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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 LCD monitor from a soos I am as you guys probably know if you watch my videos at all big into high resolution displays I care a lot more about high resolution than I do about things like for example high refresh rates which is also cool and we have a Seuss's 144 Hertz monitor right there but for me I love having more real estate on my screen and I like not seeing as many distracting you know large pixels that to me take away from the the crispness of the image so yes big into high resolution displays this is a 27-inch monitor that runs at a whopping 2560 by 1440 sixteen by nine resolution it is also part of a Seuss's pro art series which means that we can expect outstanding color reproduction and just an overall just awesome aesthetic for the monitor itself very professional-looking so we've seen these monitors before a couple times in fact we even have one here in the tech tip studio that we use for our HDMI monitor on our camera so there you go yes we actually believe in the pro art and I'm just going to take this out this this is this is bigger than the one that we have so I'm going to go ahead and set this up and then we'll talk a little bit more about it now in terms of included accessories this is a premium product and they treat it like one which is nice to see so you've got an audio cable it does have built-in three watt speakers and a soos way to go on this one because everyone else when they build speakers into there you know otherwise gorgeous-looking monitor they've only put like these big league bars on the side of it that are just horrible it looks like he Sue's has completely hidden the speaker grills which is fine with me because it might affect it might adversely affect the audio quality but who cares because you know you're not going to use it unless it's in a pinch anyway so thumbs up way to go ace oohs good job um moving right along we've got a display port cable HDMI cable a power cable a VGA cable and a dual link DVI cable however the only connectors that I would recommend using on this monitor our DVI and DisplayPort because it exceeds the maximum bandwidth of most HDMI output so there's newfangled ones with faster processors that are a little bit different but in order to get that 2560 by 1440 60 Hertz output you're gonna want to use a proper digital connector no VGA at all okay let's have a look at the physical apps oh this this this visit door okay so you know how normally when you have like a square monitor base like this they you know it's not really you can't really uh pivot the whole thing check this out they put a rotating circle part under the bottom of it so that you can like it this isn't actually the stand it's just kind of there see awesome right it's got cable management at the back so you just go ahead and throw this thing on here so this allows you to take this off rub your cables down where they need to go and then you just go ahead and pop this into place however it pops in place there we go and you can use that to make sure that everything's nice and tidy runs right down the back of the monitor so you don't have wires hanging down here so again for a nice nice aesthetic you've got a Kensington lock here on the back and all your inputs and outputs are going to be rotated this way a little bit more before I do this and show them to you so yes this monitor does have full pivot power in DisplayPort in VGA and DVI in HDMI IN and audio in and out so you can use it as a pass-through for your headphones as well on screen display is done via hardware buttons personally I still prefer this approach although there's one monitor the BenQ 24 20 t that I don't mind the soft buttons so that's the one exception other than that prefer this approach there's one cool button here see if I can find it the quick button right there that's really neat because what it does is it actually overlays over the entire screen a grid a variety of different grids of different sizes with metric and imperial that allow you to easily line up anything you're going to print or anything you're going to use otherwise outside of the computer and and size 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 neat one of our graphics designers is using a couple pro arts as well and he's actually used it a couple times for for print media uh what else is there to say about oh yes I haven't even gotten to this yet so it has an 80 million to one high contrast ratio I mean that might be optimistic but the point is with its wide viewing angle and um outstanding okay hold on you know what we're just gonna back up hmmm 100% of the sRGB color space is covered by this monitor it has a very wide viewing angle 178 degrees and 178 degrees and these who's claims an eighty million to one contrast ratio this is all backed up by the fact that this is using a pls panel so that is a basically it's a proprietary special version of IPS that I personally just love every time I see and use a pls panel I'm struck again by how outstanding the colors are how vibrant it is how great the viewing angles are the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still my favorite tablet just because of that awesome pls panel on it so I'm really happy to see Asus implementing that technology on this particular monitor right we haven't even shown the full range of movement so here I'm going to get you guys to look at from the side so there's your tilt okay there's your swivel which is done from the base and then of course your pivot in case you wanted to use it in my portrait mode because you are like you know like a dude who's made out of a monitor or something like that it does have a base amount so if you did want to mount it on a separate mounting stand or whatever else the case may be just go ahead and pull those four guys right there out and I think that pretty much covers it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the PB 278 from Asus don't forget to subscribe to latest tech tips from unboxings reviews and computer videos and I should clarify something I've referred to this and the pro art family of monitors sort of a few times here but the pro it is separate that's the PA series this is the PB series which is not quite a pro art but is also looking pretty outstanding from my perspective one other thing I should have mentioned is it does have a matte screen it's sort of semi matte so it doesn't quite have that same scatter effect that you see with super matte screens but you're not really going to see I mean you can plainly see there's not a whole lot of reflection coming off it sous does have their zero bright dot policy covering this monitor so one year of zero bright dots and a three year warranty for the panel overall don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos