it seems like yesterday we were treating 500 plus doll TN panel displays as if
they were a golden gift from the PC Gods just CU they were 4K I mean they had
solid response times with single tile displays with some even delivering 8 bit
panels decent viewing angles and acceptable color reproduction
considering they were TM panels and you know what I guess they were a gift
because at that time 4K monitors with sharp exigo panels were going for
multiple thousands of dollars but the
story is different today and the vp278
4K is a perfect showcase piece for
everything that's great about the onward March of modern technology it's built
better and performs better than what you could buy a short year ago without
costing relative to what you're getting for your money that much more and on the
subject of not costing that much more it's time to drop a solid hint about the
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our guest competitor will be Austin Evans and I guess that's pretty much all
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it the Logitech g303 features a lightweight design an advanced Optical
sensor with Delta zero technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to
match your setup click now to to learn more or check out the link in the video
description the betterness of this monitor begins with the panel specs it's
27 in which is still the right size for me for a 16x9 monitor about the same
vertical height as a 34-in Ultra wide it features a w LED back lit 8bit ahps
panel with Advanced frame rate control to achieve virtual 10-bit performance
something that you are almost guaranteed to not be utilizing thanks to poor
hardware and application support but might make you feel good about your desk
mounted EP and extension the backlight uses DC brightness control and is
therefore flicker-free something which manufacturers are keen on pointing out
is less fatiguing on the eyes viewing angles are outstanding with just a
little bit of contrast shift vertically but nothing noticeable from reasonable
viewing angles the backlight didn't exhibit excessive bleed and the
anti-glare coating on the screen is pleasingly light and it doesn't make
everything behind it hazy but does significantly reduce Reflections and I
also said it's built better what did I mean by that great question the
industrial design is nothing special and screams I belong in an office but that's
not necessarily a bad thing in my book there's something to be said for
practical design the VP 27 84k features
a standard vase amount thumbs up there if you want to put it on a thirdparty
mount but this might not be a big deal
because it also features a wide solidly built base with most of the ergonomic
adjustments that anyone would want including height adjust tilt swivel and
even pivot for the portrait mode fans out there since we've got it on its side
let's have a look at the io there's a two Port USB 3 5 GB per second Hub then
wow that's a lot of HDMI ports W but
there's actually more to them than meets the eye one of them is HDMI 2.0 and we
verified that it was no problem to run Ultra HD resolution at 60 HZ over HDMI
is nice very nice and two of the other ones are MHL 2.0 which means that you
could hook up your MHL compatible phone
to them if you wanted to do that for some reason DisplayPort 1.2 and mini
DisplayPort 1.2 are also included which means pretty much any modern desktop or
laptop can be plugged in and easily switched between or set up in picture in
picture or picture by picture viewing mode with up to four simultaneous inputs
possible in the four corners of the monitor but that's a pretty fringe use
casee scenario and unfortunately you'll have to contend with the onscreen menu
to set it up if everything about this monitor was amazing and actually it's
like pretty darn good I really like it I still wouldn't be able to say the
onscreen menu was anything but wretched they're poorly labeled two is confirm
and one is back for some inexplicable reason 10 points from Gryffindor it uses
touch sensitive buttons with no tactile feel whatsoever
100 points from Gryffindor and the tactile buttons only register about 65%
of the time 500 points from Gryffindor
excuse me view Sonic did I say Gryffindor all those times but like I said everything else about it is pretty
darn good out of the box I mean maybe it's just my luck but even Factory
calibrated displays have always been a little off for me the VP 2780 was a
little bit off white point was about 7% off uh she achieved about 96% of the
claimed 100% % srgb color space and
brightness was cranked up pretty high but to be clear what you're looking at
is not bad performance and brightness can easily be adjusted Without Really
affecting anything else and after a run with the i1 pro I would consider this
puppy a very capable and affordable monitor for pro suumer and even
professional photo and video Work by the way thanks to spectracal and xrite for
hooking us up with the hardware and software that we used for those
performance measurements but let's change gears a little bit it always
amuses when companies seem to just plain not be able to decide what segment of
the market their product is for and they'll have like this presentation deck
that looks like this and it's like um well uh this monitor is great for well I
guess um everything and then there's usually like gaming randomly tacked onto
the end of the list like yeah um well Gamers have money right well it's good
it's good for them but in this case I actually kind of buy it with an
impressive total input leg of about 10 milliseconds this 4K to display will not
be holding you back as long as you're not competing on the professional level
in which case you probably aren't using a 4K display anyway and as much as I can
rag on bonic for advertising an outof thebox Delta e of less than two which is
I mean obviously didn't quite achieve what I will say about the default native
setup that it ships with is that it has a very pleasing look to the eye and that
for gaming use I would actually have no desire to change it to a more accurate
color profile it pops Just Right without
having that way overthe toop saturation and contrast thing that you'd find on
any monitor on a Shelf at Best Buy which leaves the final words to attract the
pure gamer crowd I need to see support for an Adaptive refresh rate technology
of some sort uh free sync or gsync but
the VP 2784 K sells itself admirably to
the semi-pro content creator Who games on the side with its great panel
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