Our editors are kind of overdue for a monitor upgrade. And Apple's new studio
display got me thinking. If Apple has those, ASUS probably has something
that's better or less expensive or both.
After all, that's a huge part of why we went with the PA32 UCX Pro rather than
the Pro Display XDR in the first place. So, we reached out to ASUS, who, as luck
would have it, has a really comprehensive lineup of ProArt displays
these days, and offered to sponsor this video, sending over 12 of their 32-in
PA32 QCVS. Compared to the Studio Display, these
are much larger. They're 6K versus 5K
resolution. They have the same brightness, the same 60 Hz refresh rate,
and all of this for $300 less. Now, it
only uses Thunderbolt 4 rather than Thunderbolt 5, but you get a built-in
KVM for controlling multiple systems without an external accessory. So, these
are going to be our editor's new workhorse monitors. But, ASUS also sent
over one unit of something really, really special. The PA 32KX,
an 8K monster with over 4,000 dimming
zones and sustained 1,000 nits brightness. This has the potential to be
among the sickest displays I've ever seen, and I cannot wait to use it. No,
no, no, not now.
Before we get started, the keen it among you might have noticed there are only 11
displays in the pile. Asus asked me to point out that that was not them
cheaping out. It's actually because we allocated one of the ones they sent to
Linus Torvalds' build. The good news though is that some of the members of
our editing team are really more like
supervisors these days and don't really need the extra resolution dayto-day.
Let's actually start then by getting rid of one of the old UCX displays and
explaining both what's still great about them and also what isn't so much. Uh, is
Nicole remoteed into her system or are we good to just >> We're not doing Nicole's.
>> We're not doing Nicole's. >> No, we're moving PE. She's You just said that she doesn't need it because she's a
supervisor. So, we're not switching hers. We're switching Peters.
>> Oh, well, why did WE PUT THE PILE IN front of Peters? >> Move the pile. That was just for the
intro. >> Oh, okay. As I mentioned in a couple of
key ways, this old monitor is actually kind of better than the replacement.
Thanks to its mini LED backlight with local dimming, it supports HDR at up to
1200 nits peak brightness. By contrast, pun intended, while the new units do
support HDR, they don't have local dimming. They only reach about 600 nits
peak brightness, and they won't really pop the way that a true HDR display
will. So, why the step down? Oh, sorry,
Peter. Hopefully, whatever you were doing wasn't important. Oh, man. I
forgot how heavy these things were. I haven't moved one in a while.
Okay, come on. And that's a little dramatic.
Here's the thing. HDR felt really important to us last time we made an
upgrade because we were certain at the time that high dynamic range was the
future of our channel and the YouTube platform in general. And it is, and
we've dabbled in it. But as it turns out, that future is taking its sweet
time. The whole workflow is still more cumbersome, and the juice just hasn't
really been worth the squeeze. Also, while a thousand plus backlight zones
seemed pretty good at the time, in practice, the blooming is pretty
noticeable in day-to-day work. As for the new unit, I already went over some
of the sort of highlevel specs, but let's talk about some of the things that
make this a great monitor for cutting together footage. And a big one is the
resolution. While we and most YouTube channels aren't shooting higher than 4K
these days, as it turns out, editors just love having more real estate and a
super sharp image. The more the pretty much the better. Okay, is that fair to
say? >> Yeah. >> Okay, editors. Yeah, you're nodding.
This is also a pretty nice thing. I was about to show you guys the IO and I
noticed instead the matte coating that ASUS has on this. That is
that is really nice. That's not a lot of glare.
here. Uh, you know what? I'm going to grab the old one and hold it side by side. That's practically a mirror by
comparison. See that?
>> Yeah, that's a big difference. >> Yeah, that one looks glossy next
to >> Yeah. And it's not glossy. >> I know. >> That's the thing is like like here
coming to the IO, we've got HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4. That's all we need for
6K 60 Hz. We've got two Thunderbolt
ports. one that does 96 watts if you wanted a single cable solution to
something like a MacBook Pro or a PX13.
And then finally, another USBC headphone
jack, as well as wait, what the hell is that? A single USB type A. Oh, that's
nice. Oh, but wait, there's more. There's
another type A and another type C over here. I totally missed that. All right,
this took me a minute to figure out, but she clicks on like that, and then she's
got a little lock right there. Boom.
I wish Peter was actually here to try his new monitor. These guys, they kicked
all the editors out because they were like, "Oh, they'll be in the way of the production." And I was like, "Okay, yes,
but like also who's going to tell us if they're any
good if the editors aren't here? Don't worry. It came from a good place. It
came from a good place." Oh,
okay. Here we go.
Oh my god. 616
by 3384 pixels.
If you'd shown this to teenage me, he would have actually crapped himself.
Cable management is built into the stand. And for that matter, so is this
one, this one, this one, and
even this one. There you go. Well, okay. Not like that.
There. Yeah, it only goes it only goes 87
degrees because ASUS just wanted to bother every OCD person who bought this
display. No, no, no, no. There you go. I'm liking this anti-glare coating.
>> It's really good. >> Yeah. Sponsored video or not? That's uh that's pretty sick. In compliance with
energy related regulations, the max brightness blah blah blah is fixed.
Would you like to remain in energy saving mode? Uh no. No. I'd like to be
in give me that brightness mode. All right. Now's a good time to take a quick
look at our on-screen display. As you'd expect from a professional display,
we've got a plethora of color spaces and user modes. And a really cool one that's
supported on all of the new ProArt models is the new M model P3 that is
designed for color consistency between Apple devices and ProArt displays. And
ASUS also wanted us to point out that or you could just not cuz you can scan this
QR code and you can get their display widget center. This allows you to adjust
a ton of settings through software on both Windows and macOS that would
normally be buried in an on-screen display. So that way, no matter what
kind of computer you're using, you don't have to feel like you're leaving any features on the table. Not going to lie,
this looks kind of awesome. Like the
reduced glare is incredible and it's so sharp. Oh, buddy.
She's she's a heavy boy.
Like the new Studio Display XDR and like
our old UCXs, this bad boy is miniLEDD
with full array local dimming. But
unlike those, it's got a whopping 4,32
dimming zones. That is almost double the
Studio Display XDR and about four times
what we had on these. It's also using what ASUS calls their nextG miniLEDD
light profile in order to help reduce haloing. Now, this display does not have
industry-leading peak brightness. It's only around 1,200 nits, but it's got
some extras like a built-in colorimeter
and support for like every color space in user mode under the sun. Also, it is
limited to just 60 Hz, but that seems
like a fair trade-off for 20 75 PPI
versus the 218 of its little brother.
And also guys, if we're being real, we're going to need a faster display
port connection before we could even go above 8K 60 Hz for color critical work.
You don't want to be using display stream compression for that. Wow, is
this thing ever thick and heavy. Dual
HDMIs this time. DisplayPort.
Thunderbolt 4 once again with up to 96 watts of charging. This monitor is too
much for just one man.
A wild poof appears >> and that's his contribution.
This video is brought to you by ASUS H >> and the letter H.
>> All right. HDMI, DisplayPort, power, USBA to type- C, and we get a
Thunderbolt cable as well along with just like its little brother, a
calibration. Good lord. >> I think this one comes delta E. Less
than one. >> Uh yeah. >> Yeah. sRGB color accuracy on average
68.
That's That's nuts. I don't know if I'm
going to bother installing the shroud.
>> It's felt. >> Yeah, it has like velvet for light control. Okay, that's pretty cool. Okay.
Yeah, we're putting it on. >> Okay. And a one. Oh, dude. The base is
so heavy. You can tell it's weighted just to like deal with the sheer girth
of what's sitting on top of it.
Girl, are you so thick? There we go.
Anti-glare has come so freaking far, dude. Like, look at that. What is
happening right now? >> Peter wants to see me monitor. >> You're on a video call with him. Is it?
Yeah. >> Hi, Peter. This is
You please tell me you're not editing like this though. Like you're just
remoted into the system, not through the webcam. Right.
>> And this looks incredible. I wish ASU sent 12 of these.
>> Would it have cost, you know, like $9,000 a monitor?
>> Yeah, I can understand why they didn't. I can understand.
>> For 10 of them. >> I can understand why they didn't, >> but they're pretty sick.
>> Yeah. >> Okay. I like that the shroud screws in
now rather than using just like little plastic push pins. Yeah, this is really
nice. Just feels primo, you know.
There's not really a ton of space in here. Why don't we take this out there to give it a shot? Sure.
>> We need a 5090.
>> Where are we going to get a 5090 at this hour? >> I don't know.
>> Time to go on a quest. >> Oh god. >> Um,
>> nope. >> Nope.
Hey, huzzah. the systems that Red Bull
had us build for uh those uh athletes
they sponsor. >> I don't think we should take it out of those. Oh, but bring the monitor over
here. >> Bring the monitor here. >> We're G to G.
>> Okay, let's do it. >> Damn. How many FPS are you getting?
Don't worry about that, brother. >> It does look incredibly sharp. Like, I'm
looking at the text on the Grand Imperial Mall and uh Gosh, that's good.
>> Dude, this is nuts. >> Holy the buildings, too. Look at
these trees. >> What's aliasing?
>> Like to be clear, I would never buy a 5090 to game at 60 Hz. Not today.
But if I was going to game at 60 Hz.
It says 80,
but you know how sometimes it says 80 FPS,
but there's so much tearing and there's so much inconsistency in the frame times
that it doesn't feel like 80 FPS. Yeah, >> that's where we're at right now.
>> Well, that's 8K. >> God. Yeah, the buildings look realistic.
Like that's that's one of the first times I've looked at Cyberpunk and
thought, "Wow, this looks like actually almost photorealistic just in the base
game." >> To be clear, I still don't think 8K is
ever going to happen for consumer. >> Maybe 20 years. 20 years
>> maybe. But like why? Wow. Because we're sitting here
thinking, "Wow, that looks amazing. That's why."
>> All right, fair enough. But this wasn't made for consumers, you know. This is
all about the features that professionals need. I mean, even things
like it supports DICOM, which was a pretty cool thing that really impressed
us about the Studio Display XDR. Well, here it is on both this and on its
little brothers. Speaking of the little brothers, why don't we go see how Connor
likes his upgrade? Coming back to the displays we're
actually deploying. Ready to turn it on and have a look? >> Sure. I mean, yes. I'm so excited.
>> He's just upset he doesn't have his shelf anymore.
>> We talked about that before the camera turned on.
>> Wow. It's Premiere.
It's great. >> Thanks, Connor. >> I was going to say actually with the
other monitor, um, we have light set up in this room right now, but this was
blinding before coming from this bulb light. Right now, I it doesn't face me
at all. It's great. Now, tell me something. The way that you would scale
your interface normally, are you going to get much out of 6K? I mean, to me, it
looks like you have some really small text on your screen. Do you notice any difference or was 4K already a lot?
>> I don't see any impact right now, but I think you said earlier with screenshots,
we really want high-res and like be to be able to punch in on words so we don't
lose quality. That is the big thing for me.
>> Really? Okay. >> I mean, you should know you always comment on LMG review.
Okay, that's fair. >> This obviously is a JPEG, so it's not
going to scale very well. When you're reviewing our videos and it was like this, would you complain about that?
Like, that's legible, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> His seal of approval right now.
>> And if everything that we've looked at so far is a little too rich for your
blood, ASUS does have a third model they sent over that's more for people who are
starting out, the PA 27JCV.
It's only 5K and only 27 in, but we get
a ton of the same features that we just went over, like the built-in KVM, the
Apple color space compatibility, and access to a ton of different color modes
while maintaining a solid 218 PPI for as
low as 7 or $800 depending on where you find it. So, thanks again to ASUS for
sponsoring this video and this editing den upgrade. If any of you guys are
interested in checking out any of the ProArt monitors that we talked about, we're going to have them all linked in
the video description. Now, please stop
recording because I've got an 8K monitor to steal. Did you add that to it after
script review? >> No, I put that in before and you just never noticed. >> Nice. I mean, that is the plan.
>> If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the time that we uh originally
upgraded to the PA32 UCX. They really are great monitors. We just didn't end
up going the HDR route.