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welcome to an unboxing that is actually pretty fascinating for me so this is a cup this is going to be two different unboxings at the same time this is going to be the color monkey from x-ray and the eye one display Pro from x-ray these are both display calibration devices which have a couple of different while differences so the color monkey for example if for starters can be used for either displays or for projectors and they can be used in a couple of different ways to achieve that the whole setup process takes about five minutes and it is useful for a number of different things so number one is it actually allows you to so it has a sensor that you I've opened this before I've actually used it already so I'm pretty impressed with the results so I decided to do a video about it so it's not a color sensor here which you basically put up against the the screen and then it takes some readings it changes what's on the screen and then it basically adjusts your the profile of your of your video output in order to make it match as closely as possible to what's real now what's cool about this is that you then take it and stick it on your desk where it acts as an ambient light sensor and it will continue if it's still plugged in my USB to your computer it will continue to adjust your monitor settings according to what the ambient light situation is to make sure that you're always looking at as accurate and image as possible just very cool like outstanding so why would you want the most accurate possible color well if you're working with anything to do with print then you want to make sure that these colors are as calibrated as these colors and they're both as similar as possible that's very important if you're doing anything to do with graphic design you want to make sure that whatever you're working on is gonna look correct no matter where it's being viewed or as close as possible and you want to again be working with as accurate as possible colors and know this will not turn your TN panel into you know a perfect display for a graphic design and photo work unfortunately not you will still need a good high quality display and there's no getting around that but this will take your non factory calibrated monitor and almost no monitors unless they're very high in professional or something like a Seuss's PA series we got one over there that we use for our monitoring while we're filming right there bro are those factory calibrated but most of them do not so here you go he got monitor calibration ambient light measurement as well as projector calibration by setting it up on the little stand like this there's a there's a way to do this you're gonna have to trust me on this there you go can calibrate your projector that one got very cool stuff so before and after automatic display control yeah new state of the art etc etc it's also not that expensive I mean it used to be wasn't that long ago that any kind of colored calibrator device was gonna be running a couple hundred bucks but that's not really the case anymore so something like the color monkey is something you could actually buy just for home use no big deal now the i1 display Pro the biggest difference that we found was already can be bright so it can be used for floor fluorescent back lights LED as well as wide gamut LCDs so you don't have to worry about what kind of LCD you have you know is it gonna work is it not gonna work it will work so this got it right here not only can it calibrate your display or your projector it can also be used for cue seeing displays so let's say you are a graphic design studio or something you're not buying you know $1,500 each monitors that had come pre calibrated and are perfect so let's say you're like you know a real company that's not running on like a baller budget you grab one of these and then the displays that you bring in you can use this to keep suit and you can go okay I don't have to say right so you can specify what kind of Delta's you expect and you can actually display quality check and trending over time so that's really cool because you can get it to pay attention to oh yeah right and you can actually match multiple monitors and work groups as well so this is all neat because let's say you have like a lab and you're buying ten monitors a recorder or whatever else you can use this to keep track of are they getting better are they getting worse are they all matching so that if someone moves from one workstation to another one I'm working on a project day one to day two they don't have to make a bunch of adjustments they won't think that something's wrong so that's the difference between the more professional oriented one versus the color monkey's so there's also okay what else they got here so you guys can see what they have going for them you can actually check out the x-ray site if you want to get more information on trending over time trending over time is more of an issue with CCFL backlit monitors LEDs don't really suffer from that nearly as much as well as projectors that's a big deal with projectors and I think that pretty much so thank you for checking out this dual unboxing of the i1 display pro as well as the color monkey from x-ray don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos