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a lot more real estate so some of the key applications that people are gonna be using this with of course besides gaming is going to be photography and video editing so finally those people that have their DSLR cameras high resolution pictures that they're taking them they can finally edit them and take a look at a much higher much higher resolution on their monitor at native at native resolution and with the screen is big you'll have plenty of real estate to like spread your stuff all over the place so people are doing a lot of editing and stuff will not only have you know a giant monitor they'll actually go to play stuff around the screen to have multi windows open at one time type of resolution correctly 4k is technically four times the amount of 1080p pixels so if you're going to load up a 1080p video on this monitor you're only taking up 1/4 of the space of the monitor so that leaves you a lot of room whether you're watching videos or want to have multiple web pages up or multiple browser windows you have a lot of real estate to work with you now also some of the other technologies are behind this I understand that like this monitor is kind of like split in half there's actually like two screens inside of one that actually creates the 4k can we talk a little bit about the panel and about what actually goes into that sure so essentially the controller is that the controller that powers the panel is is only gonna be able to do about 1920 by 2160 at 60 Hertz so to get around this limitation and be able to offer people 4k gaming at 60 Hertz or just for Kay's experience at 60 Hertz in general we just basically have two controllers inside that do 1920 by 2160 and then we combine them back up into a single image so they merge to create that technology so that you can maintain that 60 Hertz correct and that's use and that's done actually on the driver side so on the Intel side I'm you going in collage mode on the AMD Eyefinity side you set up the Eyefinity display a 2 by 1 and then on the nvidia side and videos actually just gonna recognize the monitor in matically tile those two displays back together a lot of people right now understand but the technology is very very new and a lot of the drivers from all these companies are taking a while to kind of catch up so at this point right now some of the dryers are very kind of immature but they're working on the technology but going correct all the major things are working you might have some little bugs here and there that are all being worked on by the GPU manufacturers and then we also have some firmware update available for the monitor soon as visa standardization gets set for one-four visa 1.3 right I'm just basically gonna give all the GPU drivers or GPU manufacturers a way to recognize 4k monitors natively without having to may be hard code specifically for one model now I understand that the powers that are used in the X are actually they're sharp panels and actually sharp cells this monitor for actually what close to $4,500 that correct for a little bit more more so in the professional space ASIS we co developed this with sharp and we're slowing in the consumer space for about $3,500 MSRP right now so think about that if you're out looking for this monitor know that the same technology that goes into the sharp minor the cost a thousand dollars more is being brought down to a lower level to you folks at $3,500 which may seem a little bit pricey but this technology is so new it's cutting edge and anytime anything's cutting edge it's always pricey I'm sure as these things go on we'll probably see these things down the thousand dollar range right probably year year and a half yeah I mean you shouldn't be too long and I think a couple of things that we can mention about the monitor in general one of the big differences is that people that go out and buy monitors they're really used to saying hey what type of panel is it is a TN panel or is an IPS panel um this is gonna be a big change so this is neither a TN or an IPS panel this is a new technology altogether this is what's called IGZO and stands for indium gallium zinc oxide the basics all you need to know basically is that using this new process you can create smaller transistors and dense pack more pixels into a dense area so this is what allows so many pixels over 8 million pixels to fit in one panel now one thing I have to definitely say to the audience I don't know if any of you guys out there have monitors or big TVs one of the biggest things that I noticed about them to take it hotter than hell there's no heat rating off this Nick so how you working that because I'm not feeling any heat come off this monitor at all it's actually almost cold and this is actually a touch this is a really this to me the thinnest 4k monitors there are other monitors out there moreso in the professional space that would cost thousands and thousands more no but this is going to be the thinnest one and the most affordable one and like you said heat wise it's only gonna have about an 87 watt TDP when its operating yeah I mean because I can feel and it feels lower than my body so that's pretty good on my other monitor in my room I have a Dell monitor and I touched that thing it's a thirty inch it's hot I mean almost burn your hands this having no heat at all is great I mean if you you're stuck inside of your room and you're working you don't have a lot of air circulation a hot monitor increases the temperature in your room so this won't do that at all because it's actually running cooler than your body temperature I know that we're kind of I'll set it in England right now with the camera - so viewing angle wise it's gonna be very similar to IPS as well so IPS panels usually coming at around like 178 degree viewing angles um this one coming at 176 well me I'm sitting here totally at an angle and I can pretty much clearly see everything on the monitor and I'm sitting in a very odd angle many of the monitors that I have even around the house if you get to an angle like this the screen kind of looks kind of blurry and you get a lot of color shift maybe I'm saying no color shift I'm seeing complete even color across the monitor and even screen but then again you know for $3,500 you're gonna expect but yes right you wanna you want a quality display so some some of the other features on ports wise it's gonna have a display port it's gonna have two HDMI and it's gonna have a little USB port on side which is essentially only intended for firmware updates what about Thunderbolt Thunderbolt does not have a thunderbolt port now okay and I understand you guys will have different models this particular model doesn't have like the normal splendid technology and that some of the other stuff does we you guys actually have another model coming out that will have all that as well it's kind of geared towards the gaming more we will have other models available they are gonna be based on different technologies and they will likely have more uses type features since this was co-developed with sharp this is kind of a bit different as far as OSD menus if you're used to Asus monitors in the past we've used many of them around here as you well know I want to buy something look I've been looking this like the whole time and I'm really noticing I don't really see any type of flicker at all and I know you said there's only 60 Hertz but looking at this monitor I've been staring at it for a while I don't even feel any really eye fatigue to strain to look at it all I mean is that normal because you know usually people are like saying 120 Hertz monitors were my eyes don't strain but I'm looking at this and I see no blurry no refresh at all I mean I suppose when the camera guys are recording we might see some of that in there but I'm seeing none of that through my human eyes yeah I mean I've had I've had a really good experience of the panel one of the one of the quirks is that so if you're not in SST mode so maybe this is a good time that we go over DisplayPort so DisplayPort has two different modes one that you can go through the cable with SST which stands for single stream transport and then it also has an MST mode which stands for multi stream transport so some of those that may be familiar with daisy with daisy chaining DisplayPort the MST is what allows DisplayPort to be daisy chain to send multiple signals through one cable so you could have multiple monitors up through a single connection in theory with with DisplayPort but essentially what we've used and we talked about the dual controllers in the monitor is that we're using MST mode to send two signals over one DisplayPort cable to the two controllers in the monitor so if you're not enabling MST mode on the monitor and you're used in 4k you're gonna be at around thirty Hertz refresh rate okay once you enable the MST mode and you power the two separate panels you can up each of those panels to 60 Hertz and then join right so it combines the two it combines the two of them together to create an overall signal for the whole panel correct and that's not gonna get 60 Hertz at 4k for the meantime until more powerful controllers come out maybe a year from now a bit more yeah and I mean I'm sure as technology you know grows they'll be coming with more stuff as it always as always so the technology is always growing well hey everybody thanks a lot for watching this is pretty much just the introductory video we're just gonna show you some of the technology behind this new 4k monitor we've got plenty of stuff coming up we're gonna show you some gaming and some other stuff so stay tuned protective tomorrow