This is the PA32 UCDM. ASUS makes some
good monitors, both for gamers and for professionals. But today, I want to ask
the question, why not both? It's 4K 240
Hz QD OLED. This spec sheet says it's
pretty accurate. We'll tell you later how accurate it actually is. Uh, but the
cool thing is that it actually comes with a bunch of different modes built in
that you can choose to get the most out of your professional display.
Wow. It's even got DICOM. I don't even know what DICCom is. I actually had to
look that up for this video. We've also got our USB A to C cable cuz this
thing's got ports, let me tell you. Good old C13 cable. I don't see a power
brick, so it might plug in directly. Some of you hate that, some of you love
it. Everyone's different. Uh, and then we've got a high-speed ultra high I love
saying ultra highspeed HDMI cable. So, it's 2.1. you're going to need this
because this is one of the only monitors that I've opened that doesn't have
DisplayPort. At least ever since DisplayPort became a standard. Like
I've opened older monitors that just had like DVI and VGA and stuff, but uh it
was kind of a shocker. And then we've also got a USBC to Cable. And then we've
got this big old aluminum stand that is
actually preassembled. I don't got to slide a column into a base this time at
all. >> Cool. Looks very appley on first
impression just cuz the gray and the aluminum. It's like a labyrinth of
cardboard. Where do I go? I don't know. I'm lost.
Will you go all the way down or will you hit the It's going to hit the That's why the box opens up more. Wow.
Okay, here we go. Oh my god.
Isn't that something? >> Oh, the TV. Uh yeah, it actually it
looks like a Pro Display XDR because it's got like full aluminum chassis on
the back, which is something I I haven't really seen from any other monitor
maker. Um here,
>> you didn't show us the peel. >> I didn't. You don't get to see the peel
this time. I'm sorry. I'm too fascinated by this wild top firing speaker cuz
that's right. This thing's got speakers. More on that later. Ah, but the one
problem with the stand, there is absolutely no swivel. So, you're going
to have to like angle this thing the way you want it. And like, yeah, it's got
the two columns, so it's super sturdy, but like honestly, I'm a little annoyed
that it can't swivel. That's kind of my only complaint. It can pivot when you'll
need a vertical
4K 240 Hz QD OLED. I don't know. But you
can do this instead of swivel it. It's got height adjustment
and it's also got some tilt.
Aside from how uniform this nice gray design is, I actually really do like the
base. Um, this is really easy to feed cables through and then it's nice and
flat and kind of thin, so you can just lay stuff over there if you want to.
Overall, like it's very pretty. As for the IO, we are plugging in straight into
the monitor. We've got a Kensington lock. And then down here, we've got our
HDMI port, two USBC, one of them which supports Thunderbolt with DisplayPort
and 96 watts of power delivery. So, yeah, you're going to be able to hook up
whatever laptop you want to this thing. And then we've got another USBC, which
only does a little bit of charging and a USBA. It looks good on the outside, but
what about when content is playing on this thing? Let's plug it in after a
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compliance with energy related regulatory regulatory what? The max
brightness setting of energy saving mode is fixed. Absolutely not. Exit energy
saving. Okay, it already looks better. It's a
cutie OLED panel, so we're going to look at like text fringing. And honestly,
that's pretty much the only real problem once it's on. Uh, in a well-lit room,
sure, there's going to be that weird magenta thing in super dark blacks, but
uh I just I don't know. My my room is a cave. It doesn't bother me. Volume,
because like I said, it does have speakers. We'll try those later. Get out
of volume. What I want to look at are all the modes. sRGB, BT79, Adobe RGB,
P3, BT2020, Diccom, HDRPQ3,
HDRPQ, BT2020, which is our most accurate mode. We'll talk about that
later. HLG B22020, HLG P3, and then
you've got Dolby Vision, which is great.
Currently grayed out. Not sure why. Maybe because Windows uh doesn't have HDR on. And then three user modes where
you can set this up however you want. I shouldn't have changed it to user. For
the rest of today, we're going to go to HDR PQBT 2020 optimized. Wow, that looks
terrible. Oh, it's in HDR preview. It'll do HDR preview, which um I'm not a
colorist and I don't edit videos, so I can't tell you why that's a good thing
or not, which is terrible for me to say. Basically, what this is going to try to
do is do HDR with SDR. And most of the time, you don't want that. There might
be some of you out there who do. I am not a professional when it comes to
mastering content or editing videos. So, I'm just going to turn HDR on in
Windows, so it stops doing that and looks a lot better. Okay, that's a lot
more correct. HDR on. Actually really like the little toggle in the bottom
there that tells me the HDR is on. 4K
HDR on 240 Hz. Uh Windows is reporting a
peak brightness of,15 nits. We measured pretty close to that. Their claim is
1,000. Okay, we're going to try our speakers first.
Let's wait and see if there's any bass.
No. But honestly,
those aren't terrible. I just keep being pleasantly surprised by monitor speakers
of all things. Just include them, you guys. Like, it makes for such a nice
experience. This is our typical re footage. Uh, cutielet, so it's going to
have really amazing viewing angles. Anywhere you look at this thing from,
it's basically going to look incredible. And it really does look stunning,
especially in a 4K 31.5 in display. It
just looks good. >> Wo, this looks so good. I'm using 1440p
and this is like night and day difference, >> right? 4K at this screen size is like
140 PPI roughly. It's just sharp. It's
one of those things where like you don't notice it immediately when you go up,
but when you use it for a while and then you go back down, it just doesn't look
nearly as good. Like even just the sign here, this is great. 240 Hz 4K 32 in.
This is basically the display I have at home. It's really hard to say whether or
not you need both a high-end gaming monitor and a high-end work display, but
if you do, I mean, this is basically it.
240 Hz feels great. OLED feels great.
It's just instantly responsive. Uh, we did measure latency as well, and there's
basically next to no um added latency. Coming from someone who daily drives a
panel like this without some of the extra features. Admittedly, it's really
hard to go back. And the nice thing is, say you're working from home and in the
morning you're up early and you're just getting going to game for a little bit.
Shut that off. Now it's time for work and it's super accurate. So, we're going
to talk about the lab results. As for SDR in the sRGB color mode, we tested an
average delta E of just 1.16, which is a
little higher than their claim of under one, but it's still quite impressive. In
HDRPQ BT2020 PQ clip 250 nits, we
measured a delta E ITP of just 4.03 with
a max of 10.05, which is very good, but
it's only 250 nits. At max brightness, the results are a little less impressive
with a delta EITP of 22. As for color gamut, we did reach all of their claims,
but it's still a lot. Like 80% of BT2020 is a ton. And it also does a really good
job of clamping the sRGB color space so
that you're not oversaturating anything while you're working in that mode. Because at $1,900,
it's pretty expensive and it's several hundred more than what you're going to
pay for a similarly speced QD OLED gaming monitor. I cannot recommend this
to gamers. I mean, you just you guys don't need it. You don't need DICOM. You
don't need all of these other modes. They're great for, I'm sure, colorists
and other people who are going to use them if they're going to master content
in those spaces, but I'm not, and most
of you aren't. Overall, it's a pretty solid monitor, but you're going to have to ask yourself if it's worth that
price. So, just use this as a single drop of research in your research bucket
before you pull the trigger. Cuz I'm not a colorist. I'm not a professional
editor. I'm just Nicholas Plof. And this is a display. And this is ShortCircuit.
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