this is going to be one of those unboxings where basically I'm just gushing the whole time because this is
something that we should have had ages ago but it took until now for Ben Q to
pull the trigger and develop this product this is the ew
2420 this is an LED back lit LCD
monitor okay none of that sounds very interesting yet but I assure you we're
getting there we're getting there it is a 24 inch
monitor and I would love to get this
tape off see this is what happens when I
get distracted talking about the product you know then I can't even open a box
all right there we
go I'm just excited sorry okay so I'll
say very little until we actually have it open here all right this is a 1920
X10 0 monitor 1080P and there goes the stand
which I hope is still
okay and I still haven't given away the secret yet of why this is so interesting
and why this is so exciting well I'll tell you now because this is a VA panel
with an LED backlight so this is pretty
much the first legitimately premium monitor that we've
seen with an LED backlight because LED backlighting is is fine and good you
know it uh it gives you better color repoduction it gives you better overall
brightness it gives you better Energy Efficiency it's a very good thing but
here we go the world's first VA LED
monitor but VA gives you better color
reproduction a wide viewing angle and a
generally more
pleasing viewing experience so you
combine those two things together and all of a sudden you've got just a crazy
product now I realize it doesn't look all that special because the bezel
design is quite straightforward you know it's just it's very slick it's very
functional you know it doesn't have a lot of the Bells and
like height adjustable stand uh swivel all that stuff but if what you're
looking for is a Valu priced LED backlit
VA panel monitor this is it it's got a
couple HDMI inputs so you've got all the features that
matter okay there's like wow there's like so much plastic on this thing I'm
just trying to peel it all off so I can show you what the product looks like
here why don't you just pause it for a second and so I found this in the Box
I'm not quite sure where it goes but we finally got the monitor
unplastic so we can show you all the different accessories so it comes with
this little guy who appears to be some kind of a teddy bear it obviously Clips
onto the monitor somewhere but I can't I can't quite find where it goes and I'm
not going to concern myself too much with it comes with a power cable comes
with a USB A2B cable for the built-in four port USB hub you've also got an
audio cable because yes this thing has everything it has all the Practical
features so it has built-in speakers you see the right there and we can also see
all of the inputs so I'm just going to lean over so that I can actually point
to all the uh all the relevant things so we've got our two HDMI inputs one DVI
input one VGA input benq's only included a VGA cable with this particular monitor
so if you are buying it make sure you grab a DVI cable or an HDMI cable
there's your usbb in two USB ports then
moving onto the side of the monitor we have two more USB ports and a headphone
jack that's cool too because now all of a sudden you've got your speakers on
your monitor you don't want your speakers you plug in your headphones right in the side of your monitor I
actually haven't seen that before so that's outstanding all of your onscreen
display controls are over here on the right hand side of the monitor so I'm
assuming oh yeah the labels are on the front so you got your uh auto adjust
menu up down as well as enter or select
so that's the confirm button just want to come around and have a look at the
back so it's quite slick looking actually you got your glossy plastic
here which matches the front and you've got kind of a a leathered look on the
plastic right at the back you got your four uh screw holes for the Visa Mount
so if you wanted to ARM mount this or mount it however it is that you want to
do it then that is where you would do that here's a little Cable Management
clip all right and then there's a little piece here that covers up a gray part of
the stand and uh oh yeah let's just go
through sort of the last thing so here's what they have to say for themselves
about it wide viewing angle with truly authentic colors as I said V a Panel LED
backlight best of every possible world
then we've got a it's a true 8 bit panel so once again that's more color depth
better good 8 millisecond grade to grade response time very respectable but bear
in mind that VA panels will never be as fast as TN panels for strictly gaming so
if you don't give two Hoots about your image quality and all you want is the
fastest possible panel then a VA panel is not really the answer for you
although personally I would never compromise
the better image quality that you get from a VA or an IPS panel versus a TN
panel up here we have 11 multimedia connections which we've already had a
look at and dual 1.5 watt built-in speakers which we've already looked at
so this is a very cool product I am very happy to present it to you today and oh
actually here's another thing to talk about this isn't quite a glossy screen
it's kind of uh it's kind of a hybrid it's not quite flat but it's not quite
that mirror reflection glossy either one of the reasons those glossy screens
showed up in the first place and this is my conjecture I don't know this for sure
but is because everyone was cheaping out on the panels and laptops so they were
using cheap otn panels so they were like okay well how can I make the colors look
vibrant put a glossy screen on it there you go um so really there are very very
few highquality panel monitors that use glossy screens because it's not
necessary because they're capable of producing all those colors all that
Vibrance all that Christmas on their own just fine so that would be why it
doesn't have one