 Welcome to my unboxing and overview of my new pest friend. This my friends has already been out of the box. I've already seen it and it is absolutely gorgeous. This is the Asus PA279Q. It has a 10-bit AH IPS panel. So what that basically means is full support for deep color. That is it can represent a broader range of colors and more intermediary steps between them so that you have very fine shifts from one color to another or from one shade to another one even in between different shades of gray. It, okay so on top of the 10-bit panel it has a 14-bit lookup table which means the monitor itself can understand even more information than it can actually display because all monitors are going to approximate. They have to approximate. Most monitors are capable of displaying around 16.8 I think it is million colors and so anything that isn't one of those 16.8 million discrete colors has to be approximated to one of those 16.8 million colors. So what a 14-bit lookup table and 10-bit panel means is fewer approximations and much more true-to-life colors. This is particularly important for creative professionals such as photo or video editors that want to have the most accurate color possible in their photos or videos but it can also be something that's valued by general users as well. The first thing we find inside the box is the included hood. So this is if you have bright ambient lighting and you want to maintain the true-to-life colors that the monitor can produce if I had to criticize something about this monitor which I guess I probably should it would be this. It's not a very good implementation it's flimsy plastic it has what appears to be a non reusable adhesive on the inside so you just have to decide once and only once whether or not you want to use it and I think I'm going to opt not to going instead for controlling the ambient light and using the panel itself. You get a USB 3 cable A to B you get a mini display port to full-size display port cable you get an audio cable for the integrated dual 3 watt speakers which are actually surprisingly not bad. You get a power cable which you can see we've already used a full-size display port to full-size display port cable a dual link DVI cable driver disc don't use that and finally an HDMI cable but don't use this either because HDMI in is not going to be capable of driving the massive 2560 by 1440 resolution that this monitor supports for any kind of professional application you're going to want to be using display port in order to get full res and deep color support but much in the same way that lots of bass and music is not necessarily good lots of colors that are over saturated and ugly are not necessarily good but don't worry this is a PA monitor which means that it comes with a calibration testing report so they show you the equipment they're using and the results that were obtained on this exact monitor this does add additional cost to the manufacturing process but on ProArt monitors they want you to know that you're getting what you paid for it comes with a guaranteed Delta E of less than 2 this is a huge step up from the promised Delta E of less than 5 on previous ProArt monitors and for those of you who aren't familiar with Delta E it is basically the difference between what the color is supposed to look like and what it actually looks like on the display itself now they use a couple of tricks in order to make sure that the uniformity of the colors on the monitor are is as good as possible and one of them is called uniformity compensation so that ensures that you're not going to have a brightness and color that is dramatically different in this corner compared to a central reference point and the same goes for any other segment of the monitor and that's included on your calibration report as well so let's have a look at it physically it's got all the usual adjustments height adjustable stand as well as tilt pivot and or swivel I guess this one's called and finally pivot that's right portrait mode so you can put it in this setting if you really really wanted to what I usually use this for is to plug in my port so you've got a nice solid base and then Wow all the expansion you could pretty much ever want so there's your USB 3 in there's three USB 3 ports for the included hub display port okay hold on display port in and out so this supports daisy chaining so this is the output so what that means is you can actually hook up multiple monitors up to four depending on the resolution from one display port port HDMI don't use that DVI and then we've got audio in as well as a pass-through for your headphones should you so desire power in is here and a dedicated power switch as well as Kensington lock are down here on the bottom lots of ventilation you can see pretty much the entire back of the monitor is covered in perforations because it does need in order to have you know really fancy electronics inside it some passive cooling although there is no cooling fan included and then finally on this side you've got a couple more things so that's three more USB 3 ports and an SD card reader that supports all the latest standards on the other side you don't find a whole much of a lot of anything other than the on-screen display which is on this side of the panel right here and uses a bit of a different implementation so you can now browse the menu by using it as a bit of a joystick up down left right and then pressing to confirm and then there's all the other stuff you got some programmable buttons and whatnot for presets as you can see we fired up the monitor now this amazing 4k clip was shot on the Sony FS 700 not by us guys you can click the annotation or check out the link in the video description to see it we didn't we didn't shoot it I want to be really clear about that but it looks amazing even like two inches from the screen how much detail there is especially when watching on a greater than HD monitor but before we get too much further into this guys word from our sponsor are you going to Blizzcon it's so great if you're not then that's great too Intel's giving away two HP Elite Pad 900 tablets as part of their Blizzcon extravaganza all you have to do is tweet your favorite Warcraft Hearthstone character to hashtag Intel Blizzcon or with hashtag Intel Blizzcon pardon me you don't have to tweet it to anyone in particular and you will have a chance to win one of those two tablets the contest closes November 10th and you can find the full contest details in the link in the video description on the Linus Tech Tips forum so without further ado ah this monitor man I love it so we're gonna do the usual things where we do our tilt test so you can see that not only is the color extremely uniform but even at extreme angles you're not gonna lose that color accuracy yes some of the brightness goes away but that's perfectly natural because the light is being emitted out the front of the panel so not all of it is going to reach your eyes obviously if you're looking at it from an extreme angle but maintaining color accuracy from an angle is extremely important for professional use so we're just gonna go ahead give you guys that full range there man it looks good and according to the video review done by digital versus we're looking at about 30 milliseconds of input lag which is actually not bad now one thing that makes it not really optimal for gaming is the fact that it does exhibit reverse ghosting which is kind of like ghosting where there's an image trailing the other image except that those are reversed in terms of the colors so red would be green etc etc so it can be a little bit more distracting than regular ghosting personally I've been dealing with this kind of ghosting since my old Ben or rather Dell 2405 FPW so it doesn't really bother me anymore but if you're not used to it then there you go very decent speakers as I mentioned before but I actually can't find them so I'm not sure exactly where they are because they're they're not visible on the front they're probably hidden somewhere behind all these grills in the back but both slick and I were surprised at how usable they are if you don't need like a subwoofer and a you know dedicated gaming speaker set up and you mostly use headphones I think you'll find yourself not really requiring any additional desktop speakers which is quite nice they have a completely new on-screen display control mode so I actually found it extremely easy to navigate so they've got their usual splendid stuff you can see it supports sRGB RGB as well as NTSC somewhere in there so it does 99% Adobe RGB 100% sRGB and 120% NTSC they've also got some unique picture-in-picture settings so you can actually do picture-in-picture or well okay obviously we don't have two monitors set up but you can do picture-in-picture or picture-by-picture for pretty much any of the inputs which is extremely flexible so it's it's really nice to see that again this is really easy to navigate I actually quite like it so you can turn uniformity compensation on and off it's nice that they give you control of stuff like this because not everyone necessarily wants that again this is a professional monitor so being able to adjust things like color temperature is again very very important and they've also got although I can't find it right now but they've also got a pretty unique six axis independent color control setting that allows you to actually adjust each of the different colors independently without affecting any of the other ones so how do you take advantage of its greatness because not every application is going to I mean not every computer is even going to be able to output 10-bit color so every part of the chain has to support 10-bit color your application your hardware and the monitor itself in order to take advantage of deep color so okay the monitors for creative professionals whether it's photo editing or video editing or anyone who has to work with color in any kind of accurate capacity but what about gamers why am I interested in this monitor or even general users well it's less fatiguing to look at even if you aren't taking advantage of 10-bit color man it's beautiful is absolutely unbelievable so while I wouldn't recommend it to someone like a competitive gamer where you want as many updates on the screen per second as possible you're gonna want a 120 Hertz monitor preferably with a strobing backlight so that the image is extremely crisp in order to get like every last competitive edge for you I wouldn't recommend it but for someone who's more of a sightseer maybe you play Batman or maybe you play games like Skyrim and you just want to be as immersed in as beautiful a fantasy world as you possibly can you know what if you're willing to spend the money it's not a terrible recommendation this is my new personal favorite monitor I'm one of those people who believes that a monitor is something a part of your computer you spend more time looking at than any other component and it is worth investing heavily in them once in a while versus doing frequent upgrades from one TN panel to another cruddy TN panel that might be slightly better than the old one I've only bought two monitors in about the last eight years because again I spend about seven eight hundred dollars on them and then I expect them to last for multiple upgrade cycles of the rest of my components so in conclusion not for gaming for professional use serves its purpose extremely well is absolutely beautiful and not fatiguing to look at has great on-screen options however I personally plan to use it for general use and gaming because it's absolutely beautiful extremely well built looks great on your desk and all those other good things that are about it but yes it is extremely expensive so like this video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it leave me a comment letting me know what you do for your monitor upgrade cycle how often do you upgrade how much do you expect to spend and last but not least guys don't forget to subscribe to 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