Hello this is the Provoked Prawn and this is a Playstation themed gaming monitor from Sony
Sony has created a new brand called Inzone which is releasing a number of different products for
PC gamers that includes two gaming monitors and several gaming headsets and this is the 27 inch 4k
144 Hertz refresh rate gaming monitor the Inzone m9 and in this video I'm going to be talking to
you about my experiences with this monitor the specs and features of it what it's like to use and
the various things of highlight and as you can see the stand at the bottom looks like they've locked
off a bit of a Playstation 5 and stuck it in the middle and there's actually an interesting logic
as to why that's the case and the sort of layout and logic of this monitor now these
monitors are aimed at heavy shooters and FPS gamers so people that are passionate about FPS
and want the best results this is a 4k display but they're also releasing a full HD 240 Hertz
monitor later on as well and this monitor is interesting for a number of different reasons
firstly it packs in some pretty decent specs with 4k 144 Hertz HDR 600 is DCI P3 95 validated and
it has full array local dimming as well with 96 local dimming zones as well as a one millisecond
greater grey response time too and as you can see from these shots from various different angles
it really looks the business too it looks fantastic it has really been quite a pleasing
monitor to play I'm not usually a fan of 27-inch monitors I feel like they're a bit too small but
this monitor does deliver the goods and with some really smooth action really fast response and a
really good overall look and feel now it has some other things that are worth discussing as well and
I'm going to show you them as we go through but it also includes some speakers although I'll show
you at the end that they're not really worth much they're just they're 2 watt speakers they
don't really deliver much in terms of the sound but the focus here is obviously on the visuals
with a really nice 4k screen and overall graphical performance and some curious design
highlights which I'm going to show you now as I go through the initial setup process and talk
to you all about it so this is the rear of the monitor obviously and you can see on the left hand
side of the display here that we have a little joystick that allows you to go through the menu
system and below that the power button so a simple little way to navigate around the various menus
and there are a number of different settings in there that I'll show you later as well
and I want to talk about what you also see is a number of different connections has multiple
different USB a connections and a USB b connection as well you'll also notice that you have two HDMI
2.1 ports a displaypoint 1.4 and you can also get DisplayPort through a USB-C connection that's in
there now the thing that's interesting about this is there's a KVM switch built into the monitor
this switch allows you to connect up two different PCs to the same monitor and then plug in your
mouse and keyboard and then be able to control both machines from one setup of peripherals and
one monitor so that gives you the flexibility if you're multi-computing let's say your dual
computers for streaming purposes and you want to be able to control all of those computers from
one set of keyboard and mouse and you can do that pretty interesting I think the other thing to note
is that you'll need to use DisplayPort to make the most of this so if you want 144 Hertz refresh rate
make sure you go with DisplayPort but you do have the option of HDMI as well now one of the things
I thought was curious during the briefing was the design of this so I had a briefing with Sony and
they talked about the layout and design of the stand which might seem like a curious thing to
focus on I want to talk about it for a minute so you'll notice that this chunky looking stand that
you saw the front of a minute ago essentially looks like a sort of Playstation theme and
obviously you can see some of the white and black accents that would be familiar to Playstation
enthusiasts it's also worth noting that there are some Playstation exclusive features that I'll talk
about later on but the thing that was curious about this is they've gone for quite a chunky
stand that faces towards the front of the monitor slap bang in the center and actually the reason
for that is the layout of how they expect you to use it and how they think people will use it so
it's quite curious because I thought initially they would get in the way and I want to show
you why and what I mean later so stick with me for that but as you can see you have some little holes
for threading through your cables so I'm running a DisplayPort cable through here and basically
a little bit of cable tidying it ends up looking fairly neat by the end of it obviously if you're
running multiple HDMI and DisplayPort cables into this then you might come unstuck and all those
USB connections as well I think the gap here might be a bit small although my DisplayPort cable is a
little bit on the chunky side but this is how you do it you run it through the little plastic loop
that's included in there and then into that now it's worth noting obviously 1.4 DisplayPort cable
to get the most out of it or 2.1 HDMI but you do need the display port to get the maximum refresh
rate now this is a g-sync compatible monitor it's designed for PC gamers to make the most out of it
so I'll talk about that later on I'll show you the settings for that as well now a couple of other
small complaints that I had getting out of the box is the power brick is absolutely enormous
which might seem like an oddity but one of the things I wanted to talk about is the cable from
that power brick to the monitors fairly short so I actually found running it to the ground and then
into the mains power supply meant there wasn't much flexibility in the length of the cable
you might not suffer with this the other thing that I thought was really strange considering the
amount of money this thing costs because it's 999 pounds which is a lot of money and about
probably about the same in dollars is that it doesn't come with any HDMI or display port cables
it also doesn't come with any USB cable so you don't even get that USB pass-through cable which
is really strange so the cable you're seeing plugged in that display port cable is mine
I purchased separately there are no cables included in the box that's a weirder t so now
you can see the monitor's standing on its stand and you'll notice that front-facing bit that I was
talking about and the way that sort of juts out beyond the edge of the monitor you'll also notice
that the way the cable sits sort of tilts back and there's a little notch at the bottom of the screen
where it slots into the stand which is kind of strange and then obviously it slides up and down
as well and tilts back and forth a bit that back and forth tilt is pretty interesting too because
the idea is basically the tip will sit back and sit really close to it if you want to if you
feel like you want to get right up close to your monitor and do some forehead gaming then you can
do that now I've noticed that there isn't much flexibility in sort of some of the tilt angles
in side to side but obviously you do have a fair amount of adjustability in the up and
down movement but you will notice a little bit of a wobble if you're moving it around you can
see there's quite a little bit of a wobble there I think if you had an unstable desk you might
struggle with it but the idea is to create quite a shallow desk stand so that you have more room
on your desk and that was one of the important points that they wanted to make when building this
is to give you plenty of room for your mouse and keyboard for your serious gaming peripherals at
the rear of the monitor there's also some lighting this is ambient lighting strip that you can see
running across the top there I didn't really feel this was bright enough to do any justice or
anything exciting in the room and it only really goes through a few different colors that you can
change in the menu this is kind of a gimmick that a lot of monitors seem to have on at the moment
and it really doesn't add anything it doesn't have any ambient lighting it doesn't change in game
or anything like that however once I plugged the monitor in and started going with it I found out I
was pretty impressed immediately you can see it's got some nice representation of color it looks
really rich it's a really good looking monitor in a number of different ways and obviously you
can also tweak the settings to make sure you're running at the right specs so this is a 4k monitor
and it runs at 144hz so it's worth going into the display settings and making sure everything set up
properly you'll notice that it's set to standard Dynamic range in here but there are HDR settings
because it does go up to HDR 600 and I'll show you some of the tweaks that I made and some of the
game can play later on with that you can also set it up to 10 bit color in your videos control panel
and get it looking nice as well so looking good so far we've got everything set up now
and we're tweaking some of the settings also went in and changed some of the 3D settings in here
because I wanted to put low latency mode on which is something that wasn't running on this machine
I've done a video separately on the various different settings that you can apply to get the
most out of your machine for FPS purposes and it's worth doing with a 4k display because obviously
you're going to need a powerful graphics card in order to drive it in here you'll also notice
that it is possible to run audio through here as I said already two two watt speakers
so nothing that's going to blow your socks off but it should be enough for just some casual listening
if you want to just watch a film or something and you aren't too bothered about having anything
fancy what I found is they're really tinny and I'll show you later on if you stick with me
what that sounds like this is the onboard menu and you'll see a number of different options in here
when you go through so you'll notice there's the input for DisplayPort HDMI and USB-C DisplayPort
as well so you can push through that you can also check the DisplayPort number and other things in
there there's also a mode for auto switching which I actually found was ever so slightly problematic
especially when running along HDR mode because the screen kept trying to switch sources even
when there was just one plugged in there are other things buried in the menu system as well
one of the things they're pushing for example is this on-screen crosshair it's fairly common
nowadays but you do have that there another thing is there's a frame rate counter as well so you
can get a little counter to show your refresh rate and FPS essentially on the top left of the screen
you'll also see that you can change the response time and the black equalizer and then there are a
number of other settings including local dimming so I said local dimming zones 96 local dimming
zones so the idea here is that you have a massive areas on the screen that will light up nicely
and that ensures that you have some nice dark areas and also it will light up effectively
without sort of glows from the top and bottom of the screen here you can see the KVM switch options
unfortunately I wasn't able to test this because I didn't have the cables to be able to do it but
you can see that you can sync it up with what display cable you're using and then obviously
USB connections that you're using as well so you do have the ability to mess around in the
menu here I think it's really odd oversight that didn't include the USB cable at least for the
USB b connection a bit strange and again lacking DisplayPort HDMI cables so make sure you've got
those before you purchase the monitor if you haven't already then you can see that you can
change the lighting so that lighting strip where the rear is set to white as standard you can go
through a number of different colors again I'm not going to spend too much time on that because
my experience was it wasn't very good it didn't really light up much of a space but I've seen
these sorts of things on many monitors and they're always a bit rubbish to be honest so don't expect
much from that department and then there are other various options you also know at the top that you
can see what mode you're currently in so you can see it's 144 Hertz at the moment and then game
mode there are various different picture preset modes including game one game two cinema FPS and
standard now the FPS one is the main focus of these end zone monitors they are aimed at
FPS gamers which is why you're not seeing rts and racing modes and other things the main focus here
is to go into FPS mode and give you really bright screen effects so you can really see your enemies
and get the upper hand on them potentially now it's worth talking quickly about exclusive
features designed for Playstation users I'm a PC gamer so I wasn't able to test out any of these
but if you plug a Playstation 5 into this then it will automatically recognize that it's running a
Playstation 5 and it has a couple of different modes designed specifically for that purpose
so there's an auto HDR tone mapping which allows the Playstation 5 and the monitor to communicate
with one another and set the local dimming levels to match the specs of the monitor in use whether
you're using the full hd version of this monitor or the 4k one because a slight difference in the
HDR the 1080p model only has hdr400 4k as HDR 600. you could change the settings for HDR manually of
course but the auto tuning makes it easier for you so if you're running a Playstation you just want
really easy life then you can do that this sort of technology comes from Sony's Bravia television
so you can be rest assured there's gonna be pretty solid obviously having a monitor designed by Sony
you're gonna get a good experience and that actually was the experience that I had on
PC it's fantastic they also have an auto genre picture mode where basically it switches between
game and cinema depending on what you're doing so you're playing games you'll put it into that
gaming mode but then if you're watching Netflix for example it will switch into cinema mode which
has a bit more of an expressive picture whereas the game mode focuses on lower input latency
and things like that so you can see there are quite a few different things both for PC gamers
and Playstation gamers if you happen to have both devices Playstation and PC and you plug them both
into this monitor you're going to get a pretty good experience now what you'll notice when I go
through these various shots of different games is it handles lighting really well I'm not sure it's
going to do it justice on camera obviously this is translating through a camera and then on to
whatever device you're watching it on but what I found was the dark scenes were really dark
it was really really dark and then the bright scenes are really bright this is especially
prominent in games which have the HDR turned on so you'll see some shots for example of Forza horizon
5 with HDR on and also of watchdog legions as well not all the games on PC have that I do often find
the HDR tend to look a bit washed out and isn't that impressive and it is a bit finicky on some
games but it ran pretty well on here and I was pretty impressed by it I tried out a variety of
different games obviously focusing on those FPS games because I wanted to see how it handled it I
actually got a really smooth experience out of it and my FPS count was pretty decent as well as you
might have noticed I'm actually running a couple of different machines so I was testing it with a
3090 and with a 3060 Ti on two different builds as well so I was actually able to experiment with a
couple of different setups and test out what I was like and the overall experience from it it
was smooth on both of them obviously the 30 90 is superior but what you can see is some really nice
shots there's some great viewing angles so you can see from all sides basically I was sitting off to
the side a couple of times I wasn't in the way of a camera so you could get a good view of what it
was like and just the representation of what the game's like and the maximum sort of settings on
it's fantastic really good color representation really good results from it it's an impressive
4k screen for sure then 27 inch might be a bit small but it still delivers the goods in terms of
the overall setup which I thought was interesting one of the things I do want to talk about though
is the way this stand sticks out at the bottom because I do think it is a bit daft personally
their logic isn't that sound but I'll show you what I mean so my thought initially when I saw
this was well that's going to get in the way of my preamp so if you're using something like a stream
deck or a Go XLR Mini or any sort of device that sits in front of your keyboard usually you're now
going to have to rethink the logic of where that sits because now it's going to be in the way of
your keyboard and there's going to be a smaller amount of space on your desk perhaps that might
be a problem that certainly would be a problem for me I don't know about you but their idea
is that you're meant to actually sit like this you're meant to sit really close to the monitor
and also to put your keyboard and mouse on either side of that area so they want you to sit like an
E-sports player get your face right close to that monitor I suppose so you can make the most of the
27 inches but feel like you're playing on a bigger screen and also so that you have the
room to maneuver your mouse around and also still have space for your keyboard as well this is not
how I would play games but I'm not a Pro player so if you feel like you are or you're really serious
about your FPS games and you like to position your keyboard at a jaunty angle and have plenty of room
for your mouse because of that and you can do it this top-down view also shows that the monitor
itself is actually fairly chunky quite a fat boy in comparison to some of the other monitors I've
seen not necessarily an issue and when you're playing obviously you don't notice it straight
on there's no curvature here it's very much a flat screen looks kind of curved at the back
but it is a classic 27-inch flat screen panel an IPS panel which as you can see does a really good
job of showing off the various different colors and highlights and more importantly the lights
and the darks and that was my experience and as you can see across a variety of shots it ends up
looking really good now with the HDR mode I found that I had to go into windows to turn the HDR on
and turn it on in the games for obviously for it to switch and one of the points that I want to
make is also I found with HDR on they would often try and switch sources I've already mentioned
this briefly but basically the screen would go black every now and then as it tried to switch
to DisplayPort even though it was already on DisplayPort I think this was actually an HDR
problem a slight oddity in the display in the way it set up I didn't experience this when playing
the other game so you can see there's no issues with battlefield for example and the other games
I was playing either so the overall result is a pretty happy one because mostly I don't play
with HDR if you do though it is worth bearing that in mind that there may well be problems hopefully
the result of your experience will be better than mine like this terrible out of shot focus where
the godfathers iron up my terrible shooting and my awful gaming skills but hopefully this video has
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speakers so you can just hear the sound of the speakers and get an idea of what they're like
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