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ASUS ProArt PA246Q 24" IPS LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips

2011-04-05
today we have something pretty interesting to unbox I got cameraman helping me today we have the pro art series LCD monitor PA 2 for 6 from a soos now what makes this unique with quite frankly any number of monitors on the market that are 24 inches okay they have black bezel you know height adjustment potentially you know built-in USB hub built-in card reader I does support picture-in-picture which is kind of neat but what separates this from every other monitor on the market with a black bezel and the 24 inch diagonal screen well we're going to get into that a little bit because yeah what I realized about monitor unboxings is they take a really long time because monitors are big and I'm like weakened from the internet so and yes I stole that from crazy Russian he says it all the times that he's from the internet and I'm like okay um so yeah what I realize is that LCD unboxings take a long time because they're big and bulky and kind of ungainly to deal with and I always tell you guys everything about the monitor before I actually open the box so I'm not going to make that mistake today I'm going to unbox the product and then when I can show you the product itself I'm gonna tell you all about it so here we have the accessories under a bottom layer styrofoam we get lots of different accessories this is terrific we get a cable tie o to cable ties no it's one there - just one nice that is getting pretty excited there for a second next we get a support CD and VIP member notice to notice okay all right I'm noticed I noticed it Quick Start Guide excellent plug the thing into the thing hit the power button probably something along those lines woo check this out okay so I didn't I didn't get to save this for when the the monitor actually was was unboxed but check this out so this is a color calibration testing report this report was run on your serial number this is not batch color calibration that is why this monitor is expensive this is an out-of-the-box calibrated LCD monitor that is why it is called a pro art so I'm going to finish showing you guys that yeah yeah there's that don't put this bag over your own face or your baby's face or your face is done okay so we'll get into more of the other features that are professional oriented later ah thank you cameramen here are the cables that are included with one DisplayPort cable so I'm going to go ahead and jump out on a limb here and assume the monitor supports DisplayPort you've got VGA cable don't use that crying out loud please don't buy $500 monitor and then use that and we have a DVI cable we also have a power cable pretty standard as well as a USB a 2b cable for a printer USB cable for the built-in hub so I'm going to go ahead and hold on to these accessories and let's get this monitor opened up there is file appearances no real assembly required to speak of I'm gonna go ahead and take off the plastic here we've got an adjustable stems pretty sweet I like the UH I already like the base on the mounting arm feels very very very smooth when you're adjusting things compared to some of the less expensive ones that I team okay so why don't we go through all the range of motion that we can do be a sous pa 2 4 6 so we can go up and down so here's the very bottom you can see that the monitor is actually almost resting right on the base we can go up this high okay tilt we can go way up here we can go way down there okay I knew very few people sit and look up at their monitors so that's you know doesn't need to go too far down it's better if you look at this from this side I think okay pivot look at that it can pivot all the way to that side and all the way to that side so that's like that that's that's pretty good seems to me okay ah you can also do this actually I believe this is called oh yeah I know this is swivel that's right so can swivel can go into portrait mode can't quite go upside down okay go ahead and do that let's have a look at the physical characteristics of it it's quite thick this is not a thin monitor it's not like a dainty monitor this is meant for professional use so it's going to be built up as much hardware as they deem necessary to put inside it they're just going to do it they're not going to try and make it thinner so it's going to have lots of ventilation holes all along the top here actually only about half of these are ventilation holes same thing here on the back right here this is kind of funny to me but almost everything on this monitor has um centimeter and centimeter and a half markings on it oh no it looks like it's inches on the on the oh no ok there's inches and centimeters no that's kind of neat but so yeah you can see that's mark you can see down here is also marked and then there's an indicator at the front so it actually shows you okay you're here that far off now and then there's a little dot to indicate okay you're at the maximum so there's halfway and then max and then same thing here at the back for the height adjust everything is marked that's kind of neat okay let's go ahead and have a look at our inputs so I'm going to go ahead and tilt it back check out the bottom here I'm not sure if we're gonna have enough light from that angle I'm gonna actually tilt it this way and then you can have a look from that side okay so we've got our USB in I'm Pierce p.audio we have VGA DVI oh yeah okay there's the seven in one card reader as well as the two USB ports on the side okay we've got HDMI in DisplayPort in so we have pretty much every option we could possibly need as far as inputs go we've got our power as well as a power switch there's a warranty void a seal damaged thing on the bottom here so that's a make sure you don't do that alright let's go around to the I don't know buddies on about sound I already said that yeah yeah has speakers right maybe doesn't okay hold on I'll be back yeah okay so those are just for the hdmi and displayport inputs so that you can actually plug headphones into the headphone jack on the bottom of the monitor and you can hear sound that way so cameraman is now showing you some of the features that i promised to talk about once we got the monitor out of the box and that is that this uses an IPS panel so IPS is out of the three main LCD panel technologies that is TN VA which would be P VA MVA or IPs this is the highest end one in terms of color accuracy as well as professional use so that's why it is the pro art something else that I wanted to point out to you guys this is a 1920 by 1200 monitor it uses a proper PC 16 by 10 aspect ratio instead of the Moore theater and movie oriented 16 to 9 that gives you that extra little bit of vertical that gives you more space to work when you are using a PC desktop as opposed to watching a movie I mean for gaming 1080p is great but for professional work I really do prefer to have that extra little bit of vertical okay we've also got the advertise here okay uses Adobe RGB we've got the color accuracy is down to a Delta II of less than 5 which I'm to understand is quite impressive that basically means that the color is very accurate sixaxis color adjustment supports picture-in-picture the ergonomics 10 we've definitely looked at already as well as the USB hub and seven in one card reader now here's something that I thought was pretty darn cool so you can see all of the right side of the monitor there are little marks as well as all along the top those are in all in inches so you've got inch half inch and quarter inch marks and then all along the left side and all along the bottom of the mark of the bottom of the monitor is a metric so that's in centimeters and half centimeter increments so I thought that was hilarious I don't know why but I thought it was on screen menu we don't normally show this on tech tips but since we have the monitor plugged in anyway we might as well so you got a few different modes here about some color settings got some image settings got some picture and picture settings you can select your input which is much easier to do with the input button as well as system setup there is a quick fit button which it requests that I try so why don't we try it Wow look at that sweet that's actually really cool so it puts an overlay right over top of the screen in centimeters or in inches and I'm gonna go ahead and assume oh look at the look at this oh that's cool so you can quickly find out how big the thing you're working with is just by using this button so there's your 8 by 10 there's your 5 by 7 huh that's cool eh and yeah ok it doesn't actually line up with the ones on the side of the monitor so these seem to be mostly for show but this this is a cool feature ok well I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing of the pro art PA 246 Q from a soos don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other videos and actually before we finish up right here I got to tell you guys the color and the image looks about right up until about this angle for me so cameraman can come over here where I am right about there so the viewing angle is phenomenal actually really impressed with that you come to expect that from an IPS panel also it's not a matte screen so there are no there are no rather it is a matte screen there it's not a glossy screen so there's no user really shiny screen to make the contrast and the colors look more vibrant tricks going on here it's all just the quality of the panel of the quality of the backlight and it is using a matte screen which is preferable for color accuracy
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