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- 3 months ago
After returning a defective unit to Adorama a few months ago, I tried ordering the same model from B&H. Join me for a very quick unboxing and setup of the Dell UltraSharp U3225QE display!
Watch my previous video about the defective unit here: https://dai.ly/xa65rm6
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00:00Hello everyone, I'm Jacob Kauf and I'm the Nerd on the Street and today we're unboxing another
00:03Dell U3225 QE display.
00:14Alright guys, I made a very long video about how I bought this display earlier this year.
00:20I bought it from a website called Adorama. It was defective and Adorama's exchange process was so
00:25bad that it ended up turning into a return even though I didn't even want it to.
00:30I think it was back in March or so that I got that resolved. It's now the beginning of June
00:34and I
00:34decided to try this again this week. I purchased this display from B&H Photo Video this time.
00:39As I've mentioned, I've had experience with their exchange and return to this apartment in the past
00:43and it's been smooth for me in the past. Hopefully, of course, this display will actually be fully
00:48functional with no dead or bright pixels. Hopefully, it won't give me any trouble like that last one.
00:53You've already seen the box. I'm not going to go through every single detail of this.
00:56Just to recap, I'm replacing my older BenQ PD3200U display mainly because it has some physical damage
01:03on the sides that it's affecting the color on it. But that BenQ display is just aging a bit and
01:08this
01:08Dell will give me a nice bump up in refresh rate and color accuracy, brightness, all of that fun stuff.
01:14So the box is the same box as last time. It's more beat up this time. Adorama used UPS,
01:19B&H used FedEx, but I will say B&H gave me free two-day shipping and then they actually
01:25overnighted it for free for some reason. They didn't say anything about it, but the label was
01:29an overnight label. So I got here a day after I ordered it. The experience is already off to a
01:34much better start than with Adorama. Now, like I was saying, the box is a little bit more dented up
01:37just in general. Just going to hold this here so you can see each side of it. We got this
01:42side here,
01:43just the side view of the display. You can see some of the box kind of ripping up from being
01:46dragged
01:47around on the base of a truck or just the ground or something. Taking a look at the back, you
01:52can
01:52see once again, we do have quite a bit of dirt on the display. This is an external box, so
01:56it's
01:56expected it's going to get dirty in shipping. In hindsight, it was actually impressive how most
02:00of the dirt on the Adorama shipped box actually just came off by brushing at it. But this is pretty
02:05normal for what I would expect from a shipped product. Now on the other side here, the FedEx label
02:11is a little bit torn up. I actually requested that FedEx hold this at the store. I went and picked
02:16it up
02:16around lunchtime today just so I wouldn't have to worry about being at the front door right when
02:20they were dropping it off. So I can see the original shipping label on the bottom there and then they
02:24stuck another one on top with the store's address instead. The store one has been ripped off partially
02:30and it was like that when they gave it to me at the store, obviously. Didn't have much opportunity to
02:34do that myself, just bringing it home from the store. So I've still had to white out a little bit
02:37my address on there, but yeah, that's the biggest kind of weird thing about this. So yeah, I'm going to
02:43make
02:43this much quicker than last time. Once again, I'm actually going to set this up on my bed so that
02:47I can
02:47just open the box, lift it up, put it on the main computer, and we'll get going with it. Alright,
02:52now last time
02:52I thought it was interesting that the box was only held shut by a single black piece of tape in
02:56the middle.
02:57It wasn't fully sealed. I'm assuming that's how it came from Dell getting to Adorama last time because I still
03:02see that
03:03black piece of tape on the bottom here. So that might be how Dell actually closes them in the factory.
03:07And then I've got this long piece of shipping tape on top of it, or maybe a couple different pieces
03:11overlapped, presumably added by B&H. Hopefully that doesn't mean this was a like new or refurbished
03:17item. Like I talked about last time, I obviously paid for a new product, but sometimes these retailers,
03:22I mean, if they get a return or something, they might just turn around and resell it, which that
03:25in itself wouldn't be a problem. But if it was returned because of a bright pixel or something like
03:30I returned mine to Adorama, then that would be frustrating. But we're going to go ahead and cut this
03:34thing open. Just fingers crossed that everything's going to work out here. All right, so that's
03:41everything we need to get the box open. Now I need to actually flip it over in order to get
03:45in there.
03:46One other difference with how B&H shipped this, they actually popped the top handle open, either
03:51they or FedEx did, and the side flap that I had talked about before over here on this side was
03:56not
03:56fully opened up. This makes a little bit more sense to me how they were carrying this. But we're going
04:00to
04:01go ahead and pull this open. So pretty much just like last time, we've got a power cable here. I
04:05will go ahead and use that just for warranty purposes, even though it should be the same as
04:09any standard IEC power cable. We've got a couple of manual documents, warranty info, as well as a
04:16QR code you can use to get to the actual manual for the product. There is a very small quick
04:22start
04:22guide on the other side of the QR code page, though. We've got those papers just sitting there,
04:25not in any bag or anything. And then here we have three more cables. We have a USB type C
04:31to USB type
04:32A cable. And I will probably be using that one to start since my system has most of the USB
04:37-C ports.
04:38And I don't think it has a Thunderbolt port at all, since it's an AMD build from 2018. But we
04:43do have a
04:43Thunderbolt 4 cable as well that you can use if you're using this with a laptop or something where
04:48you want to be able to plug everything in, plug in the network and the USB and the audio and
04:54the display
04:54all running through one cable. You can absolutely do that with Thunderbolt. And then we have a
04:58DisplayPort cable. And I'm not actually going to use the DisplayPort cable. I'm going to use my own
05:02HDMI cable so that I can avoid using display stream compression, which I talked about a little bit in,
05:07once again, that earlier version of this video, in much greater length. So we've got this flap here,
05:13and underneath that flap we've got the base of the stand. And I can pull it right out here.
05:22Looks good to me. Once again, just like the other one, Dell isn't operating in a clean room environment
05:27when they're building things. But you know, it looks reasonable for something that's new. A little bit
05:32of smudging here or there. So that's just a manufacturing thing. And then the back we've got
05:36the fully thumb turnable or hand turnable bolt to hold the display on to this weather large nut on the
05:45base. So that's cool. We'll go ahead and lift up this tray, just push it down right down there. So
05:50we've got the display itself and the rest of the stand.
05:57Picking the stand up, it is wrapped in the sort of styrofoam material. You can pull it out of there.
06:03It does have a nice heft to it. It is plastic, but you know, it looks nice enough for a
06:08plastic item.
06:09Got sort of that silver fake aluminum look. On my camera last time, I could almost see a little bit
06:14of an angled pattern on this stand when I was holding it in the light.
06:22You know, speaking of light, I had one more that I hadn't turned on there. So that's great.
06:26But yeah, this is the stands. We're going to go ahead and connect it up to the base,
06:29just as easy as popping this on there. I look super weak doing this simply because my arms are
06:35super extended into the camera frame. So it looks like my arms are shaking, but they're not actually
06:41that heavy. But once again, there is some heft. So just going to screw that in. That is
06:47fairly secure. I do see a little bit of a gap between the arm and the base in the back
06:52there.
06:53You know, aesthetically, it looks all right. It doesn't look bad. I think that this thing can
06:57actually turn on the stand without... Oh no, it wouldn't be able to, to turn. Not at that point,
07:03because the bolt was square that holds this on. But there's the stand. All right, little bits of dust
07:07here and there. Just wiping it off. And then here we have the display itself. Once again, we've got
07:14three of the ports have orange plugs in them. Looks like one of the DisplayPort ports. The DisplayPort
07:20to the computer port, the Thunderbolt to computer port, has a plug. And then one of the USB-C
07:26downstream ports, it appears, has an orange protective plug in it. But none of the other ports do. So
07:35I'm going to do it very carefully. Last time when I did this, I actually started scratching up the back
07:39of the display a tiny bit, because I wasn't just doing this perfectly. So I'm going to lean in,
07:44away from the mic for a second, just to connect the stand up.
07:54All right, and that's all there is to it. The display is pretty much a symbol, aside from still
07:58having some of the protective plastic on it. At this point, I'm going to reset the camera once again,
08:02back to my main desk. I'll pull my BenQ display off of the desk. I'll pop the Dell on there,
08:07and we'll get ready to plug it in and see if it works. All right, so I've pulled my old
08:11display off
08:11the desk. I did a little bit of quick dusting, more to be done later. And as you can see,
08:15I've got
08:16the new Dell right up here. I've dropped the power cable down the back, remembered to plug it in this
08:20time. So we should be able to take the styrofoam off and plug this thing in and get started right
08:24away. The styrofoam is more wrinkled up on this particular unit than the one that Adorama shipped me.
08:31So once again, fingers crossed that everything's okay in there. Once again, the Adorama unit might
08:35have looked nicer on the outside, but it was defective, which defeated the entire purpose.
08:40So if the display itself works and all the pixels are good, then that'll be great. So standing up
08:45here, I am going to go ahead and pull off that outer layer of styrofoam, setting that off to the
08:50side in the box. We have one more flap of styrofoam right here, held on with two pieces of tape,
08:56all exactly the same stuff that Adorama had going on.
09:04And finally, on the bottom here, we have a little piece of plastic covering up where some of the
09:09additional ports pop out. So I will just carefully peel that right off. And you can see there where
09:15the ports extend. Not sure if I really showed that in the previous iteration of the video,
09:18but there is a USB Type-A and two USB Type-C ports right on the front of the machine
09:23that you can
09:24use for flash drives and things. I might end up using one or both of those for input devices,
09:28because I'm kind of shaking up my input situation. I'm needing a new keyboard right now. Unfortunately,
09:33I'll be getting a pretty cheap one of those, but we'll see what ports I end up plugging everything
09:37into later. But for now, I actually think this angle is pretty good. My chair is very low,
09:41but that's all right. So I'm going to go ahead and feed these cables. There goes the HDMI cable.
09:49All right, feeding these cables through the cable fastener hole in the stand of the display. And
09:54like I mentioned last time, I'm going to pop this up and kind of look under there to see where
09:58it goes.
10:02All right, so the display has power now. And this HDMI cable is fairly easy to grab,
10:06because I actually move it around semi-often. For that reason, I might not even put it through
10:10the cable organizer, since I am probably going to be plugging and unplugging in a decent amount,
10:15at least in the near future, just because I've got I've got a Nintendo Switch on this desk,
10:19but I've also got other laptops and things I have to test with displays sometimes. So yeah,
10:23we'll leave the power going through the actual cable organizer, the HDMI to avoid scratching up
10:27the stand every time I take it out. I'll just leave that loose. But where does that go here?
10:32All right, I've gone ahead and plugged that in. And so now we can go ahead. Let me angle this
10:38maybe
10:38towards the camera just a little bit, just like that. And we will turn the display on.
10:47There we have a Dell logo, good sign. Okay, and from here, it's telling us how to use the joystick
10:53once again, so that I can go through that initial setup. So I'm just going to come over here, it's
10:58starting to go through some of it without my input when I wait too long. So that's cool. I will
11:03select
11:03once again, English, it's got my service tag there with a calibration report. Great to see.
11:10Always on USB-C charging, other USB-C charging. I'm going to leave that off for now. I might turn
11:14it on later. Auto brightness function for better eye comfort? No. Would I like to set up KVM? Not
11:20right now. And now we should get my KDE desktop. There we are. All right, and I've got it set
11:26up in
11:26its normal spot now. I turned the display scaling back down to a hundred percent. And now I have all
11:31the features of this thing. I can already see once again, how much smoother 120 Hertz is than 60 with
11:37this display. I also now have hardware brightness controls. I can turn it up and down and it's not
11:42just software filtering. It's actually communicating with the display over that HDMI cable with DDCCI
11:47and updating the brightness in the display itself, which is great because as you can see, I've got a
11:51window behind this display. So I like to have it brighter during the day and then darker at night,
11:55depending on if I'm backlit in my eyes or not. But yeah, that's about all there is to this video.
12:00Once again, super quick unboxing. I went through all my rationale for having this thing in that last
12:05much longer unboxing. So if you have any questions about this display, first go and watch that other
12:09video. See if I answered them somewhere in there. But otherwise, feel free to leave a comment down on the
12:14comment section of this video on any website you're watching on YouTube or anything else,
12:17or leave a forum post at nerdonthestreet.com. I'm always happy to answer questions over there.
12:21But for now, I did go ahead and do a quick pixel test. By the way, I went through white,
12:26red, green, blue, and black, just took a quick glance around the screen, didn't see any stuck
12:30pixels so far. I might try that again later when the room's a little bit darker in the evening. But
12:35for now, crossing my fingers, this thing seems to be working well. So I'm very glad that I could get
12:39a
12:39functioning unit from B&H after Adorama made that previous one, which was really Dell's fault.
12:44They made it so much worse with their handling of it. No love lost for Adorama, but B&H seems
12:48to still be
12:49all right. So that's about it. I'm Jacob Kaufman, I'm the Nerd on the Street, and I'll see you guys
12:52in the next video. Bye.