BenQ EW2420 24" LED Backlit LCD Monitor with VA Panel Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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1,225 words · ~6 min read
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this is going to be one of those unboxings where basically I'm just gushing the whole time because this is
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something that we should have had ages ago but it took until now for Ben Q to
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pull the trigger and develop this product this is the ew
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2420 this is an LED back lit LCD
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monitor okay none of that sounds very interesting yet but I assure you we're
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getting there we're getting there it is a 24 inch
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monitor and I would love to get this
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tape off see this is what happens when I
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get distracted talking about the product you know then I can't even open a box
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all right there we
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go I'm just excited sorry okay so I'll
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say very little until we actually have it open here all right this is a 1920
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X10 0 monitor 1080P and there goes the stand
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which I hope is still
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okay and I still haven't given away the secret yet of why this is so interesting
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and why this is so exciting well I'll tell you now because this is a VA panel
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with an LED backlight so this is pretty
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much the first legitimately premium monitor that we've
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seen with an LED backlight because LED backlighting is is fine and good you
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know it uh it gives you better color repoduction it gives you better overall
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brightness it gives you better Energy Efficiency it's a very good thing but
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here we go the world's first VA LED
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monitor but VA gives you better color
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reproduction a wide viewing angle and a
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generally more
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pleasing viewing experience so you
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combine those two things together and all of a sudden you've got just a crazy
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product now I realize it doesn't look all that special because the bezel
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design is quite straightforward you know it's just it's very slick it's very
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functional you know it doesn't have a lot of the Bells and
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like height adjustable stand uh swivel all that stuff but if what you're
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looking for is a Valu priced LED backlit
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VA panel monitor this is it it's got a
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couple HDMI inputs so you've got all the features that
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matter okay there's like wow there's like so much plastic on this thing I'm
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just trying to peel it all off so I can show you what the product looks like
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here why don't you just pause it for a second and so I found this in the Box
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I'm not quite sure where it goes but we finally got the monitor
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unplastic so we can show you all the different accessories so it comes with
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this little guy who appears to be some kind of a teddy bear it obviously Clips
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onto the monitor somewhere but I can't I can't quite find where it goes and I'm
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not going to concern myself too much with it comes with a power cable comes
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with a USB A2B cable for the built-in four port USB hub you've also got an
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audio cable because yes this thing has everything it has all the Practical
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features so it has built-in speakers you see the right there and we can also see
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all of the inputs so I'm just going to lean over so that I can actually point
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to all the uh all the relevant things so we've got our two HDMI inputs one DVI
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input one VGA input benq's only included a VGA cable with this particular monitor
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so if you are buying it make sure you grab a DVI cable or an HDMI cable
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there's your usbb in two USB ports then
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moving onto the side of the monitor we have two more USB ports and a headphone
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jack that's cool too because now all of a sudden you've got your speakers on
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your monitor you don't want your speakers you plug in your headphones right in the side of your monitor I
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actually haven't seen that before so that's outstanding all of your onscreen
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display controls are over here on the right hand side of the monitor so I'm
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assuming oh yeah the labels are on the front so you got your uh auto adjust
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menu up down as well as enter or select
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so that's the confirm button just want to come around and have a look at the
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back so it's quite slick looking actually you got your glossy plastic
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here which matches the front and you've got kind of a a leathered look on the
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plastic right at the back you got your four uh screw holes for the Visa Mount
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so if you wanted to ARM mount this or mount it however it is that you want to
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do it then that is where you would do that here's a little Cable Management
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clip all right and then there's a little piece here that covers up a gray part of
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the stand and uh oh yeah let's just go
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through sort of the last thing so here's what they have to say for themselves
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about it wide viewing angle with truly authentic colors as I said V a Panel LED
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backlight best of every possible world
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then we've got a it's a true 8 bit panel so once again that's more color depth
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better good 8 millisecond grade to grade response time very respectable but bear
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in mind that VA panels will never be as fast as TN panels for strictly gaming so
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if you don't give two Hoots about your image quality and all you want is the
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fastest possible panel then a VA panel is not really the answer for you
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although personally I would never compromise
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the better image quality that you get from a VA or an IPS panel versus a TN
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panel up here we have 11 multimedia connections which we've already had a
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look at and dual 1.5 watt built-in speakers which we've already looked at
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so this is a very cool product I am very happy to present it to you today and oh
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actually here's another thing to talk about this isn't quite a glossy screen
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it's kind of uh it's kind of a hybrid it's not quite flat but it's not quite
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that mirror reflection glossy either one of the reasons those glossy screens
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showed up in the first place and this is my conjecture I don't know this for sure
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but is because everyone was cheaping out on the panels and laptops so they were
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using cheap otn panels so they were like okay well how can I make the colors look
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vibrant put a glossy screen on it there you go um so really there are very very
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few highquality panel monitors that use glossy screens because it's not
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necessary because they're capable of producing all those colors all that
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Vibrance all that Christmas on their own just fine so that would be why it
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doesn't have one