ASUS PB278Q PLS LED LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 LCD monitor from ASUS I am as
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you guys probably know if you watch my videos at all big into high resolution
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displays I care a lot more about high
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resolution than I do about things like for example higher refresh rates which
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is also cool and we have ASUS's 144 HZ
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monitor right there but for me I love
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having more real estate on my screen and
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I like not seeing as many distracting
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you know large pixels that to me take away from the the crispness of the image
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so yes big into high resolution displays this is a 27in monitor that runs at a
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whopping 2560 by
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1440 16x9 resol solution it is also part
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of ASUS's pro art series which means
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that we can expect outstanding color reproduction and just an overall just
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awesome aesthetic for the monitor itself very professional looking so we've we've
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seen these monitors before a couple times in fact we even have one here in
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the tech tip Studio that we use for our HDMI monitor on our
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camera so there you go yes we actually believe in the Pro art and I'm just
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going to take this out and this this is this is bigger than the one that we have
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so I'm going to go ahead and set this up and then we'll talk a little bit more
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about it now in terms of included accessories this is a premium product
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and they treat it like one which is nice to see so you got an audio cable it does
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have built-in 3 watt speakers and ASUS
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way to go on this one because everyone else when they build speakers into their
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you know otherwise gorgeous looking monitor they go and they put like these
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big like bars on the side of it that are just horrible it looks like isus has
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completely hidden the speaker grills which is fine with me because it might
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affect it might adversely affect the audio quality but who cares because you
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know you're not going to use it unless it's in a pinch anyway so thumbs up way
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to go ASUS good job um moving right along we've got a DisplayPort cable an
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HDMI cable a power cable a VGA cable and
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a dual link DVI cable however the only connectors that I would recommend using
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on this monitor our DVI and DisplayPort because it exceeds the maximum bandwidth
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of most HDMI outputs although there's new fangled ones with faster processors
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that are a little bit different but in order to get that 2560 x440 60 HZ output
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you're going to want to use a proper digital connector no
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VGA at all okay let's have a look at the
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physical oh this this this this is a door okay so you know how normally when
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you have like a square monitor base like this they you know it's not really you
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can't really pivot the whole thing check this out
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they put a rotating Circle part under the bottom of it so that you can like
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this isn't actually the stand it's just kind of there
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see awesome right uh it's got cable management at the back so you just go
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ahead and throw this thing on here so this allows you to take this off Route
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your cables down where they need to go and then you just go ahead and pop this
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into place however it pops into place there we go and you can use that to make
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sure that everything's nice and tidy and runs right down the back of the monitor
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so you don't have wires hanging down here again for a nice nice aesthetic
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you've got a Kensington lock here on the back and all your inputs and outputs are
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going to be rotated this way a little bit more before I do this and show them
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to you so yes this monitor does have full pivot power in DisplayPort in VGA
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in DVI in HDMI in and audio in and out
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so you can use it as a pass through for your headphones as well onscreen display
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is done via hard hardware buttons personally I still prefer this approach
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although there's one monitor the BenQ
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2420t that I don't mind the soft buttons so that that's the one exception other
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than that prefer this approach there's one cool button here see if I can find
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it the quick fit button right there that's really neat because what it does
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is it actually overlays over the entire screen a grid a variety of different
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grids of different sizes when metric and Imperial that allow you to easily line
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up anything you're going to print or or anything you're going to use otherwise outside of the computer and uh and size
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it up to make sure that what you're looking at here is what you're actually going to end up with it's just kind of
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neat one of our Graphics designers is using a couple Pro Arts as well and he's
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actually used it a couple times for uh for print media uh what else is there to
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say about it ah yes I haven't even gotten to this yet so it has an 80
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million to one high contrast ratio I mean that might be optimistic but uh the
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point is with its wide viewing angle and
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um outstanding okay hold on you know
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what we're just going to back up 100% of the srgb color space is
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covered by this monitor it has a very wide viewing angle 178° and
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178° and ASUS claims an 80 million to1 contrast ratio this is all backed up by
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the fact that this is using a PLS panel so that is a basically it's a
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proprietary special version of ips that I personally just love every time I see
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and use a PLS panel I'm struck again by how outstanding the colors are how
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vibrant it is how great the viewing angles are the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still
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my favorite tablet just because of that awesome PLS panel on it so I'm really
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happy to see ASUS implementing that technology on this particular monitor uh
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right we haven't even shown the full range of movements so here I'm going to
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get you guys to look at it from the side so there's your tilt okay there's your
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swivel which is done from the base and then of course your pivot in case you
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wanted to use it in like portrait mode because you are like you know like a
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dude who's made out of a monitor or something like that it does have a vase
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amount so if you did want to mount it on
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a separate mounting stand or whatever else the case may be just go ahead and
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pull those four guys right there out and I think that pretty much covers it thank
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you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 from ASUS don't
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videos and I should clarify something I've referred to this and the proart
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family of monitors sort of a few times here but the proart is separate that's
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the PA Series this is the PB series which is not quite a proart but is also
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looking pretty outstanding from my
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perspective one other thing I should have mentioned is it does have a matte
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screen it's a sort of semiat so it doesn't quite have that same scatter
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effect that you see with super matte screens but you're not really going to see I mean you can plainly see there's
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not a whole lot of reflection coming off it ASUS does have their zero bright dot
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policy covering this monitor so one year of zero bright Dots and a three-year
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warranty for the panel overall don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips
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