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it seems like yesterday we were treating 500 plus dollar TN panel displays as if they were a golden gift from the PC gods just because they were 4k I mean they had solid response times with single tile displays with some even delivering 8-bit panels decent viewing angles and acceptable color reproduction considering they were tan panels and you know what I guess they were a gift because at that time 4k monitors with sharp eggs Oh panels we're going for multiple thousands of dollars but the story is different today and the VP 2784 K is a perfect showcase piece for everything that's great about the onward march of modern technology it's built better and performs better than what you could buy a short year ago without costing relative to what you're getting for your money that much more and on the subject of not costing that much more it's time to drop a solid hint about the next episode of scrapyard bores it's coming sometime in the next month and our guest competitor will be Austin Evans and I guess that's pretty much all the hints but drop a like and let us know if you're stoked to see it the Logitech G 303 features a lightweight design and advanced optical sensor with delta0 technology for precise tracking and RGB lighting to match your setup click now to learn more or check out the link in the video description the betterness of this monitor begins with the panel specs it's 27 inches which is still the right size for me for a 16 by 9 monitor about the same vertical height as a 34 inch ultra wide it features a w LED backlit 8-bit h IPS panel with advanced frame rate control to achieve virtual 10 bit performance something that you are almost guaranteed to not be utilizing thanks to poor hardware and application support but might make you feel good about your desk mounted EP and extension the backlight uses DC brightness control and is therefore flicker free something which manufacturers are keen on pointing out is less fatiguing on the eyes viewing angles are outstanding with just a little bit of contrast shift vertically but nothing noticeable from reasonable viewing angles the backlight didn't exhibit excessive bleed and the anti-glare coating on the screen is pleasingly light and it doesn't make everything behind it hazy but does significantly reduce reflections and I also said it's built better what did I mean by that great question the industrial design is nothing special and screams I belong in an office but that's not necessarily a bad thing in my book there's something to be said for practical design the VP 2784 K features a standard vase amount thumbs up there if you want to put it on a third party mount but this might not be a big deal because it also features a wide solidly built base with most of the ergonomic adjustments that anyone would want including height adjust tilt swivel and even pivot for the portrait mode fans out there since we've got it on its side let's have a look at the IO there's a 2 port USB 3 5 gigabit per second hub then wow that's a lot of HDMI ports Wow but there's actually more to them than meets the eye one of them is HDMI 2.0 and we verified that it was no problem to run Ultra HD resolution at 60 Hertz over HDMI is nice very nice two of the other ones are MHL 2.0 which means that you could hook up your MHL compatible phone to them if you wanted to do that for some reason DisplayPort 1.2 and mini DisplayPort 1.2 are also included which means pretty much any modern desktop or laptop can be plugged in and easily switched between or set up in picture in picture or picture by picture viewing mode with up to four simultaneous inputs possible in the four corners of the monitor but that's a pretty fringe use case scenario and unfortunately you'll have to contend with the on-screen menu to set it up if everything about this monitor was amazing and actually it's like pretty darn good I really liked it I still wouldn't be able to say the on-screen menu was anything but wretched they're poorly labeled two is confirm and one is back for some inexplicable reason ten points from Gryffindor it uses touch sensitive buttons with no tactile feel whatsoever a hundred points from Gryffindor and the tactile buttons only register about 65 percent of the time five hundred points from Gryffindor excuse me view sonics I say Gryffindor all those times but like I said everything else about it is pretty darn good out of the box I mean maybe it's just my luck but even factory calibrated display has always been a little off for me the VP 2780 was a little bit off white point was about seven percent off she achieved about 96 percent of the claimed 100% sRGB color space and brightness was cranked up pretty high but to be clear what you're looking at is not bad performance and brightness can easily be adjusted without really affecting anything else and after a run with the i1 Pro I would consider this puppy a very capable and affordable monitor for prosumer and even professional photo and video work by the way thanks to spectra Cal and x-ray for hooking us up with the hardware and software that we used for those performance measurements but let's change gears a little bit it always amuses me when companies seem to just plain not be able to decide what segments of the market their product is for and they'll have liked this presentation deck that looks like this and it's like oh well this monitor is great for abacus um everything and then the there's usually like gaming randomly tacked on to the end of the list like yeah well gamers have money right let's gets good for them but in this case I actually kind of buy it with an impressive total input lag of about 10 milliseconds this 4k display will not be holding you back as long as you're not competing on the professional level in which case you probably aren't using a 4k display anyway and as much as I can rag on viewsonic for advertising and out-of-the-box delta-e of less than two which is I mean obviously didn't quite achieve what I will say about the default native setup that it ships with is that it has a very pleasing look to the eye and that for gaming use I would actually have no desire to change it to a more accurate color profile it pops just right without having that way over-the-top saturation and contrast thing that you'd find on any monitor on a shelf at Best Buy which leaves the final words to attract the pure gamer crowd I need to see support for an adaptive refresh rate technology of some sort free sync orgy sync but the VP 2784 Kay sells itself admirably to the semi pro content creator who games on the side with its great panel performance and solid build quality speaking of solid build quality I fix its toolkits you may know I fix it from there tear downs and repair guides of a variety of electronic devices but what you might not know is they actually have a ton of fantastic tools available including the Pro Tech tool kit it's got 70 tools in there to assist you with any mod malfunction or 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