today I have something to unbox that I
and as far as I know pretty much everyone else knows almost nothing about
this is a product that is so brand new that this is the first one in Canada and
I don't mean the first retail one in Canada I mean the first one this is the
first one in the country so our our BenQ
contact was able to give us the hookup to bring this to you pretty early this
monitor actually isn't even going to be available at retail for probably around
the end of August so at least another month okay and uh let's let's get
started here so this is a VA panel it is
Led back lit so between those two qualities right there off the Hop we
should be looking at a monitor that exhibits exceptional color
reproduction it is a 27 in 1080 P
monitor so it's a very very good size so
what I found about 24 in I I personally use a 30in monitor at home and what I
found about 24 in is it's a touch small
especially for people who have trouble reading text when you have a very high
pixel density so 27 in was something
that I found was a very good balance for people like my parents who don't see
quite as well as they used to so you've got that same 1080p resolution which is
100% ready for all HD content but you've
got a little bit more size to it so it looks a little more uh more more blown
up okay so let's start with the base
ooh very nice check this out so we've
got a brushed Metal finish but I can tell from here there's either oh okay
yeah we have a uh a plastic cover on it
so let's see what it's going to look like when we remove that because it's
got some bubbling under it there we go oo that's more like it okay
so that looks like a brushed uh stainless steel it's got a very very
slick look to it see how fingerprint proof it is hey not bad actually that's
not bad at all very nice one of the problems I have with brushed aluminum
which this really doesn't look like is that uh from time to time you can get
brushed aluminum finishes that as soon as you touch them once indelible
fingerprint is on there forever because the acid in your fingers um will will
etch it um so hopefully we don't have that problem with this one but it looks so
far like the oils are not staying on it so if you have certain Coatings or if
you have brushed steel for example it's much more resilient than just a bare
brushed aluminum finish all right so let's get some of the packaging removed
here as well like I said guys I'm Flying Blind here I know almost nothing about
this thing other than that it's a VA panel it's 27 in it's LED back lit and
it's actually pretty slick looking okay so let's get get let me get it assembled
on the stand and I'll be back in a minute so guys I've assembled it now
this is a premium product so Aesthetics matter okay period they matter so let's
have a look at the overall Aesthetics of this particular monitor let's start with
the base which we looked at already once now what it appears is that the base is
a brushed Metal finish as is the stand but what is actually the case is that if
I Tilt The Stand more and more and more you're going to see there you go uh here
look at it look at it straight on it's actually just a chrome sort of uh very
Ultra shiny finish so what happens is when you're sitting in front of the
Monitor and you look at it from the front it appears to completely match the
finish of the base which is kind of a neat little effect however when you look
at it from the back you can clearly see
the super shiny finish that is H is this
little rectangular stand right here so I actually like that it's a nice touch
it's something a little bit different um but it's not something that's bad which
you see so often on monitors these days all right the panel itself has a black
frame that is edged by just I'm going to take this off and then we'll we'll look
at it separately in a minute but it's kind of detracting from the overall look
of the monitor right now so it's got a black bezel not a super thin bezel but
this is a large screen likely not intended to be used in a multiscreen
environment most people don't have room for two or three 27 inch monitors on
their desk so I would consider that just fine you've got a bit of a silver edge
around it and then on the bottom you see a thicker silver Edge now what this does
is it houses the power button all the onscreen display controls are touch
sensitive here on the side and then the other thing that the uh bottom part
houses is speakers so you can see we've got stereo speakers I love the stealth
implementation of the speakers because I really hate seeing them on the front of
the monitor I prefer something that I'm going to be looking at to be something
that I look at not something that I can see it makes sense sound so having them
down here even though it's going to hurt audio quality a little bit I still very
much prefer and let's face it if you're using the speakers built into your
monitor How concerned are you with audio quality buy some real speakers if you
want good audio quality so I I actually really like to see that let's move
around and let's have a look at the back of the monitor once more so you can see
we've got a very glossy finish on the back in terms of finger print proofness
yeah it's about I'd say it's about middle of the road you can see the
fingerprint but you can also wipe it off quite easily even without a cloth so
that's not bad at all and I said those were touch sensitive on the side there
actually looks like the buttons are on the back so that's fine having them on
the back is okay because you do have that tactile response so if you were
trying to feel around the back for touch sensitive buttons that obviously wouldn't work very well at all would it
okay let's have a look at the inputs and outputs and all that good stuff we've
got our AC power in so that's a universal input 100 to 240 volts we've
got our headphone jack a line in so this
is pretty good to see and a line out so I'm not sure exactly how that works with
the headphone and the line out but it's possible they have an audio switch if
anyone wants to do that research for me and leave a comment under the video if
you guys could all thumbs up so we all know exactly how these work that would
be great over here we can see something fairly obvious we have two HDMI inputs
so that means you can have your computer hooked up well you could have your computer hooked up by HDMI then you got
your PS3 and your Xbox hooked up or rather by DVI and then you can hook up a
couple other devices by HDMI so you have three digital inputs as well as your
more traditional VGA input which I still do find cause to use every once in a
while and finally there's your USB input because that is going to be powering the
four port Hub on the side of the
monitor now let's have a look at the accessories so first thing here is we
have a little remote so it looks like we can use this hey okay wow I was I was I
was even you know I was kind of giving it a hard time I was like oh it has a
touch panel for the onc screen display oh no it doesn't well actually has a
remote so that's a pretty cool feature too so you can mute you can change the
input you can use the S siai feature you can looks like this changes the
scaling honestly I'm guessing right now you can adjust the volume brightness
contrast and you can navigate the onscreen menu entirely with the included
remote that includes a battery all right next we have a USB
cable so they've included that you don't need to buy one next we have an audio cable so that'll
plug into the back of your computer or the back of your sound card VGA cable
this is a questionable inclusion I think if you're buying a nice true 8 bit 27 in
1080P monitor you're probably going to be using DVI or HDMI but at least you
have something functional in the meantime while you pick up another cable
and finally we have a standard computer power cable so let's see what else they
have to say for themselves on this little document that we got rid of so
all ultra high 3000 to1 native contrast ratio so that is not a dynamic contrast
ratio that is a true contrast ratio it's
actually I mean it doesn't sound that impressive when you compare it to the
100,000 to1 contrast ratios that are advertised by on some panels but that's
a dynamic ratio so a lot of the time you're going to be compromising on the
overall image quality by using that Dynamic uh intelligent contrast ratio
versus just having uh a panel that is able to display wh or whites and black
or blacks without any uh voodoo magic
okay we've got a true 8pit color 8 bit color panel so that would be my
expectation for anything that's in this kind of a price range that claims to
deliver excellent color reproduction awesome to see we have two HDMI inputs
USB Time 4 we've covered this dual 3 watt built-in speakers yeah 3 watt like
I said if you want great audio quality maybe get something else but these will
be functional if you just want a nice clean aesthetic like you can see the
demo they have here where the monitor is just sitting entirely by itself and has
some kind of okay there's a mouse and there's a keyboard I don't know where
it's getting a uh I don't know where it's getting a video input from but I I
think they're making their point anyway and last but not least it does have a
remote control so you can control all of your inputs and whatnot remotely just
don't let your little brother or sister get their hands on this because you'll be sitting at your computer and they'll
be behind you changing the input on you every 30 seconds you'll be like a what's
going on what's wrong with my monitor you're going to send an R to Ben and
they're going to be like well where's your remote and then trouble so in
summary 27 in true 8bit VA panel
available sometime at the end of August I should say August 2011 cuz who knows
how long from now you'll be watching this video it has what would appear to
me to be somewhere in between a matte and a glossy finish and I've actually
seen this before and I'm a big fan I don't generally prefer glossy screens
because they're very very reflective if you have a light behind you it can be
distracting and disruptive to your workflow or to the image quality of a
game or whatever the case may be but this is a good balance because you do
have some reflection but it's not a mirrorlike surface so you get some of
that extra vibrancy from the colors from having a slightly more glossy finish but
you don't have quite the same degree of distraction that you would from a full
glossy finish um 1080p two HDMI inputs
and I think that's pretty pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing
and first look at the ew 2730 from BenQ
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forgot sorry guys is that it does include the mounting holes for a standard Visa Mount so you can just pull
this bottom stand right off and you can mount it using an ARM or uh whatever the
case may be using the standard Visa mounting holes