 Today we have something pretty interesting to unbox. I got cameraman helping me today. We have the ProArt series LCD monitor PA 246 from ASUS. 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 It 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 gonna get into that a little bit because yeah I what I realized about monitor unboxings is that they take a really long time because monitors are big and I'm like We can from the internet. So and yes, I stole that from crazy Russian He says it all the time that he's from the internet and I'm like, okay So yeah, what I realized 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 gonna 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 the bottom layer styrofoam We get lots of different accessories. This is terrific We get a cable tie. Oh two cable ties. No, it's one. Never mind. It's just one I was getting pretty excited there for a second. Next we get a support CD And a 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. Ooh Check this out. Okay, so I didn't I didn't notice 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 gonna 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 I think you can remember here are the cables that are included with one display port cable So I'm gonna go ahead and jump out on a limb here and assume the monitor supports display port We've got VGA cable. Don't use that crying out loud Please don't buy a $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 to B cable Or a printer USB cable for the built-in hub So I'm gonna go ahead and hold on to these accessories and let's get this monitor opened up. There is By all appearances no real assembly required to speak of. I'm gonna go ahead and take off the plastic here We've got our height adjustable stem. It's pretty sweet. I like the 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've seen. Okay So why don't we go through all the range of motion that we can do with the ASUS PA 246 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 mean very few people sit and look up at their monitor 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 you can also Do this Actually, I believe this is called Oh, yeah, no, this is swivel. That's right. So it can swivel it 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 Centimeter and centimeter and a half Markings on it. Oh, no, it looks like it's inches on the on the oh, no, okay There's inches and centimeters that that's kind of neat But so yeah, you can see that's marked 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 It's kind of neat okay. Let's go ahead and have a look at our inputs. I'm going to go ahead and tilt it back Check out the bottom here I'm not sure if we're going to have enough light from that angle. I'm going to actually tilt it this way And then you can have a look from that side okay, so we've got our USB in appears to be 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 display port 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 make sure you don't do that all right Let's go around to the I Don't know what he's not about sound Already said that yeah. Yeah, that speakers right maybe doesn't okay hold on. We'll be back Yeah, okay, so those are just for the HDMI and display port 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 camera man 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 PVA 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 more 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 E of less than 5 which I'm to understand is quite impressive That basically means that the color is very accurate six axis color adjustment supports picture-in-picture The ergonomic stand we've definitely looked at already as well as the USB hub and 7-in-1 card reader now Here's something that I thought was pretty darn cool So you can see all up the right side of the monitor there are little marks as well as all along the top Those are 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 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 Got some color settings got some image settings got some picture-in-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 whoa 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 going to 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. Hey, and yeah, okay 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 okay? Well, I think that's pretty much it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ProArt PA 246Q from ASUS 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's it's not a glossy screen, so there's no Use a really shiny screen to make the 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