BenQ BL2400PU 24" Widescreen VA LED LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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today we're going to be having a look at a pretty cool product from BenQ now we
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recently looked at a 24-in monitor from BenQ that had a VA panel and an LED
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backlight but this one's a little bit different it has some additional
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features so this is the BL 2400 pu it is
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also a 24 in VA panel with LED back
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lighting however it also has some other cool features so let's get this guy
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opened up and have a quick boo inside
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shall we so the first thing we are going to find
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is hey look at this BenQ is switching to a more eco-friendly packaging they're
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using uh they're using a diecut cardboard insert in order to give you
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the uh the best biodegradability possible and you can actually see
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they're using like they're using uh double they're doubling up on the
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cardboard in a lot of the areas to make sure that you've got really good
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rigidity to this overall I mean that's that's outstanding
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actually there's a lot be learned from packaging like this actually I mean I
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know I I talk about the Box a lot these days but you unbox enough products and
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it starts to just sort of come natural so here's the base here we've got our
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rubber feed on the bottom so that the monitor is not going to slip around we've got a pretty standard little uh
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screw in for attaching the Monitor and then it sits kind of like that okay so
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that's the first piece we find inside the box next we're going to go ahead and
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remove oh actually no first we're going to find uh disc okay I've never been
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able to understand why a monitor comes with with a disc so we just get rid of
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that and let's take this out so oh not
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quite oh accessories okay here I am I keep wanting to take out the packaging
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but I can't do it yet we have a USB A2B
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cable so that's going to be for the built-in USB hub we have a power cord we
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have an audio cord it does have built-in speakers and then we also have an
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included VGA cable okay so we'll go
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ahead and throw those back in there and then now we can take this look at that
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it all comes out in like one elaborate piece you know somebody probably has to
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fold this by hand I'm telling you that's that's
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probably how it works so then we find
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the monitor itself and this is where things start to get a little bit more
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exciting because I've already given away the big secret which is the VA panel and
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the LED backlight but what I haven't told you is that this monitor also has
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some pretty unique connectivity op option so I'm going to go ahead and
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attach the base just for the sake of showing you how simple it is so
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hopefully I can make it look pretty simple here otherwise we're going to be
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in for a bit of a rough show all right
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here we go so we're just going to go ahead take the base position it in there
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just like that and then we're going to tip it
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up all right so that's pretty straightforward and then we're just going to screw it in and hopefully this
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works you can use a screwdriver but you can probably get it tight enough by hand
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anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it and there we go that was the
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whole assembly process for this monitor
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so I want to show you a few things right off the bat first of all there is a
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built-in USB hub so if you go and look on the right hand side of the monitor
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here you've got four USB ports so that was what that A to B cable was for you
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just plug from here into the back of your computer and that's going to be your Hub right there that looks like
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it's going to be a passive Hub not or passive a non-powered hub so you're only
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going to be using things like keyboards and mice I wouldn't expect to be powering a bunch of 2 and 1/2 in you
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know hard drives or anything off of it okay next we've got the options for all
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of this stuff so we're going to press in here and oh okay hold on let's see if I
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can figure this out oh okay hold on we got to tear this off
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first and then we can lift yes there we
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go so that's for uh security and shipping okay let me just go ahead and
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ah yes okay well I put the base on before taking that off so that won't
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work quite as well uh but you can see that it actually adjusts up quite High
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cameraman if you want to step back and have like a quick uh look at the monitor
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itself so it adjusts all the way from way down low like this all the way up
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like that so uh you can pretty much adjust it to whatever is ergonomically
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comfortable for you this monitor also has a uh side to side option okay you
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can tilt it up and down just like that
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actually here you want to grab it from the side so that I can show you just how
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much you are able to tilt it so depending where you're sitting you can
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sit and look up at your monitor like this or you can sit up here and look
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down at it you have all the options in the world available to you and if you
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view a lot of photos or anything like that you can also go ah there we go 90°
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to the side and have it in portrait mode so while we got it in portrait mode why
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don't we have a quick look at the connectivity that I was talking about so
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here we got our power button right there and then our speaker bar is running all
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along the oh no it isn't my bad the speakers are actually here on the bottom
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but here we go right here there's our
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power oh here's all the buttons cameraman's trying to show you that I
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guess that's Justified so here is enter
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here's the brightness adjustment this looks like uh something else menu and
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auto so I'm sure once you have the on screen display up you'll be able to figure out what all of those do fairly
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easily here's our power in and then
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finally we have uh audio in headphone
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and DisplayPort how's that for cool we
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have finally a good value DisplayPort
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monitor that offers a VA panel an LED
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backlight a pretty slick looking design
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and a price point that isn't ridiculous
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so that is pretty darn cool and I'd say that's sort of feature number one I mean
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the ifinity guys are going to go nuts over a monitor like this because you
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don't have to use any expensive adapters you can just grab three of these
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monitors and boom you got ifinity with uh three times HD resolution we've also
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got your standard DVI and VGA inputs we got a Kensington lock on the back and
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you can see we've got a standard fourpoint screw mounting system so you
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can actually ARM mount this monitor or hey if you want to run it in Infinity
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you can even get one of those triple monitor mounts so thank you for checking
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out the unboxing and first look at this
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BenQ BL 2400 series LED monitor and
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