Dell 4k Monitor Roundup - CES 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital so we've got some alone time with a couple of Dell 4K monitors this
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right here is the 2414 Q This is an
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ultra sharp display and when they say Ultra sharp I think they actually mean
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Ultra sharp this is actually the highest pixel density desktop monitor that Dell
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has ever produced and on top of being extremely sharp it is extremely color
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accurate so it is has a 10bit panel that means up to 1.07 billion colors and it
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comes Factory calibrated to a Delta e of less than two when you couple that with
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the exceptional viewing angles and the fact that it's height adjustable
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tiltable pivotable swivel pretty much whatever you can think of it's going to
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make for one ergonomic and absolutely
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beautiful working experience now speaking of beautiful the industrial
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design of it is very traditional I actually really like it the last Dell
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monitor I bought was a 245 fpw and to me
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this looks like kind of like a more modern version of that with a black
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bezel with slight silver accents on it it's got uh touch sensitive buttons here
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so you can go ahead and press those we've seen this kind of thing before but
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it's well implemented here you can see they light up when you even move near
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them we're going to go ahead and turn the uh turn the unit around so you can
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see how slim it is from the side the answer not particularly slim there's a
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lot of Hardware in here in order to get uh
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3,840 pixels by 2,160 uses a standard vase amount on a
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an aluminum stand so it's just an aluminum base with an aluminum stand
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I'll show you guys the height adjust here and in terms of IO you're going to
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find uh it's a little bit different than usual there's no dual link DVI there DVI
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is does not necessarily work optimally with 4K so guys it uses DisplayPort
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mini DisplayPort and HDMI those are your only options the only other I we
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find on the bottom is a USB 3 four port
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Hub which you're going to be able to use for all your high-speed connections for
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that probably quite high-end computer that's running this monitor I think I
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went ahead and turned it off there but hopefully you guys still get the point
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man it's beautiful even sitting this close to it it's
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just crystal clear
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kind of want one of these next up we've got the big brother
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this is the up 3214 Q from Dell it's got an IPS display
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from sharp it's got a usb3 hub it's got
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DisplayPort mini DisplayPort HDMI and it's pretty much the same as the 24in
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model except for the massive size I mean
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you can see me standing next to it I it's it's funny because IED used to use
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a 30-in monitor on my desk and I I got away from that because my cat leapt on
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top of it and it fell forward onto something and actually cracked the panel
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and so it had actually been a while since I had seen one and then I got my
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hands on a 30in again a little while ago and I was like wow this is big this is
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that experience all over again now if there was one criticism that I had of my
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old 30-in it would be that when you make the display that large you lose some of
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the sharpness that you would get with something like you know even a a 2560
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x440 27in panel just because when they're smaller the pixel density is
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higher and it's harder to pick out the individual ones well this alleviates
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that problem because this is four times the resolution of a standard 1080p
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display so that means it's about the equivalent of looking at you know four
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16in 1080p displays Allin one the colors
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look absolutely beautiful which makes sense because Dell is promising 100%
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Adobe RGB coverage with 9 9% srgb
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coverage 1.07 billion colors so that makes it a
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10 pit panel and they are promising a Delta e of less than two which means
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that color imperfections should be pretty much impossible very very
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difficult for the human eye to discern
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thank you for checking out this video on Dell's Ultra sharp 4K monitors here at
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20 CES 2014 don't forget our trip to the
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Service as well as cors our memory and Western Digital without all of those
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