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Hotspot Shield service makes your internet browsing safer more secure and

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fully private click now to learn more is Samsung's 28d 590d 28 in Ultra HD 4k

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monitor too good to be true I mean it's

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literally 1 the price of what you would

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have been expected to pay six short months ago if you wanted a 4K display

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for your PC so let's get to it shall we

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kicking things off on the product page we find this little tidbit unlike other

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value 4K monitors notably the Dell p2815q

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Samsung's value 4k monitor runs at 60 HZ

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and boasts 1 millisecond gr to grade response times and unlike other 4K

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monitors in general it does it as a single stream no multistream sidebyside

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display Tom Foolery huge thanks to Ryan shro at PC per for helping me test this

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by the way since Samsung doesn't document the feature and none of this

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Cop Out 30 HZ nonsense that may be suitable for watching movies but is a

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huge step backwards for gaming or even General computer use where we've become

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accustomed to 60 HZ or higher refresh rates over the last couple of decades

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please note however that you will need a DisplayPort 1.2 output to run at 4K 60

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HZ with a single cable otherwise you can run 4K 30 HZ with a single HDMI input or

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another cool option is that you could use an HDMI cable and a DVI to HDMI

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cable to both of the HDMI inputs with Samsung's picture by picture mode and a

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display spanning technology like AMD ifinity or NVIDIA surround except that

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AMD and their Infinite Wisdom doesn't allow custom resolutions in their driver

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and I can't get the DVI adapter output to run at 1920 x 2160 and NVIDIA in

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their equally Infinite Wisdom doesn't allow two monitor surround

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configurations thanks guys this solution

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works pretty well though and does help AMD users stuck with DisplayPort 1.1

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outputs but if you've got DisplayPort 1.2 then just run that by itself the

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next spec of note is that while Samsung specifically calls out that the panel

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technology is TN they're also claiming support for 1 billion colors so what

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does that mean 1 billion color support versus 16.7 million on a typical 8bit

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display implies that we're dealing with a 10bit display PCM monitors. info

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believes that Samsung is achieving their results with a true 8 bit panel and 2

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bit frame rate control dithering pretty unexpected for a TN monitor but the even

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more unexpected thing about this is that it actually appears to work pretty well

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obviously this footage of the screens is being captured by a camera encoded and

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compressed in editing and then compressed Again by YouTube so if you

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can't see a clear difference in these grayscale gradients you'll have to

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believe me when I say that our 590d looks a lot more similar to our ASUS Pro

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art 246 q a true 10bit IPS display with

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a 12- bit lookup table than it does to our 25 tww an 8bit native display very

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impressive so far but a monitor product

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page wouldn't be complete without some pure horse plop and Samsung's Mega

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Infinity seriously Dynamic contrast ratio is the stupidest thing I've seen

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in quite some time fortunately they list a static contrast ratio as well and it's

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1,000 to1 which is both fairly respectable and much more believable

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from having used the product let's move on physically the monitor is a mixed bag

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for me the slim bezel and thin overall design is great the semi matat screen is

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just the right mix of anti-glare and vibrant colors and the rearm mounted

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joystick for the onscreen controls works really really well but I sure wish they

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hadn't gone with a glossy bezel and the stands features are very unexceptional

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with tilt only and no support for Swivel

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pivot or even hide adjust which I could have forgiven if they'd included a four-

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screw vase amount on the back so it could be replaced but they didn't

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however I guess I can see why that would have been difficult with how thin the

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monitor is overall at the back of the monitor we find two HDMI inputs and a

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DisplayPort input and along with the power brick Samsung does include cables

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for each of those in the Box a nice touch these can be used one at a time or

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in a couple of unique ways with Samsung touting their unscaled 1080p picture in

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picture mode and their 1920 by 2160

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picture by picture modes as content enjoyment and productivity boosters of

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course you can also scale SC the 1080p picture and picture and move it around

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if you want as well all right so specs are fun but who is this product for

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exactly there aren't really any native 4K movies or TV shows now and there's

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plenty of time for better display options to become available before that

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really happens so while the 590d is a crazy value for a 4k monitor it's still

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pretty pricey and other than high refresh rate gaming grade LCDs you'd be

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hard pressed to find a more expensive TN monitor something that may be a turnoff

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for media Buffs and general consumers but the price really wouldn't be that

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scary to a prosumer user or an entry-level creative professional and 4K

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is a very tempting feature so could it take the place of a value 1440p 27 in

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like the ASUS pb278q which features a PLS panel or even an entry-level

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professional display like the 24in pa49

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Q which comes with a factory calibrated 10bit ah IPS panel wide gamut support

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and some other handy features albeit at a 24in size well short answer no long

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answer the pitfalls of TN are still here

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in spite of the 1 billion color rating side to side viewing angles were strong

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with minimal color shift so from a normal sitting position the screen looks

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quite uniform but vertical viewing

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angles are not good enough for any kind of serious professional work where color

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consistency is needed with color saturation being noticeably High at the

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top of the monitor versus the bottom from a fixed viewing position but

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creative Pros the news isn't all bad from a workflow perspective the extra

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pixels are well I'll put it in the words of my editor edzel I want one and he's

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got a point if you view your new 4k display as an additional piece of

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equipment rather than as a replacement for your existing monitor I think you'll

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be much happier with your purchase check out this Premier layout that is enough

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screen real estate for an unscaled 1080p program plenty of room for Source clips

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and timeline as well as all the little tools you need then when you're done

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with that you just drag it over to a smaller color calibrated display for any

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serious color work and for a little over $1,000 you've got a Super Value

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optimized dual monitor setup for your work and if your work doesn't depend on

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color then there are lots of ways that other professionals might use the extra

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pixels online poker players can leverage the extra space by spreading everything

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out manually or day Traders might use a program like display Fusion to divide it

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up into four virtual 1080p workspaces the sky is the limit the caveat here

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though is that unless your eyes are very very good using it in this manner will

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be difficult and while you can scale up UI elements in Windows so that they're

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larger but just sharper due to the higher pixel density not all programs

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scale text correctly and some will look downright awful but what about games if

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your graphics card can take the heat PC Gamers have had 4K content for years now

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Samsung claims that due to its 1 millisecond grade to grade response

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times you will not notice any lag so this might be a fantastic gaming monitor

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but is it true unfortunately we don't have the gear to test it empirically but

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to give us some idea of what we're working with we pulled out the fairly well regged pb278q and took some high

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speed footage of our two monitors running Far Cry 3 side by side we opted

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to use Samsung's gaming mode for our tests this is a welcome feature that's

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found on many TVs that does slightly reduce image quality but promises less

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lag from the image source and our results are pretty impressive the two

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displays were nearly impossible to distinguish from each other playing back

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even frame by frame at 240 FPS so that's about 4 milliseconds per frame in

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gameplay but when entering and exiting menus we got some interesting Insight

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while the input latency on the PB might be slightly less because the 590 D's

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pixel switch so much faster the image actually reaches the eyes of the gamer

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at the same time or even slightly faster this information combined with this

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monitor's wicked pixel density that all but eliminates the need for

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anti-aliasing translates into a very satisfying gaming experience with very

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little noticeable delay and motion blur the 28d 590d is a solid recommendation

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for gamers just make sure you've got the graphics card muscle and frame buffer to

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back it up which leads us to our conclusion now the same goes Save The

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Best For Last but in this case I actually saved the worst for last I know

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your finger has been itching on that buy button for the last 8 minutes or so and

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if you do Buy buy one please use our affiliate links in the video description

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but only do so if you fully understand the drawbacks of this monitor it may be

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the best value 4K display on the market but it's still pretty expensive and some

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Corners did get cut first up the high quality metal construction of the stand

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is a selling point that seems to be missing on samsung.com and rightfully so

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but can be found on retailer websites including Amazon and NCI the stand is

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indeed made of metal but I wouldn't drive my car over a bridge made of it

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the second big drawback is the uneven appearance of the panel when certain

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uniform colors are displayed thankfully full white and full black are not

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affected but some colors such as dull blue and any shade of gray are affected

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to capture this on camera we did have to shoot from an angle but the effect the

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modeled effect is very noticeable in person even looking at it straight on it

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was actually the first thing I noticed about the monitor when I powered it up for the first time the last thing that

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would delay the purchase for me personally is that the monitor uses

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DisplayPort 1.2 not the upcoming 1.2a

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which is rumored to contain support for AMD's g-sync competitor free sync a

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feature that I would really like to see on any monitor that I spend over $500 on

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for gaming although I mean it's no fault of the monitors it's not available yet

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so with all that out of the way no it's not perfect but if you're okay with all

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that stuff if you want a 4K display on a budget will you be happy with your

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purchase is this worth the asking price compared to other products available in

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the market right now the answer is yes all the yes go buy it now yes it is a

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phenomenally good value anyway guys thank you for watching my team and I

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