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learn more at the end of this video or at the link below now so far all i've managed to open is the stand but it looks and feels pretty metal as the kids say and presumably it'll be a part of whichever monitor you decide to order so there's the spectrum qhd so it's 1440p that runs at 144 hertz for 440 bucks the spectrum qhd 240 hertz and the spectrum 4k 144hz that last one is the one we have which is actually kind of unfortunate because i was a little more interested in the 240hz qhd model all of them are using lg ips panels and the qhds seem to use the same panel as the lg 27 gl850 while the 4k model probably uses the same panel as the lg 27gn 950 that is their only 4k 144 hertz of course this is all according to what eve says and eve does not have a spotless record for delivering exactly what they say when they say they're going to do it of course that doesn't stop us from being curious about their progress on the spectrum which is why we've agreed to take a look at what is an early unit to give us an idea of what the industrial design is going to look like according to eve this is something that we can count on hopefully what the performance is going to be like for anyone who either backs or buys this monitor once it's just normally available okay documentation time what the devil yeah they emailed saying this was out of date so here's the real one you've got a 10 gigabit per second uplink that's the usb type c on the bottom the two type a's are both 10 gigabit per second the one type c on the side is also 10 gigabit per second and finally the type b is just a regular upstream five gigabit per second according to the latest spec sheet ah power bricks in here kind of a cool idea for the packaging that's neat pretty beefy but you would expect that from something that has to power not only itself but i don't know the numbers are all over the place but at least 100 watts of external device apparently HDMI 2.1 is not yet working in our early unit so that's not something that we're going to try to do for now apparently it wants a displayport connection so we'll see how that goes if this doesn't immediately work we're throwing it in the garbage just kidding displayport's a terrible connector and it could necessitate a reboot that whole split down the middle thing on 4k monitors used to be a thing back when they were using two paneled displays and like displayport multi-stream technology but i thought this is supposed to be using display stream compression to a single tile display so i'm a little confused let's just double check and see if we even have the 4k one yes we do uh uh james uh did both sides of it look different when you hooked it up so this is our second unit actually the first one had a broken joystick so we couldn't navigate the menu properly which wouldn't have been a huge problem except that the up direction didn't work on the joystick and it was set to the minimum brightness out of the box so we couldn't turn the brightness up now this one you have got to be kidding me only down and right work i'm just going to reboot what i think the menu is completely frozen i think we just blue screened the monitor's on-screen display i mean not blue strictly speaking whatever you guys know what i'm talking about i don't think i've ever seen this before we just locked up a monitor firmware uh okay so let's try this again oh my god okay no that's not what i wanted to do i don't really know what to say at this point hold on a second did switching to HDR make the line go is it there but just less noticeable no i think it's gone fine screw it let's game in HDR at 4k 144 hertz okay whoa that's weird do you see that shadow down the middle now now there are a handful of issues that eve was aware that we would find with this unit like the housing tolerances are not yet final the firmware is obviously early the USB-C port does not charge devices correctly yet but what they told us is that in terms of performance this was supposed to be very close to what customers will eventually receive at least in terms of color accuracy they've still got some work to do with apparently the blurbusters folks which is somewhat promising to me to get their motion blur reduction like really down pat and they claim these monitors will be calibrated at the factory for delta ease of less than two in p3 standard and at a d65 white point uh spoiler alert if this is supposed to be a delta e less than two we don't seem to be quite there yet HDR performance is apparently something that they're still tweaking and some good news is that i don't see that dark stain down the middle of the screen when we're out of the menu oh you know what it's got full screen dimming on right now wait what just happened it's supposed to be off okay now just a sec it's clearly on right brandon like when i open the menu the entire screen clearly gets brighter okay so this it's not supposed to have dimming enabled though see backlight dimming is supposed to be off so it's just this broken menu yeah strangely g-sync doesn't show up at all so it doesn't even allow me to force it one other thing we can test is whether my laptop will charge right now they say the main problem is compatibility so some devices should actually work even on this early unit for charging mine does not this is the bottom one right yeah okay well whatever you know what what's the worst that can happen fry my laptop pc isn't charging use the recommended charger and cable and make sure it's directly plugged in all right fair enough the correct way to evaluate a display using the blurbuster's ufo test is not with your eyes but i've looked at it enough times that it gives me a rough idea to just look at it and i can tell you guys now that there's no kind of blur reduction enabled whatsoever yeah okay okay overdrive off so let's try and see if that helps at all because i just don't i don't think any of this is doing anything the plan today was to pull out the high speed camera and shoot 1000 FPS footage of this so that we could really evaluate its motion blur performance because that's one of the things that's so great about the lg monitor that's based on this same panel but this is so far off that there'd be no point even evaluating it i mean i don't know but not soon moving on to color then we know that this panel is capable of excellent performance which means it comes down to calibration unfortunately compared to the lg gn 950 it's not even close in spite of eve telling us that this unit was supposed to be pretty representative of the color accuracy of a finished model now it's better than the one that was locked at zero brightness but i wouldn't use it for any kind of color accurate work whereas the lg out of the box was pretty darn close so then here's our problem going back to the original sales pitch everything looks great and honestly there's a lot here that's really promising it's very compelling value if they actually deliver on all those selling points but this is the issue with backing tech products on kickstarter back when they announced this monitor it seemed like unbelievable and now the timeline has slipped i mean this project began in earnest in march 2019 to the point where there's competing products that you can already buy and this is if this actually ships on their estimated date which is february 2021 i will be floored like this unit right here there's a manufacturing date on the back december 2020. they just made this and it's it's just it's not close it's not close at all but with that said remember how i said you could sort of buy competing products let's talk about that for high refresh rate ips monitors we've got the acer predator xg17 that runs at 240 hertz and the ASUS pg259q which actually runs at a whopping 360 hertz but those aren't really quite comparable because they only run at 1080p whereas 1440p which should theoretically be available at up to 240 hertz with the need spectrum is much much finer looking now as for 1440p 240hz there is the samsung odyssey g7 but it maxes out at 600 nits peak brightness it sold out basically everywhere though in theory you could get it for as little as 550 and it's curved which not everyone is into there's the samsung odyssey g9 that one's also 240hz 1440p but is super wide also curved and is a thousand dollars now as for direct competitors for this guy right here 4k 144hz well lg already has the 27 gn 950 it's 800 has RGB on the back which is cool but it has no power delivery no HDMI 2.1 so if you have a gaming pc and a next-gen console say in your dorm room or something like that because you're a baller student or whatever and you want to hook them both up to the same display well you'll get the best experience with something that does have HDMI 2.1 and it's sold out everywhere and is going for anywhere from 1100 to 1400 on ebay damn new scalpers and finally ASUS has announced an HDMI 2.1 43-inch monitor but they are also not shipping that yet so time could be more on each side than we originally thought if they can deliver which is kind of the biggest elephant in the room because eve's got a bit of a history the ev was a Windows 10 two in one that compared very favorably to microsoft surface pro while costing considerably less unfortunately evetech couldn't produce or fulfill enough orders to meet the demand and many backers receive their devices months or even years after they placed their orders it just kind of points to them not necessarily having a perfect track record when it comes to supply chain management and following through which sort of raises the question i see a lot of potential here but the concern for me is that they were so eager to send me something that's not quite ready that it gives me concerns about the business side of things do they have enough funding to actually do the production runs or do they need more pre-orders for example and i have no way of answering that question for you so if it actually lives up to the specs that they say it will have looks pretty freaking sick to me but it remains to be seen if it will just like it remains to be seen how i'm going to segue to our sponsor thanks to ting mobile for sponsoring today's video tang mobile's new rates make it easier to see how much you can save by switching to ting they've got unlimited talk and text for 10 bucks data plans starting at 15 and unlimited data for just forty five dollars a month and if you liked their previous pay for only what you use plans guess what they're still there they're called ting flex plans and they charge just five dollars per gig the best part is your data can also be shared if you have a family plan so the more phones you connect the more you can save you'll get the same nationwide coverage in the us and award-winning customer service plus pretty much any phone will work with ting so go check them out at Linus.ting.com and get a 25 credit if you guys are looking for our kind of current 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