so today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an ASUS lcd monitor this is
an ultra slim model the ms-236h
and there's not a whole lot you can tell about it from the outside of the box so
i'm going to go ahead and just start getting this guy opened up here you can see that the box
is in like 300 million different languages so that's useful you can put
this on display in a store no matter what country you happen to be in
okay let's get this box opened up
i don't remember if i mentioned already but this is an ultra slim model
maybe the cameraman can indicate to me whether i said that already yeah
apparently i did say that already so basically all we're going to do today is
we're going to unbox this thing get it set up and then plug it into the ASUS
notebook that i unboxed the other day so i just took out the panel i can already
tell it's very thin and uh here we go let's have a look at
the included accessories so the first thing we find on the bottom
side of this foam is
this
huh well we'll figure that out in a minute okay the other things we find
inside are a power brick so because it's
so slim they actually were not able to build the power adapter for the monitor
into the panel so it just has it's a small tiny power brick i mean this thing
is no big deal 2.1 amps 19 volts and then you've got an adapter cord for that
and then included cables they've got an HDMI to dvi cable that is smart you know
what i really appreciate this because very few people have dv guy out on their
computers these days and since it's a HDMI in i mean the signal's the same
there's no disadvantage to adapting dvi to HDMI versus using native dvi or
native HDMI so including a cable like this allows them to save
whatever they save by not integrating a dvi port and it still gives you the
convenience of being able to plug into dvi on your computer awesome next we
have a vga cable just your bog standard
blue vga cable okay so we're on a quest now to figure
out what this thing is
i've never seen something quite like that before
but i'm hoping that once i get the monitor out of the bag it will become
apparent what that is okay so the first thing you notice is
this is as advertised very very slim so it's
only about the width of my finger and it's very very light as well
and so you can see why don't we start at the back actually let's start at the top
so at the top you got some ventilation holes so that's going to keep the the
excess heat coming off of the light and the other electronics under control and
then why don't we move around to the back where we have what appears to be
the mount for the stand so i'm going to go ahead and assume
that this is something to do with the stand for this monitor
although i would be lying if i said i could figure out
just how it works uh-oh hopefully i didn't break it oh
okay so this plugs in this goes in here
okay that goes there
and then you screw this in
okay so that's getting much tighter now i think we're there
okay and then this which i thought i broke but it looks like i didn't goes
there is that is that really how it mounts
yeah okay well
mystery solved that is how to mount the monitor
okay great well why don't i grab the power cord we'll hook this thing up and have a look
i thought i had just kind of gone crazy there and i couldn't i thought maybe it
was like a a ring that goes between the monitor and
the stand or something like that but um
no no that's the stand very creative definitely something
different you know if you want a monitor with a different looking stand
then you can get this one okay let's plug in
the power get this plugged in actually let's go
let's have a look at the front first okay so this is a um
a 23-inch monitor and it has a 1920x10
resolution so that means that it is hd so 16x9 aspect ratio
why don't i start taking off some of these protective stickers here so you
can see ASUS is using a highly glossy finish for this monitor
which as long as you don't touch it is definitely very very very nice looking
and although the screen itself uses
a matte finish a anti-reflective finish
so personally i really prefer that you don't get the same
vibrance that you get with your colors as you do with a glossy screen but you
do get more accuracy with the colors and you also
usually the ones that have the matte screen tend to be higher quality panels
is my experience so touch sensitive button right there and then all of the
buttons for the adjustments over on this on this side here are touch sensitive so
that's pretty cool so why don't we hit the menu button
let me see how does this work okay so if i touch that do i hold that
interesting so if i press menu what happens
maybe the buttons below or above well why don't we have a look at the
back of the monitor first and then we'll figure that out later i haven't actually
shown you all of the input options yet so around the back we've got our power
input then we have a kensington lock so you can secure your monitor if you're in
an office environment or you need to secure your monitor then you have HDMI
in vga in and headphones for HDMI that's
pretty cool okay so why don't we just plug this into the computer that i have
running in the background here this is the ASUS gaming notebook that we unboxed
the other day and i'll plug that into the HDMI port
and hopefully it's going to be pretty straightforward to get this thing
running okay yeah it's detected
and we're going to press that
and there we go
i think hmm
monitor is on and soos logo
and i'm going to press it again and it says vga no signal so maybe what
we have to do is select a different source HDMI eg okay yeah the touch button is
working so it's touch sensitive i've selected HDMI input and there we go it
is working that was relatively straightforward let's see
if i can adjust the brightness a little bit here so brightness
oh oh cool okay so it's got a few different presets so you got standard
mode theater mode gaming mode which basically turns up the
gamma night view mode scenery mode and standard mode
menu button seems to be working now which is much much improved anyway thank you for
checking out my unboxing of the ms-236h