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to my unboxing an overview of the latest and greatest from BenQ this is the 2420
te whose main advantages over the
previous Flagship 2420t 2420 TX for the one with the
built-in transmitter is the fact that it's capable of a 144 HZ refresh rate
versus 120 HZ so while the 144 HZ
refresh rate isn't necessarily needed for something like 3D Vision if you just
want as many frames displayed on the
screen per second as freaking possible
then you'll want that uh it also has
what they're calling their zero flicker technology which means that at any
backlight setting you're not going to have annoying flick in which can be
fatiguing on the eyes particularly during long gaming sessions and those
are kind of the key differences here but we'll walk through the rest of it as we keep going here so it's LED backlit it's
Windows 8 compatible I should sure as bloody heck hope so it's NVIDIA 3D
Vision ready including light boost technology which dramatically improves
the 3D Vision experience making it much brighter and less blurry and sort of
gross in general they're the official tournament monitor of Intel extreme
Masters and I believe this is also an MLG endorsed model as well so it has
some gaming sort of optimized features including the ability to set different
profiles for particular games in fact it comes pre-loaded with a couple of
different FPS modes optimized for CS 1.6 and CS source of all things there are
other fpss that people play these days but whatever um and then you can also
download profiles from your favorite Gamers which is kind of neat it comes
with a little controller here so you can either use the redesigned onscreen
display or and with the buttons on the side of the monitor to control it or you
can actually thumb through things with the wheel here select things go back and
press different profiles and change things on the fly with the controller it's actually kind of a good
implementation we've used it before on the 2420 t uh it comes with a disc so
you know what to do with that a dual link DVI cable because this runs at 1920
x 1080 with a high refresh rate it does need a dual link DVI cable for optimal
per performance it comes with a built-in USB hub so there's a USB to usbb Cable
as well as a power cable VGA cable you can throw that away with the disc as
well and then we've also got the height adjustable stand and a dust cover which
they include with many of their premium grade gaming monitors these days they're
using a hard foam however it is extremely well packed and extremely
thick hard foam with lots of cushioning around the corners so you can see right
there that they've got about a good inch and a half of corner protection which is
extremely important because that is where things like this tend to get
broken so we'll walk you through the assembly process here really quickly
line the three holes with The Notches here there's a little arrow that
indicates where you want it to end up facing front so we'll go ahead and put
that in
there and then turn it until it locks
and once it's locked you can go ahead and rotate it freely just like that to
lock it in place you can either use your hands or a flathead screwdriver to go
ahead and tighten that next up we peel
all the plastic off of it I really wish
they'd just stop putting glossy surfaces on these things entirely because it's
more work to protect them with plastic more work to take the plastic off when
I'm putting it together and then more work to keep it clean later on after the
fact and it just doesn't look any better but whatever okay so let's go ahead and
and show you the final assembly step which is to go ahead and click it into
place like that and you might have gone Linus how are you going to show me all
the interfaces on the bottom if you've gone and assembled it first it's going
to be more difficult no no don't worry I'm getting to that so it has height
adjust so actually a fairly wide range of height adjust quite nice indeed
you've got your tilt okay you got your
swivel okay which I showed you before already and finally aha yes there we go
pivot love to see pivot it's something I actually only really use to access the
ports because I'm not a photographer and if I was a photographer I wouldn't be
using this monitor because as far as color accuracy goes and color depth this
is not going to compare very favorably to an IPS VA or PLS panel it's mostly
optimized for Speed which is great for gaming but not uh professional sort of
video or photo work here's the built-in Hub so there's the input for that as
well as a single output and then the other two are actually sorry I'm going
to go ahead and do this to you are on the side of the monitor right here as
well as a headphone pass through if you're using HDMI in which is kind of
nice to have you've also got two HDMI in so that's another thing that makes this
kind of gaming optimized is that you can have your PS3 and your Xbox and your PC
all kind of hooked up to at the same time switch between them pretty easily you've got that useless VGA port please
please for the love of whatever you believe in don't plug anything into that
and finally you've got DisplayPort which is not dumb and then last but not
least you've got the little control pod thing that actually docks um with
magnetically to the side of the monitor which also has plastic on it there you
go so it sits there held in by like a little magnet thing and you go ahead and
plug that in if you do decide to use it but you don't have to it's completely
removable should you prefer that approach last but not least you've got a
Kensington lock which I think is more for like tournament people than actual
like regular people who don't usually lock down their monitors but if you have
a whole bunch of these set up at a tournament that's not necessarily a bad idea to have implemented and then check
this out another gamer optimized feature is the headphone hook on the back of a
monitor so I'm going to run and grab a pair of headphones so I can show you how that might work in a real world scenario
boom so that way you can have your headphones hanging behind your monitor
instead of on the front of your desk if you wanted them oh yeah it also has a
carrying handle so the carrying handle is kind of sturdy well well not kind of
sturdy it's very sturdy but the thing I don't like about it is it's not very
well balanced so you can see when I hold it like this it kind of hangs like that
but I don't really know what else they'd be able to do about that other than
repositioning it to the top of the panel for example which might cause it to lose
some of its strength so I think that pretty much wraps it up for the actual
unboxing portion so stay tuned guys we'll be right back holy crap it's the
first 120hz monitor that doesn't have
color depth then color accuracy that looks completely balls unbelievable I
actually love the 2420 te I'm extremely
impressed by this monitor normally the compromises that get made when you amp
up the refresh rate is generally with respect to image quality particularly in
terms of color depth now color depth refers to that banding that exists when
you have similar colors that aren't quite the same and the monitor just
isn't capable of reproducing enough in between so you end up with like these
chunks of colors you'll see this a lot of the time with movies and things like
dark scenes you'll see like big blocks of like slightly lighter brown and Big
Blocks of slightly darker brown because either the uh bit rate of the file is
very low or the display you're watching on isn't very good so that is not a
problem on this monitor which I'm extremely impressed by not only that but
this is more than a 120 HZ display this is a 144hz display and it's really the
first one that I can recommend without an asteris because before I'd say yeah I
recommend 120 HZ monitors if the refresh
rate is really important to you if it's
really important and then what I would always say is I personally prefer higher
resolution and better color accuracy for
a more immersive gaming experience now I'm only actually left with one of those
points are you going to be doing any professional you know Photoshop work by
the way we have the Star Citizen hanger module I'm running on here are you going to be able to do any professional
Photoshop or like color correction work on here the answer is no it's not that
good but it's so much better than the typical TN gaming monitor that I'm going
to take that caveat away from my recommendation so the only thing that's
really left is you still can't get high resolution monitors that are also High
refresh rate and this is due to a limitation in the bandwidth that can be
delivered by most of the display interfaces we have today so something
like HDMI 2.0 or better DisplayPort 1.2
implementations could address this in the future but for now this is what
we've got and as far as the 2420 te goes
I am extremely impressed guys I
wholeheartedly recommend this monitor it's expensive but it is so much better
than the last generation T and TX just
due to the fact that the color reproduction is dramatically improved
that uh I mean I other than just kind of gushing about it for another three
minutes I don't know what else to say benq's got a winner on their hands here
and compared to other 3D monitors that I've seen this is hands down the one to
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what can I say and uh I think that's pretty much it