{"video_id":"k8S78v3UGT4","title":"BenQ RL2450HT RTS Gaming LED Monitor with Smart Scaling Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2012-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":385,"segments":[{"start_s":7.399,"end_s":15.76,"text":"welcome to my unboxing of Ben Q's professional level RTS gaming monitor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":13.44,"end_s":23.16,"text":"endorsed by the one and only these guys who play for Korean they","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.439,"end_s":24.88,"text":"are okay they are members of a um Korean","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.16,"end_s":29.64,"text":"Esports team we don't know which one it is and I don't know who they are so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":27.48,"end_s":34.64,"text":"supposedly though they are probably pretty good because at this point in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.0,"end_s":39.0,"text":"time I have not yet had my picture on the box of a product so if they can do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":36.96,"end_s":43.0,"text":"it then they must be better at video games than me which is not saying much","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":41.68,"end_s":47.44,"text":"but I'm sure they're really good okay anyway so it's optimized for RTS What on","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":45.48,"end_s":50.8,"text":"earth does that even mean it has a couple features that you might find","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":48.879,"end_s":56.48,"text":"relevant so first of all let's get this out of the way this is a TN monitor so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":53.16,"end_s":61.559,"text":"this is a speed optimized rather than","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":56.48,"end_s":63.32,"text":"color and um accuracy optimized Monitor","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":61.559,"end_s":66.92,"text":"and I shouldn't say accuracy because I mean a pixel is a pixel you don't","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":64.879,"end_s":71.36,"text":"exactly it's not like one monitor is like blurrier than another one but by","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":69.52,"end_s":76.84,"text":"accuracy I mean mostly the color accuracy the Vibrance um TN panels are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":74.56,"end_s":83.68,"text":"usually plenty bright but you tend to have less contrast so your whites are","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":79.72,"end_s":86.04,"text":"darker your blacks are lighter um","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":83.68,"end_s":89.2,"text":"however what you get for all of that because you're doing very little","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":87.24,"end_s":95.36,"text":"processing to the image and you are using a faster less accurate panel is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":92.64,"end_s":101.479,"text":"you get the quick gray to gray response times that Gamers often ask for so this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":99.04,"end_s":106.079,"text":"panel is rated at 2 milliseconds gray to gray which means that for gaming if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":103.64,"end_s":109.439,"text":"you're upgrading well it's hard to say that's an upgrade because a lot of those","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":107.52,"end_s":114.479,"text":"CRT guys are like no nothing is an upgrade to a CRT a CRT is the best","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":111.399,"end_s":116.479,"text":"technology ever um which it might be but","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":114.479,"end_s":120.439,"text":"it's hard on the eyes um if you are upgrading from a CRT to this particular","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":118.439,"end_s":129.64,"text":"monitor you are going to notice less input leg and less of a an overall delay","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":125.159,"end_s":132.239,"text":"between the screen refreshing and it not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":129.64,"end_s":137.28,"text":"being as refreshed as it is now so that is to say that it is a 60 HZ panel and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":135.239,"end_s":141.08,"text":"in between one of those flashes in a second and the next one you're going to","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":138.8,"end_s":148.2,"text":"see less uh less blurriness as well as less","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":144.519,"end_s":150.0,"text":"lag so here we go just going to take","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":148.2,"end_s":154.56,"text":"this off what else makes it RTS optimized you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":152.08,"end_s":157.64,"text":"might ask and I would tell you that what's kind of cool about it and this is","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":156.12,"end_s":163.159,"text":"one of the reasons that Intel is actually using this particular display","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":160.28,"end_s":168.56,"text":"uh for tournaments is that it includes a mode that allows you to hereo uh blah","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":166.12,"end_s":171.48,"text":"blah blah black equalizer for Optimum visibility oh that's that's actually","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":169.959,"end_s":176.519,"text":"interesting okay this is a cool feature out of everything I'd say this is probably one of the biggest ones so what","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":174.76,"end_s":179.84,"text":"they've done is they've optimized the output of the display so while you're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":178.2,"end_s":183.2,"text":"not going to get necessarily the best color or whatever else it's going to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":181.48,"end_s":187.159,"text":"fast and you're going to be able to clearly see details in the dark so","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":185.12,"end_s":190.319,"text":"they've tweaked it a little bit so that when you have like a you know let's say","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":188.92,"end_s":194.48,"text":"you're playing an RTS and you have sort of a fog of war or whatever type less","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":192.92,"end_s":198.319,"text":"visibility area of the map you'll be able to see the units what kind of units","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":196.959,"end_s":201.239,"text":"they are as opposed to just seeing sort of black shapes moving on top of a black","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":200.0,"end_s":205.68,"text":"background and then all of a sudden they're in your base and you're in trouble uh so that's kind of neat and","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":204.28,"end_s":208.48,"text":"then this guy right here so this is why Intel is and actually a lot of","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":207.28,"end_s":212.08,"text":"tournaments are starting to use these BenQ monitors","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":210.519,"end_s":218.04,"text":"right here so you can switch between display modes so you can virtualize a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":214.0,"end_s":222.2,"text":"17in 19in 19inch wide 21 wide 22 wide or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":218.04,"end_s":224.68,"text":"23 wide monitor on the surface of this","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":222.2,"end_s":229.12,"text":"one without actually changing the panel you're using so this will allow you if","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":227.159,"end_s":233.12,"text":"you are you know a competitive gamer and you're playing at home it will allow you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":231.0,"end_s":237.159,"text":"to practice in the setting that you're going to be using at a tournament so at","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":235.4,"end_s":240.56,"text":"the resolution at the screen size you're going to be using this can be an","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":238.4,"end_s":243.959,"text":"advantage and it also allows them to have flexibility when they use these for","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":242.239,"end_s":249.439,"text":"tournaments to set it to whatever they want depending on the game that is being","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":246.159,"end_s":251.239,"text":"played so what else we got here 16 by9","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":249.439,"end_s":253.879,"text":"widecreen viewing height adjustment okay so yeah let's have a look at the overall","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":252.56,"end_s":261.04,"text":"aesthetic of the monitor so we've got our rotation we got our whoopsy","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":257.68,"end_s":265.199,"text":"daisies uhu","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":261.04,"end_s":267.12,"text":"so oh okay there we've got our I think","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":265.199,"end_s":270.919,"text":"this one's called pivot pretty sure it's called pivot it goes only one way so it","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":269.36,"end_s":275.56,"text":"goes this way so you can be in portrait mode and play like Starcraft in like","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":273.96,"end_s":279.84,"text":"Ultra stretched portrait mode if you want but that's stupid don't do that um","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":277.759,"end_s":285.96,"text":"we've also got a height adjustable stand this is nice BenQ is one of the honestly","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":282.039,"end_s":287.96,"text":"Ben Q really has I believe set the bar","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":285.96,"end_s":291.4,"text":"in terms of the overall usability of their monitors because even on their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":289.8,"end_s":296.56,"text":"lower-end monitors and you can tell when it's a lower-end monitor because it'll","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":292.96,"end_s":298.4,"text":"tend to sort of not be as robustly built","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":296.56,"end_s":302.32,"text":"as the higher end monitors and I'm not knocking them I'm just saying you know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":300.199,"end_s":304.919,"text":"you get what you pay for even on a lot of their lower-end monitors they're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":303.6,"end_s":310.039,"text":"still including things like a highight adjustable stand and proper ergonomic","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":307.72,"end_s":314.199,"text":"adjustments and I think that is critical because everybody needs to be","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":312.0,"end_s":319.12,"text":"comfortable looking at their monitor and being able to adjust it oh yeah it also","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":316.639,"end_s":323.88,"text":"tilts this guy right here being able to adjust it is instrumental in that so I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":321.08,"end_s":328.72,"text":"would rather have a slightly less builtup um stand that actually has all","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":327.16,"end_s":332.24,"text":"the adjustments versus having one that looks really great is like made of metal","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.639,"end_s":335.96,"text":"and is like beautiful and like brush finish but actually like you can't move","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.44,"end_s":340.56,"text":"anything so there you go there's my two cents about that uh includes a VGA cable","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":338.52,"end_s":344.44,"text":"would have liked to see a DVI cable included","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":342.0,"end_s":348.759,"text":"but yeah it's neither here nor there I suppose on the bottom we've got VGA DVI","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":346.88,"end_s":352.88,"text":"and HDMI in as well as a headphone outport so if you are using HDMI then","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":351.16,"end_s":358.4,"text":"you can uh listen to your audio and your headphones there we've also got an AC","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":355.84,"end_s":363.84,"text":"power adapter plug spot as well as a Kensington lock up here last but not","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":360.919,"end_s":366.88,"text":"least this is a Vasa compatible LCD so if you wanted to put it on something","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":365.6,"end_s":372.039,"text":"then you could do that you could just take it right off the stand that it comes with and put it on something else","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":370.12,"end_s":375.319,"text":"so I think that pretty much covers it for me at this point in time thank you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":373.639,"end_s":380.4,"text":"for checking out my unboxing and overview of the RTS monitor from Ben Q","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":379.199,"end_s":385.319,"text":"don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":382.319,"end_s":385.319,"text":"videos","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"welcome to my unboxing of Ben Q's professional level RTS gaming monitor endorsed by the one and only these guys who play for Korean they are okay they are members of a um Korean Esports team we don't know which one it is and I don't know who they are so supposedly though they are probably pretty good because at this point in time I have not yet had my picture on the box of a product so if they can do it then they must be better at video games than me which is not saying much but I'm sure they're really good okay anyway so it's optimized for RTS What on earth does that even mean it has a couple features that you might find relevant so first of all let's get this out of the way this is a TN monitor so this is a speed optimized rather than color and um accuracy optimized Monitor and I shouldn't say accuracy because I mean a pixel is a pixel you don't exactly it's not like one monitor is like blurrier than another one but by accuracy I mean mostly the color accuracy the Vibrance um TN panels are usually plenty bright but you tend to have less contrast so your whites are darker your blacks are lighter um however what you get for all of that because you're doing very little processing to the image and you are using a faster less accurate panel is you get the quick gray to gray response times that Gamers often ask for so this panel is rated at 2 milliseconds gray to gray which means that for gaming if you're upgrading well it's hard to say that's an upgrade because a lot of those CRT guys are like no nothing is an upgrade to a CRT a CRT is the best technology ever um which it might be but it's hard on the eyes um if you are upgrading from a CRT to this particular monitor you are going to notice less input leg and less of a an overall delay between the screen refreshing and it not being as refreshed as it is now so that is to say that it is a 60 HZ panel and in between one of those flashes in a second and the next one you're going to see less uh less blurriness as well as less lag so here we go just going to take this off what else makes it RTS optimized you might ask and I would tell you that what's kind of cool about it and this is one of the reasons that Intel is actually using this particular display uh for tournaments is that it includes a mode that allows you to hereo uh blah blah blah black equalizer for Optimum visibility oh that's that's actually interesting okay this is a cool feature out of everything I'd say this is probably one of the biggest ones so what they've done is they've optimized the output of the display so while you're not going to get necessarily the best color or whatever else it's going to be fast and you're going to be able to clearly see details in the dark so they've tweaked it a little bit so that when you have like a you know let's say you're playing an RTS and you have sort of a fog of war or whatever type less visibility area of the map you'll be able to see the units what kind of units they are as opposed to just seeing sort of black shapes moving on top of a black background and then all of a sudden they're in your base and you're in trouble uh so that's kind of neat and then this guy right here so this is why Intel is and actually a lot of tournaments are starting to use these BenQ monitors right here so you can switch between display modes so you can virtualize a 17in 19in 19inch wide 21 wide 22 wide or 23 wide monitor on the surface of this one without actually changing the panel you're using so this will allow you if you are you know a competitive gamer and you're playing at home it will allow you to practice in the setting that you're going to be using at a tournament so at the resolution at the screen size you're going to be using this can be an advantage and it also allows them to have flexibility when they use these for tournaments to set it to whatever they want depending on the game that is being played so what else we got here 16 by9 widecreen viewing height adjustment okay so yeah let's have a look at the overall aesthetic of the monitor so we've got our rotation we got our whoopsy daisies uhu so oh okay there we've got our I think this one's called pivot pretty sure it's called pivot it goes only one way so it goes this way so you can be in portrait mode and play like Starcraft in like Ultra stretched portrait mode if you want but that's stupid don't do that um we've also got a height adjustable stand this is nice BenQ is one of the honestly Ben Q really has I believe set the bar in terms of the overall usability of their monitors because even on their lower-end monitors and you can tell when it's a lower-end monitor because it'll tend to sort of not be as robustly built as the higher end monitors and I'm not knocking them I'm just saying you know you get what you pay for even on a lot of their lower-end monitors they're still including things like a highight adjustable stand and proper ergonomic adjustments and I think that is critical because everybody needs to be comfortable looking at their monitor and being able to adjust it oh yeah it also tilts this guy right here being able to adjust it is instrumental in that so I would rather have a slightly less builtup um stand that actually has all the adjustments versus having one that looks really great is like made of metal and is like beautiful and like brush finish but actually like you can't move anything so there you go there's my two cents about that uh includes a VGA cable would have liked to see a DVI cable included but yeah it's neither here nor there I suppose on the bottom we've got VGA DVI and HDMI in as well as a headphone outport so if you are using HDMI then you can uh listen to your audio and your headphones there we've also got an AC power adapter plug spot as well as a Kensington lock up here last but not least this is a Vasa compatible LCD so if you wanted to put it on something then you could do that you could just take it right off the stand that it comes with and put it on something else so I think that pretty much covers it for me at this point in time thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the RTS monitor from Ben Q don't forget to subscribe for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos"}