1 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:05,520 all right full disclosure i'm actually a pretty big sony fan 2 00:00:03,439 --> 00:00:09,040 i've been using their discmans when i was a kid i've been using their 3 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:12,559 headphones and earbuds when i was a kid as well and then i was always like a 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:17,920 playstation kid growing up pc you know number one but 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,720 playstation solid backup and today we've 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:26,640 got their m9 gaming monitor they kind of went all out with this thing it's 4k 144 7 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:31,679 hertz 27 inches so you've got about 160 ppi for those of you that care about 8 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:34,320 pixel density and apparently it's got 9 00:00:31,679 --> 00:00:38,320 full array local dimming with 96 zones which you know that's not as impressive 10 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:43,200 as the like 500 000 zones we've seen on some tvs and other like really high-end 11 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:45,680 displays but 96 zones on a 12 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:49,840 inch screen is actually not too bad the other really cool thing about this is 13 00:00:47,360 --> 00:00:53,360 the stand is kind of interesting so i'm really curious to see how it works and 14 00:00:52,239 --> 00:00:59,359 how it looks cool so yeah this is the weird stand talking about this part seems pretty 15 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:03,440 normal right but apparently uh the legs like this is forward and then the legs 16 00:01:01,199 --> 00:01:07,200 go back power brick giant power brick actually cool one 17 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:12,479 concern there's like no cables so we have a 18 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:17,119 power cord and a power brick and the stand and then there's the panel 19 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:20,479 am i crazy it still kind of sucks for everyone else who buys this as a gaming 20 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:25,360 monitor and not for their like their playstation because like i don't know i 21 00:01:22,799 --> 00:01:28,479 kind of expect at least one HDMI or displayport cable in the box it's really 22 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:32,159 not the end of the world i do have extras but if you're doing a first-time 23 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:37,119 setup or say you just moved and you sold everything and you need to buy everything again it would be incredibly 24 00:01:35,119 --> 00:01:40,079 frustrating if you brought your pc with you and then you bought this monitor and 25 00:01:38,640 --> 00:01:42,880 then you go to hook everything up and you suddenly don't have a display cable 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:48,320 i'd be pissed because then i have to make a whole extra trip to the store just to buy something not everyone does 27 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:53,119 this some people just do like a panel on the front but i like their foam that 28 00:01:50,479 --> 00:01:58,079 they've got here is it wow sony's just reusing everything 29 00:01:56,479 --> 00:02:01,360 for i o you've actually got a pretty good assortment of in-outs here we've 30 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,560 got a headphone jack even though this thing has two speakers on it as well for 31 00:02:03,439 --> 00:02:09,599 those of you who actually use your monitor speakers not many of you but hey 32 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:11,120 and then three usb a slots a usb b slot 33 00:02:09,599 --> 00:02:14,640 and then you've got a USB-C port which can also act as a 34 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:20,239 DisplayPort so if you go to hook up a laptop to it or something no problem got 35 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:22,720 one displayport and then two HDMI 2.1s 36 00:02:20,239 --> 00:02:25,440 which is pretty nice when you'll use more than one i mean i guess you can 37 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,640 have like your console hooked up and then you can also have your pc hooked up right at your desk or something oh my 38 00:02:28,319 --> 00:02:33,680 god the same analog stick as a ps5 is it wait what no 39 00:02:34,160 --> 00:02:39,840 this is what i'm actually surprisingly most interested in i just 40 00:02:38,319 --> 00:02:44,720 think it's neat oh my god is that santa ps5 41 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:49,760 yeah look it's pretty much a playstation so it hooks up basically the same as a 42 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:55,360 majority of other monitor stands go you just kind of hook it in and then it's on 43 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:56,160 there just go like this cool 44 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:05,000 oh so that just kind of slots on and then you've got two screws 45 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:05,000 looks kind of weird right well let's see 46 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:11,440 kind of works it's not as stable as some other monitors i've seen but 47 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,560 the reality actually yeah that kind of bothers me here's a more fair 48 00:03:12,879 --> 00:03:19,360 representation but it's still pretty wobbly yeah it's not bad i kind of like 49 00:03:17,440 --> 00:03:24,879 the look of it overall actually i haven't even seen it from the front let me spin it around i'm trying so hard to 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:28,080 make sure my new ShortCircuit hoodie doesn't scratch the screen 51 00:03:26,799 --> 00:03:32,799 yeah you'd see the legs i don't know it's okay i think it's kind of a weird design and i'm not like for it or 52 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:37,120 against it i guess my bigger issue is that there is like no 53 00:03:35,840 --> 00:03:42,080 swivel like all you can do is go up and down 54 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:45,040 and the up and i really don't like that at all it's 55 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:48,480 weird because if it goes down then it also comes forward like just a little 56 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:52,640 bit i'm pretty sure oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't really 57 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:55,040 get a lot of flexibility with this stand and so therefore i would totally 58 00:03:53,760 --> 00:03:59,920 recommend a vase amount every single time you're just gonna get a lot more use out of it so as much as i don't like 59 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:03,840 the stand i do like the rest of the shell and everything and the rest of the 60 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:08,159 monitor is actually pretty good it's 4k 144 hertz one of the other nice features 61 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:11,680 is that on the back of it it's got this navigation nipple that we're big fans of 62 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:15,200 and then a dedicated power button right below some of the other features it has 63 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:18,639 is the HDR 600 to go along with the full array local dimming it's also just got 64 00:04:16,959 --> 00:04:22,240 your standard g-sync for variable refresh rate which is always nice 65 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:26,000 especially if you're running on ps5 and it can't actually do some of the higher 66 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:28,880 frame rates or refresh rates that you want it to do the other kind of nice 67 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:34,240 thing about this is that it's got about 95 coverage of the dc ip3 color 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out of the box one issue is that 86 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:55,680 the bezels are kind of big around the top it's nice and thin on these outer 87 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:58,000 bezels but the inner ones just like i don't know that always kind of bothers 88 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,360 me same with the bottom if you've already got a plastic chin here just 89 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:04,800 raise it up just cover that i want my Windows to go all the way to the edge of 90 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:10,560 the screen that's like my dream is a nice like full screen display oh my god 91 00:06:08,639 --> 00:06:13,840 what a dream is that one of the really cool features that i do like though that 92 00:06:12,319 --> 00:06:18,639 we've seen on other monitors but haven't been able to always get it working because we kind of get products a little 93 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:22,639 early at times it's got an adjustable menu inside like it's got its own 94 00:06:20,479 --> 00:06:26,160 software so instead of having to actually use the navigation nipple which 95 00:06:24,400 --> 00:06:30,080 is fine that's actually not a terrible idea but you can change everything with 96 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:33,440 the click of a mouse oh my god i love it this is 97 00:06:31,199 --> 00:06:37,360 also the dream that i dream for and i don't understand like look i can just 98 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:40,720 change brightness on the fly oh yeah i'm a huge fan of this you can 99 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:43,759 change gamma and stuff that's really cool it's actually really impressive you 100 00:06:42,160 --> 00:06:47,680 can change the aspect ratio directly on the monitor give me fast response time i 101 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:51,840 don't know how much this adjusts things cool turn local dimming on off or high oh 102 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,280 let's check out the local dimming before i do anything uh Windows HDR sucks but 103 00:06:53,840 --> 00:06:59,199 you know whatever yeah the villa man i love this test for 104 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,840 those of you unaware full array local dimming is when you've got different zones on the display that act as 105 00:07:02,319 --> 00:07:08,479 different like dimming zones basically they'll either get brighter or dimmer depending on the HDR content being 106 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:13,039 displayed the problem with a lot of other like HDR 107 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:17,919 406 zone monitors is that they're usually edge lit and they're just these 108 00:07:14,880 --> 00:07:19,520 vertical stripes for HDR and it looks 109 00:07:17,919 --> 00:07:23,599 terrible you'll have this one thing lit up but all of your brightness is up 110 00:07:21,680 --> 00:07:26,639 across this whole stripe with full array local dimming zones what you get is like 111 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,919 oh this one spec is bright in this corner let's brighten that one corner 112 00:07:28,319 --> 00:07:33,919 instead of the rest of the screen and it's not bad like so what's happening is 113 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:37,440 as this moves around each of the dimming zones will activate and become brighter 114 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:42,080 or dimmer this is the absolute worst case scenario 115 00:07:39,759 --> 00:07:46,479 to show off local dimming and it doesn't look amazing in this kind of scenario 116 00:07:44,240 --> 00:07:51,039 but the reality is when you're playing games or watching content 12 by about 8 117 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:56,960 dimming zones it's not going to be too bad i don't think you'll actually notice it all that 118 00:07:53,599 --> 00:07:58,720 much this is HDR and 119 00:07:56,960 --> 00:08:04,080 there's not a ton of crazy big highlights going on but i also don't 120 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:09,520 notice any dimming zones in a good way i'm not seeing like entire squares of 121 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:14,319 brightness come on we'll probably um see it more in gaming so we're going to try 122 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:18,160 gaming in a sec here with HDMI 2.1 we're 123 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:19,759 going to get 10 bit color 120 hertz 4k 124 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:23,759 and without any display stream compression or at least i'm pretty sure 125 00:08:21,599 --> 00:08:28,960 it does with that bitrate so we should be good to go and uh let's fire up some 126 00:08:26,479 --> 00:08:32,320 kind of game here they're not great but they're not the 127 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,399 like worst monitor speakers i've ever heard 128 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:41,599 yeah like don't get me wrong that's not very good but like most moderate 129 00:08:39,680 --> 00:08:44,800 speakers kind of suck so while these are a little tinny they're actually not the 130 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:49,200 worst i've ever listened to as you can see it's got RGB on the back but the 131 00:08:46,800 --> 00:08:53,600 lighting is really minimal and it kind of goes directly into this um exhaust 132 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:57,040 for it on the back so a lot of the light probably just goes in there instead of 133 00:08:54,880 --> 00:09:01,120 bouncing off and going against the wall or your desk or anywhere else you might 134 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:06,480 hope to see the glow yeah it looks pretty nice uh you can totally see the 135 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:09,839 flashes up here the HDR 136 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:12,320 is okay but the reality is unless you 137 00:09:09,839 --> 00:09:16,480 want really good HDR on a monitor you're going to be shelling out a lot of money 138 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:22,480 um for instance i've just gotten my alienware qd OLED finally and that looks 139 00:09:19,839 --> 00:09:26,880 amazing when it comes to HDR content but it also cost me an ARM and a leg so the 140 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:31,360 one other big difference though is that this is still 4k 144 hertz which is 141 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:36,480 pretty nice at this price point it's about 899 dollars so you're looking at 142 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:39,440 something that is actually expensive 143 00:09:37,839 --> 00:09:43,600 but affordable if you're looking for a high refresh rate 4k panel yeah the 144 00:09:41,839 --> 00:09:47,680 biggest problem is that these flashes here they look overblown which isn't the 145 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:52,240 end of the world it probably looks better than it normally does but 146 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:55,519 something with an even better HDR feature is going to look much nicer 147 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:59,839 especially when you get those like much smaller dimming zones like we 148 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:03,440 have on mini led or on OLED this is still a pretty good display though 149 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:07,120 especially at the price point it looks pretty good on a pc and i suspect that's 150 00:10:05,680 --> 00:10:13,680 what most people are going to buy it for because the value is actually not bad for a pc monitor but if you wanted to 151 00:10:11,120 --> 00:10:17,120 it's got a bunch of ps5 features like auto genre switching so if you're 152 00:10:15,440 --> 00:10:20,000 watching a movie it'll switch to a different mode and if you go to a game 153 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:23,200 it'll switch to a different mode probably do stuff like turn game mode on 154 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:28,079 on top of that it can also do variable refresh rate for your ps5 which is 155 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:30,480 pretty sweet and it's got auto HDR tone 156 00:10:28,079 --> 00:10:34,480 mapping for playstation as well which might look really good so we might get a 157 00:10:31,920 --> 00:10:37,680 much better HDR experience on our ps5 these are the cans eh what are these the 158 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,959 h9s h9 headphones uh adam already checked 159 00:10:39,920 --> 00:10:46,560 these out though and he said he really likes them so i'm pretty excited they seem okay 160 00:10:44,880 --> 00:10:49,839 oh they're pretty comfortable uh the following settings have been optimized 161 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:53,279 boom see it's already doing the auto adjust HDR stuff uh the following 162 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:57,519 settings have been optimized for your tv make adjustments if necessary 163 00:10:55,120 --> 00:11:00,320 sweet so then you can change it uh i'm gonna 164 00:10:58,480 --> 00:11:04,000 as soon as it clips it okay how do i want to press the 165 00:11:02,320 --> 00:11:08,240 oh until it's barely visible all right well there it's technically barely visible i 166 00:11:06,399 --> 00:11:12,240 can still just see it no i want the ultimate ps5 experience i got to keep i 167 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:16,480 got to keep the cans on we're gaming now fellas 168 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:23,440 where do i even go the field of view is killing me oh that looks pretty good 169 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:25,120 it's not super hdre 170 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:30,560 oh those rockets look kind of bright though let's can i like boost higher than that 171 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:36,480 oh that flash and the lightning looked pretty good though hold to activate 172 00:11:34,959 --> 00:11:40,959 oh that looks cool that's nice and bright yeah this looks pretty sexy 173 00:11:39,519 --> 00:11:44,959 okay what we really want to check out though is the actual differences that 174 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:48,720 this will do on a playstation versus a pc and that's the auto switching stuff 175 00:11:46,959 --> 00:11:52,800 so we're gonna go to media and see if it changes the mode or anything a yeah 176 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:57,839 there was some screen flicker and stuff so when you actually change modes with a 177 00:11:55,279 --> 00:12:01,360 lot of these monitors or tvs a lot of the time they won't actually tell you 178 00:11:59,839 --> 00:12:05,040 anything like oh we've changed this one some of them do but a lot of them don't 179 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:08,560 but you will notice like a flicker or your screen will go dark momentarily and 180 00:12:06,720 --> 00:12:15,279 then it'll come back on i think that overall 900 for a 4k 144 hertz full 181 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:19,519 array local dimming with 96 zones like that's not bad i think the price point 182 00:12:17,120 --> 00:12:23,360 is decent but at the end of the day i would probably pick a different monitor 183 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:29,120 personally i don't need the pixel density of 4k 100 at 27 inches the kvm 184 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:34,240 is a really nice feature as well if you've got say a laptop but not a gaming 185 00:12:31,920 --> 00:12:38,000 pc but you do have ps5 so you can have your ps5 and your laptop hooked up to 186 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,519 the same display i don't know if i'd buy it partially because of the stand i 187 00:12:39,839 --> 00:12:46,480 think that if you do buy this thing you should definitely just get either a wall 188 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,240 mount or a monitor ARM to put it on because i 189 00:12:48,639 --> 00:12:53,519 really really don't like this stand for a number of reasons otherwise though 190 00:12:52,079 --> 00:12:58,480 it's not bad i think you're getting a pretty good value for it and it's 191 00:12:55,360 --> 00:13:00,639 probably one of the best HDR experiences 192 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:05,440 you're going to get in a monitor at this price point i think that for sony's 193 00:13:02,959 --> 00:13:10,800 really first kind of foray into the gaming monitor space it's not bad and 194 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:14,320 you should definitely include it when you're trying to figure out what monitor 195 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:18,560 to buy next and if you're trying to figure out what video to watch next 196 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:21,600 maybe look at adam's video on the headphones that we got the h9s that 197 00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:25,360 one's pretty these are pretty good too apparently are they good at them 198 00:13:23,839 --> 00:13:28,320 they're fine they're pretty good yeah okay no i'm not going to tell you yeah 199 00:13:27,040 --> 00:13:31,519 there you go watch the video watch the video thanks for watching