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dasung promised that their paper like you would be the world's first eink

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monitor that was actually usable we felt

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usable was a pretty strong word there's supposed to be text up here you're

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terrifying here but never mind that they said we have a new monitor that will be

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more powerful more sexy and more colorful than you could possibly imagine

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okay wait though colored eink now

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they've got my attention and apparently yours as well here it is

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okay that's pretty cool boasting 3K

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resolution the 25.3 inch paperlike color

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boasts full color ultra speed refresh rate special xcolor filter technology a

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multicolored front light and even a

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stylish backl but is the grass really

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greener now that the grass is really green well you guys saw the title so you

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know it's going to be a little complicated so let's dive into the Tech

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that makes this thing tick and see how it handles everything from the use case

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that it was designed for to ones that are well o o o funnier like this funny

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segue to our sponsor War Thunder you got

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to admit it would be pretty cool to fly a jet or drive a tank well War Thunder

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gameplay is about as close as you can get from the comfort of Home play for

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free at the link below E in the kleenex

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of electrooptic displays works by susp spending charged pigment particles in a

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capsule filled with viscous liquid the capsule gets placed between two

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transparent electrodes that can send a charge either attracting the particles

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to one side or attracting them to the other side of the capsule if you zoom

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way in and you slow things down a bit you can actually see the individual

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particles floating to the surface of the capsule then you just take a bunch of

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those capsules put them in an array and you got an eink display but how dides

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color work well okay one thing you could

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do is you could add colored pigment to your capsules but now hold on a second

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if all we can have is a positive or A negative charge well how do we make sure

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that it's the colored particles that rise to the surface of the capsule well

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we can change the size of the particle if we add slightly larger particles to

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the mix then we can take advantage of the momentum of larger particles so we

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can hold the positive charge just a bit longer and those larger particles will

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accelerate and smash their way to the top pushing the smaller particles out of

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the way but wait a second hold the charge longer you mean even longer than

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a black and white e in display yeah like two frames per minute

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longer so clearly desung had to go a

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different route let's take a closer look using this handy dandy USB microscope we

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can zoom way in on this Monitor and see

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exactly what's going on here would you look look at that just like the monitor

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or TV that you're watching this on right now it uses a color filter on top of the

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E Ink layer but if we look closely

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things get pretty weird what is this sub

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pixel layout okay we need red green and blue in order to make white right so

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here's a triangular pixel with my red green and my blue that I need to make

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white right and you know here's another one but the problem is that in order to

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make another pixel that's right in line with this one I've got to go way over

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here I'm missing an entire row oh wait

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okay no I see it we can have a triangle here and then we can have a triangle

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here and one here and one here and they're kind of offset and if we look

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closely at the surface of the display it's got almost like these denim lines

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running through it so that makes sense our subpixel layout is these nested

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triangles is what I would tell myself good job lonus if it wasn't for the fact

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that these are not sub pixels every

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pixel on this 3200x 1800 display is either red green

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or blue to show you how this pans out in the real world we made this test image

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that is a 3200 by 18800 checkerboard

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pattern now every other pixel should be black and every other pixel should

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be a color I mean if you look at the

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display it's kind of gray so in a sense

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this red green and blue are making whitish but how do they advertise this

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thing as 3200 by 1800 well my friends

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because even though not every one of our

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pixels can impact Hue every one of our

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pixels does impact the brightness and

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saturation of that square and the overall sharpness which is why we need

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to stop using the word resolution to describe pixel count but that's a

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lecture for another day let's play with this thing let's try zooming in to see

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how this thing is going to handle larger checkerboard oh that is cool you can

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actually watch the transitions you can see the particles as they

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slowly darken or brighten let's see what

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happens when I move my cursor across it oh hey oh hey oh how you doing there

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buddy there's the little thingies on the hand icon as you can probably imagine

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though on a display that can only sort of produce white gray introduces some

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unique challenges let's go ahead and have a look at the no signal screen oh

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wow those are not supposed to look like that are they so it's trash then well

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not quite so far everything we've done has been weird test patterns what about

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real world usage well the first thing I notice about it is that uh we still have

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the same issue as last time where you're going to see the ghost of whatever it is

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you were doing last on top of any new content unless you clear the display and

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do a slow refresh okay drawing in green

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it's like kind of greenish I can see

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every single Pixel with the naked eye that is not something I'm used to this

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is an LGH HDR test video that you guys can go watch on your own if you want to

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have some idea of what it's supposed to look like to be fair this is like the

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worst case scenario for this monitor the ghosting on black is way worse than when

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it's ghosting on white it's not for watching video but how does it compare

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to the non-color one do we have the old oh we have the old one it's right

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here you know what I think the ghosting

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is better on the new one oh yeah I mean

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that's something at least let's see how they hold up NVIDIA though so we'll do

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the classic clear and then I'm going to go ahead and start our giant movie CD

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laser disc before we do that we should make sure these are in the same mode

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these have five different speeds that they can refresh at we got uh fast mhm

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uh fast plus fast plus plus fast plus

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plus plus uh-huh and fast plus Plus+ plus right okay video mode with both of

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them fast plus plus plus

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plus I don't know how much I I need the

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color I was about to say I really appreciate having theor color well I

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mean like look here like you just have these like weird specks of green like

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nothing's really filled in it's all sporadic and I feel like it looks a lot

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smoother with the gray yeah but that shot didn't have a lot of color in it so

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you weren't really getting that benefit at least this plant is green like look

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look here oh at least I can appreciate

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the you know the glinting light off of this laser disc what even is that but

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did you notice that the front light is on no I mean does that

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matter wait this one doesn't have the

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light on at all okay compared to our black and white

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display the color filter ends up wasting a ton of Light which defeats the purpose

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kind of cuz the point of e in right is it's supposed to be more like the

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experience of reading off of a piece of paper with natural ambient light and on

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the original black and white one we can totally do that the brightness of this

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to my eye is actually comparable to this one with the front light activated and

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we found that so much light was lost that we almost always preferred to have

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the front light on you guys can see just

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how dim it is with it powered off but

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maybe there's a use case where it's still worth the tradeoff let's take a

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look at word processing and document creation oh this is even great cuz we

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have highlights and stuff in here yeah like that's ooh really bad oh goodness

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it's really not sharp even with a clear

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that looks like ass what if we try changing the mode okay sure I mean I

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should put this one in text mode too then text mode is very very very

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aggressive with oh you want it black like look at this it's blue let's go up

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one level oh no that's black now the sharpness is okay now but I would never

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edit text at this size no like I'd be working probably more like this I think

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I would rather have my gray lighting over here than this highlighting over

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here with this low resolution text let's say I was willing to accept those

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compromises though how usable is this let's take this document from roasting

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SB and Creator gaming setups and try and make some edits to it I just hold on I'm

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just trying to fix the formatting here okay what is happening right now

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that's the page break there's a page break I can't even see it here you can

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totally see it on this one yeah but to be fair we are in text mode so text mode

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look no no no no if text mode is not

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what you need for editing a text document then they no there you go I

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just changed the contrast but okay the rest of it you didn't finagle enough I

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can barely even read this now you should have finagled more well that's okay now

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you can press your page break and then you can go like this and change your

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mode so that's back to be better you know there also this is supposed to be

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yellow mhm you wanted me to try to game on this thing oh yeah we're going to

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game on this thing but let's you know what let's do what color e Inc does best

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let's look at some Comics yes I could see that being a legitimate use case for

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this uh that's not that great lus what I

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tell you about finagling I'm working on the I'm working on it oh a graphic mode

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not bad we can get the other one this one's also messed up now so I'm going to

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come around and give this its best shot if I'm reading text sharpness is

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everything yep and that's way sharper

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way way sharper on the black and white maybe a newspaper comic strip isn't the

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best comparison cuz I was like what am I really losing in black and white here

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but that's cuz it was smartly designed to not always be printed in color but

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that's most Comics here's where I think it actually is probably the best case scenario for it is this older Watchman

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comic and I think it does look really great it benefits from the incredible

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coloring of the Watchman series and it does get that dot printed cheap dot

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printed feeling really well it Nails

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this but when you're not looking at cheap dot printed stuff um falls apart

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pretty fast it's just disappointing especially compared to like I don't know

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any other display in its price bracket but let's game in a minute first I want

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to talk about the folks who might be considering a display like this in spite

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of all the obvious downsides and those are people who are suffering from

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digital eye strain AKA computer vision syndrome now I won't dispute the

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perceived improved comfort of using an eink display but it should be noted that

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there is still a lack of scientific evidence to demonstrate that blue light

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or any light emitted from a display is bad for your eyes and while some of it

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might be down to poor translation desung makes a lot of broad medical claims that

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they probably haven't tested so if you're someone who suffers from digital

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ey strain rather than just taking what they're saying at face value try

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following the 202020 rule and make a

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point of remembering to Blink if you have trouble with that keep some saline

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eye drops at your desk in order to improve your hydration of course don't

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take advice about your eyes from either monitor manufacturers or YouTubers and

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if you have a persistent problem make sure you talk to a professional all

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right enough boring medical stuff let's game Super Meat Boy challenge dasung

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black and white versus dasung color versus Alienware 2 40 HZ OLED and you

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may be wondering hey what's up with that that seems unfair it's the same price

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well actually mine's $400 cheaper are those the speakers built

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into this monitor yeah they are not very good and this is

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Sammy if you guys lose this and you blame your Hardware that's uh that's

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kind of embarrassing I've never played this one moment please I'd like to tweak

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my monitor a little bit yeah Sammy you can also change your settings if you'd

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like oh look at that got to get that fine tuning okay so we're just going to

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go we're going to go to the first level go so you have to get you have to save

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the lady okay done nice and then just Mash a to get

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the next level uh you can wall jump by like slamming against things oh I can't

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even see myself there a wall here are you on the

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slow are you on the what is oh my

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God how far are we expected to go here I

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think someone set a timer for a minute wait wait wait oh well that wasn't very

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good I didn't I can't see anything it's all gray uh how do I change the refresh

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rate again M plus yeah I yeah I think so

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okay you want fast plus plus dude I can't I can't see for oh hold on okay I

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turn my contrast down this is definitely better where am I where are you L is

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don't worry about it okay I'm going this is going way more better now that I can

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actually see any of what I'm doing I need beat lonus be embarrassing right no

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you're not dude you're not going to beat me no no no no No 3 2 1 all

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right I'm at 112 I'm at 1 N I don't know

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what I'm at uh you almost were there 111 111 so I

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was at 110 so clearly that's proof that color does improve your gaming

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performance yeah not just that but once I was able to tune it The Limited

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ghosting compared to the first gen one is definitely better like this is very

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usable compared to what poor Sammy was dealing with over there with that said

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I'm not getting much of the benefit of the color of it at this point no wow now

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that I look at that it looks so much better of course no one is buying this

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thing for gaming and if you are the sort of person who has a use case that can

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benefit from it you know who you are say for example if what you do is review

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documentation all day for a living something like this could be worth the

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investment and investment it will be the

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color paperlike is worth about

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$1650 which somehow is less than dung's

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equivalent non color Inc monitor but

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with the trade-offs that are inherent to the technology I can see how they would

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view these two displays as equal if not

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the same I guess the question now is you know color E Ink it's definitely a thing

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so why hasn't Amazon released a color e-reader yet with the Kindle brand

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recognition that they have they charge a fortune for a color version but if I had

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to guess I'd say it probably comes down to the lack of brightness and the poor

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performance in both black and white and especially grayscale so for the time

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being you'll have to turn to competitors like Kobo who will have Linked In the

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video description along with dung if

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