Asus monitors: your best defense against crossbow attacks?
By Paul Miller 
posted Dec 25th 2007 12:28PM
posted Dec 25th 2007 12:28PM
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If one of my employees were hitting all the electronics with hammers, nails and crossbows...infront of customers. Im not exactly sure but I would be very tempted to hit him with the same.
I clicked on the arbalest tag hoping for more coverage. There wasn't any.
TASER FANBOIZ!
hgahahaha
ASUS Monitor + 2
Arrow - 0
Epic FAIL
Actually, crossbows fire bolts, not arrows...
Finally! I can play the Wii without the strap! Yay!
Wii Sports just got serious.
to hell with remote controls in Mario & Sonic at the Olympic games, time for some REALISM! >=D
But will it play DOOM?!
2 Damage!
Pretty ridiculous monitor, but the crossbow experiment was flawed in that the wood block was immobile whereas the monitor was allowed to 'swing' back when struck by the arrow, thus reducing its kinetic energy.
I wonder what would happen if the monitor was fixed in place.
Do you strap your monitor to a wall so it's immobile on your desk? Oh guess not... Even if you did it's not an experiment. Thank you for attempting to downgrade an entertaining product showcase video by being an ass. Have a wonderful holiday sir.
I don't think it was really an "experiment" so much as a demonstration... Unless people walk around with crazy ass crossbows there with people's monitors in their sights. . .
Some people are never satisfied. Geez.
Pretty ridiculous comment, but Nimajus summed it up nicely. The crossbow is obviously overkill. When the fuck are you ever going to fire one off at your monitor? Congrats on missing the point, retard.
And no, the wooden board was not immobile. It was propped up against a chair but it clearly moved when it was struck by the arrows and afterwards shifted position just a bit.
I wonder what would happen if you had any sense.
/End of the assessment on just how much you fail.
"Do you strap your monitor to a wall so it's immobile on your desk?"
Do you often find yourself firing a crossbow in the direction of your monitor?
hp540's point was that the comparison was misleading but you just wanted to go ahead and be an arsehole (which you succeeded in, 2 points!).
Yeah........I'm still pretty sure it'd be fine considering it bend the tips.
Everyone who replied here is an ass. Sorry someone had to explain the magic to you with some kind of analytical thinking.
As you say sir, I want to be an ass. A filthy german ass! Yay!
Anyone care to post an English transcript?
This is a durable monitor, I can hit it with a hammer, drive a nail into it, even shoot it with a crossbow and it still works!
/not that hard to figure out
I gathered that much, General, I was more interested in the other specifics.
Hello all, blah blah blah,
...Here we got this monitor from Asus for review...
...It held up to all our tests etc etc...
...Some people say its bullet proof... we wanted to test that...
...here we have the crossbow...etc...
...this is probably one of the most durable monitors in the world..
Not word for word, but you get the idea
Thanks Michael, that was more of what I was looking for.
The screen ha dents it took damage lol. that cool ddid it take all the money to buy that one monitor.. lol In Russia computer uses you!
Do you speak English?
I' m sure he does speak English, you m*r*n... he was just trying to make a joke, in the spirit of those "in soviet russia..." (turn statement backwards) jokes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakov_Smirnoff
Except in this case it was in the Ukraine, a totally different country. They are not the same people and don't even have the same language or alphabet. It's like mistaking Canada for the US.
Actually i meet a bunch of people from all over that area that say it just like Mother Russia some places worse some places better they still all speak horrible English... And yes it was a joke.... Internet sarcasm lost...
That was hilarious!
Vanessa Mae FTW :D
In SOVIET RUSSIA - Monitor lets fly arrows against you !
I bet you could bounce an arrow (or bolt if you will) off those classical glass soviet CRT monitors easy.
I dropped a medium sizes tubed TV once on a stone floor and it merely put a scratch on the screen it landed on.
entertaining.
stupid of people to get wrapped up in perfection of the script... or not. bla bla bla.
on a similar note, many think that shooting a crt with a gun is going to be really great, but it turns out not to be so great, but we used to do something that is quite entertaining for a few rounds, which is to bowl your monitor with a real bowling ball.
set the CRT on a stand, then build a ramp for the ball so that it will hit in the center, step back 20-30 feet and let er rip.
you will amamzed at how strong CRT glass is, then, when you do get it to break, you will ove the sound and the visual.
cheers.
My favorite part is that they're playing some Ukanian Violin version of "Classical Gas".
That's one tough monitor. Too bad it's not a touch-screen.
I second that. The music IS cool, but I don't understand what it has to do with selling a monitor... Oh well, enjoy the tune anyways.
Yeah, 'cause it would be possible to make it so that crossbow arrows can't affect it but fingers/plastic pens can
Klaus,
Do you have any idea how touchscreens work? There are many different types, and some of them would definitely be able to work with this "bullet proof" screen protection.
That music is actually a cover by Vanessa Mae. If you liked that song, I'd recommend "Red Hot" and "Storm" of hers as well.
Its not "some Uk(r)anian Violin Version" but a cover version by violin player Vanessa Mae, who is half Thai, half Chinese.
I'd LOVE to see someone shooting a .22 at one of these, I bet it would ricochet as well.
It's definately impressive, but seriously, I wouldn't buy a 4x3 monitor today.
Why not? As far as I'm concerned, for computer use 4:3 is still the way to go. I hate using widescreen monitors.
It looks like there is an extra piece of plastic armor over the front of that monitor.
You think? ...
You can see when he hits it with the arbalest and the monitor moves back and forth that it was damaged from when he hit it with the hammer. The glare lets you see the imperfection in the glass or whatever from when he hit it.
Still, it's impressive if not a bit unnecessary.
a bit unnecessary sounds like the perfect gift for me. i just got a printer that can print images to printable cds. i will probably never us it, but it is cool none-the-less.
I'm thinkin' you probably don't have kids. Or maybe not three of them.
Seriously, I'm pretty sure my kids could destroy ANY item in my home in under a minute. The only reason they haven't broken the monitor I have connected to their PC yet is that it's a twelve ton 20" CRT that a buddy of mine dumpster-dove from a college IT department.
When the Machine Wars come, and all humanity is reduced to smoldering rubble, the only two deprecated pieces of "human interface" technology still in existence will be that ASUS LCD, and my kids' CRT.
heh cool monitor, quite durable but the whole video reminds me strongly off the old timex watch ads "takes alicking and keeps on ticking" i knopw i am showing my age here with that quote but it seems to be much the same theme in the video as in those old ads: our product is one tough S.O.B.
You'll shoot your eye out! You'll shoot your eye out!
A good crossbow should have knocked the monitor right off the table. These things were invented to impale knights, after all.
yea seriosly, that was one shitty crossbow.
He put the string under tension with his hands, a real medieval anti-knight crossbow requires a ratchet for that, or at least for you to put a foot in the end (they had a special attachment for that) and then pull it with 2 gloved hands and all your might.
It's still a sturdy screen though.
It may be unnecessary and all that... but that's pretty cool.
And even though it shows that the front glass/plexi panel was damaged when he hit it with the hammer, some of you are missing the main selling point... the LCD screen is intact and doesn't show any bleeding at all.
Yeah, the only thing I even fire off at my moniter is.. well.. heh heh
0.0
Alas, the demonstration didn't indicate whether it was waterproof too.
foxtrot is just like best buy in kiev.... this is pretty cool
Wow.. holy crap. It bent the tips of the arrowheads. Damn.
Not a real crossbow. Look how easily he pulled it back and loaded it. Real crossbows take a lot of pressure to prep it. The tips of the bolts are clearly lead too, a very soft metal.
Ah okay I knew it looked too good. Still, tougher than the average monitor.
Watch it frame by frame. The arrow didn't even hit it straight on, it was spinning. Durable maybe, but smelling a little like snake oil too.
You smell like snake oil.
meh
WILL IT BLEND?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Dos Vah Donya......Asus?
Hello, with you is the Foxtrot Adviser. You are watching a show that will never see the air - it is designed specifically for connossieurs who love to watch expensive home tech get tortured. The hero of today's program is this LCD monitor, which already survived several simple tests (footage of LCD being scratched with nails, etc.)
The thing is, the cover for this display isn't exactly the usual. Theoretically, it should endure stress outside of the norm - some say it is even bulletproof. We decided to test this. The monitor survived the filming, but because the manufacturer gave it to us to destroy, we decided to kill it - literally. For this we have a crossbow (shows crossbow) and bolts (shows bolts).
As you can see, these are not toys. Now on to testing the monitor.
Well, this has been FoxTrot adviser, and probably one of the most durable monitors in the world. We'll see you.
That's a tough monitor but still a piece of shit.