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Our editors are kind of overdue for a monitor upgrade. And Apple's new studio

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display got me thinking. If Apple has those, ASUS probably has something

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that's better or less expensive or both.

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After all, that's a huge part of why we went with the PA32 UCX Pro rather than

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the Pro Display XDR in the first place. So, we reached out to ASUS, who, as luck

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would have it, has a really comprehensive lineup of ProArt displays

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these days, and offered to sponsor this video, sending over 12 of their 32-in

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PA32 QCVS. Compared to the Studio Display, these

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are much larger. They're 6K versus 5K

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resolution. They have the same brightness, the same 60 Hz refresh rate,

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and all of this for $300 less. Now, it

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only uses Thunderbolt 4 rather than Thunderbolt 5, but you get a built-in

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KVM for controlling multiple systems without an external accessory. So, these

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are going to be our editor's new workhorse monitors. But, ASUS also sent

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over one unit of something really, really special. The PA 32KX,

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an 8K monster with over 4,000 dimming

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zones and sustained 1,000 nits brightness. This has the potential to be

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among the sickest displays I've ever seen, and I cannot wait to use it. No,

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no, no, not now.

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Before we get started, the keen it among you might have noticed there are only 11

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displays in the pile. Asus asked me to point out that that was not them

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cheaping out. It's actually because we allocated one of the ones they sent to

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Linus Torvalds' build. The good news though is that some of the members of

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our editing team are really more like

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supervisors these days and don't really need the extra resolution dayto-day.

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Let's actually start then by getting rid of one of the old UCX displays and

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explaining both what's still great about them and also what isn't so much. Uh, is

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Nicole remoteed into her system or are we good to just >> We're not doing Nicole's.

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>> 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

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supervisor. So, we're not switching hers. We're switching Peters.

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>> Oh, well, why did WE PUT THE PILE IN front of Peters? >> Move the pile. That was just for the

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intro. >> Oh, okay. As I mentioned in a couple of

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key ways, this old monitor is actually kind of better than the replacement.

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Thanks to its mini LED backlight with local dimming, it supports HDR at up to

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1200 nits peak brightness. By contrast, pun intended, while the new units do

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support HDR, they don't have local dimming. They only reach about 600 nits

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peak brightness, and they won't really pop the way that a true HDR display

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will. So, why the step down? Oh, sorry,

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Peter. Hopefully, whatever you were doing wasn't important. Oh, man. I

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forgot how heavy these things were. I haven't moved one in a while.

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Okay, come on. And that's a little dramatic.

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Here's the thing. HDR felt really important to us last time we made an

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upgrade because we were certain at the time that high dynamic range was the

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future of our channel and the YouTube platform in general. And it is, and

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we've dabbled in it. But as it turns out, that future is taking its sweet

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time. The whole workflow is still more cumbersome, and the juice just hasn't

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really been worth the squeeze. Also, while a thousand plus backlight zones

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seemed pretty good at the time, in practice, the blooming is pretty

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noticeable in day-to-day work. As for the new unit, I already went over some

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of the sort of highlevel specs, but let's talk about some of the things that

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make this a great monitor for cutting together footage. And a big one is the

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resolution. While we and most YouTube channels aren't shooting higher than 4K

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these days, as it turns out, editors just love having more real estate and a

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super sharp image. The more the pretty much the better. Okay, is that fair to

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say? >> Yeah. >> Okay, editors. Yeah, you're nodding.

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This is also a pretty nice thing. I was about to show you guys the IO and I

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noticed instead the matte coating that ASUS has on this. That is

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that is really nice. That's not a lot of glare.

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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

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comparison. See that?

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>> Yeah, that's a big difference. >> Yeah, that one looks glossy next

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to >> Yeah. And it's not glossy. >> I know. >> That's the thing is like like here

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coming to the IO, we've got HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4. That's all we need for

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6K 60 Hz. We've got two Thunderbolt

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ports. one that does 96 watts if you wanted a single cable solution to

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something like a MacBook Pro or a PX13.

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And then finally, another USBC headphone

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jack, as well as wait, what the hell is that? A single USB type A. Oh, that's

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nice. Oh, but wait, there's more. There's

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another type A and another type C over here. I totally missed that. All right,

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this took me a minute to figure out, but she clicks on like that, and then she's

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got a little lock right there. Boom.

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I wish Peter was actually here to try his new monitor. These guys, they kicked

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all the editors out because they were like, "Oh, they'll be in the way of the production." And I was like, "Okay, yes,

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but like also who's going to tell us if they're any

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good if the editors aren't here? Don't worry. It came from a good place. It

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came from a good place." Oh,

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okay. Here we go.

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Oh my god. 616

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by 3384 pixels.

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If you'd shown this to teenage me, he would have actually crapped himself.

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Cable management is built into the stand. And for that matter, so is this

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one, this one, this one, and

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even this one. There you go. Well, okay. Not like that.

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degrees because ASUS just wanted to bother every OCD person who bought this

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display. No, no, no, no. There you go. I'm liking this anti-glare coating.

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>> It's really good. >> Yeah. Sponsored video or not? That's uh that's pretty sick. In compliance with

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energy related regulations, the max brightness blah blah blah is fixed.

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Would you like to remain in energy saving mode? Uh no. No. I'd like to be

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in give me that brightness mode. All right. Now's a good time to take a quick

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look at our on-screen display. As you'd expect from a professional display,

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we've got a plethora of color spaces and user modes. And a really cool one that's

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supported on all of the new ProArt models is the new M model P3 that is

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designed for color consistency between Apple devices and ProArt displays. And

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ASUS also wanted us to point out that or you could just not cuz you can scan this

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QR code and you can get their display widget center. This allows you to adjust

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a ton of settings through software on both Windows and macOS that would

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normally be buried in an on-screen display. So that way, no matter what

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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,

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this looks kind of awesome. Like the

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reduced glare is incredible and it's so sharp. Oh, buddy.

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She's she's a heavy boy.

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Like the new Studio Display XDR and like

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our old UCXs, this bad boy is miniLEDD

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with full array local dimming. But

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unlike those, it's got a whopping 4,32

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dimming zones. That is almost double the

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what we had on these. It's also using what ASUS calls their nextG miniLEDD

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light profile in order to help reduce haloing. Now, this display does not have

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industry-leading peak brightness. It's only around 1,200 nits, but it's got

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some extras like a built-in colorimeter

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and support for like every color space in user mode under the sun. Also, it is

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limited to just 60 Hz, but that seems

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like a fair trade-off for 20 75 PPI

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versus the 218 of its little brother.

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And also guys, if we're being real, we're going to need a faster display

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port connection before we could even go above 8K 60 Hz for color critical work.

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You don't want to be using display stream compression for that. Wow, is

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this thing ever thick and heavy. Dual

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HDMIs this time. DisplayPort.

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Thunderbolt 4 once again with up to 96 watts of charging. This monitor is too

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much for just one man.

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A wild poof appears >> and that's his contribution.

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This video is brought to you by ASUS H >> and the letter H.

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>> All right. HDMI, DisplayPort, power, USBA to type- C, and we get a

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Thunderbolt cable as well along with just like its little brother, a

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calibration. Good lord. >> I think this one comes delta E. Less

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than one. >> Uh yeah. >> Yeah. sRGB color accuracy on average

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That's That's nuts. I don't know if I'm

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going to bother installing the shroud.

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>> It's felt. >> Yeah, it has like velvet for light control. Okay, that's pretty cool. Okay.

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Yeah, we're putting it on. >> Okay. And a one. Oh, dude. The base is

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so heavy. You can tell it's weighted just to like deal with the sheer girth

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of what's sitting on top of it.

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Girl, are you so thick? There we go.

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Anti-glare has come so freaking far, dude. Like, look at that. What is

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happening right now? >> Peter wants to see me monitor. >> You're on a video call with him. Is it?

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Yeah. >> Hi, Peter. This is

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You please tell me you're not editing like this though. Like you're just

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remoted into the system, not through the webcam. Right.

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>> And this looks incredible. I wish ASU sent 12 of these.

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>> Would it have cost, you know, like $9,000 a monitor?

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>> Yeah, I can understand why they didn't. I can understand.

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>> For 10 of them. >> I can understand why they didn't, >> but they're pretty sick.

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>> Yeah. >> Okay. I like that the shroud screws in

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now rather than using just like little plastic push pins. Yeah, this is really

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nice. Just feels primo, you know.

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There's not really a ton of space in here. Why don't we take this out there to give it a shot? Sure.

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>> We need a 5090.

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>> Where are we going to get a 5090 at this hour? >> I don't know.

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Hey, huzzah. the systems that Red Bull

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had us build for uh those uh athletes

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they sponsor. >> I don't think we should take it out of those. Oh, but bring the monitor over

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here. >> Bring the monitor here. >> We're G to G.

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>> Okay, let's do it. >> Damn. How many FPS are you getting?

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Don't worry about that, brother. >> It does look incredibly sharp. Like, I'm

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looking at the text on the Grand Imperial Mall and uh Gosh, that's good.

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>> Dude, this is nuts. >> Holy the buildings, too. Look at

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these trees. >> What's aliasing?

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>> Like to be clear, I would never buy a 5090 to game at 60 Hz. Not today.

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but you know how sometimes it says 80 FPS,

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but there's so much tearing and there's so much inconsistency in the frame times

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that it doesn't feel like 80 FPS. Yeah, >> that's where we're at right now.

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>> Well, that's 8K. >> God. Yeah, the buildings look realistic.

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thought, "Wow, this looks like actually almost photorealistic just in the base

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game." >> To be clear, I still don't think 8K is

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ever going to happen for consumer. >> Maybe 20 years. 20 years

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all about the features that professionals need. I mean, even things

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like it supports DICOM, which was a pretty cool thing that really impressed

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us about the Studio Display XDR. Well, here it is on both this and on its

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little brothers. Speaking of the little brothers, why don't we go see how Connor

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likes his upgrade? Coming back to the displays we're

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actually deploying. Ready to turn it on and have a look? >> Sure. I mean, yes. I'm so excited.

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>> He's just upset he doesn't have his shelf anymore.

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>> Wow. It's Premiere.

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It's great. >> Thanks, Connor. >> I was going to say actually with the

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other monitor, um, we have light set up in this room right now, but this was

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blinding before coming from this bulb light. Right now, I it doesn't face me

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at all. It's great. Now, tell me something. The way that you would scale

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your interface normally, are you going to get much out of 6K? I mean, to me, it

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looks like you have some really small text on your screen. Do you notice any difference or was 4K already a lot?

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we really want high-res and like be to be able to punch in on words so we don't

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lose quality. That is the big thing for me.

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>> Really? Okay. >> I mean, you should know you always comment on LMG review.

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Okay, that's fair. >> This obviously is a JPEG, so it's not

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going to scale very well. When you're reviewing our videos and it was like this, would you complain about that?

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Like, that's legible, right? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> His seal of approval right now.

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blood, ASUS does have a third model they sent over that's more for people who are

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It's only 5K and only 27 in, but we get

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a ton of the same features that we just went over, like the built-in KVM, the

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Apple color space compatibility, and access to a ton of different color modes

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while maintaining a solid 218 PPI for as

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low as 7 or $800 depending on where you find it. So, thanks again to ASUS for

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sponsoring this video and this editing den upgrade. If any of you guys are

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interested in checking out any of the ProArt monitors that we talked about, we're going to have them all linked in

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the video description. Now, please stop

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recording because I've got an 8K monitor to steal. Did you add that to it after

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script review? >> No, I put that in before and you just never noticed. >> Nice. I mean, that is the plan.

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>> If you guys enjoyed this video, maybe check out the time that we uh originally

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upgraded to the PA32 UCX. They really are great monitors. We just didn't end

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up going the HDR route.