Not all users are willing to lay out for a new monitor “all the money” – even for advanced technologies such as curved displays, 4K, the backlight on the quantum dots, etc. often need regular “workhorse” that will give quality picture and it does not eat the whole family budget monitor review BenQ VZ2470 – and if it is at the same time also will look good, even excellent.
DESIGN
Asymmetric stand gives the monitor unusual appearance and the use of white matte plastic only intensify this effect – it emphasizes the unusual shape and emphasizes shifted to the left “leg”.
The monitor review BenQ VZ2470 used frameless design – the display on the perimeter frames the thin white line side faces plus the bottom it is visually supported by a white stripe width of 2 cm in the ON state, as in other similar models around the image becomes the noticeably more black frame, but here it is enough. narrow, of the order of 4 mm.
Stand relatively small in size, but thanks to a metal base and rubberized six “legs”, the monitor does not slide on the table – move him, you can only attach a certain force.
“Leg” is not in the center, as is the case in the vast majority of modern monitors, and is biased in the left corner of the stand, also set at an angle. Despite this, the screen is held tightly, shake it does not work even if you press the buttons, located on the other side of the connection point with the stand. Unfortunately, in terms of the adjustments much wealth, there is no choice – the mounting mechanism allows only adjust the tilt of the display; turn left / right and go to the portrait mode at monitor review BenQ VZ2470. Moreover, there is no height adjustment, and – although it would be just not out of place, as the screen is fairly high (the lower edge of the image is 12 cm from the surface of the table).
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monitor review BenQ VZ2470 does not provide mounting on the wall, all cables are connected horizontally and not masked. Fortunately, complete cables and white color that partially eliminates the “aesthetic disadvantage.”
MENU
To navigate through the menus using the hardware buttons on the lower edge of the right side of the monitor on the front panel in front of them plotted point to facilitate “getting” them. Pressing any button causes the quick menu containing three programmable item (by default they allow you to enable reduction of the blue illumination mode Low Blue Light, switch to a different video input and adjust the brightness, but you can assign them to other values) and call the main menu.
Here, the first item is “Display”, where you can select the video source and change the image with the analog connection. Section “Image” contains traditional adjust the brightness / contrast, sharpness, gamma, color temperature, and so on. D. Also, there is an overdrive setting (hidden under the abbreviation of the AMA, or Advanced Motion Accelerator). In the “Image Setting”, you can select one of the preset video modes, use dynamic contrast ratio, enable overscan, and a number of other parameters. In the “Audio” customizable built-in speaker, and in the “System” focused system settings – OSD settings menu item quickly assigning other functions, reset to factory settings, etc.
THE PAPER
The monitor review
BenQ VZ2470 used AMVA panel + production company AU Optronics with a diagonal of 23.8″, 16: 9 and the native resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. Compared with the “popular” 23-inch monitors, this model offers an additional 2 cm diagonal at the same resolution, dot size at the same time will also be a little more like that user who has the text of the standard system by 23 inches seems too small.
The response time stated standard for modern AMVA + panels – 4 ms (GtG). With AMA parameter can enable acceleration of the matrix – at the level of “High” lubricate moving objects significantly reduced, to “premium” – they become even smaller, but there are noticeable artifacts in the form of dark “loops” so that we would recommend staying on the ground paragraph.
In this model, used semi-matte screen coating. It looks like a normal mat at right angles but gradually becomes glossy with increasing viewing angle. This solution significantly reduces the “crystal effect” (light graininess, especially noticeable in the plain areas of the image), but not completely eliminate it – so much on the close-up shot, in part, this effect is still present.
Viewing angles have AMVA + panel are large enough and slightly inferior to IPS. With a significant deviation in the direction of seriously reduced brightness, reduced contrast colors fade, and the dark parts of the image noticeably lighter. But in general, the color is almost no distortion, except that the picture is a little warmer because of the appearance of light reddish hue. Seen from above, the image will turn black, but at a maximum angle of deviation brightens again, with details in light areas are beginning to disappear.
Leaks highlight in this model, we can say, no: in a dark room on a black background, even at maximum brightness could not detect any noticeable bright spots (and indeed the black background was so deep that for a test image had to use a shutter speed of 30 seconds and then further “pull” it in Photo Editor).
Glow-effect in monitor review BenQ VZ2470 also virtually non-existent – characteristic of the IPS-panel glow on a black background, when viewed at an angle from AMVA + monitor, observed a minimal degree.
To adjust the brightness of the PWM is not used, what the manufacturer says, emphasizing the presence of the monitor Flicker-Free technology. The minimum brightness was at the level of 18 cd / m² – is very low, at a level of the monitor can be quite comfortable to operate even in complete darkness. The maximum brightness was 215 cd / m² – comparatively little, but for the typical home, environment is more than enough (note for comparison that is 100-150 cd / m² for the standard lighting in the office comfortable level of brightness).
According to the results of measurements we would recommend preset video modes use sRGB, or if you want to manually configure some settings – in many ways similar to him “Standard”; they offer settings that are sufficiently close to the standard (except that the default setting value in the range of “3” is undervalued – to get a richer picture, it is switched to “4”).
Low Blue Light Mode makes the image warmer and more comfortable for extended reading from the screen – it has 4 different variants that differ in the degree of reduction of the blue illumination (Bates color temperature ~ 500K with each step). “Cinema” overpriced different brightness to maximum sharpness and a faint image of seriously low range, “Game” offers a frankly cool picture (which, however, may be relevant in modern shooters with their “50 shades of brown”). “Photo” mode with a range of seriously overpriced and cold tones suitable for viewing photos, but does not process them – for the latter, we would recommend again sRGB.
The sRGB mode, the color gamut of 96% sRGB (70% Adobe RGB), color accuracy was at the middle level, which would be sufficient for the average home user.
PROS: NICE DESIGN; GOOD IMAGE QUALITY; HIGH CONTRAST; COMPETITIVE PRICE
CONS: LITTLE FUNCTIONAL SUPPORT; VIEWING ANGLES SOMEWHAT LESS THAN THAT MONITOR IPS
CONCLUSION
The monitor
review BenQ VZ2470 – this is the case when the “appearance” is crucial. The characteristics of this are quite the typical home display with good image quality and “traditional” diagonal. Again, the typical cost of a 23-inch IPS-monitor budget class. However, the unusual design could well be a decisive argument in favor of models from BenQ.
