today we're going to be having a look at a pretty cool product from BenQ now we
recently looked at a 24-in monitor from BenQ that had a VA panel and an LED
backlight but this one's a little bit different it has some additional
features so this is the BL 2400 pu it is
also a 24 in VA panel with LED back
lighting however it also has some other cool features so let's get this guy
opened up and have a quick boo inside
shall we so the first thing we are going to find
is hey look at this BenQ is switching to a more eco-friendly packaging they're
using uh they're using a diecut cardboard insert in order to give you
the uh the best biodegradability possible and you can actually see
they're using like they're using uh double they're doubling up on the
cardboard in a lot of the areas to make sure that you've got really good
rigidity to this overall I mean that's that's outstanding
actually there's a lot be learned from packaging like this actually I mean I
know I I talk about the Box a lot these days but you unbox enough products and
it starts to just sort of come natural so here's the base here we've got our
rubber feed on the bottom so that the monitor is not going to slip around we've got a pretty standard little uh
screw in for attaching the Monitor and then it sits kind of like that okay so
that's the first piece we find inside the box next we're going to go ahead and
remove oh actually no first we're going to find uh disc okay I've never been
able to understand why a monitor comes with with a disc so we just get rid of
that and let's take this out so oh not
quite oh accessories okay here I am I keep wanting to take out the packaging
but I can't do it yet we have a USB A2B
cable so that's going to be for the built-in USB hub we have a power cord we
have an audio cord it does have built-in speakers and then we also have an
included VGA cable okay so we'll go
ahead and throw those back in there and then now we can take this look at that
it all comes out in like one elaborate piece you know somebody probably has to
fold this by hand I'm telling you that's that's
probably how it works so then we find
the monitor itself and this is where things start to get a little bit more
exciting because I've already given away the big secret which is the VA panel and
the LED backlight but what I haven't told you is that this monitor also has
some pretty unique connectivity op option so I'm going to go ahead and
attach the base just for the sake of showing you how simple it is so
hopefully I can make it look pretty simple here otherwise we're going to be
in for a bit of a rough show all right
here we go so we're just going to go ahead take the base position it in there
just like that and then we're going to tip it
up all right so that's pretty straightforward and then we're just going to screw it in and hopefully this
works you can use a screwdriver but you can probably get it tight enough by hand
anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it and there we go that was the
whole assembly process for this monitor
so I want to show you a few things right off the bat first of all there is a
built-in USB hub so if you go and look on the right hand side of the monitor
here you've got four USB ports so that was what that A to B cable was for you
just plug from here into the back of your computer and that's going to be your Hub right there that looks like
it's going to be a passive Hub not or passive a non-powered hub so you're only
going to be using things like keyboards and mice I wouldn't expect to be powering a bunch of 2 and 1/2 in you
know hard drives or anything off of it okay next we've got the options for all
of this stuff so we're going to press in here and oh okay hold on let's see if I
can figure this out oh okay hold on we got to tear this off
first and then we can lift yes there we
go so that's for uh security and shipping okay let me just go ahead and
ah yes okay well I put the base on before taking that off so that won't
work quite as well uh but you can see that it actually adjusts up quite High
cameraman if you want to step back and have like a quick uh look at the monitor
itself so it adjusts all the way from way down low like this all the way up
like that so uh you can pretty much adjust it to whatever is ergonomically
comfortable for you this monitor also has a uh side to side option okay you
can tilt it up and down just like that
actually here you want to grab it from the side so that I can show you just how
much you are able to tilt it so depending where you're sitting you can
sit and look up at your monitor like this or you can sit up here and look
down at it you have all the options in the world available to you and if you
view a lot of photos or anything like that you can also go ah there we go 90°
to the side and have it in portrait mode so while we got it in portrait mode why
don't we have a quick look at the connectivity that I was talking about so
here we got our power button right there and then our speaker bar is running all
along the oh no it isn't my bad the speakers are actually here on the bottom
but here we go right here there's our
power oh here's all the buttons cameraman's trying to show you that I
guess that's Justified so here is enter
here's the brightness adjustment this looks like uh something else menu and
auto so I'm sure once you have the on screen display up you'll be able to figure out what all of those do fairly
easily here's our power in and then
finally we have uh audio in headphone
and DisplayPort how's that for cool we
have finally a good value DisplayPort
monitor that offers a VA panel an LED
backlight a pretty slick looking design
and a price point that isn't ridiculous
so that is pretty darn cool and I'd say that's sort of feature number one I mean
the ifinity guys are going to go nuts over a monitor like this because you
don't have to use any expensive adapters you can just grab three of these
monitors and boom you got ifinity with uh three times HD resolution we've also
got your standard DVI and VGA inputs we got a Kensington lock on the back and
you can see we've got a standard fourpoint screw mounting system so you
can actually ARM mount this monitor or hey if you want to run it in Infinity
you can even get one of those triple monitor mounts so thank you for checking
out the unboxing and first look at this
BenQ BL 2400 series LED monitor and
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