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 display
port 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
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videos yeah it's a 1080p monitor in case you guys are wondering 1920 x 1080 I
don't think I ever mentioned that