Portable Monitors. Any good?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ต.ค. 2024
- A test of a portable monitor. Handy for dual-screen laptop use, a stow-able TV (when paired with a HDMI source) or a compact gaming screen - especially when it comes to the Nintendo Switch which can output to it in 1080p over USB-C. It's definitely not perfect though.
Here are some links to the one I bought - look out for deals and vouchers and also have a look through the alternatives that show up - It's almost certain this is not the best one available.
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No I haven’t got the stand the wrong way around
Yes it shows it like this in the manual - there’s pictures and everything.
No it won’t fit any other way (notice that the bottom rear of the screen is wider than the top and also isn’t magnetic - therefore the cover can’t be flipped over or orientated in any other configuration)
Don’t believe me? - buy one, you’ll find out.
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5:17 felt like I was watching DankPods' freakish ears on a stand
I was confused I didn’t see the Ol’ Mate Senny’s Huh Duh Six-Hungo’s
@@drcarrot415 I also missed the obligatory "Can you believe, no one bought this!?" in Mat's conclusion!
Anyone knows the name to this track? So weird listening to it here haha
@@itxofficial8281 I’m so hyped for the collab, lol. Dank pods occasionally comments on Mat’s videos and I hope some day it finally happens
@@drcarrot415 Yup, I noticed that too!! As a long-term Patreon supporter of Techmoan and a fairly recent Patron of Dankpods, I feel like a collab between these 2 is just meant to be. They got so many common interests, and sometimes their themes even coincidentally overlap.
Techmoan: Let's check the user manuel.
User Manuel: I know nothing.
I learn, I learn. I get better!
qué?
I am from Barcelona!
"Eez difficult."
Under rated comment
I was expecting DankPods to bust into the video when you did the sound test.
1 Grit will improve that sound.
That would've been the best crossover since Robert Dunn of Aging Wheels crashed a Technology Connections video.
Freakish ears on a stand
Their styles would not gel at all
IKR, I'm like... hey, I know that tune!
Not only is there Manuel in the video but using Walk Through the Park to test the speakers? Is this some secret Dankpods collab?
Dankpods is a great channel!
Dude gets around and that channel of his isn’t even that old
Pretty sure Techmoan used that song first
That's what I was thinking lmao, I hope so :)
The name "Dankpods" immediately gave the vibe of a mildewy washing machine basin.
5:16 DankPods will be proud!
omg yes
Ah... the freakish ears on a stand and the Hur due six hundgeos by old mate senn.
@@badi1220 senny boies
come down to see if anyone else noticed
I think it's great if this is used for audio comparison more widely across TH-cam! If you hear it a lot, you can build up a good baseline, compare it with something played directly through a high quality setup and overall just have a good benchmark / get a good feeling for it.
"User Manuel" made me laugh so much, good show
I thought that he would show a still image of Fawlty Towers when he said that.
@@diecarro79 my thoughts exactly
"Manuel" is the proper word for this... in French! ;)
Wall-E
That isn't even close to what Chinese comrades do to Russian language if they aren't wise enough to hire even a half-bad Russian proofreader (although recently I encountered a perfect user manual for a flashlight from AliExpress, in four languages: my native Russian, my almost native (32 years out of 40) English, and also German, and Japanese (of the latter two I have some vague idea) - and not only it is written and edited by a very good editor, it is also designed rather sensibly, considering all the intricacies of proper Russian typography (and that, among everything else I do for living or as a hobby, is my field of expertise for more than 20 years). I found NOTHING to complain about except some really minor stuff that would be forgivable even in an originally Russian manual for an original Russian and Russian-made product or device.
Also, for Chinese, all Latin, Cyrillic, Amharic, Arabic, etc. symbols look pretty much like Chinese writing looks to us Westerners, and an average Chinese can hardly tell a from e, let alone i from L (so those NOKLA phones, - one of which has a place in Shenzhen Museum, one of many very fine tourist attractions of that great city, - were probably not only an evasion of trademark lawsuits, but also a product of such nonchalance).
More pepper to your salt: ten years ago at Shenzhen Zoo, tiger and lion territory, they had posters with sayings and proverbs about tigers and lions. In Simplified Chinese, of course, but also in pinyin (transliteration - that could have been modern Chinese writing if a relevant decision would have been taken during the Cultural Revolution, like it happened in Vietnam during French occupation, or in Turkey after the Republican revolution of 1923, when Turkey abandoned the old Arabic-based Osman writing). What's the reason to have posters in pinyin, I wondered, as pinyin is a thing much less relevant for an average Chinese (especially Chinese kids) than Latin script or even English for an average Russian at, say, Novosibirsk or Perm zoo? The answer, in all seriousness, was that “it's for foreigners, they use Latin script, so they should understand what's written there”. So, even in the fourth most important (after Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou) Chinese city, at a major tourist attraction (Shenzhen Zoo is excellent, you have my word, and I've seen many a zoo), the designer had very little clue that not all foreigners can read any Latin. Probably the difference between transliteration and translation got, well, lost in translation...
Do you only need a user Manuel when the product is Fawlty?
No, is hamster!
@@fredbloggs5902 Que?
I know, nothing. I come from Barcelona.
Yes but don’t mention the war.
I see what you did there 😂..
That audio testing track just gave me DankPods flashbacks.
huh duh six hungeos eh
*FRANK*
these deserve the 1 grit
...Na-no.
AAA my pkcell!
I hope Techmoan writes a book and records the audio version himself.
Releasing the audiobook on odd media. 8-track would be amazing.
The book should have a slide out powered coffee mug warmer in the sleeve.
@@AMacProOwner Please, any tape medium but 8 track. That's the one tape format I have zero nostalgia for.
@@AMacProOwner No, if there was an audiobook it should be on DCC, Minidisc, reel-to-reel and type 4 metal compact cassette tapes.
@@RCAvhstape Haha. It's more a joke since 8-track wouldn't make any sense whatsoever for an audiobook.
Regarding the washed out colors, the screen might be advertising it's self to the connected device as an HDR display(when it really isn't). Turning off HDR on the source device and/or on the screen might help. I have a portable screen and sometimes had washed out color when trying to show HDR content, which is ironic.
This ^ I noticed the Amazon listing had an HDR logo on the screen in the picture. I was thinking just what you said.
My chromecast does this as well. Reds turn brown on the home screen when hdr isn't set up properly
The joys of edid
Yeah if the white point and black point aren't set correctly, it will be very washed out.
Also worth trying is Manuel color space 0-255 (Full RGB) because the laptop can be detecting it as HDTV instead of monitor (blame HDMI), it may even have such setting in the onboard menu.
9:20 5 second response time. The perfect power point screen for your 0.2 fps applications.
I'm pretty sure it is a misprint and meant 5 milliseconds.
Whoooooosh
At a horse track I worked at we had an adapted LED advertising billboard used for video where the fps were a bit slow.
And then it literally says 3ms response right below it. So it's wrong...twice
Indeed. Even that being a typo, 5ms is still horrendous and you can clearly see the ghosting/motion blur in this video.
still missing those puppet shorts at the end...
User "Manuel" made me laugh :)
Qué?
@@arthurvasey So?
It's a tiny Manuel that pops out and helps with the setup.
Actually that reminded me of was it one of the Space Quest games where a shuttle had "Manuel Auxveride" (manual override) as a virtual character for emergencies.
@@pev_ That's hilarious!
5:18 dankpods flashbacks
I wouldn't be surprised if TH-cam gave you a strike for playing a clip of your own video.
:’) This is a royalty free song so hopefully not. But you never know with TH-cam.
yep that's now the default audio-benchmarking music.
5:17 Would sound better on a pair of Sennheiser HD600.
Ol' Mate Senny
hur dur six hungeo
Weird ears on a stick
Freakish ears on a stand
Oh hello, bit of a DankPods audio test there, or has he been copying you all along?
I’m not sure - I haven’t been following their videos, sorry. I was just playing one of my old videos that I knew contained a TH-cam audio library recording.
@@Techmoan ah, he uses the exact same audio track to quickly test and demonstrate frequency responses etc. of headphones - it's a good coincidence then that smelled like a homage, in one direction or another!
@@vitaminjuk It's a good track. Some of the others from the same artist use drum brushes throughout which might give the impression that there's tape hiss present.
I was waiting for the freaky ears
Whats the name of the song?
"Manuel...MANUEL!!"
"Jes, Mr Fawlty?"
Que?
There's too much butter on those trays.
@@Siarawaszympanemjest yes sir
@@Siarawaszympanemjest Uno dos tres
"Hyouu arrrre a heedious... or-rang-oo-tang!"
9:43 What's the name of that Geometry Wars clone on Switch? I wanna play that.
Death Ray Manta SE
Death Ray Manta
Thanks for asking. I noticed that as well. Lost hours/days/weeks etc to GW in Project Gotham Racing 2.
I never played Geometry Wars but that looked awesome, so also thanks for asking
Is Techmoan hinting at a secretive upcoming Dankpods Collab ?
Dankmoan or Techpods?
@@TheNugettinage I'll take Dankmoan but only if i can't have moanpods
I use a 13” version, connected to my laptop by a long HDMI cable, to watch DVDs in bed.
More comfortable to balance / handhold than the laptop. 🙂
My laptop is a beast!
Something like these portable displays or even the 4K Sony Xperia Pro (which would also be my phone, which still doesn't justify its $2000+ price) would be doable compared to my chunck large display 7lb gaming laptop. Still I'd probably rather use my legal right to copy a DVD and play that on my phone. To be fair I don't watch many Hollywood style movies and usually just watch free video content off YT (like these videos) anyway so I'd ultimately have no use for this today.
Still its neat to know niche devices like these exist and that ultralow TDP is very sexy (to a weird guy who is more focused on efficiency than raw power)!
Too much screentime for you. Turn that off and get to sleep! 😡
would be handy if of it was dustproof and had it water proof rating also for places you wouldn't want to take, use or put into? :-)
@@VariantAEC yeah, a home media server and ripping your discs is a great way to go. You can watch it on any of your devices, and move between them without losing your place. A lesser-used feature allows you to rip high bitrate larger files and then if your wifi or mobile data or CPU is too flaky for that bandwidth it can re-encode the video in real time up to the maximum your device can support. So it’ll look a lot better than regular streaming too. (This applies for pretty much all the home media servers, Plex, Emby, or other FOSS alternatives.)
Ever try one of those 20 some dollar projectors?
The included “User Manuel” got me thinking of Fawlty Towers…
Que?
5:17 But how do both of these sound compared to Sennheiser HD 600's?
Shithouse, most definitely.
Okay, I really really like that Techmoan played Mario Golf as Waluigi.
He was my favorite character to use in Mario Party 4.
I was waiting for Dankpods to pull out the HD650's when the music started.
nah pull out the 1grit
Hd6hungos not 650s
HD600's
Old mate Senny
No matter what you cover, thanks for being you, Mat ( techmoan) legend!
Portable monitors are pretty common among ITX PC builder communities. Easy to carry around with super compact ITX PC inside the bag.
They’re also used a lot by repair technicians.My friend does a lot of house calls and uses one.
Do you have a recommendation for a good one?
Especially when you can carry your setup around with as few cables as possible. As with using Thunderbolt.
Yep I use a travel monitor with my sffpc
Makes sense, just like those portable roll-out keyboards and tiny mice
5:19 Dankpods vibes 😂
5:17 Dankpods uses the exact same song for his headphone comparisons :D
It’s probably just overstock laptop displays thrown into a casing. Notice how the screen size is oddly familiar?
Great observation! Makes a ton of sense.
I mean yes, but no.
The LCD panels are manufactured by a component company and sold to integrators. Integrators include people who make TVs, monitors, laptops, HMIs...sometimes the manufacturer and integrator are the same company, but usually not. Of course the integrators can ask for special changes and stuff, but they aren't usually redesigning the component from scratch.
For reasons I hope are obvious, the vast majority of these screens are 16:9. It's what most people want, so it's far and away what is most available in monitor/TV appropriate sizes.
As far as actual size of the screen, the component manufacturers make standard sizes and they are only going to make something different if the client pays enough for it. It's easier as an integrator to pick a standard panel size and design for that rather than pay extra for something weird.
So, there isn't really any need for an "overstock" theory. Somebody says "I want to manufacturer a small television", so they go to a LCD panel manufacturer and say "what sizes you got?". Then they design the TV around those sizes. No conspiracy.
@@nintendoeats Agreed. It's much cheaper and more profitable to slap a common display/driver board/backlight board combo together, add your input sourcing/decoding, power supplies, and any other features from readily-available off-the-shelf boards.
As an added plus, a device can be sold as "Assembled from [whatever regulatory authority]-Compliant Parts," meaning it can _kinda-sorta_ pass those regulations without the expense and testing required of a wholly-new device.
I wish these companies would get back to making 16:10 ratio displays.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Funny you should mention it! I had written a sentence about the death of 16:10, but I decided it was distracting from my point.
I too prefer 16:10. I kind of want to move to 1440p, but I have three 16:10 monitors and I'd rather not give that up.
5 seconds response time? I guess the amazon listing probably meant 5ms XD
Hell yeah User Manuel
I wouldn't trust him. You might as well ask the cat.
@@TheRip72 Manuel knows nothing.
The dank pods testing song
OMG , i just notice , the DankPods fella is using the same song for sound testing with the "robo ears" 5:18 xD
The "freakish ears on a stand" or "some people use it for ASMR"
My 10 Yr old self would go crazy for one of these
21 yo old me is going crazy for those.
I was once offered either a portable vcd player or a psp as a kid for my birthday, glad I chose the latter...
My 42 yo self is going crazy wishing I'd had something like this when I was a kid to use with the PS/2 286 I had... :P
They should have drilled that headphone socket a bit closer to the edge of the side panel...
I bet that would work well with a raspberry pi400.
build it into a laptop with a powerbank
I've used a similar monitor with the pi400 and a powerbank to use it in living room and it worked great. I don't have the skills or desire to try coupling it all together laptop fashion but technically it would work fine.
@@jjk-9 bang for buck, these are great devices.
When my all in one pc (used as a plex media server) packs up, I will buy a pi and set that up as a low power server
I have a somewhat similar screen that I keep around as a ‘just in case’ device for the headless PCs and pi’s I have around the house. I don’t use it often, but when I do use it, it’s a total lifesaver.
Calm, objective and honest. Everything a review should be.
08:28 “Mum! That weird bloke is annoying the dog again!” 🤣
I don't get it 🤔
@@k1ngN0rk In the original video he’s playing at 08:28 (shown 4 months ago, ‘Sony Bluetooth camera mic’) he manages to upset the dog in the garden of the house on the left.
Sorry, it’s just my warped sense of humour.
The problem with most portable monitors is they're cheap quality and after six months or a year most stop working. The best ones from reputable manufacturers are very expensive easily over £200.
Can't you turn the magnetic cover so it sticks out from the middle of the back and fold it such that it makes a better stand?
I also think it's been attached or folded wrong.
Agree looks like it’s upside down .
Thanks for this, I've never seen one with an HDMI input, just what I need :)
Down firing speakers, yeah that is going to cost the sound quality.
doesn't the iMac do that
The 2021 iMac (M1) also has downfiring speakers, though... So... Yeah, I guess it doesn't always have to go from decent to miserable... More like the speakers in this screen were miserable to begin with.
@@NonsensicalSpudz yeah, but the iMac doesn't have the speakers directly on the table
@@LorenzoLeonardini ahh true
No, because it uses cheap crappy speakers. You can have really good speakers and face them down and it would sound really good.
5:17 *DankPods has entered the chat*
5:15 DankPods collaboration confirmed? Would be great to see you guys review the same tech with your different styles 😁
switch in docked mode is news to me - thought there wasn’t a way around needing the actual dock.
since the early days of the Switch users reported that it was possible to use a USB-C hub to bypass the dock. However few (cheap) hub models bricked some Switch'es so I guess even people aware of it don't wanna try. IIRC it may have been fixed by Nintendo in a FW update though.
@@20cent I don't think Nintendo have fixed it, and I don't think they can.
It happens because the Switch doesn't correctly comply to the USB Power Delivery protocol, and some external devices cannot handle the frequent and unpredictable changes in wattage that the Switch asks for, which damages the Switch.
I don't think that's something that can be changed without a hardware redesign.
I actually use a cheap XP-pen drawing tablet for that purpose. I might have got it for drawing, but the tech inside is the same so there is nothing preventing you from just using it as a secondary display with a cool extra input method.
Techmoan: User Manuel
Me: Que?
He’s from Barcelona.
"I know nothing!"
I can speak English. I learn it from a book! 🦌
Loved this video. Isn't it funny though, in the '80s this display would have blown our minds! lol
How about 10 years ago?!?
@@Journeyman.71 10 years ago was 2011, which was right when i moved to east coast USA...i had a really good laptop at the time, and the ipad was created in 2010. Back then i probably would have thought "oh, that's cool", doubtful it would have completely blown people away though
@@Journeyman.71 same difference lol
@@Journeyman.71 10 years ago we would've been like: "okay, it's an iPad but without the computer parts. Or, a really slim computer monitor. Fine, but what's this ovular plug type?"
Doesn't this damage the switch? I remember that third-party switch docks would damage the console so they are no longer sold (something with how usb 3.0 supplies power that the switch cannot handle)
I think it'd be smashing as a primary screen for a Raspberry Pi400 as well.
Or any portable Pi setup. Battery power. Car computer. Etc.
@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 well sure, but the 400 needs it more than most of the rest of them do, in my estimation.
Amazing! I've been looking into these for a few months, and now you test 'em.
It's kind of incredible that you can use one of these things to (in a way) trick a Switch into thinking it's docked.
And it's almost the same price
Well the dock is basically just a USB-C to HDMI adapter with charging input.
It's not really a trick if it replicates exactly what the same thing as the Switch dock is doing.
But yes, it is still interesting none the less.
I've been curious about these types of screens for a while. I always thought they'd be neat for using with a raspberry pi in some kind of weird homemade laptop setup. Wonder how long you could run a setup like that off a standard laptop battery..
Kinda what im working on as i found this.
You can use the portable monitor for your Xbox or playstation on the go. Like if you're going to a friend's house or a family members house and they don't have an extra screen you can use
that music started and all I could think was "aww... my pkcell" lol
6:45 I would recommend against docking the switch to this monitor in this way. Back around launch 3rd party dongles and docks were found to be bricking consoles, because the standard Nintendo uses is somehow different than standard USB-C. I don't know if this was ever fixed, either on Nintendo's end or on 3rd party accessory manufacturers' ends, but it's better to be safe than sorry.
I bought one of these new in a box from a local Amazon overstock store for only $8. The picture quality is surprisingly good however the sound is very tinny. But for the price I paid it's a great little monitor.
Great Video.Say to Manwell for me. He did a great job on the video🤪🤪🤪😂😂😂
Useless fact: I turned my portable Sony DVD player into a portable monitor, so I can play Playstation games on go.
ok
@@memmoman stfu
@@memmoman n_wordd
@@memmoman i give you midlefinger my friend
@@memmoman fakiou_my_nword
Hello. Could you please share the color settings you settled with to mitigate the washed out colors?
couldn't stop laughing at the 'manuel' running gag, that's quite the typo. :P but a neat piece of tech!
"Si, señor Fawlty!" Manuel on Fawlty Towers - sorry - couldn't help myself!
The 5:00 audio test made me think of Dank pods
(Edit, ah many cultured commenters mentioned before me)
So *THIS* is what happened to handheld TV's!
(th-cam.com/video/idOJyjdbo-Y/w-d-xo.html)
Re. the dodgy stand I've had a couple of portable ASUS monitors in recent years and the stands supplied with those have been equally flimsy.
I like having an additional display right under my main ultrawide monitor, particularly when using my work laptop so I can hook my own machine up for music etc, so I've used a small cheap phone stand that's far more stable and compact and doesn't interfere with the screen. iPad stands also work nicely and raise the screen up which can be useful.
Portable traditionally means it has a battery, none of the 'portable' screens I found (researching over 150 different models) had batteries. However the really cheap screen I brought was still very good. I can plug it in to the USB-C port of my identical size (15 inch) surface tablet/laptop. It does mean I can use it on holiday or when I am away from home any time. No noticeable RF noise (important to me as a radio ham). Audio is adequate but not amazing, but doesn't distort even when I use a software audio booster. The stand is ok, uses 4 thumb screws to hold the stand/ cover on, uses standard VESA spacing so it can be mounted to a wall mount or multi-monitor stand, or to screw a Raspberry Pi to the back in a suitable case. Thinking of getting another for this purpose, the touchscreen version was only another £35 and using with a R-Pi sounds like a great idea.
A good review, thank you. I have had something like this in mind for setting up AV receivers and other such things. Using them for audio only away from a TV is a real pain so a HDMI screen, no matter how bad so the settings can be seen easily is a boon. As an example, a pioneer DVD player I want to use the digital audio outputs, BUT, it is set for HDMI and will only send audio out of the optical audio once it has connected via HDMI as set, fixing is much easier without having to drag the thing to a TV, now it's easy to take the screen to the device. Of course once set to SCART only again... So wonder in any do composite and HDMI.
It's interesting how it can get video output from the Switch even before getting into ''docked'' 1080p mode.
5:17 Dank Pods!
What’s the game he’s playing with the like blocks and neon stuff
I think it's Debris Infinity. Basicly a clone of the older Geometry Wars game.
Death Ray Manta SE
Mat get ready for a deluge of Dankpods comments when this goes live. Outstanding video, as always.
While you can use this monitor to output video from a Nintendo Switch without its dock, you probably shouldn't. The console uses non-standard charging protocols, and third-party docks are known to brick systems. It may not happen immediately, but the console and the ‘dock’ only have to disagree on the voltage one time and the system gets fried.
*EDIT:* Here is a video from WULFF DEN, explaining this in more detail: th-cam.com/video/orJOQmsdMcA/w-d-xo.html
I got one from uperfect that I've been using for years. It served me quite well. The only thing a bit iffy given the fact that power isn't always available in public I noticed that I do need a battery for it.
Thank you for the video sir, much appreciated
Hah. I just picked up a Nintendo Switch today, after skipping consoles altogether for the past 8+ years. Why? Because I learned about _Pac-Man 99._ And it's only on the Switch.
Probably will be on the Steam Deck as well =p But the Switch is awesome so congrats 👍🏻
@@SyntheticFuture Nah don't expect any Switch exclusive title to magically get ported to PC just for the Steam Deck. If Pac-Man 99 was going to be on any other hardware, it would already be.
@@SyntheticFuture Dang I hope so. (Well, Steam in general.) I'll do it all over again when it re-launches. It's super addictive. But I get the feeling it was made sort of particularly for the Switch. Otherwise I think we would have at least seen it on Xbox platforms, since that's where the whole Namco Pac-Man revival began in the first place.
As for the Switch... I could have used 4K, optical out, ethernet. I think given the power of the unit, they could have afforded to provide those standard features. There's really no way to make 1080p look crisp on a 4K display, other than standing too far away to even see the resolution. Ethernet over USB is miserable, and also not free. Fortunately, I sorted out a way to get digital audio to the PC, by using my TV as a breakdown unit.
I did also discover that I love the Switch's Pro Controller. The only thing missing is analog triggers, and I could happily replace my beloved 360 pad. I love that Nintendo finally threw in the towel on analog pad placement and went with what actually works best, rather than reiterating designs for arbitrary symmetry.
You might want to be careful about playing the Switch like this.
There was a lot of problems with 3rd party docks frying the Switch because, apparently the Switch uses an non-standard voltage.
So, I'm not sure if this would cause the same problem.
Also, on the amazon page you showed it says the model has a 5 SECOND response time? That has to be a mistake, certainly.
I bought nearly the same screen around the same time when they had that additional discount. I got the one with the different case/stand design. It does work better than the way this one looks. But I think many phone/tablet stands would work well for that. That brightness/volume toggle got me for a bit as well, but it's a good solution for the controls they used. And I think it's pretty good as well. The sound works for my purposes and the image quality looks good to me.
I purchased the ASUS ZenScreen Touch MB16AMT recently to go with my ZenBook Duo. Thankfully I was able it on Amazon because it was sold out at pretty much every other US retailer including my local MicroCenter. Literally none available in the US, they’re still waiting on more to ship from China or Taiwan (I don’t remember where they are manufactured).
I must say, it’s wonderful. 15.6” IPS 1080P display with multiple viewing modes, DisplayPort and power via the USB-C port, Micro HDMI for devices that don’t have USB-C, an internal battery, 3 input modes for the Type C (phone, PC with charging the display, PC without charging the display), aluminum body, magnetic folding cover/stand (like the ones he showed that stick out the front), and adequate speakers as well. NOT TO MENTION THEY INCLUDE A 2 foot (0.6m) type c cable, and a 3 foot (0.9m) HDMI to Micro HDMI cable, and a type C to Type A adapter so you can plug it into a full-power USB3.0 port on a pc or into the AC wall adapter they provide.
My only complaints about it are that the “joystick” control for the monitor menu is subpar compared to the build quality, and that the manual says nothing about the fact that there’s a “no charging” mode for the type C, so I was surprised that it wasn’t charging from my thunderbolt 4 port at first. I don’t understand why they wouldn’t make the AC adapter have a USB C port instead of the type A, they wouldn’t need to include the C to A adapter then
Overall, getting it refurbished for $300 US was a great deal in my opinion, but I would have been happy to pay the full 350 for it new.
I always wondered why we didn't get ultra-portable laptop screen ports.
Boy, even an ipad sounds better than it.
5:42 that difference reminded me of the transitions between head phones on dankpods videos
> Nintendo Switch which can output to it in 1080p over USB-C
It can but in a non-standard way. I believe that with most monitor with USB-C input it simply won't work. Not sure if there is something special about this monitor or the cable you're using.
Ref: www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/7y0c44/eli5_why_cant_the_switch_output_video_without_a/
The Switch is probably using the USB-C cable but with a DisplayPort protocol.
When a guy starts off his video with the words "I was looking through the product brochure recently on the Japanese Panasonic site....." I just know I'm going to be watching that video right to the end! Don't know why, just can't help it!
You have to be very careful when shopping for these. Since they are sort of no-name generic Chinese items it’s hard to find reviews for them online and the advertised specs tend to be wildly inaccurate. I bought a different one on Amazon for around the same price you paid that had great user reviews and claimed 99% sRGB coverage and 300 nits max brightness, but in reality it was only around 60% sRGB coverage and about 120 nits brightness (tested with a colourmeter), so terrible performance. I got a refund and tried a different one and the specs on that one were spot on, but much more expensive at over £200.
I've had one a couple of years now for Samsung DeX. It's also great for pairing with an Android tablet as a dual monitor to make use of the multitasking.
I still wish there was something like a DexBook. Just a laptop shell to insert your phone into.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep There is one: the SuperBook.
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep There's been a few of them over the years. All the way back to the Lumia 950 and 950XL, which ran WIndows 10 mobile/phone and had Continuum, which was basically Dex before Dex.
You were not using the stand as show in the product images. Thats why it wasn't working very well.
The idea of my switch charging through the monitor terrifies me
My monitor at work connects to my laptop over USB C, which charges it. Makes connecting/disconnecting really easy.
I didn't know that about the switch! Here I thought the dock was absolutely required for TV out
The dock is really just a pass-through, and as long as you can use an adapter that will deliver enough power, you can get it to output. BUT BEWARE! Do some quick research on third-party docks, and you'll find that using anything other than Nintendo's own dock can risk bricking your Switch, and losing any save data that's not backed up with the Nintendo Switch Online service!
Basically, Nintendo had the bright idea to make the Switch request really wonky power levels that do not follow USB-C standards. And non-Nintendo power cables or docks that aren't developed specifically for Switch with a certain capacitor or something like that can overload the console and kill it.
TL:DR - For your console's safety, don't dock your Switch with anything other than an official Nintendo dock!
I bought one a few years ago. I use it primarily for travel to play Switch or Xbox Series S. Mine will play Switch without a dock, which is nice. I will also drag it down to a Raspberry Pi or other computer that is normally headless if I need to put a monitor on it for a bit to fix something. I agree about the speakers - I tend to use headphones from it. Overall: It's far from a perfect device, but I've been very happy with my purchase. I need to set up a PiKVM for a better solution to this.
How is the refresh rate ? 60 hz ?
@@xCanuckfan16x Mine from two years ago is 60hz. I'm sure you can find ones these days that have a higher refresh rate.
If you rotate the stand 180 degrees does that work better? I just wondered why they made it fully detachable, perhaps that will give you more options?
I love how he uses the same song as dank pods for testing the sound
User Manuel sounds like a very helpful guy.
5 seconds response time? Very cool!
They just tested it very far away.
Dankpods headphone test music engaged
i have had one of these for a couple years, branded as a WIMAX. Same volume switch and everything. Its super handy to have for pc building or testing builds to just throw it on and boot it up.
Ngl got a little disappointed for this video not being about the Panasonic portable tv.
Might be handy for camping with a group.
I always thought it was bad enough I brought my phone with me when camping. Don't bring a screen lol.
@@whosonedphone not for serious hiking and camping lol, but with a group when socialising where there is a big tent, maybe.
5:18
Is this a dankpods video ???
:dankpods I'm very impressive with the sound on quality but one of them even sounds so good mate
:Spaceface I agree with the comment mate 👍😎
5:17 I got confused for a moment thinking I was in the wrong TH-cam channel