ASUS VG278 3D Vision 2 Lightboost Ready LED Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,421 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to an action-packed an exciting unboxing of the ASUS
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vg278 3D monitor with a couple of cool
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features that really set it apart from some of the previous generation 3D
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monitors including ASUS's own if you guys remember we gave away one of those
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24in 3D ready monitors in the Duke Nukem
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contest and it's also the 3D ready monitor that I use on my home test bench
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which you guys will see during some of my late night benchmarking session
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videos and whatnot so hopefully this is
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a worthy successor and let's go ahead and get started getting this opened up
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so we got a couple bits of uh assembly Hardware here in a place where you're
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bound to notice it so I'm guessing you'll need that we've also got a VIP
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member notice and okay we've got 3D Vision 2
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glasses right here so why do we have 3D
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Vision 2 glasses well the reason is that
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this monitor is actually optimized for 3D Vision 2 we have a dual link DVI
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cable let's keep opening things shall we shall
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we yes we have an audio cable we have
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some 3D Vision drivers some 3D Vision glasses quick start guide some general
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instructions and whatnot we have the
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base uh which I can't get out yet we have some more cables including a VGA
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cable although really guys if you're going to run this monitor off a VGA cable just go home we have a power cable
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and we have the 27 in
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monitor hopefully I don't drop it itself
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okay so give me a sec I'm probably actually no wait don't give me a sec I
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can do this All right so I just need the base which I just have to force it when
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in doubt force it that's like uh
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computer tech class 101 it doesn't fit push harder all right
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there's our base it's uh looks very similar to the base from the 24 in model
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uh it's got that 3D sort of logo looking thing on it if it's similar to the other
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one then it probably rotates y there you go so it actually
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swivels okay
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I would be robbing you guys of the unboxing experience if I turned off the
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camera to remove all the packing materials right is that is that how this
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works some days I actually don't know so
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we're going to go ahead flip this bad boy over then we're going to go ahead
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and put this right over
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here okay and then we're going to rotate
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it back to Center and grab that Hardware
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which has fallen to the floor know it hasn't which is here we're going to undo
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that take these which are here and we
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are going to screw them in okay maybe I'll come back after I screw these in
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all right so the vg278 has its base
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attached now we're going to go ahead I'm going to pull this pin which is going to
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allow me to adjust the height oh that's a pretty robust height adjustment
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actually feels very solidly built actually it's been my experience with
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all the ASUS monitors that I've had the pleasure of using so so far build
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quality is as I've come to expect from ASUS excellent so let's keep on opening
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it there very very very shiny shiny shiny base all right overall it's a very
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shiny monitor um not something that I
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personally prefer although a lot of people do like the shiny thing going on
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with their peripherals so I can't can't really fault them for going that route
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okay let's uh keep taking these off so over here here we've got the splendid
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button Splendid is basically like a OneTouch color enhancement button so
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it's not going to be necessarily accurate colors that Splendid is going
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for but it would be sort of more like uh vibrant colors so the kind of thing that
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would be good for a store display where you know if you want someone to pick
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your monitor then you want to show like you want to show off the full color
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capabilities of it um this is an LED
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backlit panel so that's a big improvement over the previous generation
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3D Vision monitors I believe there was only one previous generation LED backlit
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3D ready Monitor and it wasn't the one from ASUS so ASUS has added that to its
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repertoire uh what we also have U moving
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around the edge of the monitor oh look at this matte screen I didn't even noticed that before
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that's the part about it that is not shiny which is the critical part there
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you can see how little reflectiveness there is in the screen I'm going to
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point it right at slick and you're not going to be able to see him because
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that's how map the screen is that is is outstanding two thumbs up ASUS for a
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matte screen LED back lit 27 in 108p 3D
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Vision ready monitor which incidentally
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the reason it in includes the 3D Vision two glasses is
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because it supports where is it light boost so that
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gives you in theory due to the way that 3D Vision 2 operates with inserting
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extra frames between the left and the right image gives you in theory double
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the brightness when you're running stereoscopic 3D applications so I
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believe it's a it's a combination between the Monitor boosting it up
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whenever you launch something 3D and the way that 3D Vision 2 operates that gives
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you that functionality very cool what else we got in here LED backlit 120 HZ
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it better be 120 HZ if it's 3D 3D Blu-ray ready so that's over HDMI
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1.4 uh and finally tilt swivel and height adjustment so why don't I show
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you guys all that so there is your swivel look at how far that goes those
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what really does it go all the way oh
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look at that that's cool so you can actually
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angle it any direction you want that's where
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it stops I've never seen that before all
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right so here's the angle adjustment oh yeah you want that from
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the side I guess that makes sense there you go and height adjustment is quite
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height adjustable huh neat okay so I'm going to
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go ahead and pull the rest of the plastic off here and then let's have a
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look at the inputs and outputs oh oh wait no no hold on hold on there's yet
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another thing that makes this a very very NVIDIA 3D Vision ready Monitor and
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that is right here that is your IR emitter you do not need a standalone IR
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emitter to go with this monitor because it is
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included all right so let's have a look at the inputs and outputs which we will
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find on the bottom of the monitor well no okay I guess we've got our on screen
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display first so here are all of your menu items item including selecting your
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Source navigating the menu all that good stuff and finally your power button
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which has a little LED on the front of it then what's going to be a good way to
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show this hm trouble okay here's
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power here's HDMI 1.4 DVI VGA please
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don't use this and finally there's your audio in and your headphones
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out I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say so in in
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summary 27 in which is better and larger
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and awesomer than previous generation 3D Vision monitors which makes sense
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because the new 3D Vision 2 glasses have bigger lenses which allows you to take
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in a larger image without any issues light boost 2 compatibility or light
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boost 2 light boost compatibility a built-in 3D Vision IR emitter a matte
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screen an LED backlight and that makes for one pretty wicked looking monitor
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