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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 LCD monitor from ASUS I am as

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you guys probably know if you watch my videos at all big into high resolution

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displays I care a lot more about high

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resolution than I do about things like for example higher refresh rates which

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is also cool and we have ASUS's 144 HZ

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monitor right there but for me I love

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having more real estate on my screen and

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I like not seeing as many distracting

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you know large pixels that to me take away from the the crispness of the image

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so yes big into high resolution displays this is a 27in monitor that runs at a

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whopping 2560 by

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1440 16x9 resol solution it is also part

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of ASUS's pro art series which means

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that we can expect outstanding color reproduction and just an overall just

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awesome aesthetic for the monitor itself very professional looking so we've we've

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seen these monitors before a couple times in fact we even have one here in

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the tech tip Studio that we use for our HDMI monitor on our

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camera so there you go yes we actually believe in the Pro art and I'm just

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going to take this out and this this is this is bigger than the one that we have

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so I'm going to go ahead and set this up and then we'll talk a little bit more

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about it now in terms of included accessories this is a premium product

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and they treat it like one which is nice to see so you got an audio cable it does

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have built-in 3 watt speakers and ASUS

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way to go on this one because everyone else when they build speakers into their

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you know otherwise gorgeous looking monitor they go and they put like these

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big like bars on the side of it that are just horrible it looks like isus has

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completely hidden the speaker grills which is fine with me because it might

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affect it might adversely affect the audio quality but who cares because you

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know you're not going to use it unless it's in a pinch anyway so thumbs up way

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to go ASUS good job um moving right along we've got a DisplayPort cable an

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HDMI cable a power cable a VGA cable and

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a dual link DVI cable however the only connectors that I would recommend using

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on this monitor our DVI and DisplayPort because it exceeds the maximum bandwidth

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of most HDMI outputs although there's new fangled ones with faster processors

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that are a little bit different but in order to get that 2560 x440 60 HZ output

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you're going to want to use a proper digital connector no

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VGA at all okay let's have a look at the

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physical oh this this this this is a door okay so you know how normally when

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you have like a square monitor base like this they you know it's not really you

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can't really pivot the whole thing check this out

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they put a rotating Circle part under the bottom of it so that you can like

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this isn't actually the stand it's just kind of there

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see awesome right uh it's got cable management at the back so you just go

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ahead and throw this thing on here so this allows you to take this off Route

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your cables down where they need to go and then you just go ahead and pop this

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into place however it pops into place there we go and you can use that to make

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sure that everything's nice and tidy and runs right down the back of the monitor

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so you don't have wires hanging down here again for a nice nice aesthetic

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you've got a Kensington lock here on the back and all your inputs and outputs are

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going to be rotated this way a little bit more before I do this and show them

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to you so yes this monitor does have full pivot power in DisplayPort in VGA

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in DVI in HDMI in and audio in and out

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so you can use it as a pass through for your headphones as well onscreen display

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is done via hard hardware buttons personally I still prefer this approach

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although there's one monitor the BenQ

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2420t that I don't mind the soft buttons so that that's the one exception other

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than that prefer this approach there's one cool button here see if I can find

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it the quick fit button right there that's really neat because what it does

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is it actually overlays over the entire screen a grid a variety of different

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grids of different sizes when metric and Imperial that allow you to easily line

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up anything you're going to print or or anything you're going to use otherwise outside of the computer and uh and size

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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

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neat one of our Graphics designers is using a couple Pro Arts as well and he's

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actually used it a couple times for uh for print media uh what else is there to

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say about it ah yes I haven't even gotten to this yet so it has an 80

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million to one high contrast ratio I mean that might be optimistic but uh the

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point is with its wide viewing angle and

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um outstanding okay hold on you know

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what we're just going to back up 100% of the srgb color space is

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covered by this monitor it has a very wide viewing angle 178° and

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178° and ASUS claims an 80 million to1 contrast ratio this is all backed up by

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the fact that this is using a PLS panel so that is a basically it's a

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proprietary special version of ips that I personally just love every time I see

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and use a PLS panel I'm struck again by how outstanding the colors are how

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vibrant it is how great the viewing angles are the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still

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my favorite tablet just because of that awesome PLS panel on it so I'm really

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happy to see ASUS implementing that technology on this particular monitor uh

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right we haven't even shown the full range of movements so here I'm going to

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get you guys to look at it from the side so there's your tilt okay there's your

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swivel which is done from the base and then of course your pivot in case you

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wanted to use it in like portrait mode because you are like you know like a

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dude who's made out of a monitor or something like that it does have a vase

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amount so if you did want to mount it on

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a separate mounting stand or whatever else the case may be just go ahead and

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pull those four guys right there out and I think that pretty much covers it thank

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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

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family of monitors sort of a few times here but the proart is separate that's

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the PA Series this is the PB series which is not quite a proart but is also

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looking pretty outstanding from my

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perspective one other thing I should have mentioned is it does have a matte

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screen it's a sort of semiat so it doesn't quite have that same scatter

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effect that you see with super matte screens but you're not really going to see I mean you can plainly see there's

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not a whole lot of reflection coming off it ASUS does have their zero bright dot

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policy covering this monitor so one year of zero bright Dots and a three-year

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warranty for the panel overall don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips

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