all right full disclosure i'm actually a pretty big sony fan
i've been using their discmans when i was a kid i've been using their
headphones and earbuds when i was a kid as well and then i was always like a
playstation kid growing up pc you know number one but
playstation solid backup and today we've
got their m9 gaming monitor they kind of went all out with this thing it's 4k 144
hertz 27 inches so you've got about 160 ppi for those of you that care about
pixel density and apparently it's got
full array local dimming with 96 zones which you know that's not as impressive
as the like 500 000 zones we've seen on some tvs and other like really high-end
displays but 96 zones on a
inch screen is actually not too bad the other really cool thing about this is
the stand is kind of interesting so i'm really curious to see how it works and
how it looks cool so yeah this is the weird stand talking about this part seems pretty
normal right but apparently uh the legs like this is forward and then the legs
go back power brick giant power brick actually cool one
concern there's like no cables so we have a
power cord and a power brick and the stand and then there's the panel
am i crazy it still kind of sucks for everyone else who buys this as a gaming
monitor and not for their like their playstation because like i don't know i
kind of expect at least one HDMI or displayport cable in the box it's really
not the end of the world i do have extras but if you're doing a first-time
setup or say you just moved and you sold everything and you need to buy everything again it would be incredibly
frustrating if you brought your pc with you and then you bought this monitor and
then you go to hook everything up and you suddenly don't have a display cable
i'd be pissed because then i have to make a whole extra trip to the store just to buy something not everyone does
this some people just do like a panel on the front but i like their foam that
they've got here is it wow sony's just reusing everything
for i o you've actually got a pretty good assortment of in-outs here we've
got a headphone jack even though this thing has two speakers on it as well for
those of you who actually use your monitor speakers not many of you but hey
and then three usb a slots a usb b slot
and then you've got a USB-C port which can also act as a
DisplayPort so if you go to hook up a laptop to it or something no problem got
one displayport and then two HDMI 2.1s
which is pretty nice when you'll use more than one i mean i guess you can
have like your console hooked up and then you can also have your pc hooked up right at your desk or something oh my
god the same analog stick as a ps5 is it wait what no
this is what i'm actually surprisingly most interested in i just
think it's neat oh my god is that santa ps5
yeah look it's pretty much a playstation so it hooks up basically the same as a
majority of other monitor stands go you just kind of hook it in and then it's on
there just go like this cool
oh so that just kind of slots on and then you've got two screws
looks kind of weird right well let's see
kind of works it's not as stable as some other monitors i've seen but
the reality actually yeah that kind of bothers me here's a more fair
representation but it's still pretty wobbly yeah it's not bad i kind of like
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
make sure my new ShortCircuit hoodie doesn't scratch the screen
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
against it i guess my bigger issue is that there is like no
swivel like all you can do is go up and down
and the up and i really don't like that at all it's
weird because if it goes down then it also comes forward like just a little
bit i'm pretty sure oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't really
get a lot of flexibility with this stand and so therefore i would totally
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
the stand i do like the rest of the shell and everything and the rest of the
monitor is actually pretty good it's 4k 144 hertz one of the other nice features
is that on the back of it it's got this navigation nipple that we're big fans of
and then a dedicated power button right below some of the other features it has
is the HDR 600 to go along with the full array local dimming it's also just got
your standard g-sync for variable refresh rate which is always nice
especially if you're running on ps5 and it can't actually do some of the higher
frame rates or refresh rates that you want it to do the other kind of nice
thing about this is that it's got about 95 coverage of the dc ip3 color space 95
is quite a lot and for the most part the stuff you're going to be watching is an sdr or bt 2020 so whatever it's fine
cool so let's fire this thing up and see if the 96 dimming zones are actually
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that we notice when setting up the monitor is that the stand is actually
kind of a pain in the ass because you can't swivel or anything like that
you've got to move the entire thing just to plug anything in and i mean it's just
the spacing of everything too some of the ports are like right behind where
this stand comes in so you've got to like move it all the way up and even
then it's a bit of a tight squeeze depending on which display you're trying
to plug in otherwise it worked pretty well out of the box one issue is that
the bezels are kind of big around the top it's nice and thin on these outer
bezels but the inner ones just like i don't know that always kind of bothers
me same with the bottom if you've already got a plastic chin here just
raise it up just cover that i want my Windows to go all the way to the edge of
the screen that's like my dream is a nice like full screen display oh my god
what a dream is that one of the really cool features that i do like though that
we've seen on other monitors but haven't been able to always get it working because we kind of get products a little
early at times it's got an adjustable menu inside like it's got its own
software so instead of having to actually use the navigation nipple which
is fine that's actually not a terrible idea but you can change everything with
the click of a mouse oh my god i love it this is
also the dream that i dream for and i don't understand like look i can just
change brightness on the fly oh yeah i'm a huge fan of this you can
change gamma and stuff that's really cool it's actually really impressive you
can change the aspect ratio directly on the monitor give me fast response time i
don't know how much this adjusts things cool turn local dimming on off or high oh
let's check out the local dimming before i do anything uh Windows HDR sucks but
you know whatever yeah the villa man i love this test for
those of you unaware full array local dimming is when you've got different zones on the display that act as
different like dimming zones basically they'll either get brighter or dimmer depending on the HDR content being
displayed the problem with a lot of other like HDR
406 zone monitors is that they're usually edge lit and they're just these
vertical stripes for HDR and it looks
terrible you'll have this one thing lit up but all of your brightness is up
across this whole stripe with full array local dimming zones what you get is like
oh this one spec is bright in this corner let's brighten that one corner
instead of the rest of the screen and it's not bad like so what's happening is
as this moves around each of the dimming zones will activate and become brighter
or dimmer this is the absolute worst case scenario
to show off local dimming and it doesn't look amazing in this kind of scenario
but the reality is when you're playing games or watching content 12 by about 8
dimming zones it's not going to be too bad i don't think you'll actually notice it all that
much this is HDR and
there's not a ton of crazy big highlights going on but i also don't
notice any dimming zones in a good way i'm not seeing like entire squares of
brightness come on we'll probably um see it more in gaming so we're going to try
gaming in a sec here with HDMI 2.1 we're
going to get 10 bit color 120 hertz 4k
and without any display stream compression or at least i'm pretty sure
it does with that bitrate so we should be good to go and uh let's fire up some
kind of game here they're not great but they're not the
like worst monitor speakers i've ever heard
yeah like don't get me wrong that's not very good but like most moderate
speakers kind of suck so while these are a little tinny they're actually not the
worst i've ever listened to as you can see it's got RGB on the back but the
lighting is really minimal and it kind of goes directly into this um exhaust
for it on the back so a lot of the light probably just goes in there instead of
bouncing off and going against the wall or your desk or anywhere else you might
hope to see the glow yeah it looks pretty nice uh you can totally see the
flashes up here the HDR
is okay but the reality is unless you
want really good HDR on a monitor you're going to be shelling out a lot of money
um for instance i've just gotten my alienware qd OLED finally and that looks
amazing when it comes to HDR content but it also cost me an ARM and a leg so the
one other big difference though is that this is still 4k 144 hertz which is
pretty nice at this price point it's about 899 dollars so you're looking at
something that is actually expensive
but affordable if you're looking for a high refresh rate 4k panel yeah the
biggest problem is that these flashes here they look overblown which isn't the
end of the world it probably looks better than it normally does but
something with an even better HDR feature is going to look much nicer
especially when you get those like much smaller dimming zones like we
have on mini led or on OLED this is still a pretty good display though
especially at the price point it looks pretty good on a pc and i suspect that's
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
it's got a bunch of ps5 features like auto genre switching so if you're
watching a movie it'll switch to a different mode and if you go to a game
it'll switch to a different mode probably do stuff like turn game mode on
on top of that it can also do variable refresh rate for your ps5 which is
pretty sweet and it's got auto HDR tone
mapping for playstation as well which might look really good so we might get a
much better HDR experience on our ps5 these are the cans eh what are these the
h9s h9 headphones uh adam already checked
these out though and he said he really likes them so i'm pretty excited they seem okay
oh they're pretty comfortable uh the following settings have been optimized
boom see it's already doing the auto adjust HDR stuff uh the following
settings have been optimized for your tv make adjustments if necessary
sweet so then you can change it uh i'm gonna
as soon as it clips it okay how do i want to press the
oh until it's barely visible all right well there it's technically barely visible i
can still just see it no i want the ultimate ps5 experience i got to keep i
got to keep the cans on we're gaming now fellas
where do i even go the field of view is killing me oh that looks pretty good
it's not super hdre
oh those rockets look kind of bright though let's can i like boost higher than that
oh that flash and the lightning looked pretty good though hold to activate
oh that looks cool that's nice and bright yeah this looks pretty sexy
okay what we really want to check out though is the actual differences that
this will do on a playstation versus a pc and that's the auto switching stuff
so we're gonna go to media and see if it changes the mode or anything a yeah
there was some screen flicker and stuff so when you actually change modes with a
lot of these monitors or tvs a lot of the time they won't actually tell you
anything like oh we've changed this one some of them do but a lot of them don't
but you will notice like a flicker or your screen will go dark momentarily and
then it'll come back on i think that overall 900 for a 4k 144 hertz full
array local dimming with 96 zones like that's not bad i think the price point
is decent but at the end of the day i would probably pick a different monitor
personally i don't need the pixel density of 4k 100 at 27 inches the kvm
is a really nice feature as well if you've got say a laptop but not a gaming
pc but you do have ps5 so you can have your ps5 and your laptop hooked up to
the same display i don't know if i'd buy it partially because of the stand i
think that if you do buy this thing you should definitely just get either a wall
mount or a monitor ARM to put it on because i
really really don't like this stand for a number of reasons otherwise though
it's not bad i think you're getting a pretty good value for it and it's
probably one of the best HDR experiences
you're going to get in a monitor at this price point i think that for sony's
really first kind of foray into the gaming monitor space it's not bad and
you should definitely include it when you're trying to figure out what monitor
to buy next and if you're trying to figure out what video to watch next
maybe look at adam's video on the headphones that we got the h9s that
one's pretty these are pretty good too apparently are they good at them
they're fine they're pretty good yeah okay no i'm not going to tell you yeah
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