Most HDR is Kinda Bullcrap... - ASUS ProArt PA32UX First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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the link in the video description here's the problem with HDR displays right now
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most of them are basically not actually HDR the prevailing opinion
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out there is that you need to achieve a peak brightness of about a thousand nits
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to really call something high dynamic range and of course nice deep blacks to
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go with them because a lot of it is about contrast well
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all of that changes not today but at some point in the
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future with the pro art
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pa-32ux this is the first
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display well when it comes out that uses mini
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led backlighting so they've got a cutaway demo over here showing that
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they've actually got these little tiny
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blue leds coming through a quantum dot film on an ips display to help this
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monitor achieve HDR 10 compliance hlg compliance so
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that's uh what the bbc uses and they are apparently working on dolby as well with
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a shocking 1400 nits of peak brightness
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and a minimum luminance of 0.003
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to .001 nits
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that is an effective contrast ratio
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about 300 times what you would normally
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expect and it all comes down to the over 1
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000 zones of local dimming now to put
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that in perspective a really nice full array backlight might have about
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380 zones of local dimming up until now
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now the i o is all covered up here but uh we can use the menu to see what it's
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got so it's got four hdmis displayport
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and Thunderbolt 3 which is a nice thing to have for mac users and it's going to
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be running at 3840 by 2160
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hertz with 95 coverage of the dci p3
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color space this thing looks absolutely
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stunning and they're targeting content creators and animators with no eta for
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pricing or availability really to speak of i guess they learned their lesson
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from the 4k 144 hertz gaming monitor which was delayed for like a year after
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they said it was going to be coming man that looks good
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most HDR experiences that i've had have been kinda cool
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this one looks fantastic also in ASUS
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monitor land we've got the cg32 which they're billing as a console gaming
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monitor 4k 60 hertz i think
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it's got adaptive sync with freesync which is actually relevant by the way
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two console players now and i guess it's got these little pads to put your uh
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controller on they've also got a super ultra wide monitor so this is pretty
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similar to uh samsung's model so it's 3840 by 1080
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it's 49 inches and uh runs at 144 hertz
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and then i actually thought this one was a little bit more interesting than those
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so these portable monitors are getting more and more popular all the time they
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run off of a single usb type-c connection so that's displayport and
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power and now they've got a 1080p model
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that has built-in touch functionality so
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you can fire up your laptop run a single cable over to your monitor and you've
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got a full second touch screen that you can just kind of fold up whoop
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i haven't actually practiced this demo but you know there
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you go that you can fold up and take with you on the go
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there we go a couple other notable features here are the 45 coverage of the
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ntsc color space and the fact that it has a built-in battery bank so at 7 800
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milliamp hours meaning that it doesn't have to be a drain on your laptop's
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battery if you don't want it to be and you've got it charged ahead of time so
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