BenQ VW2420H Series VA LED Backlit LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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so Ben Q just keeps releasing product
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after product that has unique cool
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features and yeah seems like they don't get a lot of attention for it so today
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we're going to be having a look at the VW 22420 H series LED monitor and what
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makes this special is the fact that it is an LED backlit LCD mon monor with a
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VA panel BenQ is claiming a 178° viewing angle which will be
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outstanding if it actually is because that's uh very very good and benq's
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whole thing is that they have all these features they have all these high-end
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Technologies because remember it can be a fancy pants monitor with LED this and
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adjustable stand that and pivot but at the end of the day if it's using a TM
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panel it's only going to be as good as a TM panel which means that you're going to have kind of washed out looking
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whites from some angles and then you know it's all dark from this angle so so
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in terms of viewing angle in terms of color reproduction TN panels are never
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going to be well okay I shouldn't say never I mean technology does things that
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I don't understand but it's probably not going to be as good as a VA panel or an
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IPS panel at any point in the near future so here we go BenQ comes right
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out and they say look this is a VA panel
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has a great viewing angle what else do they have to say for themselves on here
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so uh are any of these English yeah yes here we go it's black the brightness is
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250 nits the contrast is 3,00 to1 oh
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look at that they rate their monitor both in terms of contrast and in terms
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of dynamic contrast which they're saying is 20 million to one greater gray
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response times of 8 milliseconds and in terms of inputs we've got VGA DV and
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HDMI on the other side we find not a
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whole lot okay let's go ahead and open it up I already cut it open just a
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second
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ago okay so the first thing we find inside is some foam foam is good foam
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protects the
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products okay I'm going to go ahead and try and remove that oh we also have a
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base stand okay so here here's the amount of foam that will be protecting
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your product this is important critical even because especially if you're
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ordering from an online retailer such as ncx wow that's thin
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nice um it will have to ship some Times
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by camel other times by boat other times
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by airplane or
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donkey it'll have to reach you somehow and that packing can be the
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difference between a dead monitor when it arrives and a working monitor when it
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arrives all right here we have Ben Q
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disc contents user manual Adobe Reader
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thanks Ben Q I suppose okay next we have
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a power cord which goes to to a power
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brick which goes to a DC plug on the back of the monitor so you can tell
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right away by the size of the power brick this is a very efficient Monitor
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and you can also see why Ben Q chose to do external power for this monitor when
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you take a closer look at it it only includes a VGA cable so you're going to
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have to buy a DVI or an HDMI cable but
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check this out very very
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slim very SL looking little panel
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here so here I'll show you guys the thickness comparison with the iPhone 4
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just because I figure everyone probably knows about how thick an iPhone 4 is so
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there you go there is your monitor not that much
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thicker the world's first VA LED monitor
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beautiful inside and out so it's a 24in monitor this is going to be 1080p so
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that is full HD and you know what I'm going to need you guys to give me a
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second here to peel all the plastic protectors off it so that I can show it
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to you properly so just for the sake of letting you guys see the viewing angle a
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little bit I've got 3D Mark 11 running right now I'm going to go ahead and just
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kind of turn this it's actually really good so here you can look at it from the
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side I'm going to turn it sort of slowly
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back towards you and you're even looking at it top down right now which is less
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good than looking at it straight on but it's still doing a pretty impressive job
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I'm actually going to go ahead and borrow the camera from my assistant
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today here and I'm going to go ahead and show you guys sort of top
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down really really good I mean I'd say
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178° is a bit of an exaggeration but here I'm just going to tilt this all the
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way back but still very very impressive I
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mean that's sort of my expectation with a quality VA panel anyway but it's just
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good to see that they are living up to what they say they're trying to do with
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this product um stand is pretty uh pretty normal I'd say it's uh a little
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bit unique in that there's a gold Ben que normally the Ben Q logo is silver or
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white and then there's a gold accent around the bottom of the monitor looks kind of nice uh down here the on screen
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display are the onscreen controls Are all uh here so you got your enter right
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left menu and Auto uh let's go ahead and look at the
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back of the monitor so the back of the monitor not much to say there's just
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your HDMI in your DVI in which I haven't screwed in correctly oops your VGA in
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your headphone out so if you're using HDMI in you can listen on headphones and
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then your power in and I think that's pretty much all I all the comments I
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have on the VW 2420 like I said I really
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don't think BenQ gets enough credit for some of the cool products they bring out
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because they're one of the few manufacturers who's actually going to come out and say we are making this
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using this kind of panel this is what you get when you buy this product almost
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everyone else it's all playing playing around with you know
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batch IDs and manufacturing dates in order to find out what it is that you're
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actually going to get depending on who you're talking about so thank you for
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