BenQ GW2750 VA Panel 27" Awesome Value LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ
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gw2750 this is a pretty unique product
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in that it is a 27 in monitor it has a
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an H it has a VA panel it uses an LED
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backlight which means a lot of things so you should have excellent viewing angle
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and color reproduction great power
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efficiency and a really really low price
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point I know I never really talk about price in these videos but this monitor
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is around three bills for a 27 in VA LED
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back lit monitor now monitor unboxings are kind of tough to film live because
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there's a whole lot of unpackaging and assembling that needs to be done but
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what I'm going to do is I'm going to unbox all the components and stuff that
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we're finding here and then I'm going to assemble it off camera and then I'll
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show you we'll fire it up really quick here and I'll just kind of show you guys
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and give you my impressions of of how the image actually looks because you
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know it's one thing to say okay it's got a VA panel or it's got an IPS panel or
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whatever other kind of good panel technology that's well really anything
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but TN at this point um but it's a whole other one to actually fire it up and
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have a look and see how impressive it is so there's the base glossy base um I
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mean I wish we'd I wish we'd get away from glossy but it is what it is and
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here's the ARM so because this is more
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of a value priced high-end panel monitor
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you're not going to see things like high adjustable stand or anything like that
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it's a pretty so it's a pretty basic uh pretty basic stand but personally I
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believe that the image quality of the monitor is is priority number one and
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then if you can afford the luxuries of things like you know pivot and height
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adjustable stand and all that then good for you like that's
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great but good panel first don't get a
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fancy TN monitor because it doesn't make
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sense you're the part that you're going to be staring at is the
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part between the bezels not the part on
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the outside of the bezels and the depending on you know
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sort of how your uh how your personal tastes go I'd rather have a really nice
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image sitting on top of like you know a video card box to get it up a little bit
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higher than a crappy image that's not exactly the right level for me to look
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at it I mean if you look at my desk
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though it's fairly evident that it's pretty ghetto so I guess uh that's
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that's all to be expected so here we go
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here's the monitor itself uh you got okay 78° viewing angle it's a VA panel I
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I believe it 5,000 to1 native contrast
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ratio now you see contrast ratios out there that are like 1 million to one
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that's a dynamic contrast ratio it is it is a bit of a trick 5,000 to1 is a very
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good contrast ratio and especially if it's a true contrast ratio 16 by9 okay
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this is pretty much to be expected and check this out this is another thing
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that you don't find at this price point matte screen
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matte
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Ballin so finishing unpackaging the product so we got our power cable our
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audio cable our CD for whatever reason probably just has a manual on it um
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brought to my attention that the one display cable included with this
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monitor is a VGA cable sad face I've seen this from BenQ
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before if you're going to include one cable I'd really appreciate if it was a
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DVI cable as opposed to a VGA cable I
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understand why they did it because the VGA cable means that no matter what
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especially for like big box retail customers who might maybe not aren't as
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educated or don't have as high-end a machine as like an NC customer would
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have um it'll prevent returns because
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they will have the cable that they need to run the display even if it's not
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optimally but it just makes me sad to see a beautiful panel beautiful monitor
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like this and think that someone somewhere is running it off of
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VGA okay moving right along side buttons
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are here Auto menu up down enter and power so nothing out of the ordinary
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there um inputs on the bottom again nothing out of the ordinary so you got
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your power in you've got your audio pass through you've got your HDMI DVI and
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sadf face connector uh the assembly is very very quick for this monitor so you
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just slide this piece into here screw this in and then the
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usual fingertight screw thing on the
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bottom that sets the base up to that you
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got your ventilation holes in the top there that are keeping I mean it's not
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as much of a concern with LEDs as it was with cold cathodes because cold cathodes
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kick off a lot more heat for the amount of light that they produce compared to
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LEDs so internal power supply and just a
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little bit of ventilation is no problem you can also see just in the thickness
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even though it's a 27in panel it's still quite thin if I could find my iPhone and
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we'd do the old iPhone comparison so you can see exactly the thickness of the
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uh connector um just a sec now slick and
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I are actually both pretty impressed with the monitor overall 1080p monitor
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so you don't have that additional resolution that uh you know personally
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I'd like to see once we get above about 24 in 27 to 30 in I'd like to see 2560
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by 1440 or by 1,600 but it's not the end of the world
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and what you do get with the VA panel is
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the viewing angle that you need because these large format monitors okay is this
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one perfect the answer is no but it's a $300 monitor so you have to keep your
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expectations in line with what you're paying for it's very very good compared
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to anything with a TN panel what it'll ever be in terms of the color depth
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which is very noticeable on cheap monitors where even watching a video
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like this you'll be able to see that there's no color depth in things like
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the jeans everything turns to blockiness on things like a black box where it
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doesn't have it can't pick up enough detail to show you the uh the
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differences in color between the slightly less black and the slightly
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more black so it's got that going for it however you know if you get a little bit
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up high on it then you can you can see a bit of a shift in the in the brightness
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more than anything else from the low up is not nearly as bad and side to side is
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excellent so there are very few scenarios where you'd ever run into this
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now the most important thing because this is a monitor it's not like you're
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going to have six people watching it like a TV you know from all kinds of
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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
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never buy a TN because tn's will distort
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the color and the brightness at as at as little of an
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angle as this right here which is a big problem
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because it means that by the time you
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look at the edge of your screen you're seeing color loss or Distortion at the
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edge of the screen up and down large panel monitors must be VA IPS or PLS
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that is the only way to go so if you're looking for a value monitor in a 27 in
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1080P don't get a TN get something like
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this for maybe doesn't have the height adjustable stand all it's pretty much got is tilt no pivot nothing like that
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but it's a good panel so I mean you've always got the option of getting a
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better mounting ARM for it or something because it's got Visa mounts on the back
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in the future if you do want to go that route something to bear in mind about
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the whole resolution thing is as much as I might harp on 1080p monitors that are
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larger format sizes that's not necessarily going to be the case for
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everybody because just cuz I like a 30in high density monitor doesn't mean that
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my you know my in-laws want one actually
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they recently complained about their 23in 1080p monitor saying they wanted
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something bigger but more magnified in which case something like
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this would be perfect for them when your eyes aren't as good anymore it's helpful
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to actually just have everything be a little bit bigger so the same resolution
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but a larger Monitor and 27 in you'll start to see the gaps between the pixels
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a little bit but let's face it if you need the magnification you probably
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aren't seeing that anyway so thanks for checking out this unboxing and first
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look at this actually incredibly good
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value monitor this GW G
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