 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the PB278 LCD monitor from Asus. I am, as you guys probably know if you watch my videos at all, big into high resolution displays. I care a lot more about high resolution than I do about things like, for example, higher refresh rates, which is also cool, and we have Asus's 144Hz monitor right there. But for me, I love having more real estate on my screen and I like not seeing as many distracting large pixels that to me take away from the crispness of the image. So yes, big into high resolution displays. This is a 27 inch monitor that runs at a whopping 2560 by 1440 16 by 9 resolution. It is also part of Asus's ProArt series, which means that we can expect outstanding color reproduction and just an overall just awesome aesthetic for the monitor itself, very professional looking. So we've seen these monitors before a couple times. In fact, we even have one here in the Tech Tip Studio that we use for our HDMI monitor on our camera. So there you go. Yes, we actually believe in the ProArt and I'm just going to take this out and this, this is bigger than the one that we have. So I'm going to go ahead and set this up and then we'll talk a little bit more about it. Now in terms of included accessories, this is a premium product and they treat it like one which is nice to see. So you've got an audio cable, it does have built in three watt speakers and Asus, way to go on this one because everyone else when they build speakers into their, you know, otherwise gorgeous looking monitor, they only put like these big like bars on the side of it that are just horrible. It looks like Asus has completely hidden the speaker grills, which is fine with me because it might affect, it might adversely affect the audio quality, but who cares because you know, you're not going to use it unless it's in a pinch anyway, so thumbs up, way to go Asus, good job. Moving right along, we've got a DisplayPort cable, an HDMI cable, a power cable, a VGA cable and a dual link DVI cable. However, the only connectors that I would recommend using on this monitor are DVI and DisplayPort because it exceeds the maximum bandwidth of most HDMI outputs, although there's newfangled ones with faster processors that are a little bit different, but in order to get that 2560 by 1440 60Hz output, you're going to want to use a proper digital connector, no VGA at all. Okay, let's have a look at the physical, oh this is adorable. Okay, so you know how normally when you have like a square monitor base like this, they, you know, it's not really, you can't really pivot the whole thing? Check this out. They put a rotating circle part under the bottom of it so that you can, like, this isn't actually the stand, it's just kind of there, see? Awesome, right? It's got cable management at the back, so you just go ahead and throw this thing on here. So this allows you to take this off, route your cables down where they need to go, and then you just go ahead and pop this into place, however it pops into place, there we go, and you can use that to make sure that everything's nice and tidy and runs right down the back of the monitor so you don't have wires hanging down here. Again, for a nice, nice aesthetic. You've got a Kensington lock here on the back, and all your inputs and outputs are going to be rotated this way a little bit more before I do this, and show them to you. So yes, this monitor does have full pivot. Power in, display port in, VGA in, DVI in, HDMI in, and audio in and out, so you can use it as a pass through for your headphones as well. On-screen display is done via hardware buttons. Personally, I still prefer this approach, although there's one monitor, the BenQ 2420T, that I don't mind the soft buttons, so that's the one exception. Other than that, prefer this approach. There's one cool button here, see if I can find it, the quick fit button right there. That's really neat because what it does is it actually overlays over the entire screen a grid, a variety of different grids of different sizes, with metric and imperial, that allow you to easily line up anything you're going to print or anything you're going to use otherwise outside of the computer, and size it up to make sure that what you're looking at here is what you're actually going to end up with. It's just kind of neat. One of our graphics designers is using a couple ProArts as well, and he's actually used it a couple times for print media. What else is there to say about it? Oh yes, I haven't even gotten to this yet. So it has an 80 million to one high contrast ratio. I mean, that might be optimistic, but the point is, with its wide viewing angle and outstanding, okay hold on, you know what, we're just going to back up. 100% of the sRGB color space is covered by this monitor. It has a very wide viewing angle, 178 degrees and 178 degrees, and Asus claims an 80 million to one contrast ratio. This is all backed up by the fact that this is using a PLS panel, so that is a, basically it's a proprietary special version of IPS that I personally just love. Every time I see and use a PLS panel, I'm struck again by how outstanding the colors are, how vibrant it is, how great the viewing angles are. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is still my favorite tablet just because of that awesome PLS panel on it, so I'm really happy to see Asus implementing that technology on this particular monitor. Right, we haven't even shown the full range of movements. So here, I'm going to get you guys to look at it from the side. So there's your tilt. Okay. There's your swivel, which is done from the base. And then of course, your pivot, in case you wanted to use it in portrait mode because you are like a dude who's made out of a monitor or something like that. It does have a VESA mount, so if you did want to mount it on a separate mounting stand or whatever else the case may be, just go ahead and pull those four guys right there out. And I think that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the PB278 from Asus. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. And I should clarify something. I've referred to this and the ProArt family of monitors sort of a few times here, but the ProArt is separate. That's the PA series. This is the PB series, which is not quite a ProArt, but is also looking pretty outstanding from my perspective. One other thing I should have mentioned is it does have a matte screen. It's sort of semi-matte, so it doesn't quite have that same scatter effect that you see with super matte screens, but you're not really going to see. You can plainly see there's not a whole lot of reflection coming off it. Asus does have their zero bright dot policy covering this monitor, so one year of zero bright dots and a three year warranty for the panel overall. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.