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Where's PL? He's supposed to be shooting a video. WHERE'S THIS GUY? HUH? Hey

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everyone, we're here in Paris, France at the Stad France. Uh, it was super cool.

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Phillips flew us out for the event. They've got a bunch of like new I don't

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even know what to check out. They've been kind of keeping it really hush hush, but it was great. They like let us

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walk out onto the pitch, which is a dream for a lot of people. Everything's

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lit up really nice. There's a live band. There's drinks. There's snacks. It's

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great. We're going to get back to the party and hopefully see all the products

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and show you everything we came here to check out in a little bit. So, see you

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in a bit. That was cool. They herded us into a

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theater and gave us this big presentation on how they want to be inclusive and diverse because gaming

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really is for everyone. They showed off three major product lines for Evnia. 8

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and 7000 are the highest end displays like your mini LED and OLED, while the

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5000 should be more traditional IPS and VA panels at a more budget friendly

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price. I got no tech tips other than it's beautiful. It's the same panel I've

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got at home. So, as long as they have it at a really good price, maybe I

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horizontally upgrade. You know, maybe I sell the Alienware and I buy one of these cuz I love the way it looks. I'm

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terrible at racing with a keyboard and mouse instead of a controller, but

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whatever. The reality is it looks beautiful. We had to go in and tweak

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some settings, you know, turn VSYNC off, turn motion blur off. Um, but man, it

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looks gorgeous. Turn HDR on to get the real nice pop, especially in Forza. It's

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got really nice HDR. Uh, absolutely beautiful display. So, yeah, we're

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pretty sure we're seeing some artifacting, but that's not the monitor. That's the GPU, whatever they've got in

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here. Probably have DLSS on or something. And that's okay. They they

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just want to get the highest frame rate they can to really show off the 175 Hz

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available in the game or on the display. Sorry. Honestly, it looks like my

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monitor. And if they can price it correctly to beat out the Alienware

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Cutie OLED, I love the design way more. The branding is way less in your face

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than Alienware. Okay, we got pricing and I'm sorry, but it's still a little too

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expensive for my blood. $1,500 is a couple hundred more than the Alienware.

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It does do 90 watts of power delivery on the KVM, so that's another factor to

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consider. Not for me, but definitely for some people, especially if you prefer

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the look of this version. This beauty will do 99% DCIP3 color space, and the

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IO is pretty decent. We've got DisplayPort, HDMI, USBC with 90 watts of power

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delivery, along with four more USBA ports and USB to connect it all to your

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PC. I'm really big on this white design. I think that's one thing that not a lot

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of brands offer is an all-white design. It's usually black, especially for

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gaming. And that's what they said they want to change with. They want it to be for absolutely everyone. Doesn't matter

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age, doesn't matter sex, gender, where you're from, religion, who cares.

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Gaming's for everyone, right? So, that's what Philips is trying to put out. All

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right, cool. Hey, I finished second. I'm great. This is their 42in OLED that

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they've got. It's probably a C2 panel like from LG based on the brightness it

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gets. I think they hit like something like 900 nits in HDR peak brightness,

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which is around what the C2 can do. We got to interview Caesar Aosta, the

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product manager of gaming monitors at Philips, and he confirmed that the 42-in

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OLED is indeed the same panel as an LG C2. I'm awful at F1, so this is going to

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be terrible. But luckily, Andrew is only capturing me right now, not the game.

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Honestly though, the OLED does feel really responsive. The gray to gray, you

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just can't beat it. This one is pretty juicy at 1,600 bucks.

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A regular C2 is cheaper, but it's a TV,

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not a monitor. So, you're paying extra for more PC friendly features like the

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ability to wake up on input. The only real competitor right now is the ASUS

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ROG Swift PG42UQ, and that's about $1,900 at the time of filming. So, if

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you like the look of this one more, definitely go for it. For IO, it's got

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HDMI 2.1 and DP 1.4, USBC with 90 watts

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of power delivery, and another USBA hub with four ports.

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I've been stoked about all of these. But the real star of the show, at least in

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my opinion, is this new miniLEDD screen that they've got. It's got,52

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zones. There's not much competition depending on the price. You've got ASUS

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with their ProArt displays at like $5,000. And then you've got uh I think

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AOC has a $2,000 display as well that

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has 1152 zones. This is probably the same panel or a similar one. As long as

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they can hit a good price point, Miniledd looks good, you guys. It gets

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bright. Like, if you like a bright screen and you like good HDR,

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Miniledd kind of wins over OLED. So, I'm real excited. The IO is a little lower

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tier than the last two displays we looked at with the USBC power delivery

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only being 65 watts. It's otherwise pretty similar with a four- port USBA

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hub, HDMI, and DisplayPort. That looks gorgeous. And look at the highlights on

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the sparks and stuff. Super pretty. It's a beautiful panel. Looks very responsive

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for VA. The HDR experience really is

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gorgeous. Honestly, out of everything we looked at today, it'll be the first one

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available in December of this year with the rest of what we've shown coming up

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in January 2023. It's $1,800, which is

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expensive, but it's cheaper than what's currently on the market with similar

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specs. It's a very nice display, but certainly out of reach for most people.

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So, let's check out the 27 M2C 5500W.

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Now, we've got their 5000 line, which is supposed to be the more budgetoriented.

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There is a 3000 that's even more budget, but this should be a bit more friendly

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for the kind of the mid-range gamers who can spend a little bit of money, but not

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an ARM and a leg for the more premium products. This thing looks awesome. And

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we've heard that we'll get the real North American prices to you, but in

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Europe at least, this is going to be $499. So, if you want a 240 Hz panel,

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remember how I complained about the AOC being too much at like 900 bucks? $500

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for 27 in 240 Hz. I love it. It looks

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great. The games weren't installed, unfortunately. There's a ton of

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different booths and stuff. The other one was unplugged, but we got the UFO

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test up and I gotta say, it looks crisp.

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I don't see any artifacting. I don't see any blurring. I don't see any overdrive

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or undershoot. It looks pretty and I

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can't wait to get a more hands-on experience with uh with one in the

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future. The only thing that I can complain about is it looks like it's

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still edge lit. So there's a bit of bloom in some places that doesn't look

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great. But honestly, when you're only spending like sub $1,000, like 500

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bucks, monitor is clean. That's pretty good. This is again their

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um more budgetoriented option. And it gets a little blurry when you do some

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crazy flicks like this, but the reality is everything still stays relatively

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clear. Nothing's smearing too badly. This isn't the ultimate HDR experience

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monitor. This is the I want to get into esports, maybe be a bit more competit

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competitive with 240 Hz um entry level kind of deal here. And if this is 500, I

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can only imagine how cheap the or inexpensive rather the 3000 series line

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is going to be that we haven't heard a whole lot of. We just got teased it. So,

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I'm excited for the future. Overall, I'm impressed. You're paying a bit of a

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premium on some of these displays, but that 90 watt charging capability is very

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important to some people. I can't wait to see the finalized North American

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pricing and I just hope that these will be in stock and available to purchase

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for those who want them. As much as I love my Cutie OLED, I'm not a huge fan

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of the stand. So maybe this is the one for you. If you want to see more of our

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adventures around Paris, us traveling here, or the event itself, make sure to

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check out the Flow Plane exclusive. Plof's still in Paris, but we appreciate

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you watching. What you should also watch is the next video that Plof's making

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right now. But in the meantime, why not watch Oh, I don't know. The Pixel Watch

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ShortCircuit that I think, and I'm unbiased here, is a great video. Worth

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your time.