Samsung S27B970D 27" PLS Panel 2560x1440 HD+ LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,479 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of the Samsung Series 9 970 monitor this thing is
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just yeah it's pretty much as as maxed out as it gets when it comes to a
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monitor so it uses you know what I'm not going to talk too much about what's on
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the inside cuz we're going to open the box and we'll see that at some point so
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experience color like never before they've got their natural color expert
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as well as L to line switching technology this is a PLS panel I've made
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it very clear in the past I am a huge fan of PLS panels which are at this
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point exclusive to Samsung they are gorgeous whether it's on the Galaxy Tab
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10.1 that in my personal subjective opinion has the best screen out of any
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tablet that I've seen to date or or if it's on their other PLS panels which are
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they have one available in 24 in and one that's available in a smaller size 1
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billion colors okay wqd 260 x 1440 it's
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not quite 2560 x600 but I'll let it slide this is an LED backlit monitor on
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the back you're going to see some more sort of Glamour Shots of the monitor
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itself but since we're going to open it up we don't have to worry too much about that on this side we see the actual
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model code which is ls27
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b970 dsen which is like I don't know if
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uh if I was going to name this monitor I'd just call it like you know the junk
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Destroyer or something like that because
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just calling it like a series of numbers and letters doesn't do it justice so
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we're going to take a quick look at the packaging inside then we're going to open this one up off camera just so that
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you guys can uh instead of watching me open packaging for most of the video you
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can bask in the glory of this gorgeous monitor I've already seen it outside of
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the box so uh we're cheating a little bit here but what are you going to do
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here's a dual link DVI cable included HDMI cable although I wouldn't use that
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use the dual link DVI cable uh DisplayPort cable that one's okay wow they
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included like every cable um USB A to B
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as well as HDMI to Mini HDMI wow yeah they really include like everything you
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need to hook it up user manual in there a hard foam but I don't expect it being
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a problem it weighs what it weighs so unlike computer cases which once you
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load them up with Hardware become a bit of a shipping Hazard uh it's not really
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a concern yeah this thing is a thing of
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beauty so we're going to go ahead and unveil it on camera here absolutely
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beautiful although pretty pretty much all of Samsung's n series products are
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just marvels of manufacturing at the end of the day I mean we've got one of their
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other N9 series monitors over there that we took a look at a while back that's a
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3D monitor again just just gorgeous so
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this one brings a few new things to the table and I apologize for not having it
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hooked up to anything we're going to do a full NCIX Tech tips on this one later
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so it uses edgo Edge glass this is an
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anti-reflective glass that is on here and that means that
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yeah basically there's there's no seam there's no Shadow from the bezel there's
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no you know the bezel masking the very the very edge of it or anything like
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that it's just one gorgeous piece of glass and then a PLS panel underneath of
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it it has a 5 millisecond delay which is actually pretty good for a high color
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accuracy panel and it also uses uh did I mention 2560 X 1440 res I think I did
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yeah I did okay 178° viewing angle which
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is pretty much what I would expect from PLS display as as well as two speakers
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so it has 7 watt time 2 speakers I'm not sure where the ah there they are right
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there on the bottom 7 Watts time 2 it
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also has minimum 90% uniformity that is built into the spec and now let's take a
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closer look at the rest of the display so it's very thin we're going to do Ye
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Old uh iPhone comparison to check out
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the uh the thinness of the display itself so it's about double the
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thickness of an iPhone which is just stunning compared
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to I have one of Samsung's old highres displays the 305t Plus at home and
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compared to uh to that this looks just like space
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age but I'm not tempted to upgrade not yet no I am but I'll I'll stick with the
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305t for a little while longer uh in terms of the overall build quality it's
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just outstanding so back here we find the uh the same kind of brushed looking
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plastic back that they have on the Galaxy Tab I a huge fan of this finish I
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actually prefer it to brushed aluminum and the reason for that is that it is
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way more durable way more scratch resistant it is
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also far less likely to get stained and ugly you can clean it a lot more easily
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um we've got a height adjust stand so it goes all the way from down there to all
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the way up here I'm going to turn around and do it again so slick don't worry too much about that and the stand again is
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just a piece of art cuz it's got you know like just like a shiny chromy thing
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going on and then like a concentric Circle sort of effect going on on the
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top they've really gone all out this is um this is sort of this is sort of an
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interesting like artsy type design so the monitor seems to hover if when you
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put it down it seems to kind of sit on nothing and that's because uh falling
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away from the the top silver piece here sorry guys this is a show sample uh
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falling away from the top silver piece here is like a black uh base that
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includes a USB hm are those USB 2 yep
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two USB 2.0 ports which are f by this uh
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this USB uh B connector here display
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port DVI and HDMI in are all accepted as
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well as power right there there's some ventilation on the bottom for some of
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those internal Electronics because there's no small amount of electronic
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Wizardry that goes into building such high resolution displays here we can see
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the construction again this is all metal
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here no plastic up here at the top um other than the backing which once again
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I told you guys I prefer that to aluminum looks just gorgeous you can see
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the fit and finish of it is just Immaculate let's go to top and it's not
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even that heavy like I can I can hold it with one hand fairly easily so it's h
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that should tell you guys something about the weight in spite of the glass
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panel so that's very very that's most of the weight of the top here you got your
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Samsung logo on there I mean that's pretty much all there is to say until we
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have a chance to fire it up so here let's uh let's just finish up up here oh
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right sensitive buttons check it out so you can select your source and
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navigate your menu with little touch sensitive buttons here very cool right
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okay so uh no pivot for this guy
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although we do have tilt oh sorry slick
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sorry we do have tilt actually you should be looking at this from the side anyway so we have this much tilt and
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then the height adjust I promised to show that from the front goes all the
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way down to there and all the way up to there so
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that looks like about
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oh four 4 in 5 in of height adjust so
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thank you for checking out our unboxing of the 970 series 9 monitor from Samsung
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once again key talking points 2560 x40
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PLS display with one seamless glass
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front that I think is beautiful