 So today we're going to be doing an unboxing of an asus LCD monitor This is an ultra slim model the ms 236h and there's not a whole lot you can tell about it from the outside of the box So I'm going to go ahead and just start getting this guy Opened up here. You can see that the box is in like 300 million different languages So that's useful you can put this on display in a store no matter what country you happen to be in Okay, let's get this box opened up. I Don't remember if I mentioned already, but this is an ultra slim model Maybe the cameraman can indicate to me whether I said that already yeah apparently I did say that already So basically all we're going to do today is we're going to unbox this thing get it set up And then plug it into the asus notebook that I unboxed the other day So I just took out the panel I can already tell it's very thin and here we go Let's have a look at the included accessories, so the first thing we find on the bottom side of this foam is This Huh oh We'll figure that out in a minute okay the other things we find inside are a power brick So because it's so slim they actually were not able to build the power adapter for the monitor into the panel So it just has it's a small tiny power brick I mean this thing is no big deal two point one amps 19 volts And then you've got an adapter cord for that and then included cables They've got an HDMI to DVI cable that is smart You know what I really appreciate this because very few people have DVI out on their computers these days and since it's a HDMI in I mean the signals the same there's no Disadvantage to adapting DVI to HDMI versus using native DVI or native HDMI so including a cable like this allows them to save Whatever they save by not integrating a DVI port and it still gives you the convenience of being able to plug into DVI on Your computer awesome next we have a VGA cable. This is your bog standard blue VGA cable okay, so we're on a quest now to figure out what This thing is Never seen something quite like that before But I'm hoping that once I get the monitor out of the bag it will become apparent what that is Okay, so the first thing you notice is this is as advertised very very slim So it's only about the width of my finger, and it's very very light as well And so you can see why don't we start at the back actually let's start at the top so at the top you got some Ventilation holes so that's going to keep the the excess heat coming off of the light and the other electronics under control And then why don't we move around to the back where we have? What appears to be the mount for the stand so I'm going to go ahead and assume? That this is something to do with the stand for this monitor Although I would be lying if I said I could figure out just how it works oh Hopefully I didn't break it. Oh, okay, so this plugs in this goes in here Okay, that goes there and Then you screw this in Okay, so that's getting much tighter now. I think we're there Okay, and then this which I thought I broke, but it looks like I didn't goes there Is that is that really how it mounts? Yeah, okay, well Mystery solved that is how to mount the monitor Okay, great. Well. Why don't I grab the power cord and we'll hook this thing up and have a look I? Thought I had just gone crazy there, and I couldn't I thought maybe it was like a Ring that goes between the monitor and the standard something like that, but Nope, nope, that's the stand very creative definitely something different You know if you want to monitor with a different looking stand then you can get this one okay? Let's plug in the power Get this plugged in actually let's go. Let's have a look at the front first okay, so this is a 23 inch monitor, and it has a 1920 by 1080 resolution So that means that it is HD so 16 by 9 aspect ratio Why don't I start taking off some of these protective stickers here? So you can see as soon as using a highly glossy finish for this monitor As long as you don't touch it is definitely very very very nice looking and although the screen itself uses a matte finish a Anti-reflective finish so personally I really prefer that you don't get the same Vibrance that you get it with your colors as you do with a glossy screen But you do get more accuracy with the colors and you also Usually the ones that have the matte screen tend to be higher quality panels is my experience So touch sensitive button right there, and then all of the buttons for the adjustments over on on this side here are Touch sensitive, so that's pretty cool. So why don't we hit the menu button? Let me see how does this work? Okay, so if I touch that do I hold that? Hmm Interesting so if I press menu what happens? Maybe the buttons below or above Well, why don't we have a look at the back of the monitor first, and then we'll figure that out later I haven't actually shown you all of the input options yet So around the back we've got our power input then we have a Kensington lock So you can secure your monitor if you're in an office environment or you need to secure your monitor then you have HDMI in VGA in and headphones for HDMI. That's pretty cool Okay, so why don't we just plug this into the computer that I have running in the background here? This is the ASUS gaming notebook that we unboxed the other day, and I'll plug that into the HDMI port and Hopefully it's going to be pretty straightforward to get this thing running Okay, yeah, it's detected and we're going to press that And there we go I think Monitor is on and asus logo, and I'm going to press it again And it says VGA no signal, so maybe what we have to do is select a different source HDMI VGA. Okay. Yeah, the touch button is working. So it's touch sensitive I've selected HDMI input and there we go. It is working that Was relatively straightforward. Let's see if I can adjust the brightness a little bit here so brightness Oh, oh cool. Okay, so it's got a few different presets. So you got standard mode theater mode gaming mode Which basically turns up the gamma night view mode scenery mode and standard mode Menu button seems to be working now, which is uh much much improved anyway Thank you for checking out my unboxing of the ms-236h