welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 LCD monitor from ASUS I am as
you guys probably know if you watch my videos at all big into high resolution
displays I care a lot more about high
resolution than I do about things like for example higher refresh rates which
is also cool and we have ASUS's 144 HZ
monitor right there but for me I love
having more real estate on my screen and
I like not seeing as many distracting
you know large pixels that to me take away from the the crispness of the image
so yes big into high resolution displays this is a 27in monitor that runs at a
whopping 2560 by
1440 16x9 resol solution it is also part
of ASUS's pro art series which means
that we can expect outstanding color reproduction and just an overall just
awesome aesthetic for the monitor itself very professional looking so we've we've
seen these monitors before a couple times in fact we even have one here in
the tech tip Studio that we use for our HDMI monitor on our
camera so there you go yes we actually believe in the Pro art and I'm just
going to take this out and this this is this is bigger than the one that we have
so I'm going to go ahead and set this up and then we'll talk a little bit more
about it now in terms of included accessories this is a premium product
and they treat it like one which is nice to see so you got an audio cable it does
have built-in 3 watt speakers and ASUS
way to go on this one because everyone else when they build speakers into their
you know otherwise gorgeous looking monitor they go and they put like these
big like bars on the side of it that are just horrible it looks like isus has
completely hidden the speaker grills which is fine with me because it might
affect it might adversely affect the audio quality but who cares because you
know you're not going to use it unless it's in a pinch anyway so thumbs up way
to go ASUS good job um moving right along we've got a DisplayPort cable an
HDMI cable a power cable a VGA cable and
a dual link DVI cable however the only connectors that I would recommend using
on this monitor our DVI and DisplayPort because it exceeds the maximum bandwidth
of most HDMI outputs although there's new fangled ones with faster processors
that are a little bit different but in order to get that 2560 x440 60 HZ output
you're going to want to use a proper digital connector no
VGA at all okay let's have a look at the
physical oh this this this this is a door okay so you know how normally when
you have like a square monitor base like this they you know it's not really you
can't really pivot the whole thing check this out
they put a rotating Circle part under the bottom of it so that you can like
this isn't actually the stand it's just kind of there
see awesome right uh it's got cable management at the back so you just go
ahead and throw this thing on here so this allows you to take this off Route
your cables down where they need to go and then you just go ahead and pop this
into place however it pops into place there we go and you can use that to make
sure that everything's nice and tidy and runs right down the back of the monitor
so you don't have wires hanging down here again for a nice nice aesthetic
you've got a Kensington lock here on the back and all your inputs and outputs are
going to be rotated this way a little bit more before I do this and show them
to you so yes this monitor does have full pivot power in DisplayPort in VGA
in DVI in HDMI in and audio in and out
so you can use it as a pass through for your headphones as well onscreen display
is done via hard hardware buttons personally I still prefer this approach
although there's one monitor the BenQ
2420t that I don't mind the soft buttons so that that's the one exception other
than that prefer this approach there's one cool button here see if I can find
it the quick fit button right there that's really neat because what it does
is it actually overlays over the entire screen a grid a variety of different
grids of different sizes when metric and Imperial that allow you to easily line
up anything you're going to print or or anything you're going to use otherwise outside of the computer and uh and size
it up to make sure that what you're looking at here is what you're actually going to end up with it's just kind of
neat one of our Graphics designers is using a couple Pro Arts as well and he's
actually used it a couple times for uh for print media uh what else is there to
say about it ah yes I haven't even gotten to this yet so it has an 80
million to one high contrast ratio I mean that might be optimistic but uh the
point is with its wide viewing angle and
um outstanding okay hold on you know
what we're just going to back up 100% of the srgb color space is
covered by this monitor it has a very wide viewing angle 178° and
178° and ASUS claims an 80 million to1 contrast ratio this is all backed up by
the fact that this is using a PLS panel so that is a basically it's a
proprietary special version of ips that I personally just love every time I see
and use a PLS panel I'm struck again by how outstanding the colors are how
vibrant it is how great the viewing angles are the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still
my favorite tablet just because of that awesome PLS panel on it so I'm really
happy to see ASUS implementing that technology on this particular monitor uh
right we haven't even shown the full range of movements so here I'm going to
get you guys to look at it from the side so there's your tilt okay there's your
swivel which is done from the base and then of course your pivot in case you
wanted to use it in like portrait mode because you are like you know like a
dude who's made out of a monitor or something like that it does have a vase
amount so if you did want to mount it on
a separate mounting stand or whatever else the case may be just go ahead and
pull those four guys right there out and I think that pretty much covers it thank
you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 from ASUS don't
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videos and I should clarify something I've referred to this and the proart
family of monitors sort of a few times here but the proart is separate that's
the PA Series this is the PB series which is not quite a proart but is also
looking pretty outstanding from my
perspective one other thing I should have mentioned is it does have a matte
screen it's a sort of semiat so it doesn't quite have that same scatter
effect that you see with super matte screens but you're not really going to see I mean you can plainly see there's
not a whole lot of reflection coming off it ASUS does have their zero bright dot
policy covering this monitor so one year of zero bright Dots and a three-year
warranty for the panel overall don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips
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