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so today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an ASUS lcd monitor this is

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an ultra slim model the ms-236h

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and there's not a whole lot you can tell about it from the outside of the box so

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i'm going to go ahead and just start getting this guy opened up here you can see that the box

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is in like 300 million different languages so that's useful you can put

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this on display in a store no matter what country you happen to be in

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okay let's get this box opened up

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i don't remember if i mentioned already but this is an ultra slim model

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maybe the cameraman can indicate to me whether i said that already yeah

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apparently i did say that already so basically all we're going to do today is

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we're going to unbox this thing get it set up and then plug it into the ASUS

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notebook that i unboxed the other day so i just took out the panel i can already

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tell it's very thin and uh here we go let's have a look at

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the included accessories so the first thing we find on the bottom

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side of this foam is

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this

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huh well we'll figure that out in a minute okay the other things we find

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inside are a power brick so because it's

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so slim they actually were not able to build the power adapter for the monitor

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into the panel so it just has it's a small tiny power brick i mean this thing

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is no big deal 2.1 amps 19 volts and then you've got an adapter cord for that

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and then included cables they've got an HDMI to dvi cable that is smart you know

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what i really appreciate this because very few people have dv guy out on their

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computers these days and since it's a HDMI in i mean the signal's the same

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there's no disadvantage to adapting dvi to HDMI versus using native dvi or

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native HDMI so including a cable like this allows them to save

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whatever they save by not integrating a dvi port and it still gives you the

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convenience of being able to plug into dvi on your computer awesome next we

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have a vga cable just your bog standard

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blue vga cable okay so we're on a quest now to figure

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out what this thing is

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i've never seen something quite like that before

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but i'm hoping that once i get the monitor out of the bag it will become

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apparent what that is okay so the first thing you notice is

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this is as advertised very very slim so it's

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only about the width of my finger and it's very very light as well

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and so you can see why don't we start at the back actually let's start at the top

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so at the top you got some ventilation holes so that's going to keep the the

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excess heat coming off of the light and the other electronics under control and

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then why don't we move around to the back where we have what appears to be

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the mount for the stand so i'm going to go ahead and assume

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that this is something to do with the stand for this monitor

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although i would be lying if i said i could figure out

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just how it works uh-oh hopefully i didn't break it oh

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okay so this plugs in this goes in here

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okay that goes there

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and then you screw this in

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okay so that's getting much tighter now i think we're there

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okay and then this which i thought i broke but it looks like i didn't goes

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there is that is that really how it mounts

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yeah okay well

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mystery solved that is how to mount the monitor

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okay great well why don't i grab the power cord we'll hook this thing up and have a look

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i thought i had just kind of gone crazy there and i couldn't i thought maybe it

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was like a a ring that goes between the monitor and

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the stand or something like that but um

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no no that's the stand very creative definitely something

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different you know if you want a monitor with a different looking stand

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then you can get this one okay let's plug in

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the power get this plugged in actually let's go

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let's have a look at the front first okay so this is a um

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a 23-inch monitor and it has a 1920x10

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resolution so that means that it is hd so 16x9 aspect ratio

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why don't i start taking off some of these protective stickers here so you

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can see ASUS is using a highly glossy finish for this monitor

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which as long as you don't touch it is definitely very very very nice looking

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and although the screen itself uses

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a matte finish a anti-reflective finish

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so personally i really prefer that you don't get the same

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vibrance that you get with your colors as you do with a glossy screen but you

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do get more accuracy with the colors and you also

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usually the ones that have the matte screen tend to be higher quality panels

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is my experience so touch sensitive button right there and then all of the

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buttons for the adjustments over on this on this side here are touch sensitive so

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that's pretty cool so why don't we hit the menu button

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let me see how does this work okay so if i touch that do i hold that

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interesting so if i press menu what happens

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maybe the buttons below or above well why don't we have a look at the

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back of the monitor first and then we'll figure that out later i haven't actually

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shown you all of the input options yet so around the back we've got our power

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input then we have a kensington lock so you can secure your monitor if you're in

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an office environment or you need to secure your monitor then you have HDMI

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in vga in and headphones for HDMI that's

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pretty cool okay so why don't we just plug this into the computer that i have

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running in the background here this is the ASUS gaming notebook that we unboxed

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the other day and i'll plug that into the HDMI port

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and hopefully it's going to be pretty straightforward to get this thing

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running okay yeah it's detected

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and we're going to press that

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and there we go

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i think hmm

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monitor is on and soos logo

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and i'm going to press it again and it says vga no signal so maybe what

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we have to do is select a different source HDMI eg okay yeah the touch button is

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working so it's touch sensitive i've selected HDMI input and there we go it

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is working that was relatively straightforward let's see

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if i can adjust the brightness a little bit here so brightness

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oh oh cool okay so it's got a few different presets so you got standard

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mode theater mode gaming mode which basically turns up the

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gamma night view mode scenery mode and standard mode

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menu button seems to be working now which is much much improved anyway thank you for

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checking out my unboxing of the ms-236h