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is nc.com now we've showed a couple thin

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bezel monitors over the last little while but invariably We've Ended up

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disappointed because it turns out that the spec that the manufacturer is

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usually talking about is the slimness of

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the bezel but then often we're finding out that they have glass front panels

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that have a dead zone around it that makes the effective bezel not really

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that much different from any other monitor that's out there this is a

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little bit different this is the vn279 qlb from ASUS and uh if you think that

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that's a mouthful then you're probably going to think that the image in front

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of you is an Eiffel they run at 1920 x 1080 and you can see that there's a game

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running on them so these are IPS panels but they are gaming optimized and you

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might ask why would they do that rather than go with a faster TN panel and the

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answer is very simple these are 27in monitors which means that they're big

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they're also designed for gaming particularly in surround gaming which

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means that they're going to be really big TN does not have the optimal viewing

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angles that would be required to properly get the color Fidelity that

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you're going to need for an enjoyable immersive gaming experience once you

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surround yourself with these because you won't be able to look directly at every

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single panel that is why it has been changed now let's have a look at just

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how slim it is I'll do my trademark cell phone thickness comparison here so you

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can see it is slightly Slimmer on the top and the sides about the thickness of

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an HTC1 uh and then on the bottom there is

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a little bit of extra space for the buttons so there's uh Power input you

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know brightness all those usual adjustments that you see but unlike some

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of the other monitors we've seen in the past with slim bezels as well it's not a

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dramatic difference I remember the last time I did a 5x1 portrait display setup

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on NCI X Tech tips we were using a monitor that had a top bezel about like

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this and a bottom bezel about like that because they had like a speaker on it or

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something I was like well that's not very optimal so this is looking to

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change that it's going to be available in a couple months and I think that

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pretty much wraps it up time to move on to the next cool thing yet another

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product here at the ASUS Booth so this is the wireless Duo you can get it in

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either a 500 gig or 1 TB capacity and there's a couple different colors and

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it's got some unique features compared to Wireless hard drivve so first of all

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we've got a usb3 interface which okay that's not particularly unique next

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we've got an these are dummy models so don't mind the fit and finish next we've

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got an SD card reader so what's cool about this is you can actually hook up

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your SD card you just plug in your SD card and there's a OneTouch backup you

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can see on the interface right down here on the tablet all you have to do is

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Click SD y there you go click okay and

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you can do a OneTouch backup on that next up on the unit itself you see not a

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whole lot except that it's actually

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pretty much sealed so it is not quite something that you'd call waterproof to

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the point where you throw it in a puddle but it is water resistant and splash

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proof so you don't have to worry too much about okay you've got your your

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wireless drive in your backpack you're riding around on your bike in the rain

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and if a little bit of rain gets through you don't have to worry about okay the thing's just going to die out right so

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they've got apps available for iOS 5 and above Android 2.3 and above as well as

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Kindle Fire obviously it works with Windows and Mac as well and it's want to

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show you guys uh here we go how Snappy

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the interface is because if you've seen any of these wireless devices before

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you'll know that they're not always the fastest thing in the world now it should

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be noted we're in the middle of a crowded crowded show floor where there

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are tons of wireless devices an extremely interference ridden

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environment but in spite of that the performance of it is what I would

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consider completely acceptable so you can see it is managing to oh oh

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oh every time you try demo something it uh it burns you but there you go now

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it's buffering ahead of the playback speed of the actual content itself not

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only that but there's some other cool features in here as well so it supports

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music playback while you are actually uh viewing uh V or uh photo

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files for example and this is cool so it's got full support for flak media

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files as well and I've lost track of where those files were so you'll have to

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take my word for it but uh hold on music

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whatever we'll just play something else so you can change your music playback to

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either the condensed one or full screen if you want to check out your album art

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and this should be coming when's this coming you

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guys I put everyone on the spot apparently July but don't take my word

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for it convergence truly is the name of the game and I'm about to go about that

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two different ways so number one is the problem with convergence is everyone

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wants smaller and smaller devices to the point where they do everything but they

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don't necessarily do everything well so notebooks two of the things that do two

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of the trends are that it's becoming more and more difficult to fit an

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optical drive into a notebook form factor in a way that will be appealing

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to a customer and number two is that notebooks have notoriously terrible

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onboard Audio Solutions so this is where

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convergence hurts us but where it helps us is when we get all-in-one devices

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that can take some of the best engineering talents of a company like

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someone like ASUS and turn it into one product so this is the Zonar Blu-ray

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station which actually seeks to address

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that problem so number one it is is it is a high quality hence the Zonar

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branding that you're going to find on the right side of it here it is a high

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quality external sound card so we're talking headphone amps up to 16 or it

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has a headphone amp so it can handle headphones up to 600 ohms of impedance a

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c media audio processor as well as a cirrus logic Dack around at the back

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you're going to find a wide variety of different audio output options including

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analog as as well as digital output so it is a usb3 interface to the computer

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itself and it does require external power in order to deliver the power you

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need for that amplitude as well as an optical drive so it can turn your

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notebook pretty much into a higher quality sound solution as well as a

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Blu-ray playback station that can support as you can see here in the demo

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itself a Surround Sound audio system as

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well so it takes that notebook that wasn't really good at those things and

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isn't all one solution Blu-ray reading Blu-ray writing external audio and a

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combination of all of it