a lot of Esports monitors are kind of stuck in the past that's why Sony
sponsored this video so we could unbox their m10s a 480 HZ 27 in 1440p OLED gaming
monitor that has a bunch of cool Pro features and can shrink down to a nice
24 1/2 in size for those of you major
CS2 or valerant Players let's see what's in the box we've got part of the stand
something I'm actually really keen on they partnered with fanatic to try to
make something that's uh just perfect for Esports we'll we'll see why later
but it's really small and they have a really thin base so you can put a keyboard on it uh here's the other part
the big column column also has oh it's so hard to when there's no weight on it
but it's also got measurements so you can actually tick off where exactly you
like all right let's find our actual panel here we've got a really small
cable here for power so no C13 that's what a C7 or a C8 we've also got a
DisplayPort cable uh one cool feature is that it is DisplayPort 2.1 it's only
uh br10 um I would love to see full fat
bit rate but you know what the reality is DSC is pretty good um so it should be
fine for the vast vast majority of you here's the other half of our power nice
big power brick so it's not staying in the monitor then finally we've got a
handy dandy setup guide shows that you can route some cables through the stand
that's nice and it looks like a color accuracy report looks relatively good
we'll get into more of what our results are there's actually they just have a
gamma curve and a grayscale tracking so I would have liked to see some kind of
Delta e2000 color accuracy report but whatever we'll uh we we tested it
ourselves we'll talk about that later ah here we go oh it's so thin let's get our
cover off you can see here why the stand
is actually so cool look how thin that is you can put a keyboard on that no
problem you can get right up close it's got tons of maneuverability it's
actually got 360°
swivel wow I think that's one of the first times I've ever seen a full 360
swivel that isn't like kind of truncated in the way that it'll go like this and
it'll go like that but it's kind of stuck somewhere this is a full you can spin that all the way around you spin me
right round baby uh the only thing is it
can't pivot don't get me wrong it's a 480 HZ gaming monitor you're not going
to want to Pivot it into portrait mode 99 times out of 100 but what if 5 years
from now you're still using it and something even crazier we got we got
thousand Herz monitors now you want to turn this into like a little side
portrait monitor that's not an option instead you're going to have to sell it get something else cuz uh it's just not
going to Pivot for you look at how thin that panel is and then the box with all
of the electronics controls and stuff it's actually pretty nice they've also
got a multi-layer thermal cooling solution this thing can do 1,300 nits
and it should keep it nice and cool one thing I forgot to mention is the level of tilt it's actually not bad uh
surprising amount of tilt up if you really wanted to I typically just kind
of keep mine basically flat or maybe tilted down if they're a little higher
up I'm also surprised I thought for sure just based on pictures that this would
be either like really back or front heavy but it's pretty solid honestly I
don't think anyone's going to like knock this over as for buttons and whatnot
we've got a nice power button dedicated power button and then what appears to be
yep navigation nipple or nubbin on the back this is actually probably my
favorite combination I don't like when the navigation nipples is also the power
button as for I/O we've got a 3 and 12 mm headphone jack couple of usba a ports
usbb two HDMI inputs One DisplayPort
and then we've got our power and an extra usba that I actually like how
they've labeled this it is specifically for updates so the whole shell looks
pretty good but how does it look turned on let's fire it up and take a look we
got it all fired up looks pretty good
let's make sure it's actually set to what we wanted to $479.99 baby
10 bit color oh I don't want 10 bit I'm an SDR I want to change this to HDR cuz
with the beauty of OLED is that it looks incredible in HDR Windows not so much
but as soon as we put content on I promise it'll actually look really good yeah there we go 10 bit baby 27 in is
pretty typical for most of you it feels a little bit uh small to me now I'm used
to a 32 in so you know we're gaming though we're going to we're we're
competitively gaming let's get this in here oh yeah and and then check this out
keyboard fits right over top let's play some
CS2 the nice thing about 1440p at 27 in
is that you've got a pretty good pixel density it's about 110 PPI and uh this
thing I'm not in it yet but it should be able to go to a cool 24 and 1/2 in mode
so even though I'm this closed now that's too much but when it's down to this that should be like actually pretty
okay so let's set it to our 24.5 in oh Center or bottom that's cool
so you can have we'll let's see what Center looks like but it's probably right in the middle this is way better I
highly recommend changing the size of the screen outside
of game uh don't do it mid because you're going to end up with some really
weird issues um but this honestly looks pretty
cool it's pretty good you got some black bars you can put centered if you wanted to um but I'm pretty happy with it
overall and I'm happy with how good the screen looks because it's a 480 HZ OLED
display so we're talking about lightning fast pixel response times I think they
advertise something like 0.03 millisecond grade a gray um you've got
480 HZ so uh everything is going to be
fed to you at a very quick rate to the point where like Clarity motion Clarity
especially along with those near instant pixel response times it's just perfect
like you flick your mouse and your screen just looks great um it's also got
g-sync if you want to I think that you know when you're rocking a 480 HZ
monitor at this price point which we'll talk about in a little bit you're
probably going to be using a pretty big graphics card alongside it and I don't
know how much you're really going to need adaptive sync cuz you're not really going to be in the like 60 to even 120
Herz uh or 120 FPS range most of the
time I think it's totally fine one thing that's really cool though if you for
some reason maybe it's the contrast and you just want to boost everything you
love the look of a TN panel you can turn on FPS Pro mode which lets you practice
on a simulated LC CD before you get wrecked in the next CS2 tournament
everything's just kind of boosted there's not a lot of contrast if you're
playing fpss and you want to see in every dark shadowed area this is
probably the mode for you I don't think it looks the best but I love a lot of
contrast it's an OLED panel it should be able to do like a million to1 contrast
ratio with those perfectly deep blacks especially with a 1300 it's Peak
brightness rating that's strong let's try FPS Pro Plus uh this mode should
highlight enemies or outline them okay we're playing Halo now where G where
enemies actually have outlines to them unlike counter- strike and uh we've got
the FPS Pro Plus mode turned on and I've got to say it's very noticeable how
outlined they are and from a competitive standpoint okay sure I get it that's
going to give you an edge but just from a visual standpoint I'm not a huge fan
but I love immersion I'm not trying to win every time whereas like but but if
that's what you want it's going to help you do that this man can't hit a single
shot no I hit him a bunch of times there what are you talking about sure as for
just gaming on this monitor it looks really good uh I don't know how else to
say it when you finally get to try OLED
with a high refresh rate and HDR content
it just looks incredible you have such massive contrast your scenes look
perfectly highlighted where every pixel is a dimming Zone um it's nice and sharp
thanks to the decently High PPI for 1440p at 27 in and 480 HZ you're really
there's not much that's faster than that there's a couple monitors at 500 and uh
maybe 540 if you overclock them and that's about it right now so okay the
gaming looks great but what if you're using this for more than just Esports
let's check out HDR footage if you do happen to buy this as an Esports monitor
there's a huge Plus in that being a nice
new OLED display with micr lens array plus the HDR experience for whether
you're watching Youtube with HDR or movies or honestly most modern AAA games
it's going to be really good it just looks so Crystal Clear it looks very
color accurate which we'll touch on in a bit here and it's just a fantastic
experience I feel like a lot of people try HDR with a bad Monitor and they
don't really get it like ah it looks like weird or bright or whatever not in a good way you've really got to try it
on either a high-end mini LED with a ton of zones or OLED and that's when you'll
get that real experience and you'll kind of just click with HDR once you actually
experience really good HDR I find it hard to go back one great feature that
they've got is their inzone Hub and it's pretty good we got our display settings
display HDR Cinema game check your brightness stabilizer you know change
brightness and contrast everything through nice little sliders okay setting
could not be changed I that's oh that's because it's HDR you can't usually mess
with contrast and HDR that's fine those are usually set to pretty rigid
standards anyway but if you're an you can do just about whatever you want
change the gamma curve crank the sharpness down I don't know why you'd
want to but you could brightness right here boom it takes a second to like
think about it and make the changes but it does the OSD itself with a navigation
nipple is perfectly serviceable for
whatever reason say your computer isn't running and you want to change modes on
the OSD that's totally fine uh pretty
simple system you know you just have a list and then you go over and make a
selection um they have a lot of options for you in terms of testing results it
ended up being pretty good and essentially hit all of what they
actually stayed on the box we got about 12296 nits of Max brightness which is
basically right on the money for their 1300 nits claim as for color accuracy
and SDR mode we measured a very impressive Delta e2000 average of 64
with a Max of just 1.27 as for HDR hlg
our best measurements were done in in cinema mode where we measured an average
Delta e ITP of just 11.24 with a Max of
27.7 for that's pretty good for Delta eitp finally as for latency it's great
it's an OLED it's 480 HZ we're measuring
just a bit over the theoretical perfect and then when it comes to end to end
it's barely adding anything so you're just going to have a really solid gaming
experience and there's no way you're going to feel any kind of lag or latency
when you're trying to interface with the display the real question is how much
does it cost well it's not cheap it's
$1,100 however if you basically want the best of the best plus all of these super
cool Pro features and this really Sleek stand that can do a 360° swivel that I
haven't seen on like any other high-end display at least not nothing recent this
is kind of it and if you're willing to pay for it I think it's a pretty solid
buy thanks so much to Sony for sponsoring this video if you want to
check out a video with another product of theirs we've got the M9 that we
looked at last year and if you want this guy you can pick it up at the link in
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