Hi, chris here with a monitor brand that i've not covered before it's from a company called
innocent and this is their 27 c1u model it is a 27 inch 4k ips monitor they claim that it does have a
hundred percent srgb coverage and i'll be checking that out with my spyder x pro i will measure it
i'll let you know the exact measurements of what you can expect out of a panel like this
and it does have hdr 400 support we do have with this model here type c input so 4k 60. hdmi
2.0 it's got two of those ports displayport 1.4 and even a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
and in this in-depth review i'll go over all of it and i'll let you know the pros and cons in my time
now using the 27 c1u from innocent and what do we get inside the box of this particular 4k monitor
so we have our power supply now this is rated to 150 watts we have our base so this is what the
stand will be connecting to and then you of course slot that into the monitor itself so that is then
the stand right here so it's made out of plastic but there's metal reinforcements and side metal
right here too for that we have a user manual for the monitor there is a power cable then we get a
usb cable display port cable and then a type c to type c cable and then lastly this
which is very important there is a factory calibration report so they've done it for
adobe rgb there's the calibration so all of the monitors are calibrated out of the factory which
is great on the reverse side of it it is then the measurements for the srgb calibration so
i will actually be using my spider x pro which i have right here and i'll check out the color
gamut and the color coverage that we have with this along with its peak brightness of course
so the back of the stand here it is reinforced with metal screwed into place this bracket right
here then just clips into the back of the monitor the stand again there's middle everywhere which is
good so it's going to be nice and solid that slots into place like so and then you just need to screw
this in well that base is only small it does the job the monitor does not shake or wobble around
now you can also tilt it and i'll show you that in just a minute but the back of it here you can see
is quite simplistic there are no huge logos on the back no glowing logo or
anything like that either and we do have this hole right here for cable management
so you can plug the cables through that which is good and there's some branding here on the top
so it's height adjustable you can lower it right down you can then raise it right up which that's
the maximum position right here and you're able to tilt it up and both down well down actually
no there doesn't seem to be hardly any downwards movement there for tilting it once you tilt it up
you can also rotate it flip it around and put it into the landscape presentation there and
then the stand at the bottom that he'll stand does move so you can swing it then to the left
or to the right the whole thing so there's plenty of options there with the movement
it's just that tilt down is only just a few degrees there and the front of our screen
here so we've got these relatively slim bezels they're only about a fingernail the width of them
which is pretty good okay so they're not huge the bottom bezel i don't mind and then we just have a
very simplistic looking innocent hair logo there which is not offensive or anything and my controls
there so it does look good i think presentation wise it's got a professional look to it because it
doesn't scream gaming or anything like that it's not a gaming monitor it's not about the input lag
it is more about color gamut and the reproduction that this can offer so of course we have a 4k
resolution here it's matte antiqually coated it's not fully optically bonded to the ips panel below
it but the gap is very small there and that's probably helping a little bit with that anti-glare
coating that is over the front of this the screen that's over the front of that ips panel
so our resolution is 3840 by 2160 60 hertz not 120 anything like that so when i move this around here
it doesn't seem too bad there doesn't seem to be really too much tearing going on or anything
of concern and for a professional use monitor it's perfectly acceptable and fine it does look
excellent and now we'll get on to exactly what you can expect of course out of this monitor
and ocean do market this as an art monitor so something for professional use and take a look
at this the color coverage here the display gamut is excellent according to the spider
x pro that i've just measured it with so srgb 100 ntsc that is 90 adobe rgb 94 and then p3 is
91 so that's great this is a monitor that i could happily recommend for professional use
with these kind of stats right here and i'll be having myself personally to edit photos
and video on this monitor once of course i have calibrated it myself with my spyder x
pro here the factory calibration isn't too bad as well it does look good to my eyes the bright
whites are the only thing that really did change here compared to what's calibrated with this as
you'll see as i switch that is the calibrated view and then uncalibrated barely any change at
all you're probably not even going to see this on camera and then with that of course 640 nits and
anti-glare screen it's super bright it is quite a nice panel they've gone with here i have the
screen on now displaying just a black image just to take a look at the light leakage this is very
common with ips screens so you can see a tiny little bit in the bottom left hand corner but
it's not really noticeable when you look at it straight on the light leakage is to a minimal
and does look very good however if you look at it at an angle and only really with the lights out
will you see a little bit of what i'm talking about just down here there's a little bit of
leakage but again looking at it straight on how you would normally an ips monitor or any monitor
you don't notice this so it does i think have very good light leakage for an ips
now what about pixels if you look at the screen really close so i've zoomed right in here got my
camera very close and yeah you might be able to make out pixels but it's quite hard to do so this
is an extremely sharp looking monitor so 27 inch but at that 4k resolution tex does look very good
there's no way at 27 inches that i personally would want to be using a 1080p monitor because
then you can see the pixels it simply doesn't look sharp enough to me now if you find that the
text on screen of course is too small i've got the scaling of windows set to only 100 percent
you can of course set that to 200 or 150 to increase the size but it's a great looking screen
even looking at it closely a very good ips panel now what about gaming so just testing out a little
bit of 4k gaming here with gta 5 and i could quite happily game on this input latency on
this one input lag it doesn't seem that bad at all now it's not as good of course as dedicated gaming
monitors and you've got gaming monitors with 120 hertz 4k and this is just capped out at 60 hertz
of course it looks good and i'm not seeing any tearing and it does have freesync support too
with this particular one so even though it's more of a monitor get up for professional use
you can quite happily game on this and gta 5 at 4k here does look really good on this monitor
and then a little bit of matt watson cars here on youtube and 4k looks excellent on the screen with
the color reproduction it does have of course it's going to and the nice sharp resolution
it's very detailed and i happily look at content like this on a monitor from nsn without any
problems the bottom right here is where you'll find our controls so these are nice plastic
buttons they feel really good when you press them in and there's a status led built into the power
button now it will auto detect the source and swap over to that if you have it set in the auto source
mode so tapping here you can see the controls for the brightness very quickly you can adjust that
and the volume right there too bring that up again you've got the power and this is
the source you can go through and change that but it does have if you click home right here
and on screen menu system which i'll go through now this menu here does time out very quick
10 seconds by default but i've set it to 60. so here we have the controls it tells you how to go
up and down select and then back here so i've got a standard picture modes that you can go
through and use now what i will be using is this one which is the adobe mode i will have set there
for when i measured it in fact i've already done the measurement before that i showed you and i did
use that mode for it so to set it back on there normally it's on standard so i'm going to leave
it on that now with our picture settings you've also got these other different options here that
you can adjust things like the brightness the sharpness contrast okay and hdr mode is there too
aspect ratio pretty standard kind of settings picture in picture if you needed that say you were
running your main desktop then you decided to plug in a laptop you can show that in another picture
on this which is a handy setting to have good feature and then we've got the osd settings you
can go through other settings here pretty typical kind of settings you would see again so i won't
really go into this in too much detail but you can see you can set then auto input signal that
i mentioned before auto detect turn it on auto power that's another thing that's great eye
shield reminder gravity sensor there too as well if you wanted to adjust that and then just a few
other systems settings there like the usb hub you want to have it on or off want it sleep mode to be
off or on and then upgrade i think that's for the factory and then to reset everything if you needed
to do so so no soon has made my review quite easy of this one because they've gone and selected an
excellent 27 inch 4k 68 pound on this one this ips has no fixed pixels it doesn't have any dead ones
or any issues the light bleed is an absolute minimal i see just a little bit here only if i
just tilt it at a funny kind of angle i'd normally look at my monitor straight on anyway and you're
going to have no problems it has a very good matte anti-glare coating that's over this now it isn't
fully laminated or bonded to the ips screen so there is a minimal gap that you can see that's
only about a millimeter or so but it doesn't bother me and you'll find that with most other
brands too as well the plastics used the build quality and the stand are excellent it's quite
a good stand the fact that you can lower it right down you can raise it right up and then of course
you can tilt it right around and use it then in a portrait mode if you wanted to do so with this
and of course you can tilt it back and forth like so so it's your typical options the up and down
left and right there and it doesn't creak or make any funny noises it's very solid there too as well
my only criticism of this and i didn't expect to be saying this is just the speakers which is
kind of to be expected right five watt built-in speakers they're not amazing there is a little
bit of bass but it is better than nothing so we do have great options with the type c input on this
really happy to see that and it does support 65 watts there with that too as well and hdmi 2.0 we
are pretty much covered there so you can run this with consoles now input lag the latency on this
i would say is standard for a 4k 60hz screen it's nothing amazing okay now if you're a
dedicated game and you're going to be playing just for example counter-strike and you want
a 4k monitor for that then go for of course one of those gaming ones but as this stands as
what it is like a professional focused monitor definitely for me ticks all the boxes great
panel in there great color coverage i can easily recommend this one here now pricing unfortunately
at the time this video i don't know anything about the pricing yet because i was sent this
just before its release but thank you so much for watching my review here of the innocn the 27 c1u