so it's it's really nice to see
that again this is really easy to navigate I actually quite like it so you
can turn uniformity compensation on and off it's nice that they give you control
of stuff like this because not everyone necessarily wants that again this is a
professional monitor so being able to adjust things like color temperature is
again very very important and they've also got although I can't find find it
right now but they've also got a pretty unique six AIS independent color control
setting that allows you to actually adjust each of the different colors
independently without affecting any of the other ones so how do you take
advantage of its greatness because not
every application is going to I mean not every computer is even going to be able
to Output 10 bit color so every part of the chain has to support 10 bit color
your application your hardware and the
monit itself in order to take advantage of deep color so okay the monitors for
Creative professionals whether it's photo editing or video editing or anyone
who has to work with color in any kind of accurate capacity but what about
Gamers why am I interested in this monitor or even General users well it's
less fatiguing to look at even if you aren't taking advantage of 10bit color
man it's beautiful it is absolutely unbelievable so while I wouldn't
recommend it to someone like a competitive gamer where you want as many
updates on the screen per second as possible you're going to want a 120 HZ
monitor preferably with a strobing backlight so that the image is extremely
crisp um in order to get like every last Competitive Edge for you I wouldn't
recommend it but for someone who's more of a sightseer maybe you play Batman or
maybe you play games like Skyrim and you just want to be as immersed in as
beautiful a fantasy world as you possibly can you know what if you're
willing to spend the money it's not a terrible recommendation this is my new
personal favorite monitor I'm one of those people who believes that a monitor
is something a part of your computer you spend more time looking at than any
other component and it is worth investing heavily in them once in a
while versus doing frequent upgrades from one TN panel to another cruddy TN
panel that might be slightly better than the old one I've only bought two
monitors in about the last eight years because again I spend about $7 800 on
them and then I expect them to last for multiple upgrade cycles of the rest of
my components so in conclusion not for gaming for professional use serves its
purpose extremely well is absolutely beautiful and not fatiguing to look at
has great on screen options however I personally plan to use it for General
use and gaming because it's absolutely beautiful extremely well built looks
great on your desk and all those other good things that are about it but yes it
is extremely expensive so like this video if you liked it dislike it if you
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