WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:09.000 back in january eve said that their upcoming monitor the eve spectrum would 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:13.880 be the world's first 240 hertz 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:18.400 1440p one millisecond ips display with 00:00:13.880 --> 00:00:20.960 750 nits of brightness as well as 135 00:00:18.400 --> 00:00:22.800 watts of power delivery for your devices all 00:00:21.760 --> 00:00:28.480 for a disruptive price and well this is the problem with 00:00:26.720 --> 00:00:34.640 kickstarting technology products isn't it because what sound space age today 00:00:32.000 --> 00:00:38.640 is commodity tomorrow and here we are 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:44.879 11 months later having reviewed multiple 240 hertz ips monitors including more 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:47.680 than one that's 1440p resolution or higher 00:00:45.840 --> 00:00:53.760 so then is their sales pitch still compelling as 00:00:49.760 --> 00:00:56.079 we head into 2021 and can eve overcome 00:00:53.760 --> 00:01:02.559 their tainted history to make the product a buy rather than a beware we're 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:05.840 going to find out brought to you by ting ting is a customer-focused mobile 00:01:04.159 --> 00:01:09.520 provider that has new rates to help you save more on your monthly service plan 00:01:07.600 --> 00:01:13.240 learn more at the end of this video or at the link below 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:27.119 now so far all i've managed to open is the stand but it 00:01:24.640 --> 00:01:31.600 looks and feels pretty metal as the kids say and presumably it'll be a part of 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:38.159 whichever monitor you decide to order so there's the spectrum qhd so it's 1440p 00:01:34.479 --> 00:01:41.040 that runs at 144 hertz for 440 bucks the 00:01:38.159 --> 00:01:44.960 spectrum qhd 240 hertz and the spectrum 4k 00:01:42.200 --> 00:01:49.119 144hz that last one is the one we have which is actually kind of unfortunate 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.960 because i was a little more interested in the 240hz 00:01:51.280 --> 00:01:58.159 qhd model all of them are using lg ips panels and 00:01:55.680 --> 00:02:04.360 the qhds seem to use the same panel as the lg 27 gl850 while the 4k model 00:02:02.000 --> 00:02:12.879 probably uses the same panel as the lg 27gn 950 that is their only 4k 144 hertz 00:02:09.759 --> 00:02:16.319 of course this is all according to what 00:02:12.879 --> 00:02:18.879 eve says and eve does not have a 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:23.280 spotless record for delivering exactly what they say when they say they're 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:27.440 going to do it of course that doesn't stop us from being curious about their 00:02:25.599 --> 00:02:32.239 progress on the spectrum which is why we've agreed to take a look at what is 00:02:29.520 --> 00:02:36.000 an early unit to give us an idea of what the industrial design is going to look 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:40.080 like according to eve this is something that we can count on hopefully what the 00:02:38.239 --> 00:02:44.720 performance is going to be like for anyone who either backs or buys this 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:48.239 monitor once it's just normally available 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:52.319 okay documentation time what the devil yeah they emailed saying 00:02:50.319 --> 00:02:58.160 this was out of date so here's the real one you've got a 10 gigabit per second 00:02:55.680 --> 00:03:03.599 uplink that's the usb type c on the bottom the two type a's are both 10 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:07.200 gigabit per second the one type c on the side 00:03:04.400 --> 00:03:12.560 is also 10 gigabit per second and finally the type b 00:03:09.440 --> 00:03:14.560 is just a regular upstream five gigabit 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:19.440 per second according to the latest spec sheet ah power bricks in here kind of a cool 00:03:17.760 --> 00:03:23.280 idea for the packaging that's neat 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:26.800 pretty beefy but you would expect that from something that has to power not 00:03:24.640 --> 00:03:29.920 only itself but i don't know the numbers are all over the place but at least 100 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:36.720 watts of external device apparently HDMI 2.1 is not yet working 00:03:35.200 --> 00:03:40.000 in our early unit so that's not something that we're going to try to do 00:03:38.239 --> 00:03:43.599 for now apparently it wants a displayport connection so we'll see how 00:03:41.760 --> 00:03:46.239 that goes if this doesn't immediately work we're throwing it in the garbage 00:03:44.959 --> 00:03:51.360 just kidding displayport's a terrible connector and it could necessitate a reboot 00:03:48.799 --> 00:03:56.239 that whole split down the middle thing on 4k monitors used to be a thing back 00:03:54.159 --> 00:04:00.720 when they were using two paneled displays and like 00:03:57.840 --> 00:04:04.480 displayport multi-stream technology but i thought this is supposed to be using 00:04:01.920 --> 00:04:08.319 display stream compression to a single tile 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:12.400 display so i'm a little confused let's just double check and see if we even 00:04:09.680 --> 00:04:16.239 have the 4k one yes we do uh 00:04:13.760 --> 00:04:20.959 uh james uh did both sides of it look different 00:04:18.799 --> 00:04:25.680 when you hooked it up so this is our second unit actually the 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:29.520 first one had a broken joystick so we couldn't navigate the menu properly 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:34.400 which wouldn't have been a huge problem except that the up direction didn't work 00:04:32.560 --> 00:04:39.120 on the joystick and it was set to the minimum brightness out of the box so we 00:04:36.880 --> 00:04:43.360 couldn't turn the brightness up now this one 00:04:41.120 --> 00:04:46.639 you have got to be kidding me only down and right work 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:50.080 i'm just going to reboot what 00:04:47.840 --> 00:04:54.240 i think the menu is completely frozen i think we just blue screened the 00:04:51.759 --> 00:04:57.040 monitor's on-screen display i mean not blue strictly speaking 00:04:55.919 --> 00:05:03.360 whatever you guys know what i'm talking about i don't think i've ever seen this before 00:05:00.479 --> 00:05:08.320 we just locked up a monitor firmware uh okay so let's try this again 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:12.240 oh my god okay no that's not what i wanted to do i 00:05:10.960 --> 00:05:18.240 don't really know what to say at this point hold on a second 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:20.320 did switching to HDR make the line go 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:26.479 is it there but just less noticeable no i think it's gone fine screw it 00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:29.039 let's game in HDR at 4k 00:05:26.479 --> 00:05:33.360 144 hertz okay whoa that's weird 00:05:31.600 --> 00:05:38.800 do you see that shadow down the middle now now there are a handful of issues that 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:43.360 eve was aware that we would find with this unit like the housing tolerances 00:05:41.600 --> 00:05:49.039 are not yet final the firmware is obviously early the USB-C port does not 00:05:46.160 --> 00:05:54.320 charge devices correctly yet but what they told us is that in terms of 00:05:51.039 --> 00:05:56.639 performance this was supposed to be very 00:05:54.320 --> 00:06:00.400 close to what customers will eventually receive at least in terms of color 00:05:58.720 --> 00:06:04.639 accuracy they've still got some work to do with apparently the blurbusters folks 00:06:02.240 --> 00:06:08.720 which is somewhat promising to me to get their motion blur reduction like 00:06:06.960 --> 00:06:12.319 really down pat and they claim these monitors will be calibrated at the 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:17.520 factory for delta ease of less than two in p3 standard and at a d65 white point 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:22.160 uh spoiler alert if this is supposed to be a delta e less than two 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:25.919 we don't seem to be quite there yet HDR performance is apparently something 00:06:24.080 --> 00:06:30.240 that they're still tweaking and some good news is that i don't see that dark 00:06:28.639 --> 00:06:33.440 stain down the middle of the screen when we're out of the menu 00:06:31.840 --> 00:06:36.880 oh you know what it's got full screen dimming on right 00:06:35.600 --> 00:06:42.400 now wait what just happened 00:06:40.319 --> 00:06:46.720 it's supposed to be off okay now just a sec 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:50.639 it's clearly on right brandon like when i open the menu 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:55.039 the entire screen clearly gets brighter okay so this it's not supposed to have 00:06:52.800 --> 00:07:00.960 dimming enabled though see backlight dimming is supposed to be off 00:06:57.919 --> 00:07:03.440 so it's just this broken menu 00:07:00.960 --> 00:07:06.319 yeah strangely g-sync doesn't show up at all 00:07:04.240 --> 00:07:10.240 so it doesn't even allow me to force it one other thing we can test is whether 00:07:08.319 --> 00:07:14.560 my laptop will charge right now they say the main problem is 00:07:11.919 --> 00:07:19.280 compatibility so some devices should actually work even 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:21.919 on this early unit for charging mine does not 00:07:22.400 --> 00:07:28.720 this is the bottom one right 00:07:25.919 --> 00:07:31.840 yeah okay well whatever you know what what's the worst that can happen fry my 00:07:30.479 --> 00:07:35.199 laptop pc isn't charging use the recommended 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:42.639 charger and cable and make sure it's directly plugged in all right fair enough the correct way to evaluate a 00:07:38.479 --> 00:07:45.199 display using the blurbuster's ufo test 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:48.880 is not with your eyes but i've looked at it enough times that it 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:54.160 gives me a rough idea to just look at it and i can tell you guys now that there's 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:56.800 no kind of blur reduction enabled 00:07:54.160 --> 00:08:01.360 whatsoever yeah okay okay overdrive off so let's try 00:07:58.879 --> 00:08:04.319 and see if that helps at all because i just don't 00:08:02.960 --> 00:08:09.680 i don't think any of this is doing anything the plan today was to pull out the high 00:08:07.039 --> 00:08:13.360 speed camera and shoot 1000 FPS footage of this so that we could really evaluate 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:17.440 its motion blur performance because that's one of the things that's so great 00:08:15.360 --> 00:08:22.240 about the lg monitor that's based on this same panel but this is so far off 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.639 that there'd be no point even evaluating it 00:08:24.240 --> 00:08:31.039 i mean i don't know but not soon moving on to color then we know that this panel 00:08:29.039 --> 00:08:37.919 is capable of excellent performance which means it comes down to calibration 00:08:33.839 --> 00:08:38.959 unfortunately compared to the lg gn 950 00:08:37.919 --> 00:08:43.680 it's not even close in spite of eve telling 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:48.240 us that this unit was supposed to be pretty representative of the color 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:51.600 accuracy of a finished model now it's better than the one that was locked at 00:08:49.519 --> 00:08:57.040 zero brightness but i wouldn't use it for any kind of color accurate work 00:08:54.080 --> 00:09:01.600 whereas the lg out of the box was pretty darn close so then 00:08:59.920 --> 00:09:06.959 here's our problem going back to the original sales pitch 00:09:03.760 --> 00:09:09.200 everything looks great and honestly 00:09:06.959 --> 00:09:12.880 there's a lot here that's really promising it's 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:18.480 very compelling value if they actually deliver on all those selling points 00:09:15.920 --> 00:09:22.160 but this is the issue with backing tech products on kickstarter 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:26.640 back when they announced this monitor it seemed like unbelievable 00:09:25.040 --> 00:09:32.160 and now the timeline has slipped i mean this 00:09:28.640 --> 00:09:33.920 project began in earnest in march 2019 00:09:32.160 --> 00:09:39.760 to the point where there's competing products that you can 00:09:35.680 --> 00:09:42.080 already buy and this is 00:09:39.760 --> 00:09:48.000 if this actually ships on their estimated date which is february 2021 00:09:44.800 --> 00:09:50.240 i will be floored like 00:09:48.000 --> 00:09:55.760 this unit right here there's a manufacturing date on the back december 00:09:52.480 --> 00:09:57.839 2020. they just made this and it's it's 00:09:55.760 --> 00:10:02.480 just it's not close it's not close at all but with that said 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:06.560 remember how i said you could sort of buy competing products 00:10:04.560 --> 00:10:11.600 let's talk about that for high refresh rate ips monitors we've got the acer 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:14.640 predator xg17 that runs at 240 hertz and 00:10:11.600 --> 00:10:17.760 the ASUS pg259q which actually runs at a 00:10:14.640 --> 00:10:19.600 whopping 360 hertz but those aren't 00:10:17.760 --> 00:10:25.360 really quite comparable because they only run at 1080p whereas 1440p which 00:10:23.279 --> 00:10:32.000 should theoretically be available at up to 240 hertz with the need spectrum is 00:10:28.640 --> 00:10:35.040 much much finer looking now as for 1440p 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:37.519 240hz there is the samsung odyssey g7 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:41.279 but it maxes out at 600 nits peak brightness it sold out basically 00:10:39.680 --> 00:10:45.519 everywhere though in theory you could get it for as little as 550 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:51.839 and it's curved which not everyone is into there's the samsung odyssey g9 that 00:10:47.600 --> 00:10:54.880 one's also 240hz 1440p but is super wide 00:10:51.839 --> 00:10:56.800 also curved and is a thousand dollars 00:10:54.880 --> 00:11:04.000 now as for direct competitors for this guy right here 4k 144hz well lg already 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:07.200 has the 27 gn 950 it's 800 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:10.320 has RGB on the back which is cool but it 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:12.720 has no power delivery no HDMI 2.1 so if 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:15.519 you have a gaming pc and a next-gen console say in your dorm room or 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:21.120 something like that because you're a baller student or whatever and you want to hook them both up to the same display 00:11:19.360 --> 00:11:25.920 well you'll get the best experience with something that does have HDMI 2.1 and 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:30.800 it's sold out everywhere and is going for anywhere from 1100 to 1400 on ebay 00:11:28.959 --> 00:11:37.040 damn new scalpers and finally ASUS has announced an HDMI 00:11:33.839 --> 00:11:39.519 2.1 43-inch monitor but they are also 00:11:37.040 --> 00:11:42.959 not shipping that yet so time could be more on each side than we originally 00:11:42.000 --> 00:11:47.600 thought if they can deliver which is kind of the 00:11:45.440 --> 00:11:53.200 biggest elephant in the room because eve's got a bit of a history the ev was 00:11:51.440 --> 00:11:58.000 a Windows 10 two in one that compared very favorably to microsoft surface pro 00:11:56.079 --> 00:12:02.720 while costing considerably less unfortunately evetech couldn't produce 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:07.200 or fulfill enough orders to meet the demand and many backers receive their 00:12:04.399 --> 00:12:11.839 devices months or even years after they placed their orders it just kind of 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:17.120 points to them not necessarily having a perfect track record when it comes to 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:21.279 supply chain management and following through which sort of raises the 00:12:18.720 --> 00:12:25.360 question i see a lot of potential here but the concern for me is that they were 00:12:23.519 --> 00:12:29.440 so eager to send me something that's not quite ready that it gives me concerns 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:33.200 about the business side of things do they have enough funding to actually do 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:38.560 the 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