i'm chris and this is huawei's mate view se monitor so it's positioned in their lineup of
their mate view monitors as being entry-level so it's for office use home use and really a
more basic affordable monitor that we are looking at here today so it does have a 23.8 inch size to
it it's an ips panel anti-glare and as you can see very slim bezels which is great 92
screen to body ratio that's excellent what is also excellent is it does have 90 percent color gamut
coverage of p3 which you don't normally see so 90 p3 is good and they do claim it should have 250
nits of brightness the refresh rate for this 1080p ips panel is up to 75 hertz it even supports amd
freesync and with this monitor here it is low blue light certified and also flicker free certified
included with the monitor you will find our power supply now it is very small it's only 24 watts so
it does show you that this particular monitor does not use a lot of power and then we have an
hdmi cable a decent high quality one assembly of the stand is very easy so we have the base that
just simply screws into place and it is made out of metal the stands metal but it does have plastic
over the top does have these four solid feet on the bottom just to make sure that it's not going
to slide off any tables so this stand here you can see the part at the top here that rotates around
and it clips into place and i'll just show you how you slide it into the monitor while it's still
in the packaging this way there's no risk of scratching the screen so this simply just slots
into the top and then you push it down you hear it click and that's it this stand is now in place
the mode view sc sits nicely on that base it doesn't rock about anywhere so you can see the
back of it is made out of plastic here we have the big large huawei logo on the back then the
two imports here so we've got a display port and hdmi then the dc plug now one thing that's
interesting is this plug of course the cable is white um i don't know why they didn't make it
black so it would match everything else it makes the cable stand out a little bit under the huawei
logo you'll find a little joystick underneath so this button is for the on-screen controls i'll go
through that menu later on and let you know what settings we do have it is height adjustable so
right now i've got it set at 110 millimeters but you can drop it right down to zero millimeters
like so making it quite short can also be pitched up and down so from negative 5 degrees to 18
and you can flip it right around and use it vertically in a portrait mode all up for an
entry-level home or office monitor the build quality is good the plastics and we do have plenty
of options the way you can tilt and angle it now the panel here 23.8 inches we have slim bezels
left and right they do look pretty good gives it a modern look and it's just slightly thicker here at
the bottom but not bad so what about the screen quality well it is an ips panel and we do have
an anti-glare coating so i'm going to play a clip here that is very black it's very dark and you can
see this area here that's actually a window behind me so it's doing a good job of just breaking down
those reflections because of the matte coating so it's more of a practical entry level office
home screen here so that is looking pretty good there the blacks of course aren't deep black
because it's not an oled screen or an amoled one so what i'll just do is play another clip this
one here 16 by nine aspect ratio but because it's 16 by nine there is no border top and bottom so
that's a good thing if we had a 4x3 aspect ratio like some of the other monitors then of course you
would have those borders top and bottom so it is going to be good if you're going to be watching a
few video clips on it now if you look closely around the edges of the fonts especially here
with windows 11 you do see little jagged edges you can see the pixels if you look really closely but
normal viewing distances i don't see that at all it's a non-laminated screen so when you look at it
at an angle you can see a gap between the ips and then that anti-glare coating that's over the top
so what about our brightness now this is one of the weak points of this mate view sc monitor i've
measured it with the spyder x pro and it's only 195 nits to me that's falling behind i
would really love to see about 300 now indoors in an office environment at home it's going to
be fine you can see right now i've actually got the brightness set to approximately 65
here so it could go a lot higher but even at its peak almost 200 nits i feel like it needs a little
more if you're in a really bright environment color gamut coverage here is excellent for this
class of monitor it's definitely punching above its weight class here when it comes to what we
do have so 100 srgb ntsc is 80 adobe rgb 83 this is good and then p3 color gamut coverage
is 90 which is their claim now normally most manufacturers will say that oh yeah it's got 90
but when i measure them they normally fall behind and it's great to see it's right on
with their claims here this monitor also does have the two rhinelands blue light filter certified so
that's hardware implemented and it's a low blue light filter level so it's going to be good for
our eyes and also sgs flicker free certified from them too so it's not a bad screen but
i would classify yes as an entry level screen here so video editing this is maybe a practical
kind of job you may be doing on a monitor like this but i think most video editors especially
or if you're like me if you are editing files that are in 4k you would opt probably for a 4k monitor
so you can do things like this it's going to be fine for that at use and even a bit of gaming
because it's got the amd freesync support which does help out and a low response rate
so i like the on-screen menu setup these are normally an absolute mission to navigate through
but huawei setup with the four directions and then the push in button is very easy to use
so we have just straight off the bat here picture modes brightness we can adjust that or
i'll just go into menu which is going to bring up everything here so we have our picture modes now
i've been using p3 because that's giving us the p3 the 90 of color gamut coverage there srgb hdr
game ebook custom you can make your own there too so under display you've got our typical settings
there you can go along and tweak i comfort there that's of course just lowering the blue light
and it's certified for that too that it's actually quite good that the way it loads it down
we've got our input sources so hdmi display port game assist so you can change the uh refresh rate
have it actually show up here be displayed now you can see that i've got it displayed here on the
upper left hand corner but it is saying fps 60. i've got it at 60 hertz at the moment but it will
do 90. so that's incorrect because it's not our frames per second it's in fact our refresh rate
so that's i hope they do uh end up changing that so the other options we do have here with the game
assist where you've got crosshairs you can have that being displayed if you need that for example
counter strike players maybe ambi freesync so i've got that turned on and response time i've
got it set to super fast which is the highest possible setting there under shortcuts then
you can adjust those for up and down to have that set to instead of being brightness what i've got
it set at you can change that to something else and then our general settings there language menu
the led button there about eco mode and completely factory reset it so i like the controls here very
easy to use others can be an absolute mission to navigate through those menus and what about gaming
with the monitor then so yes you could play a few games on the side we do have amd freesync up to
75 hertz refresh rate so better than 60 of course input lag does seem to be fine and the response
rate for just light gaming like this now of course it's not marketed as a gaming monitor
at all this is more focused for workplaces offices and light kind of work with it but
still works out fine if you did want to play a few games on the side with this mate view se
so let's go over the positives here so we've got a very nice slim bezel so the 92 percent
screen to body ratio looks good and especially the color coverage you get from this so 90
of p3 i did not expect that i thought that maybe it would be a little bit lower because normally
manufacturers claim 90 later i go and measure it with my tools my meter and find out that it's only
76 or 78 but it's good that it actually fits in with the claim there what is falling behind on
the claim is the brightness that's the definite area for me of minor disappointment that well i
can still make it out fine indoors if you've got a very bright office environment with huge bright
lights on then well it's only well this unit that i have 195 knits of maximum peak brightness now
i double triple checked it i made sure it was warmed up i went into the brightness settings
i made sure it was at 100 i tried different color modes it was not on the eco mode either just 195
so that's falling well short of the 250 nits there now it is only a 1080p display it's 16 by 9 aspect
ratio i thought because well look at their other lineups they are three by two aspect ratio screens
i thought they might have opted for that but hey it's good to see that at least if you're gonna
be watching youtube and movies and that you're not really going to have any borders depending
on the content of course you're watching so that is one positive of it there the on-screen menu
display controls are so easy to use now i need to stress this fact that so many other monitors that
i have covered and reviewed in my channel most of them the controls are very fiddly they're really
annoying and they're just hard to go through but not here they've done a good job with the controls
build quality it has the middle frame the middle base very solid it's not going anywhere you can
tilt it you've got the negative five degrees and then up to 18 that you can tilt it which is good
and then we've got from zero millimeters so right down low where i have it now up to 110 millimeters
that's great and then of course the screen you can actually spin this right around and then use it
in the landscape sorry portrait mode instead of landscape there so that's good it has a decent
good build quality but it is missing a few basic things so there are no built-in speakers there is
no 3.5 millimeter audio out with this monitor which i thought even though it's an affordable
entry-level monitor i thought it would still probably have that right but sadly it doesn't you
have to plug in your headphones directly into your laptop or use your laptop speakers or just set
up some external ones but if you're in an office environment where this is probably aimed at a lot
of people don't even have audio with their office computers i know back in my day when i worked in
my cubicle i didn't have any speakers at all it was just the monitor set up so the anti-gear glare
coating does come in handy we've got the hertz refresh rate up to and even amd freesync that is
one thing i did not expect to see at this price point in the type of monitor so if you wanted to
play a few games on the side uh you're able to do that of course it's not a gaming orientated
focus monitor at all but it's still great to see we have that option there so there we go that
is huawei's mate view sc monitor they do have of course other more high-end monitors i've covered
some of those before my channel so do check out those videos and also check out my review
of the new matepad 11 pro and the matebook x pro there's some new releases from huawei in september