Gadgetory

so today with the assistance of my cameraman who is us he did in a very comfortable chair I will be unboxing a sirs 23 inch 3d vision ready monitor so this is a 120 Hertz monitor it's widescreen Full HD resolution but what's special about it I mean more special than the you know striking stunning good looks orange accents and excellent response times you know all that good stuff is the 120 Hertz refresh rate so that means that even if you aren't using 3d vision the 120 Hertz refresh rate gives you the benefit of twice as many updates on your screen every second as a conventional 60 Hertz LCD so besides the fact that you're able to run at HD resolution you're able to run it sort of with with twice as much information going through the monitor as you would otherwise have access to so it means that every image that changes you're gonna see it just that much faster than if you were using a conventional 60 Hertz LCD so I'm kind of digging up some of the accessories here and I'm going to show you all of this in just a minute this is a bit of a precursor to a video that I'll be doing shortly on 3d vision surround so if you actually you can see if you sort of pan around here I've got three of these bad boys that I'm going to be using to run and videos 3d vision surround setup I will have one monitor in the center giving me my crosshairs as well as whatever's going on right in front of my character if I'm running an FPS game and then with the two other monitors I'm going to have peripheral vision and there goes the stand okay and so that's going to give me that that immersiveness that is has not been possible in the past with any gaming technology unless you get out into the really really extreme boutique stuff that realistically the average consumer can't afford so everything that's included first we have an HDMI cable next we have an audio cable so there is actually an audio out jack on the bottom of the monitor next we have a dual link DVI cable and the reason you need a dual link DVI cable is that when you're running even at a 1920 by 1080 resolution if you're running at 120 Hertz versus 60 Hertz the computer has to send twice as much data to the monitor so you can't use a single link cable next we have a VGA cable and then we've also got a power cable so let's have a look at the monitor that I've already assembled over here rather than waiting for me to assemble it although the assembly process is quite simple all you need to do is take the base which you can see comes on on metal stand with little rubber feet so that it's not going to move it's got a little clip on the back you just drop the monitor right onto the base the monitor itself has ah here we go it has tilt adjustment but no other adjustments so you're not you don't have any pivot or any swivel or anything like that but let's have a look at the overall back in the monitor so I've already got a couple things plugged into this one but you can see we've got a pretty good a fair number of options for input so we've got VGA in as well as DVI in so that's the one that I'm using DVI dual link and then we have HDMI in so you can use any one of those three then we have one audio out port as well as the power in the back also features a vase amount so if you are lucky enough or wealthy enough I guess to buy three of these monitors you can also have the option of buying a triple armed stand so then rather than having them all sitting on their little stands here you can actually just have one stand on the center monitor have an arm reaching out to mount each of the monitors on their sides I don't actually have the benefit of one of those unfortunately but that would be a very very cool way to mount these monitors in terms of the on-screen display but the on-screen display is controlled by the power button here as well as one two three four five buttons positioned just under the monitor they are a little bit recessed and maybe I can lean this back so you can have a look at there they are so five buttons indicated by little dots so you can find them quite easily and other that I mean really what I what I like most about this monitor personally is the striking styling so it's got C this is how it's done right actually I want to sort of harp on this a little bit you see so many companies releasing LCD monitors that have like a black in some color they're adding like some kind of a design element to the bezel and while I appreciate sort of a style and and a bit of flair put into a product I like it somewhere where I can ignore it or even cover it up if I don't like it so while I do like the orange accents on this monitor particularly actually here I want to show you the base here this one is actually made of metal here it's got kind of a brushed looking finish on it it's quite shiny looks great these ones are plastic but they still look alright to I could just paint over these if I felt like it and then it becomes a black monitor whereas a lot of the time you're not really left with the option of covering it up somehow if you don't like it so I really like that about this monitor I think one thing I haven't mentioned yet is that ad has a two millisecond response time and that's part of what enables it to refresh the image completely every 120 times per second so please stay tuned on my video blog I'm going to be doing lots more updates on these monitors as well as Nvidia surround gaming without 3d and then additionally with NVIDIA surround gaming with 3d so thank you for checking out my video blog don't forget to subscribe and that's all for now