welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ
gw2750 this is a pretty unique product
in that it is a 27 in monitor it has a
an H it has a VA panel it uses an LED
backlight which means a lot of things so you should have excellent viewing angle
and color reproduction great power
efficiency and a really really low price
point I know I never really talk about price in these videos but this monitor
is around three bills for a 27 in VA LED
back lit monitor now monitor unboxings are kind of tough to film live because
there's a whole lot of unpackaging and assembling that needs to be done but
what I'm going to do is I'm going to unbox all the components and stuff that
we're finding here and then I'm going to assemble it off camera and then I'll
show you we'll fire it up really quick here and I'll just kind of show you guys
and give you my impressions of of how the image actually looks because you
know it's one thing to say okay it's got a VA panel or it's got an IPS panel or
whatever other kind of good panel technology that's well really anything
but TN at this point um but it's a whole other one to actually fire it up and
have a look and see how impressive it is so there's the base glossy base um I
mean I wish we'd I wish we'd get away from glossy but it is what it is and
here's the ARM so because this is more
of a value priced high-end panel monitor
you're not going to see things like high adjustable stand or anything like that
it's a pretty so it's a pretty basic uh pretty basic stand but personally I
believe that the image quality of the monitor is is priority number one and
then if you can afford the luxuries of things like you know pivot and height
adjustable stand and all that then good for you like that's
great but good panel first don't get a
fancy TN monitor because it doesn't make
sense you're the part that you're going to be staring at is the
part between the bezels not the part on
the outside of the bezels and the depending on you know
sort of how your uh how your personal tastes go I'd rather have a really nice
image sitting on top of like you know a video card box to get it up a little bit
higher than a crappy image that's not exactly the right level for me to look
at it I mean if you look at my desk
though it's fairly evident that it's pretty ghetto so I guess uh that's
that's all to be expected so here we go
here's the monitor itself uh you got okay 78° viewing angle it's a VA panel I
I believe it 5,000 to1 native contrast
ratio now you see contrast ratios out there that are like 1 million to one
that's a dynamic contrast ratio it is it is a bit of a trick 5,000 to1 is a very
good contrast ratio and especially if it's a true contrast ratio 16 by9 okay
this is pretty much to be expected and check this out this is another thing
that you don't find at this price point matte screen
matte
Ballin so finishing unpackaging the product so we got our power cable our
audio cable our CD for whatever reason probably just has a manual on it um
brought to my attention that the one display cable included with this
monitor is a VGA cable sad face I've seen this from BenQ
before if you're going to include one cable I'd really appreciate if it was a
DVI cable as opposed to a VGA cable I
understand why they did it because the VGA cable means that no matter what
especially for like big box retail customers who might maybe not aren't as
educated or don't have as high-end a machine as like an NC customer would
have um it'll prevent returns because
they will have the cable that they need to run the display even if it's not
optimally but it just makes me sad to see a beautiful panel beautiful monitor
like this and think that someone somewhere is running it off of
VGA okay moving right along side buttons
are here Auto menu up down enter and power so nothing out of the ordinary
there um inputs on the bottom again nothing out of the ordinary so you got
your power in you've got your audio pass through you've got your HDMI DVI and
sadf face connector uh the assembly is very very quick for this monitor so you
just slide this piece into here screw this in and then the
usual fingertight screw thing on the
bottom that sets the base up to that you
got your ventilation holes in the top there that are keeping I mean it's not
as much of a concern with LEDs as it was with cold cathodes because cold cathodes
kick off a lot more heat for the amount of light that they produce compared to
LEDs so internal power supply and just a
little bit of ventilation is no problem you can also see just in the thickness
even though it's a 27in panel it's still quite thin if I could find my iPhone and
we'd do the old iPhone comparison so you can see exactly the thickness of the
uh connector um just a sec now slick and
I are actually both pretty impressed with the monitor overall 1080p monitor
so you don't have that additional resolution that uh you know personally
I'd like to see once we get above about 24 in 27 to 30 in I'd like to see 2560
by 1440 or by 1,600 but it's not the end of the world
and what you do get with the VA panel is
the viewing angle that you need because these large format monitors okay is this
one perfect the answer is no but it's a $300 monitor so you have to keep your
expectations in line with what you're paying for it's very very good compared
to anything with a TN panel what it'll ever be in terms of the color depth
which is very noticeable on cheap monitors where even watching a video
like this you'll be able to see that there's no color depth in things like
the jeans everything turns to blockiness on things like a black box where it
doesn't have it can't pick up enough detail to show you the uh the
differences in color between the slightly less black and the slightly
more black so it's got that going for it however you know if you get a little bit
up high on it then you can you can see a bit of a shift in the in the brightness
more than anything else from the low up is not nearly as bad and side to side is
excellent so there are very few scenarios where you'd ever run into this
now the most important thing because this is a monitor it's not like you're
going to have six people watching it like a TV you know from all kinds of
different angles a monitor you're going to sit here and you're going to look at it like this with a large format monitor
never buy a TN because tn's will distort
the color and the brightness at as at as little of an
angle as this right here which is a big problem
because it means that by the time you
look at the edge of your screen you're seeing color loss or Distortion at the
edge of the screen up and down large panel monitors must be VA IPS or PLS
that is the only way to go so if you're looking for a value monitor in a 27 in
1080P don't get a TN get something like
this for maybe doesn't have the height adjustable stand all it's pretty much got is tilt no pivot nothing like that
but it's a good panel so I mean you've always got the option of getting a
better mounting ARM for it or something because it's got Visa mounts on the back
in the future if you do want to go that route something to bear in mind about
the whole resolution thing is as much as I might harp on 1080p monitors that are
larger format sizes that's not necessarily going to be the case for
everybody because just cuz I like a 30in high density monitor doesn't mean that
my you know my in-laws want one actually
they recently complained about their 23in 1080p monitor saying they wanted
something bigger but more magnified in which case something like
this would be perfect for them when your eyes aren't as good anymore it's helpful
to actually just have everything be a little bit bigger so the same resolution
but a larger Monitor and 27 in you'll start to see the gaps between the pixels
a little bit but let's face it if you need the magnification you probably
aren't seeing that anyway so thanks for checking out this unboxing and first
look at this actually incredibly good
value monitor this GW G
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