{"video_id":"XWVRmcjmOu8","title":"ASUS PA238Q Pro Art Series 23\" 1080p Pre-Calibrated LCD Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2013-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":480,"segments":[{"start_s":7.319,"end_s":13.2,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of the PA 238 Pro","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":10.559,"end_s":18.56,"text":"art series LED backlit monitor from ASUS that has been around the world you can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.48,"end_s":21.0,"text":"see it's covered in shipping labels and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.56,"end_s":26.08,"text":"packing tape and yes this is not the first time this product's been unboxed","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":22.76,"end_s":28.76,"text":"but it is a cool product and it is here","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":26.08,"end_s":34.8,"text":"in the lab so we might as well do a video about it now I did do a video 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a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":430.319,"end_s":435.8,"text":"different color scheme on the start menu and you know how the colors kind of fade","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":433.96,"end_s":440.52,"text":"along towards the end of the start menu I could actually see blocks of color","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":438.44,"end_s":444.199,"text":"like this like they didn't fade smoothly on a monitor like this I mean that's an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":442.759,"end_s":448.08,"text":"extreme example the other way but this is an extreme example in terms of like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":446.599,"end_s":453.52,"text":"not going to be blocks of color so everything will fade very very smooth smoothly it can actually produce more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":451.4,"end_s":458.12,"text":"colors in addition to being accurate than a standard monitor can I think I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":456.319,"end_s":461.52,"text":"mentioned the LED backlight already so it's Mercury free and therefore more","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":460.12,"end_s":465.879,"text":"environmentally friendly and I think we're pretty much","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":463.759,"end_s":470.759,"text":"done so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pa8 238 Q from ASUS","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":469.12,"end_s":475.36,"text":"don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":472.72,"end_s":481.0,"text":"videos yeah it's a 1080p monitor in case you guys are wondering 1920 x 1080 I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":477.24,"end_s":481.0,"text":"don't think I ever mentioned that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of the PA 238 Pro art series LED backlit monitor from ASUS that has been around the world you can see it's covered in shipping labels and packing tape and yes this is not the first time this product's been unboxed but it is a cool product and it is here in the lab so we might as well do a video about it now I did do a video a while back about the proart 24in monitor which we are actually still using to this day for the very important task of monitoring our our filming while we shoot so it's actually in there in the techtips room y so it's going to go get you guys a shot of it no that's fine that's good enough it's there trust me um so the reason we use it for that is because PA series monitors come factory calibrated for the best possible outof box uh color accuracy so an IPS panel helps with color accuracy but a non-calibrated IPS panel can be just as inaccurate as as anything so that is why for professional users as Seuss came out with this line of products that comes pre-calibrated so that oh there's lots of accessories in there so you know what here we're going to put that there hope it doesn't fall apart we're going to cover the accessories so that professional users who don't necessarily have access to color calibration equipment or anything like that can have something that works out of the box it is DisplayPort ready so there's a DisplayPort cable that's included we probably won't need that or maybe we will need that I don't know let's settle on we might need that we have a power cord we have a USB A to B USB 2 cable we have a DVI cable a VGA cable which we definitely won't need okay user manuals okay support CD as well as aha the calibration report so here it is this is the one that actually was run on your monitor serial number this test equipment this r scale tracking gamma values and there you have it so they guarantee an average Delta e of less than five that's what they're going for and that is the Delta e values for all of these different colors so that is the point of this monitor although with that's not to say that it's not great for gaming as well a lot of people ask me what's the best monitor for gaming to which I reply well a good monitor is good for gaming it's like when people ask me what's the best headset for gaming a good headset is good for gaming when it comes to sound and it comes to images I mean yes there have been monitors in the past that are just you know color accurate but phenomenally slow and therefore terrible for gaming um although with the uh with the headset example there's no such thing as a headset that's terrible but uh but good for gaming or vice versa um so while there have been monitors in the past that have been pretty terrible for gaming it's not really the case anymore with most modern VA or IPS or PLS panel so this is an IPS panel and it has a 6 millisecond respon time I have personally used the 24in version for gaming it is a very satisfactory experience two thumbs up and I personally find that the improved color accuracy and and vividness of the image is a definitely an acceptable trade-off for any minute difference in input leg or in response time of the pixels compared to a TN panel which if you guys follow me on Twitter you know that I am not a huge fan of T panels anything but a TN panel is sort of My Philosophy so in terms of inputs we've got a ton of inputs that are supported in side by side or picture in picture um except you can't do HTMI and DVI at the same time so you can do VGA and DVI picture and picture you know these and these these and these these and these uh so DisplayPort HDMI DVI VGA we've got an audio pass through as well as USB 2 in that supports two off here and two off here with the internal Hub we've also got an internal power supply in this monitor I do like to see that and uh power switch all right what makes proart series special well it is highly styrofoam resistant as you can plainly see so is my shirt snowing in the tech tips lab there we go that looks a little bit better now okay has a couple cool things this is called quick fit so you got inches here and here centimet here and here and then you can actually press the quick fit button which is this guy right there and what it does is it brings up a variety of different documents or a variety of different things that you might actually have to scale something against which is very convenient if you're creating something that is intended to be printed out a particular size or if you're working on something that is going to be an A4 document you can really preview it in the actual size that it will be and you can even have grid lines that'll help you line things up according to how big you want them to be if you've ever tried to like print a greeting card or something on your computer you know how frustrating it is if you actually don't have any idea what the scale of it's going to be like once you actually print it out very robust stand the pro art series monitors have awesome awesome stand so you've got all of this T um whatever this is called swivel right you've got height adjust up to here again little marks you can measure how far your height adjusting should you so desire uh so there you go just like that you've got um swivel tilt I don't know what this is no this isn't tilt this is uh whatever goes into portrait mode okay just that way like that you've also got tilt this one's tilt okay and it is very well built it's made of plastic but it's not like made of plastic it's just made of like pretty solid plastic okay got lots of ventilation holes here on the back once again you can actually measure like how many degrees off you are with the dilon markers on the back very adorable um I think that pretty much covers everything I want wanted to say about it so what's the advantage well it's uh it's got oh great it has a 10 bit 10 bit lookup table so what that means is that it can actually produce um more accurate and more smooth gradients of color so on really horrible TN panels and I'm not going to name any names over here but we're actually going to go look at one um you know not naming any names but uh you know what this demo isn't going to work this time unfortunately because uh yeah okay 3D 3D monitors tend to be the worst worst offenders for this but I for whatever reason I had um I had a different color scheme on the start menu and you know how the colors kind of fade along towards the end of the start menu I could actually see blocks of color like this like they didn't fade smoothly on a monitor like this I mean that's an extreme example the other way but this is an extreme example in terms of like not going to be blocks of color so everything will fade very very smooth smoothly it can actually produce more colors in addition to being accurate than a standard monitor can I think I mentioned the LED backlight already so it's Mercury free and therefore more environmentally friendly and I think we're pretty much done so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pa8 238 Q from ASUS don't forget to subscribe to L Tech tips for unboxings reviews and other computer videos yeah it's a 1080p monitor in case you guys are wondering 1920 x 1080 I don't think I ever mentioned that"}