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monitors are getting too complicated these days that's why we've got the

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Amazon Basics monitor powered by AOC and

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you know I don't know if it's going to be any good or not because Amazon Basics

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is a little all over the place at least from what I've purchased some stuff you

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get it and it's great it's honestly like just as good as any other name brand or

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even better sometimes it's not so good I have had the Labs take a look at this

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but I haven't looked at their results yet although Brandon told me it's

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exciting so I'm very curious to see how it actually performs it's 1080p 27

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inches it does come in a act it does come in a 24

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inch model if you're a little worried about pixel density 27 inch 1080p is

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going to be around 82 PPI 24 inch is

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much closer to 100 so you know it's kind of just up to you the stand is actually

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okay I don't know if you can vase amount this though no it does not appear that

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you can oh no you can whoa okay as for

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the rest of the stand you know it's not bad we've got to screw in on the bottom

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here which is better than a lot of other monitors when you're looking at this

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price point a lot of them don't have the screw and they've just got something

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that Clips on and Clacks together you know

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and it's okay especially for something small like a 24 inch but once you get up

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to 27 you want something a little bit more robust on the back it's quite a lot

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to be honest but on the front it's really not too bad you got the little

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Amazon Basics logo on the bottom it's not any worse than most brands really it

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would be nice if it either wasn't there or it was a little smaller or maybe it

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was like gray on black or something sort of white on black but I mean at the end

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of the day you're getting this to hopefully Save A Buck and that's just

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going to come with some labels being places where you might not want them to be one thing I don't really like is the

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stand is kind of weird to install it's

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not well okay that's actually not bad it's kind of neat it's got these little

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rails here and it actually just slides on up and then locks into place like

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that it's not awful I've definitely had worse stands but I would really

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recommend if you can to just go with the vase amount put it on an ARM instead

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while we're down here we got USB B to connect to your computer to two more USB

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a ports here two more USB a ports on the side power plug which is nicely just a

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C13 and it doesn't look like it's going to any kind of external brick it's

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DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 nothing too

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fancy but we don't need it because it's not a high resolution or high refresh

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rate panel and then we've got our good old well it says d sub but that looks

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like VGA to me and then we've got headphone jack and a speaker Jack one

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problem with a stand that's as basic as this guy is it basically gives us

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nothing in terms of any kind of adjustability we can tilt actually has a

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you know decent amount of tilt but there's nothing else it's not going

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anywhere no height adjustment you're not going to swivel you're not going to Pivot

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it's stuck here but that's okay because if you sit down okay it's a little low

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for me personally I'd probably put a book down or something here so that

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would be the definitely biggest complaint that I have so far is my eyes should be a little bit lower than they

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are for this thing as for the actual quality of the monitor itself it's not

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awful it doesn't feel premium in any way but I mean it doesn't feel flimsy I've

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grabbed a few like much cheaper feeling

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TVs recently and you can just the whole thing's kind of loose like the Amazon

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Fire TV when you move it it's like you can feel these panels separating a

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little bit whereas this is you know solid and tight it feels like it's

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pretty well constructed overall another feature I actually really like is it's

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got all of these buttons on the front here we don't get a navigation nipple

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but everything is in Clear View and so you're never gonna have to go searching

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for which button to press well check out the OSD later once it's powered on

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speaking of turning it on I'm going to turn this bad boy on and game on it but

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gotta make some adjustments here because all I have is tilt it right away doesn't

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completely feel level I don't know if I'm crazy or not but I want to move it

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like just slightly this way but that's okay everything seems to be in order oh

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60 hertz that's not good enough 75 this thing can do 75 Hertz refresh rate which

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is a decent jump from 60. it's obviously nowhere near as good as 120 or 144 or so

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and so forth but you know what it's doing it it's okay it's the 27 e2ua I

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wish they'd had a easier monitor name to remember but I'm one's not too bad as

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far as monitor names go I don't think it has HDR

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which is not a Twist yep I don't see any options for it so we're not going to

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watch any HDR content to really justify but we can always watch the content we

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normally watch that is an HDR but an SDR and we'll see how it is you know as much

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as we kind of Proclaim HDR is the future

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and it's amazing and it is it looks really good on a nice display that

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supports it SDR content still looks really good like

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this still looks like it's got a bright point like obviously the range isn't

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insane but it's got a range to it the color is like pretty good I actually

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don't see anything that's like wildly out of whack uh no crazy weird banding

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issues or anything like that it's IPS which is kind of the best when it comes

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to LED screens at least so I mean you're not having to

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be stuck with VA or TN panels depending

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on what you're looking for it's a regular IPS panel that's Edge lit so

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you're not going to get any full array local dimming or anything like that but

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it also doesn't have HDR in the first place so that's fine it's not going to

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make a huge difference I want to try the OSD we've got pretty easy to read

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buttons here you know it's clearly power so I'm not going to hit that one I'm guessing this starts it oh that's my

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input switch okay cool this is my OSD uh

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that's something I have never seen a

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horizontal OSD like this they're usually vertical okay eco mode standard uh yes

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always proceed whoa that's because it went to text mode internet game movie

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Sports okay so these are basically just changing the brightness that's cool oh

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wait it does have HDR mode there's no way there's no way that I just enabled

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HDR hold on this is cool you can change like where all this stuff is it seems

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game setting adaptive sync is on so this

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thing does have seems to have adaptive sync okay so now that we've enabled HDR

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let's check it out it's got to just be yeah it's got to just be some picture

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mode profile thing because there is no HDR Windows settings

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yeah and it's only 8-bit uh there's no way okay I don't know what exactly that

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HDR setting is changing but I don't trust it don't buy this thing thinking

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you're going to enable that and get really Stellar HDR content that's just

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not gonna happen we're gonna listen to crab Rave because this thing has some

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speakers I don't know if they're good or not it's just the waves and stuff but

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it's not terrible right now

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okay there's basically no base but there's no sub like what do you expect

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but honestly that's not bad we'll play we'll play some games with it it's 75

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Hertz and the pixel response time isn't anything to write home about but you

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know this is not bad this is like totally playable I just want to spike

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one dude oh come on you're so low oh

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no yeah the speakers are okay frankly like

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I wouldn't want to game with these I'd rather you know use some headphones

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instead but these aren't terrible they definitely do in a pinch

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this is totally acceptable as much as we brag about like high-end monitors and

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stuff and they really have come a long way um I think it's time we talk about the

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price because this thing is only a

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hundred and fifty dollars all of this like actually looks pretty good that's

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because Labs tested this thing and it turns out it can do a hundred percent of

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the srgb color space it'll do 90 of DCI

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P3 and it's doing that all while hitting a very very impressive 2.5 average Delta

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e the reason that number is so important is because anything under two it's going

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to be basically imperceptible to the human eye so when you're seeing

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something just fresh out of the box hitting a 2.5 that's crazy impressive I

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I don't I don't know maybe Amazon is actually doing something right here

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um it's not just Amazon it's all it's

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it's all powered by AOC and for those of you who don't know AOC is another

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monitor manufacturer who we've actually covered several of their displays on

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this channel they're usually really good my my only complaint is typically the

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price I think they're just a little bit too high but they haven't done that here

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frankly and the reality is especially because it's an Amazon Basics product

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you're probably going to see it go on sale every every now and then I don't

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think that you should pick this up as your main display I still think that if

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you're gaming you definitely want like 140 Hertz 120 hertz minimum but man do

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they really make a compelling argument here's the thing there are plenty of

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other competitors at this price point scepter has a pretty cheap monitor we

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cover that on why is everyone buying this monitor on LTT Acer has a pretty

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cheap monitor they've all got pretty similar specs you're going to see IPS at

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around this price range the problem is they're not all going to be nearly as

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color accurate as this one I think we measured the scepter closer to a Delta e

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average of six which is good it's actually about what we were expecting

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for a monitor in that price range if you need something that's actually

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relatively color accurate maybe we got lucky maybe this is a golden sample and

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we we just happen to test literally the best one ever out of the factory but I

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don't think so I think that they're all going to be pretty much in this kind of

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range it's not going to do anything crazy high-end you're not going to get

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amazing HDR experience on it you're not even going to get an incredible gaming

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experience on it because of the lower refresh rate however

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75 Hertz is playable 1080p ain't bad and

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honestly what I want more than anything is I just want my colors to be like perfectly accurate so I know that what

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I'm looking at on the screen is what is is exactly what I should be seeing would

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I buy it yeah I think this is a really valid choice for any kind of server rack

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that you might have because it's got a VGA in it you know you've got multiple

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inputs it's also a decent side monitor though especially because while this

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can't go into portrait mode you could put it on an ARM and throw it in as a

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side monitor vertical or you know maybe you don't even care about portrait mode you can just throw it off to the side

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something like this and it'll do the job just fine I would love some more height

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adjustment that's probably my biggest gripe with it but other than that I

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think it's a totally valid buy good job Amazon and good job AOC you've actually

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made a pretty decent panel at a pretty reasonable price thanks for watching

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that's the Amazon Basics monitor powered by AOC if you want to check out any

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other monitors maybe check out some of the AOC monitors we've looked at