WEBVTT 00:00:00.399 --> 00:00:05.520 all right full disclosure i'm actually a pretty big sony fan 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:09.040 i've been using their discmans when i was a kid i've been using their 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 00:00:10.320 --> 00:00:17.920 playstation kid growing up pc you know number one but 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:20.720 playstation solid backup and today we've 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 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 00:00:28.240 --> 00:00:34.320 pixel density and apparently it's got 00:00:31.679 --> 00:00:38.320 full array local dimming with 96 zones which you know that's not as impressive 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 00:00:40.160 --> 00:00:45.680 displays but 96 zones on a 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:49.840 inch screen is actually not too bad the other really cool thing about this is 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 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 00:00:56.480 --> 00:01:03.440 normal right but apparently uh the legs like this is forward and then the legs 00:01:01.199 --> 00:01:07.200 go back power brick giant power brick actually cool one 00:01:06.080 --> 00:01:12.479 concern there's like no cables so we have a 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:17.119 power cord and a power brick and the stand and then there's the panel 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 00:01:18.720 --> 00:01:25.360 monitor and not for their like their playstation because like i don't know i 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:28.479 kind of expect at least one HDMI or displayport cable in the box it's really 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 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 00:01:35.119 --> 00:01:40.079 frustrating if you brought your pc with you and then you bought this monitor and 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:42.880 then you go to hook everything up and you suddenly don't have a display cable 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 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 00:01:50.479 --> 00:01:58.079 they've got here is it wow sony's just reusing everything 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 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.560 got a headphone jack even though this thing has two speakers on it as well for 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:09.599 those of you who actually use your monitor speakers not many of you but hey 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:11.120 and then three usb a slots a usb b slot 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:14.640 and then you've got a USB-C port which can also act as a 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 00:02:17.120 --> 00:02:22.720 one displayport and then two HDMI 2.1s 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 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 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.680 god the same analog stick as a ps5 is it wait what no 00:02:34.160 --> 00:02:39.840 this is what i'm actually surprisingly most interested in i just 00:02:38.319 --> 00:02:44.720 think it's neat oh my god is that santa ps5 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 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 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:56.160 there just go like this cool 00:02:55.360 --> 00:03:05.000 oh so that just kind of slots on and then you've got two screws 00:02:59.680 --> 00:03:05.000 looks kind of weird right well let's see 00:03:05.920 --> 00:03:11.440 kind of works it's not as stable as some other monitors i've seen but 00:03:09.760 --> 00:03:14.560 the reality actually yeah that kind of bothers me here's a more fair 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:19.360 representation but it's still pretty wobbly yeah it's not bad i kind of like 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 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:28.080 make sure my new ShortCircuit hoodie doesn't scratch the screen 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 00:03:31.040 --> 00:03:37.120 against it i guess my bigger issue is that there is like no 00:03:35.840 --> 00:03:42.080 swivel like all you can do is go up and down 00:03:40.400 --> 00:03:45.040 and the up and i really don't like that at all it's 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:48.480 weird because if it goes down then it also comes forward like just a little 00:03:47.200 --> 00:03:52.640 bit i'm pretty sure oh yeah yeah yeah yeah you don't really 00:03:50.480 --> 00:03:55.040 get a lot of flexibility with this stand and so therefore i would totally 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 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 00:04:01.599 --> 00:04:08.159 monitor is actually pretty good it's 4k 144 hertz one of the other nice features 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 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:15.200 and then a dedicated power button right below some of the other features it has 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 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:22.240 your standard g-sync for variable refresh rate which is always nice 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 00:04:24.400 --> 00:04:28.880 frame rates or refresh rates that you want it to do the other kind of nice 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:34.240 thing about this is that it's got about 95 coverage of the dc ip3 color space 95 00:04:32.400 --> 00:04:39.919 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 00:04:38.400 --> 00:04:44.000 cool 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sweet prime day offer a couple minor things 00:05:23.039 --> 00:05:28.160 that we notice when setting up the monitor is that the stand is actually 00:05:26.320 --> 00:05:32.000 kind of a pain in the ass because you can't swivel or anything like that 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:35.759 you've got to move the entire thing just to plug anything in and i mean it's just 00:05:34.320 --> 00:05:40.160 the spacing of everything too some of the ports are like right behind where 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:43.520 this stand comes in so you've got to like move it all the way up and even 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:47.759 then it's a bit of a tight squeeze depending on which display you're trying 00:05:45.360 --> 00:05:51.440 to plug in otherwise it worked pretty well out of the box one issue is that 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 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.000 bezels but the inner ones just like i don't know that always kind of bothers 00:05:56.720 --> 00:06:01.360 me same with the bottom if you've already got a plastic chin here just 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 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 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 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 00:06:16.960 --> 00:06:22.639 early at times it's got an adjustable menu inside like it's got its own 00:06:20.479 --> 00:06:26.160 software so instead of having to actually use the navigation nipple which 00:06:24.400 --> 00:06:30.080 is fine that's actually not a terrible idea but you can change everything with 00:06:28.080 --> 00:06:33.440 the click of a mouse oh my god i love it this is 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 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:40.720 change brightness on the fly oh yeah i'm a huge fan of this you can 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:43.759 change gamma and stuff that's really cool it's actually really impressive you 00:06:42.160 --> 00:06:47.680 can change the aspect ratio directly on the monitor give me fast response time i 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 00:06:50.560 --> 00:06:55.280 let's check out the local dimming before i do anything uh Windows HDR sucks but 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:59.199 you know whatever yeah the villa man i love this test for 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 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 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:13.039 displayed the problem with a lot of other like HDR 00:07:10.360 --> 00:07:17.919 406 zone monitors is that they're usually edge lit and they're just these 00:07:14.880 --> 00:07:19.520 vertical stripes for HDR and it looks 00:07:17.919 --> 00:07:23.599 terrible you'll have this one thing lit up but all of your brightness is up 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:26.639 across this whole stripe with full array local dimming zones what you get is like 00:07:25.120 --> 00:07:29.919 oh this one spec is bright in this corner let's brighten that one corner 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 00:07:32.000 --> 00:07:37.440 as this moves around each of the dimming zones will activate and become brighter 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:42.080 or dimmer this is the absolute worst case scenario 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:46.479 to show off local dimming and it doesn't look amazing in this kind of scenario 00:07:44.240 --> 00:07:51.039 but the reality is when you're playing games or watching content 12 by about 8 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 00:07:53.599 --> 00:07:58.720 much this is HDR and 00:07:56.960 --> 00:08:04.080 there's not a ton of crazy big highlights going on but i also don't 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:09.520 notice any dimming zones in a good way i'm not seeing like entire squares of 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 00:08:11.120 --> 00:08:18.160 gaming in a sec here with HDMI 2.1 we're 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:19.759 going to get 10 bit color 120 hertz 4k 00:08:18.160 --> 00:08:23.759 and without any display stream compression or at least i'm pretty sure 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 00:08:26.479 --> 00:08:32.320 kind of game here they're not great but they're not the 00:08:30.560 --> 00:08:36.399 like worst monitor speakers i've ever heard 00:08:36.399 --> 00:08:41.599 yeah like don't get me wrong that's not very good but like most moderate 00:08:39.680 --> 00:08:44.800 speakers kind of suck so while these are a little tinny they're actually not the 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 00:08:46.800 --> 00:08:53.600 lighting is really minimal and it kind of goes directly into this um exhaust 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 00:08:54.880 --> 00:09:01.120 bouncing off and going against the wall or your desk or anywhere else you might 00:08:59.360 --> 00:09:06.480 hope to see the glow yeah it looks pretty nice uh you can totally see the 00:09:02.880 --> 00:09:09.839 flashes up here the HDR 00:09:06.480 --> 00:09:12.320 is okay but the reality is unless you 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 00:09:14.160 --> 00:09:22.480 um for instance i've just gotten my alienware qd OLED finally and that looks 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 00:09:24.800 --> 00:09:31.360 one other big difference though is that this is still 4k 144 hertz which is 00:09:29.360 --> 00:09:36.480 pretty nice at this price point it's about 899 dollars so you're looking at 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:39.440 something that is actually expensive 00:09:37.839 --> 00:09:43.600 but affordable if you're looking for a high refresh rate 4k panel yeah the 00:09:41.839 --> 00:09:47.680 biggest problem is that these flashes here they look overblown which isn't the 00:09:46.560 --> 00:09:52.240 end of the world it probably looks better than it normally does but 00:09:49.600 --> 00:09:55.519 something with an even better HDR feature is going to look much nicer 00:09:54.000 --> 00:09:59.839 especially when you get those like much smaller dimming zones like we 00:09:57.760 --> 00:10:03.440 have on mini led or on OLED this is still a pretty good display though 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 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 00:10:11.120 --> 00:10:17.120 it's got a bunch of ps5 features like auto genre switching so if you're 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 00:10:18.640 --> 00:10:23.200 it'll switch to a different mode probably do stuff like turn game mode on 00:10:21.760 --> 00:10:28.079 on top of that it can also do variable refresh rate for your ps5 which is 00:10:24.800 --> 00:10:30.480 pretty sweet and it's got auto HDR tone 00:10:28.079 --> 00:10:34.480 mapping for playstation as well which might look really good so we might get a 00:10:31.920 --> 00:10:37.680 much better HDR experience on our ps5 these are the cans eh what are these the 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.959 h9s h9 headphones uh adam already checked 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 00:10:44.880 --> 00:10:49.839 oh they're pretty comfortable uh the following settings have been optimized 00:10:48.000 --> 00:10:53.279 boom see it's already doing the auto adjust HDR stuff uh the following 00:10:51.680 --> 00:10:57.519 settings have been optimized for your tv make adjustments if necessary 00:10:55.120 --> 00:11:00.320 sweet so then you can change it uh i'm gonna 00:10:58.480 --> 00:11:04.000 as soon as it clips it okay how do i want to press the 00:11:02.320 --> 00:11:08.240 oh until it's barely visible all right well there it's technically barely visible i 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 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:16.480 got to keep the cans on we're gaming now fellas 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 00:11:20.320 --> 00:11:25.120 it's not super hdre 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 00:11:28.880 --> 00:11:36.480 oh that flash and the lightning looked pretty good though hold to activate 00:11:34.959 --> 00:11:40.959 oh that looks cool that's nice and bright yeah this looks pretty sexy 00:11:39.519 --> 00:11:44.959 okay what we really want to check out though is the actual differences that 00:11:43.040 --> 00:11:48.720 this will do on a playstation versus a pc and that's the auto switching stuff 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 00:11:51.040 --> 00:11:57.839 there was some screen flicker and stuff so when you actually change modes with a 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 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 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:08.560 but you will notice like a flicker or your screen will go dark momentarily and 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 00:12:12.560 --> 00:12:19.519 array local dimming with 96 zones like that's not bad i think the price point 00:12:17.120 --> 00:12:23.360 is decent but at the end of the day i would probably pick a different monitor 00:12:21.519 --> 00:12:29.120 personally i don't need the pixel density of 4k 100 at 27 inches the kvm 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 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 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 00:12:39.839 --> 00:12:46.480 think that if you do buy this thing you should definitely just get either a wall 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:50.240 mount or a monitor ARM to put it on because i 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:53.519 really really don't like this stand for a number of reasons otherwise though 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 00:12:55.360 --> 00:13:00.639 probably one of the best HDR experiences 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 00:13:02.959 --> 00:13:10.800 really first kind of foray into the gaming monitor space it's not bad and 00:13:08.800 --> 00:13:14.320 you should definitely include it when you're trying to figure out what monitor 00:13:12.720 --> 00:13:18.560 to buy next and if you're trying to figure out what video to watch next 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:21.600 maybe look at adam's video on the headphones that we got the h9s that 00:13:20.399 --> 00:13:25.360 one's pretty these are pretty good too apparently are they good at them 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 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:31.519 there you go watch the video watch the video thanks for watching