monitors are getting too complicated these days that's why we've got the
Amazon Basics monitor powered by AOC and
you know I don't know if it's going to be any good or not because Amazon Basics
is a little all over the place at least from what I've purchased some stuff you
get it and it's great it's honestly like just as good as any other name brand or
even better sometimes it's not so good I have had the Labs take a look at this
but I haven't looked at their results yet although Brandon told me it's
exciting so I'm very curious to see how it actually performs it's 1080p 27
inches it does come in a act it does come in a 24
inch model if you're a little worried about pixel density 27 inch 1080p is
going to be around 82 PPI 24 inch is
much closer to 100 so you know it's kind of just up to you the stand is actually
okay I don't know if you can vase amount this though no it does not appear that
you can oh no you can whoa okay as for
the rest of the stand you know it's not bad we've got to screw in on the bottom
here which is better than a lot of other monitors when you're looking at this
price point a lot of them don't have the screw and they've just got something
that Clips on and Clacks together you know
and it's okay especially for something small like a 24 inch but once you get up
to 27 you want something a little bit more robust on the back it's quite a lot
to be honest but on the front it's really not too bad you got the little
Amazon Basics logo on the bottom it's not any worse than most brands really it
would be nice if it either wasn't there or it was a little smaller or maybe it
was like gray on black or something sort of white on black but I mean at the end
of the day you're getting this to hopefully Save A Buck and that's just
going to come with some labels being places where you might not want them to be one thing I don't really like is the
stand is kind of weird to install it's
not well okay that's actually not bad it's kind of neat it's got these little
rails here and it actually just slides on up and then locks into place like
that it's not awful I've definitely had worse stands but I would really
recommend if you can to just go with the vase amount put it on an ARM instead
while we're down here we got USB B to connect to your computer to two more USB
a ports here two more USB a ports on the side power plug which is nicely just a
C13 and it doesn't look like it's going to any kind of external brick it's
DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4 nothing too
fancy but we don't need it because it's not a high resolution or high refresh
rate panel and then we've got our good old well it says d sub but that looks
like VGA to me and then we've got headphone jack and a speaker Jack one
problem with a stand that's as basic as this guy is it basically gives us
nothing in terms of any kind of adjustability we can tilt actually has a
you know decent amount of tilt but there's nothing else it's not going
anywhere no height adjustment you're not going to swivel you're not going to Pivot
it's stuck here but that's okay because if you sit down okay it's a little low
for me personally I'd probably put a book down or something here so that
would be the definitely biggest complaint that I have so far is my eyes should be a little bit lower than they
are for this thing as for the actual quality of the monitor itself it's not
awful it doesn't feel premium in any way but I mean it doesn't feel flimsy I've
grabbed a few like much cheaper feeling
TVs recently and you can just the whole thing's kind of loose like the Amazon
Fire TV when you move it it's like you can feel these panels separating a
little bit whereas this is you know solid and tight it feels like it's
pretty well constructed overall another feature I actually really like is it's
got all of these buttons on the front here we don't get a navigation nipple
but everything is in Clear View and so you're never gonna have to go searching
for which button to press well check out the OSD later once it's powered on
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gotta make some adjustments here because all I have is tilt it right away doesn't
completely feel level I don't know if I'm crazy or not but I want to move it
like just slightly this way but that's okay everything seems to be in order oh
60 hertz that's not good enough 75 this thing can do 75 Hertz refresh rate which
is a decent jump from 60. it's obviously nowhere near as good as 120 or 144 or so
and so forth but you know what it's doing it it's okay it's the 27 e2ua I
wish they'd had a easier monitor name to remember but I'm one's not too bad as
far as monitor names go I don't think it has HDR
which is not a Twist yep I don't see any options for it so we're not going to
watch any HDR content to really justify but we can always watch the content we
normally watch that is an HDR but an SDR and we'll see how it is you know as much
as we kind of Proclaim HDR is the future
and it's amazing and it is it looks really good on a nice display that
supports it SDR content still looks really good like
this still looks like it's got a bright point like obviously the range isn't
insane but it's got a range to it the color is like pretty good I actually
don't see anything that's like wildly out of whack uh no crazy weird banding
issues or anything like that it's IPS which is kind of the best when it comes
to LED screens at least so I mean you're not having to
be stuck with VA or TN panels depending
on what you're looking for it's a regular IPS panel that's Edge lit so
you're not going to get any full array local dimming or anything like that but
it also doesn't have HDR in the first place so that's fine it's not going to
make a huge difference I want to try the OSD we've got pretty easy to read
buttons here you know it's clearly power so I'm not going to hit that one I'm guessing this starts it oh that's my
input switch okay cool this is my OSD uh
that's something I have never seen a
horizontal OSD like this they're usually vertical okay eco mode standard uh yes
always proceed whoa that's because it went to text mode internet game movie
Sports okay so these are basically just changing the brightness that's cool oh
wait it does have HDR mode there's no way there's no way that I just enabled
HDR hold on this is cool you can change like where all this stuff is it seems
game setting adaptive sync is on so this
thing does have seems to have adaptive sync okay so now that we've enabled HDR
let's check it out it's got to just be yeah it's got to just be some picture
mode profile thing because there is no HDR Windows settings
yeah and it's only 8-bit uh there's no way okay I don't know what exactly that
HDR setting is changing but I don't trust it don't buy this thing thinking
you're going to enable that and get really Stellar HDR content that's just
not gonna happen we're gonna listen to crab Rave because this thing has some
speakers I don't know if they're good or not it's just the waves and stuff but
it's not terrible right now
okay there's basically no base but there's no sub like what do you expect
but honestly that's not bad we'll play we'll play some games with it it's 75
Hertz and the pixel response time isn't anything to write home about but you
know this is not bad this is like totally playable I just want to spike
one dude oh come on you're so low oh
no yeah the speakers are okay frankly like
I wouldn't want to game with these I'd rather you know use some headphones
instead but these aren't terrible they definitely do in a pinch
this is totally acceptable as much as we brag about like high-end monitors and
stuff and they really have come a long way um I think it's time we talk about the
price because this thing is only a
hundred and fifty dollars all of this like actually looks pretty good that's
because Labs tested this thing and it turns out it can do a hundred percent of
the srgb color space it'll do 90 of DCI
P3 and it's doing that all while hitting a very very impressive 2.5 average Delta
e the reason that number is so important is because anything under two it's going
to be basically imperceptible to the human eye so when you're seeing
something just fresh out of the box hitting a 2.5 that's crazy impressive I
I don't I don't know maybe Amazon is actually doing something right here
um it's not just Amazon it's all it's
it's all powered by AOC and for those of you who don't know AOC is another
monitor manufacturer who we've actually covered several of their displays on
this channel they're usually really good my my only complaint is typically the
price I think they're just a little bit too high but they haven't done that here
frankly and the reality is especially because it's an Amazon Basics product
you're probably going to see it go on sale every every now and then I don't
think that you should pick this up as your main display I still think that if
you're gaming you definitely want like 140 Hertz 120 hertz minimum but man do
they really make a compelling argument here's the thing there are plenty of
other competitors at this price point scepter has a pretty cheap monitor we
cover that on why is everyone buying this monitor on LTT Acer has a pretty
cheap monitor they've all got pretty similar specs you're going to see IPS at
around this price range the problem is they're not all going to be nearly as
color accurate as this one I think we measured the scepter closer to a Delta e
average of six which is good it's actually about what we were expecting
for a monitor in that price range if you need something that's actually
relatively color accurate maybe we got lucky maybe this is a golden sample and
we we just happen to test literally the best one ever out of the factory but I
don't think so I think that they're all going to be pretty much in this kind of
range it's not going to do anything crazy high-end you're not going to get
amazing HDR experience on it you're not even going to get an incredible gaming
experience on it because of the lower refresh rate however
75 Hertz is playable 1080p ain't bad and
honestly what I want more than anything is I just want my colors to be like perfectly accurate so I know that what
I'm looking at on the screen is what is is exactly what I should be seeing would
I buy it yeah I think this is a really valid choice for any kind of server rack
that you might have because it's got a VGA in it you know you've got multiple
inputs it's also a decent side monitor though especially because while this
can't go into portrait mode you could put it on an ARM and throw it in as a
side monitor vertical or you know maybe you don't even care about portrait mode you can just throw it off to the side
something like this and it'll do the job just fine I would love some more height
adjustment that's probably my biggest gripe with it but other than that I
think it's a totally valid buy good job Amazon and good job AOC you've actually
made a pretty decent panel at a pretty reasonable price thanks for watching
that's the Amazon Basics monitor powered by AOC if you want to check out any
other monitors maybe check out some of the AOC monitors we've looked at