 Welcome to my unboxing of the Samsung Series 9 970 monitor. This thing is just, yeah, it's pretty much as maxed out as it gets when it comes to a monitor. So it uses, you know what, I'm not going to talk too much about what's on the inside because we're going to open the box and we'll see that at some point. So experience color like never before. They've got their natural color expert as well as plane to line switching technology. This is a PLS panel. I've made it very clear in the past. I am a huge fan of PLS panels, which are at this point exclusive to Samsung. They are gorgeous, whether it's on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that in my personal subjective opinion has the best screen out of any tablet that I've seen to date or if it's on their other PLS panels, which are they have one available in 24 inch and one that's available in a smaller size. So 10 billion colors. Okay. WQHD 2560 by 1440. It's not quite 2560 by 1600, but I'll let it slide. This is an LED backlit monitor. On the back you're going to see some more sort of glamour shots of the monitor itself, but since we're going to open it up, we don't worry too much about that. On this side we see the actual model code, which is LS27B970DS slash EN, which is like, I don't know, if I was going to name this monitor, I'd just call it like, you know, the junk destroyer or something like that, because just calling it like a series of numbers and letters doesn't do it justice. So we're going to take a quick look at the packaging inside, then we're going to open this one up off camera just so that you guys can, instead of watching me open packaging for most of the video, you can bask in the glory of this gorgeous monitor. I've already seen it outside of the box, so we're cheating a little bit here, but what are you going to do? We have the dual link DVI cable, included HDMI cable, although I wouldn't use that, use the dual link DVI cable. Display board cable, that one's okay. Wow, they included like every cable. USB A to B, as well as HDMI to mini HDMI. Wow, yeah, they really included like everything you need to hook it up. User manual in there. Hard foam, but I don't expect it being a problem. It weighs what it weighs, so unlike computer cases, which once you load them up with hardware become a bit of a shipping hazard, it's not really a concern. Yeah, this thing is a thing of beauty, so we're going to go ahead and unveil it on camera here. Absolutely beautiful, although pretty much all of Samsung's 9 Series products are just marvels of manufacturing at the end of the day. I mean, we've got one of their other 9 Series monitors over there that we took a look at a while back. That's a 3D monitor. Again, just gorgeous. So this one brings a few new things to the table, and I apologize for not having it hooked up to anything. I'll give you the full NCIX tech tips on this one later. So it uses edge-to-edge glass. This is an anti-reflective glass that is on here, and that means that, yeah, basically there's no seam. There's no shadow from the bezel. There's no, you know, the bezel masking the very edge of it or anything like that. It's just one gorgeous piece of glass and then a PLS panel underneath of it. It has a 5 millisecond delay, which is actually pretty good for a high color accuracy panel, and it also uses Dimension 2560 by 1440 res. I think I did. Yeah, I did. Okay, 178 degree viewing angle, which is pretty much what I would expect from a PLS display, as well as two speakers. So it has 7 watt times two speakers. I'm not sure where the, ah, there they are, right there on the bottom. Seven watts times two. It also has minimum 90% uniformity that is built into the spec, and now let's take a closer look at the rest of the display. So it's very thin. We're going to do ye old iPhone comparison to check out the thinness of the display itself. So it's about double the thickness of an iPhone, which is just stunning compared to, I have one of Samsung's old high res displays, the 305T Plus at home, and compared to that, this looks just like space age. But I'm not tempted to upgrade. Not yet. I know I am, but I'll stick with the 305T for a little while longer. In terms of the overall build quality, it's just outstanding. So back here we find the same kind of brushed looking plastic back that they have on the Galaxy Tab. I am a huge fan of this finish. I actually prefer it to brushed aluminum, and the reason for that is that it is way more durable, way more scratch resistant. It is also far less likely to get stained and ugly. You can clean it a lot more easily. We've got a height adjust stand. So it goes all the way from down there to all the way up here. I'm going to turn around and do it again, so don't worry too much about that. And the stand again is just a piece of art, because it's got just a shiny, chromey thing going on, and then a concentric circle sort of effect going on on the top. They've really gone all out. This is sort of an interesting artsy type design. So the monitor seems to hover when you put it down. It seems to kind of sit on nothing, and that's because falling away from the top silver piece here, sorry guys, this is a show sample, falling away from the top silver piece here is like a black base that includes a USB, are those USB 2? Yep, two USB 2.0 ports, which are fed by this USB B connector here. Play port, DVI, and HDMI in are all accepted, as well as power right there. There's some ventilation on the bottom for some of those internal electronics, because there's no small amount of electronic wizardry that goes into building such high resolution displays. Here we can see the construction. Again, this is all metal here, no plastic up here at the top, other than the backing, which once again, I told you guys I prefer that to aluminum. Looks just gorgeous. You can see the fit and finish of it is just immaculate. It's not even that heavy. I can hold it with one hand fairly easily, so that should tell you guys something about the weight in spite of the glass panel, so that's at most of the weight of the top here. You've got your Samsung logo on there. I mean, that's pretty much all there is to say until we have a chance to fire it up, so here, let's just finish up up here. Oh right, touch sensitive buttons, check it out. You can select your source and navigate your menu with little touch sensitive buttons here. Pretty cool. Great, okay, so no pivot for this guy, although we do have tilt. Oh, sorry, slick. Sorry, we do have tilt. Actually, you should be looking at this from the side anyway. We have this much tilt, and then the height adjust, I promised to show that from the front. It goes all the way down to there, and all the way up to there. So that looks like about four or four inches, five inches of height adjust. So thank you for checking out our unboxing of the 970 Series 9 monitor from Samsung. Once again, key talking points, 2560 by 1440 PLS display with one seamless glass front that I think is beautiful.