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it seems like yesterday we were treating 500 plus doll TN panel displays as if

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they were a golden gift from the PC Gods just CU they were 4K I mean they had

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solid response times with single tile displays with some even delivering 8 bit

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panels decent viewing angles and acceptable color reproduction

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considering they were TM panels and you know what I guess they were a gift

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because at that time 4K monitors with sharp exigo panels were going for

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multiple thousands of dollars but the

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story is different today and the vp278

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4K is a perfect showcase piece for

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everything that's great about the onward March of modern technology it's built

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better and performs better than what you could buy a short year ago without

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costing relative to what you're getting for your money that much more and on the

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subject of not costing that much more it's time to drop a solid hint about the

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next episode of scrapyard Wars It's coming sometime in the next month and

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our guest competitor will be Austin Evans and I guess that's pretty much all

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the hints but drop a like and let us know if you're stoked to see

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it the Logitech g303 features a lightweight design an advanced Optical

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sensor with Delta zero technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to

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match your setup click now to to learn more or check out the link in the video

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description the betterness of this monitor begins with the panel specs it's

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27 in which is still the right size for me for a 16x9 monitor about the same

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vertical height as a 34-in Ultra wide it features a w LED back lit 8bit ahps

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panel with Advanced frame rate control to achieve virtual 10-bit performance

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something that you are almost guaranteed to not be utilizing thanks to poor

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hardware and application support but might make you feel good about your desk

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mounted EP and extension the backlight uses DC brightness control and is

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therefore flicker-free something which manufacturers are keen on pointing out

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is less fatiguing on the eyes viewing angles are outstanding with just a

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little bit of contrast shift vertically but nothing noticeable from reasonable

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viewing angles the backlight didn't exhibit excessive bleed and the

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anti-glare coating on the screen is pleasingly light and it doesn't make

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everything behind it hazy but does significantly reduce Reflections and I

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also said it's built better what did I mean by that great question the

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industrial design is nothing special and screams I belong in an office but that's

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not necessarily a bad thing in my book there's something to be said for

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practical design the VP 27 84k features

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a standard vase amount thumbs up there if you want to put it on a thirdparty

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mount but this might not be a big deal

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because it also features a wide solidly built base with most of the ergonomic

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adjustments that anyone would want including height adjust tilt swivel and

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even pivot for the portrait mode fans out there since we've got it on its side

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let's have a look at the io there's a two Port USB 3 5 GB per second Hub then

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wow that's a lot of HDMI ports W but

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there's actually more to them than meets the eye one of them is HDMI 2.0 and we

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verified that it was no problem to run Ultra HD resolution at 60 HZ over HDMI

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is nice very nice and two of the other ones are MHL 2.0 which means that you

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could hook up your MHL compatible phone

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to them if you wanted to do that for some reason DisplayPort 1.2 and mini

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DisplayPort 1.2 are also included which means pretty much any modern desktop or

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laptop can be plugged in and easily switched between or set up in picture in

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picture or picture by picture viewing mode with up to four simultaneous inputs

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possible in the four corners of the monitor but that's a pretty fringe use

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casee scenario and unfortunately you'll have to contend with the onscreen menu

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to set it up if everything about this monitor was amazing and actually it's

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like pretty darn good I really like it I still wouldn't be able to say the

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onscreen menu was anything but wretched they're poorly labeled two is confirm

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and one is back for some inexplicable reason 10 points from Gryffindor it uses

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touch sensitive buttons with no tactile feel whatsoever

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100 points from Gryffindor and the tactile buttons only register about 65%

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of the time 500 points from Gryffindor

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excuse me view Sonic did I say Gryffindor all those times but like I said everything else about it is pretty

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darn good out of the box I mean maybe it's just my luck but even Factory

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calibrated displays have always been a little off for me the VP 2780 was a

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little bit off white point was about 7% off uh she achieved about 96% of the

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claimed 100% % srgb color space and

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brightness was cranked up pretty high but to be clear what you're looking at

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is not bad performance and brightness can easily be adjusted Without Really

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affecting anything else and after a run with the i1 pro I would consider this

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puppy a very capable and affordable monitor for pro suumer and even

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professional photo and video Work by the way thanks to spectracal and xrite for

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hooking us up with the hardware and software that we used for those

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performance measurements but let's change gears a little bit it always

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amuses when companies seem to just plain not be able to decide what segment of

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the market their product is for and they'll have like this presentation deck

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that looks like this and it's like um well uh this monitor is great for well I

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guess um everything and then there's usually like gaming randomly tacked onto

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the end of the list like yeah um well Gamers have money right well it's good

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it's good for them but in this case I actually kind of buy it with an

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impressive total input leg of about 10 milliseconds this 4K to display will not

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be holding you back as long as you're not competing on the professional level

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in which case you probably aren't using a 4K display anyway and as much as I can

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rag on bonic for advertising an outof thebox Delta e of less than two which is

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I mean obviously didn't quite achieve what I will say about the default native

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setup that it ships with is that it has a very pleasing look to the eye and that

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for gaming use I would actually have no desire to change it to a more accurate

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color profile it pops Just Right without

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having that way overthe toop saturation and contrast thing that you'd find on

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any monitor on a Shelf at Best Buy which leaves the final words to attract the

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pure gamer crowd I need to see support for an Adaptive refresh rate technology

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of some sort uh free sync or gsync but

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the VP 2784 K sells itself admirably to

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the semi-pro content creator Who games on the side with its great panel

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