welcome to a very exciting unboxing this is the Samsung sync Master something or
other s27a
850d so Samsung's not real great at
naming their monitors in a way that is like you know dresses it up you know
it's like a numeric numbering scheme
however if they were going to call this something they would call it the Samsung
display that might actually get lonus to change his monitor that's right so I actually have
a 305t plus that I bought way back in the day so 30-in monitor so I'm not
going to be getting a resolution upgrade I'm not going to be getting a size
upgrade this is a 27in display with a 2560 by 1440 resolution so yes for you
purists out there this is a
16x9 monitor it is not 16 by10 however I
would argue that once you get up to this kind of a size at this kind of a
resolution it starts to matter a lot less because you have that outstanding
vertical space to work with regardless
of whether you're using 16x9 or 16x 10
just going to pull all the accessories out here and we're going to proceed with
the unboxing very slim very low profile stand I'm already impressed with that so
why am I so excited about this when I already have a
305t and the answer is that this monitor
uses a new display technology called PLS
so you guys are probably familiar with MVA PVA IPS and
TN IPS until now certain kinds of ips
have been the highest quality displays in terms of color reproduction in terms
terms of vibrancy in terms of viewing angle so whether you're looking at it
from here or from here from here IPS has delivered the best experience now VA is
sort of a a second but not that far away
uh alternative to IPS with the advantage
of being less expensive and finally TN
is fast TN is um fine for gamers who
don't care about the color accuracy and
are more concerned with uh less motion blur uh which is often referred to as
ghosting but that's a misnomer they're actually different things so less motion
blur um but it does not deliver a very
satisfying experience for professionals who are doing video or photo editing or
who are concerned about color accuracy in any way at all honestly I'm not a big
TN Advocate um my monitor is a VA panel
some of the high-end 30in monitors are IPS panels so whatever that's all
neither here nor there at this point in time why am I excited about PLS the
reason for that is the first time I saw a PLS
display was on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
10.1 now the Galaxy Tab 10.1 if you
watched my tablet Roundup was what I declared to be hands down the best
screen on any tablet yes that includes
the IPS displays on like the ASUS
transformer it includes the IPS display
on the iPad 2 which is widely regarded to be an excellent display fantastic
display in terms of color oh man this is hard to assemble in midair like
this okay got it in terms of color in
terms of viewing angle just brightness
everything just gorgeous great display and the Galaxy Tab 10.1 blew it
out of the water in my opinion so let's
have a look at this Monitor and see sort
of the the aesthetic here that I think
is of what I think is going to be one of
the most interesting monitors that I have ever unboxed or ever seen in action
so here we go pretty standard pretty professional look this is a business
class monitor so you're not going to find any sort of hint of color like
designs or any of that consumer stuff you got a black bezel you got got your
on screen display navigation buttons here there's your menu there's your down
your up your sensor which is cool okay so it does have that sensor on it so
hold on I'm not sure if on this particular monitor it senses whether
you're in front of it or not give me a sec I'm going to find out so yes that's what I thought it was
that's the Eco motion sensor which will actually turn the monitor on when you
sit in front of it and turn it off when you go away here we have the source
selection and we've got our power so there's not a whole lot of Intrigue
there this has a nice finish to it though so you can see this actually has
like kind of a brushed look although it's not made of aluminum which is good
because as soon as you touch it it would put IR removable fingerprints all over
it and then it would look horrible forever all right let's turn it around
and let's have a look at the thinness of the panel so it is Led back lit which is
going to improve your power economy as well as improve the profile of it so
it's not super thick but this is not sort of a repeat of their 3D monitor
which I have out there that's okay you can't really see it from here which is
almost as thin as an iPhone now Samsung
has not skimped on the io for this particular panel we have audio in
headphones out a usb3 hub yeah yeah 3
usb3 ports there's your USB 3 in so I'm
very excited to see that included very much a Next Generation feature here we
have our power in our DVI in 2 DVI in1
so you have dual DV in DisplayPort in having these kinds of input options is
outstanding because remember this is a very high resolution panel 2560 x40 that
means that it requires a significant amount of processing in order to process
those images on the fly so here let's go
ahead and turn it this way so you can see it has portrait
mode it has land Escape mode it I don't
know if it y okay so it turns this much
and it turns this much okay and we've
also got a height adjustable stand up to here and down to
there let me just see if there's anything that I'm missing here in terms
of what Samsung has to say for themselves I haven't gone over the
included accessories yet so I'm going to go ahead and oh it says it comes with
four usb3 ports well where's the last one then hold on just a minute I don't
see another one okay well we're going to say three for the time being and then
perhaps it's four uh it does come with a dual link DVI cable remember you will
need a dual link compatible cable and dual link
compatible video card because this is
like once again a very high resolution panel it comes with the USB 3 A2B
connector that you will need in order to hook up the Monitor and let me just have
a look at what else we've got so PLS technology yes PLS like I said I can't
emphasize this enough better than anything else out
there in my limited experience so far which is limited only because I I was
only able to see it in a tablet form factor this is going to be the true acid
test for me because this is a full size
monitor with a nice matte screen because
remember all those tablets are using glossy screens so I can truly evaluate
it with a matte screen and I can compare
it to IPS monitors and VA monitors that
I have used in the past so Samsung's
claim for this particular display which I did write down because I thought it
pretty much SU summarized it was that the new PLS technology delivers picture
perfect and natural looking images for more accurate photo editing and more
spectacular gaming so yeah I think that's pretty much it I
want you guys to stay tuned on my ncixcom channel so that you can have a
look at this thing in action because we are going to fire it up right now I
don't really have the time but I'm going to actually use the thing give you my
Impressions and let you know what I think of this PLS monitor is available a
couple of different sizes we have the 27 in here but it is also available in 24
in and if you are interested in the specs so the 1,00 to1 dynamic contrast
ratio although I have to tell you guys that's very meaningless because uh
something with a 30,000 to1 contrast ratio can often not look as good as
something with a legitimate 1,000 to1 contrast ratio it just depends on how
it's being rated 5 millisecond grade to grade response time which is also
completely meaningless I will play some games on it I'll let you guys know how it goes and that that's pretty much it
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