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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ RL 2455 hm this is a bit of an

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evolutionary step forward in their gaming monitor line that takes what was

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already good about the HT model and sort

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of kicks it up a notch so for one thing they've added stereo speakers meaning

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you can plug them into plug this monitor into a console and you'll have I mean it

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won't be the best audio experience in the world but you'll have some sound

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from your game and they've added dual HDMI input so now you can have it hooked

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up to your PC and something like a gaming console at the same time

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alternately you can have it hooked up to a couple different gaming consoles and easily switch between them without using

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a receiver and last but not least and this is the big selling point is the

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fact that it Now features look at that they don't even put it on the front of

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the Box this is like the big deal a one millisecond response time so the rest of

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the specs of this monitor are pretty much what you've come to expect so

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there's a th to1 static contrast ratio

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or 12 million to1 Dynamic contrast ratio remember Dynamic contrast ratio is

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achieved using things like backlight dimming in order to make blacks blacker

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because the way that LCDs work is there's a backlight shining through an

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LCD panel so there's only so much you can do to completely block out the light

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it also has um a 60 HZ refresh rate so

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this is not a 3D ready model it doesn't have 120 HZ refresh rate but the big

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deal with the whole response time thing

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so okay that seemed like a good thing to happen so any gaming monitor should have

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low input leg which is not the same as response time and is not the same as

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refresh rate so the refresh rate is how often the monitor draws a new image on

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the screen every second so 60 HZ means it's drawing 60 images every second the

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input leg refers to how long it takes

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the screen itself to actually receive a signal from the computer or from the

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console device and most gaming monitors these days should have quite low input

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legs and last but not least the response time refers to how much motion blur or

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um many people refer to it as ghosting but it's not the same thing but how much

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motion blur there is on the screen during fast-pace action and that's where

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this monitor is going to excel so yes it's a TN panel that is to say the

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colors are not going to be as vibrant or as rich as something like an IPS or a VA

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panel but if you're looking for a crisp image during High motion this is

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probably going to be pretty much the way to go we're going to put it together here in just a moment we'll be right

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back so we actually didn't have to do much in terms of disassembly because or

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in terms of assembly because the only things that really go together are the

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base here which just uses plastic Clips to go into place so assembly is just a

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snap get it ha it's a snap yeah uh and

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then there's no screws involved in putting the screen itself onto the base

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either you just snap that into place as well but before we do that I just wanted

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to show you guys the wide variety of different input options you have with

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this monitor so there's your power in there's your audio line in your

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headphones out so this means you can use your monitor as a pass through there's

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also your two HDMI inputs DVI and VGA

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which has an included cable but don't worry this isn't like that one Ben Q

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monitor I unboxed where it only came with a VGA cable BenQ is including a DVI

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cable C the only thing I would have liked to see a little bit different on a

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gaming class monitor is maybe the inclusion of a DVI and an HDMI cable

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rather than a DVI and a VGA cable just because it's targeted at console Gamers

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as well as PC Gamers who probably aren't using VGA at this point in time the

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overall monitor is pretty slim I mean it's not the thinnest monitor in the

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world by any stretch of the imagination but they got to get some Electronics in

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there and some cooling going on so you can see there's cooling vents all along

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the top of the monitor it is a 1920x 108

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HD monitor which makes sense given that it again is expected to be used with

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consoles and the way it clips into the base is pretty straightforward here now

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you don't have to use the included base which is a fairly basic one and doesn't

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include anything other than uh tilt so that just slides right in there but it

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also has Vasa mounts so you could put it on there we go an LCD ARM should you so

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desire so there you go that's what the monitor looks like it's got kind of like

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a you know gaming oriented Red Racing

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Stripe thing going on on over here now one of the things that BenQ is really

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proud of with this particular monitor is the fact that it's the official tournament monitor of the Intel extreme

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Masters now with that said not everyone plays and only the Intel extreme Masters

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so they do still have their smart scaling as well as display mode features

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which allow you with the push of a button on the side here to change the

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way that this monitor Works to emulate a 19in 19 wide 22 in 22 wide and then I

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think 23 wide I can't remember all the different display modes but the point is

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that uh yeah so 22 wide 23 wide 21.5

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wide 19 wide 19 in and 17 in because at many tournaments they're going to have

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standardized monitors that you're using and they're not always going to be 1080p

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monitors although they're more common these days so that way you can sit and

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practice on your monitor at home and be ready for whatever size you're going to

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play at at a particular tournament other than that I think that's pretty much it