Amazon.com: Customer reviews: BenQ 32-Inch Quad High Definition Designer Monitor (BL3200PT) for photo editing, QHD 2560x1440 Display,Black/Glossy Black

Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2014

I had been doing a lot of research on monitors off an on over the past year. Since the touch screen haven't caught in quality of the non-touch (color, clarity...etc) I decided to go with a non-touch. I was originally looking at 27" with 2560x1440 resolution and preferably with USB 3.0 ports. I spent quite a bit of time skimming over forums and reading about those who review monitors in great detail. Since I couldn't make up my mind at the time and I decided to wait until fall to see if anything with the touch screen would come out that was similar in quality but not so.

I hit the forums again and this BenQ BL3200PT came up. The reviews were very good. There were some complaints but they seemed few and it can be difficult to determine some times if it's the user or the hardware. I opted to go with this 32" instead as I have the real estate for it on my desk and had been reading that the 2560x1440 resolution worked better on a 32" rather than a 27". The 2560x1440 resolution seemed to be to high a res for a 27" monitor for reading and more pleasing on a 32". I'm still getting used to the size as I used a 20" for so many years. I always tend to buy up from what I need so as time goes on I tend to be happy with my purchase. BenQ has been around for a while but I admit I was reluctant at first not being that familiar with the brand. But the warranty on this was on par with other known manufacturers and it seems BenQ is making a name for themselves. For this size of monitor it has a lot of very good qualities that seem to meet across a broad spectrum of users. Seems to even do well for gamers which is unusual for this size. Colors are amazing. Transitions between colors are very smooth (this supports over 1 billion colors). Response time has been great and I have not seen any issues with anything I've done so far. I work in Photoshop, Dreamweaver, in different browsers a lot on the web, I use various apps like Quicken, Outlook and a variety of tech tools.

I'm still working on utilizing the size of this thing. The software that is provided by BenQ (Display Pilot) is handy and you can set it to divide up the screen for your apps. IE: what position and what size of windows you want. A little icon will sit in the upper right corner of the app and you can click what size and where to position it. You can customize the windows sizes as well. Currently I'm using a virtual desktop app called Dexpot. This allows you to create a few to multiple different desktops that you can flip through. This might be handier if you're concerned about being able to read as you could open an app to full screen instead of splitting the screen up with multiple windows. The location to attach video cables is much easier (on the right side instead of coming up from underneath at the bottom), the USB (all 3.0) hub is on the right which I prefer being right handed and there is a built in SD card reader. The stand is very nice and easily adjustable which can also go into portrait mode for this 32" monitor. If you do this...play with this a bit to see how it works as I found you have to tilt it a bit on its axis to go into portrait mode. Not just raise it straight up on the stand and pivot it into portrait mode. I also really like the thin bezel on this monitor. When you see the monitor is mostly all screen which is where you want to focus. As for colors the blacks are great and transition very nice. I've noticed when looking at several pics that the colors are great and, again, the transitions are very nice and especially with the blacks. There are a lot of adjustments that can be made with this monitor and after all the research I did I went with the recommendations. Based on what I read it sounds like for most that out of the box will do fine. For those who notice detail and/or have a trained eye the tweaks were easy to do and beneficial. The puck that comes with may be handy for many but since this monitor sits back a ways on my desk I just use the software that you install and access like any app and make my changes from there instead of the touch menu on the bezel (which will illuminate when your hand is near). Be sure to connect the USB cable, for this feature to work, to your PC so you can access it.

It has an attractive design and placement to different functions were thought through. Cable organizer is helpful. It does have built in speakers which I muted in the control panel and don't even have connected. Then stand is attractive and very sturdy. There is no built in camera and I already have an HD 1080P cam anyway.

Note: this is a larger monitor so consider taking it out of the box carefully and maybe assembling it on your bed. Perhaps not necessary for some but I found it helpful working with the larger monitor and working on a soft surface as to not damage it. It goes together easily. When switching a monitor this size between landscape and portrait do so gently. It's not hard to do and the stand can handle it but you may notice some wobble due to the size of the monitor. If you do this you'll understand. Also, if you plan to use the 2560x1440 resolution with DVI it works great with the provided DVI cable which is Dual Link DVI. A standard or non-dual link will not get you to 2560x1440.

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A. Crouse

Best 32" for the price - For Sure

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2016

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ANOTHER KEY UPDATE - It turns out that win 8 and win10 handle font scaling differently or at least that is what this utility claims, the utility is from http://www.xpexplorer.com/, download here http://windows10_dpi_blurry_fix.xpexplorer.com/. I used it as follows and it worked like a champ.

set my dpi scaling to 100% for each of my monitors, Dell ultra sharp 24", and BenQ BL3200PT
Ran the utility and select 125%
Restarted PC

Holy cow! the BenQ turned into a Dell Ultrasharp quality.

I liked the BenQ for the work space and color but wasn't as pleased with the font considering my adjacent monitor is a dell ultra sharp.

This utility cleared ALL the font issues up, so I would highly recommend the monitor and run the utility to convert the DPI scaling to win 8 functionality, regardless of what mode you run the monitor in, standard, rgb, cad/cam, etc, all the fonts look great! Easily a daily driver at this point.

UPDATE - I think I should clarify my statement about the font quality on this monitor. 1. The monitor is very nice, especially after using it for a while. I do not think it is a bad choice by any means. I have played around with clear type font settings both adjusting and turning completely off. Once I turned the clear type font off it did clear up some of the minute blurring I was seeing, I say "i" in this case because again I am very picky about fonts :), as such I would use this as a daily driver for all my computing needs unless i had a dell ultra sharp 32" in front of me :) (this was in CAD mode).

The adjustment of the font and using the different presets allow this monitor to be dialed in. For daily driving I would recommend the RGB mode, for CAD or Creative mode you can easily switch to the predefined CAD mode.

The RGB mode clears ALL the font blurring. The CAD mode brings the rich color scheme. Plus there are other predefined modes and you can tweak a mode and save it as one of your own predefined modes.

CAD USER VIEW POINT RATING 3.5 Star general use, 4 Star for CAD use. Looking at this monitor from a CAD user viewpoint I think the working area is very nice, CAD working area is very crisp, colors are very rich. For general use the richness of the color can be a bit over the top. The colors are so vivid that it takes away from the font crispness, the font looks a bit thick this comment is relative to a Dell Ultra Sharp especially the new 27" ultra sharp monitor, very good mix of color and font crispness. BUT the larger dell monitors are very pricy, the 27" is about the same price as the BenQ 32". I am in my late 40s and I still have to use 125% scaling on the display text scale. I did verify teh text display quality at both 100% and 125% text scaling, its still not as sharp as I would prefer BUT I have always worked on Dell Ultra sharps, a comparison of the font to other monitor around my work area seem to be of the same quality.

Summary if you are a CAD user or creative pro like animation or adobe you will like the amount of work area and color richness.

If you are a person who writes code or does a lot of data entry this monitor may not be for you, that is if you are picky about the font quality.

I like it A LOT, and I mean a whole lot better than the dell ultra sharp 34" curved monitor, it has been quite a journey to get the BenQ on me desk, on aquest for a large Ultrasharp monitor in a good price range, Dell is just a bit to proud of there larger monitors at this time.

As a CAD user or as an older person who has to use text scaling with native resolution here is another tip you may want to consider - Stay away from 4K monitors, they sound awsome an all, but they are to crisp and the font is WAY to small in the native resolution on any monitor 32" and smaller, and scaling can be even more of a nuisance on a 4K, at the time this was written various forums mentioned scaling issues. But the colors are AWESOME :).

I will update the review if I get the font dialed in.

-Tim C.

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Antony Steele

High Quality 32" VA Panel Monitor at an outstanding Value.

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2016

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I am extremely pleased with this particular 32" Monitor, even if it has been on the Market now for about 2 1/2 years. I wanted to upgrade from my 27" HP E271i, (a great Monitor by the way) which is an IPS panel at 1920 X 1080, but I did not want to put a second Mortgage on the House. I have a variety of activities and hobbies that I pursue, including photo editing, work related activities, and some gaming. I came to the place where I wanted to increase the resolution to QHD, (2560 X 1440), but not strain my eyes with the fine print. That meant a larger screen. I explored some of the Ultra Wide Monitor reviews and specs, which were tempting, but when I came across this model, it appeared to be very superior in many ways and on sale for a great price.

I wanted to add to the list of many great reviews already written about this particular Monitor. My Monitor arrived with no damage, and was well packaged with all of the connection cables you could wish for. (DP, HDMI, DVI, VGA, USB, and Sound jack cable). The assembly was very straightforward, but the pieces are substantial in weight and you need to exercise care in assembly. As many have already shared, this Monitor is BIG. The arm that attaches the Monitor to the base is solid metal and very heavy. In short, the Monitor is very well built and sturdy and fully adjustable. Thankfully there is no power brick with this unit. Everything turned on just fine and I reviewed the set up through the panel buttons on the front. (I have not yet tried out the little separate controller that comes with this unit. The panel buttons worked fine for me.). I set the Monitor up as per the Monitor Review given at the Tom's Hardware web site, that conducted an extensive (and positive) review on this Monitor. In "Picture", Adjust Brightness to 88 or lower, Contrast to 46, Sharpness to 4, Gamma to "1", Color Temperature to "User Define". I set Red at 100, and Blue and Green to 98. I set Hue and Saturation to 55, but you may wish to play with those adjustments as some like a little more intensity with their color. I set AMA to "High". In "Picture Advanced" set "User". The rest of the settings have to do with Sound, and other (non screen) settings. While following someone else's guide is not true calibration, I was happy with the result. I wish to add that the Monitor stand as designed actually gave me more desk space than my old 27" Monitor while being even more stable.

I ran the screen through some visual checks provided by the AIDA 64 Software, and everything looked excellent. My Monitor has no dead pixels, and no vertical banding that some have complained about. There is no "backlight bleed", as this is a VA Panel, with very dark blacks. Short of an LG OLED screen, you will not get a Monitor with a higher contrast ratio. I also notices a very wide angle range of visual and color clarity without distortion. If you have the right Video Card, this Monitor will produce over a Billion different colors.

While this is not a "4K" Panel, I was still surprised at the difference between HD and QHD in many ways. There really is greater detail in photos and incredible detail in some of the games I run. CRYSIS 3 and Metro Last Light Redux were excellent in HD, but with the QHD resolution and VA panel giving tremendous contrast, the results were stunning. I did discover that I could no longer run CRYSIS 3 with Ultra detail using my AMD R9 390X Video Card at any playable frame rate. It was a great visual treat though, now seeing details that you simply did not see in HD with an IPS panel. I guess my next purchase will be a GTX 1080 video card to drive all of those pixels. The Games were playable at 60 FPS, but I had to reduce the detail a bit. V-Synch worked fine, giving me slightly over 59 frames per second. I will add that at 60 FPS, I did not notice any screen lag or ghosting with the images. This monitor (while not a gaming monitor), seems to game just fine. It will also knock your eyes out with the VA panel contrast and color.

The text and graphics for Excel and Microsoft Word were just fine with a lot of screen real estate. . I sit 36" away from the screen with no issues. I also ran some streaming HD video on the Monitor, and once more, I was very impressed. The visual quality was outstanding.

All in all, I could not be happier with this purchase. Yes, there are better Monitors out there no question, but none at this price point and value. As this is an older model, I do not know how much longer these will be available for, but this particular unit was made in early September of 2016. I would have no hesitation to recommend this Monitor to anyone needing a 32" Monitor that provides great quality at a great value. The 3 year warranty also makes me feel like this is a quality Monitor. Enjoy!!

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Ameenah

Warning if you are purchasing this monitor in 2017!

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2017

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Warning if you are purchasing this monitor in 2017!

On paper, this monitor is precisely what I was looking for. It has the perfect specs for someone seeking a multi-purpose display for both gaming and graphic design work.

Unfortunately, the QA is atrocious, and I've gone through multiple exchanges that exhibited identical issues (see attached images). The grey uniformity is horrid. When viewing flat colors (while doing web design), you'll see distracting DSE (dirty screen effect) across the entire screen. Large, dirty bands cover the entirety of the display.

In this case, it's a combination of a poorly applied matte coating (can be seen when the screen is off), and a defect in the way the LEDs were arranged. Basically, the worst case scenario when it comes to screen uniformity.

But here's the weird thing: All three units showed defects in the exact same area - normally it's the heaviest towards the left, with major smudging occurring in the center. I reached out to Amazon asking if they could send me a unit from a newer batch, but sadly, the unit that arrived today is just as bad.

After googling the issue further, I discovered countless forums that pointed out the exact same problems, and appears BenQ has ignored customer complaints - and it may be the reason the price lowered from $800 down to $400 in such a short amount of time.

If it wasn't for the terrible screen uniformity, this would be one hell of a monitor. Colors are great, and the contrast ratio is phenomenal. Sadly, none of that matters if the image looks like it's covered in dirt when in motion.

Incredibly disappointed in BenQ!

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msrader

Screen is great but side usb ports and memory stick reader don't work.

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2017

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As far as the monitor itself goes I'm very impressed. The screen has great image quality, the color is fairly accurate, the detail is excellent, and the picture is beautiful. What I am disappointed in is the two side USB ports as well as the memory stick reader. I purchased this monitor back in July but did not get it set up until the end of August. For the first month the side ports and reader worked well, then randomly one day it stopped reading my memory cards. I would start uploading images to the computer and halfway through the upload a box would come up saying it couldn't find the images because the source was no longer available. If I restart the computer it will once again recognize the memory stick in it, but typically only long enough for me to be able to load 30 - 40 images before it again stops working. The same has started to happen as well with the two side USB readers. At all times I like to have my computer calibrator plugged in (I'm a photographer so color accuracy is very important) and I started realizing that my images were inconsistent in color because the computer was only occasionally recognizing that a calibrator was plugged in. Similarly about 1/3rd of the time it does not recognize that my external hard drive is plugged in. This has been very frustrating and for the price of the monitor I would have expected the side ports to work.

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w123

Nice picture, well built but some big cons.

Reviewed in the United States on September 14, 2014

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So i've been through 2 of these. Very well built, very aesthetically pleasing. Great stand, love the remote. The picture is good. The first one had 2600:1 contrast ratio (nice!) but unfortunately I sent it back due to the speakers making popping and crackling noises (even though i wasnt even using them). Tried moving my desktop speakers, tried different outlet, different surge protector, no dice.

Got the replacement (very quickly thanks Amazon) and unfortunately it has the same issue. This one also has about 2300:1 contrast ratio, so keep in mind like all monitors there is a ton of difference between individual samples. Im giving up on this particular one and trying the Samsung 32" with the same panel.

MVA panels are great for gaming IMO. Blacks look NICE compared to IPS. However keep in mind this is a BIG monitor, so you will most likely get contrast/gamma shift unless you sit far enough back. So basically you will notice as you move your head along a horizontal plane, you will see the picture change in darkness. This is inherent to MVA panels. Supposedly it is better nowadays but with a 32" you will definitely get it.

Also, this is a big con, but this model suffers from vertical bands showing up about 1.5" apart on solid colors. So you can see it on grey or white backgrounds. Forums, desktops, graphics, you will see vertical bands. Distracting, ugly and annoying. This is common to this particular panel (shared by Acer and Samsung) but some will be worse than others. In my case, the second was worse than the first. It's going back for this reason and also due to the sound issue (sounds like tapping and crackling).

Buy with caution.

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Jeffrey K.

Fantastic monitor...............:)

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2014

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I was skeptical about purchasing this monitor. I am coming from a 27 inch 1920x1200 Samsung that was 6 years old.
I have looked at all of the best ones that are for sale now, and had decided to wait for the new Asus Rog Swift.
Since I am a gamer, I figured it would be the best. Then I stumbled across this beauty. I thought about it for a few days
and did as much research on it as I could. Since it is a brand new model, there is not much out there on it yet.
I do not play competitively online anymore, but I do play pretty much every FPS game in existence. My biggest fear
was there would be blurring and or ghosting while aiming quickly. I can say that there is none at all that I have noticed.
Far Cry 3, COD: Ghosts, and Wolfenstein: New Order look amazing and play flawlessly at 2560x1440 with my single
780ti card.

Overall the monitor has fantastic color, zero dead or stuck pixels, and very minimal backlight bleed.
The screen real estate is phenominal. Not too big, but a 27 inch now seems too small by comparison.
I had to tweak the video settings quite a bit, but the onscreen menus are very easy to use. The brightness was set at
100% and I backed it down to about 45%
A few other minor adjustments and it was excellent.
The speakers are nothing to brag about but they work fine for youtube and the like.
From the other reviews of this monitor I was hoping to see an almost perfectly black blank screen. I have used many
TN and IPS panels and they all have some glow or bleed on a black screen. That can be extremely distracting when
playing a game with very dark environments. Since this panel is a VA panel, which is a new technology, I was hoping
for a completely black blank screen. Mine does have a small spot of backlight bleed in the center of the bottom
of the screen. It is very faint, but noticeable. There are many dark areas on Metro: Last Light, and at first I thought it was me.
But after checking, it is there all of the time. Hopefully it is just mine, and not all of them. I am not going to return it and hope
to get a better one and get one that could be worse. I will not deduct for it because it is such a great overall monitor.
Anyone who is looking for a large 2560x1440 monitor can not go wrong with this BenQ. Unless you are a highly competitive
online gamer looking for every advantage you can get over everyone else, this monitor is great.

Pros:
Great colors, decent speakers, USB3 hub, nice OSD, no ghosting or blurring on games, zero dead pixels.

Cons:
Small spot of backlight bleed in the center of the bottom of the screen.

Overall:
Best monitor I have ever owned. Once you use a 32 inch 2560x1440 the rest seem inferior by comparison.

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B. Finch

Amazing monitor with super high image quality and very user friendly (Ergotron LX wall mountable)

Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2015

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Wowsers, I had a nice 27 inch Asus monitor aimed toward CAD and creative pros, but this blows it out of the water! Contrast is through the roof (and reviews tend to back this up)!
I've been using this for a PC (1440p) and a few consoles (Xbox One, PS3) and it looks great on either source, so I don't think you need to run 1440p for this to look great (but if you can, I highly recommend you do!). The menus and controllers are really nice, I've had a lot of monitors where adjusting options was such a pain, but not with this monitor. The screen controls and control box really go a grade A job with interaction and the monitor its self has tons of options and can easily be adjusted.
I have been playing games on this monitor (PC and console) and I have not noticed any ghosting or the alike so for an average user this should be fine, plus the pure beauty of this monitor will more than make up for any faults.
My only annoyance about this monitor is how quickly it goes to sleep if there is no signal, if I switch to an input before it is ready, the monitor almost instantly sleeps (and then takes a few seconds to wake up). This issue has been present in a lot of monitor however, but I wish the sleep time could be adjusted. Changing inputs also takes a little time, nothing insane, but if you plan on changing inputs frequently it could get annoying.

Edit: Wanted to mention that I weighed this monitor (was worried about wall mounting it) and it weights around 27 pounds (with stand). The monitor (without stand) is about 18 pounds, and the stand is about 9 pounds.
I have this monitor wall mounted using an Ergotron LX wall mount and have not have an issues (mounted into studs, been hanging up for 3 or so months, just make sure you set the arm tension high enough).
This is an amazing monitor that will blow you away with its image quality and its huge size (seriously, 32 is so much bigger than 27, you have no idea until you see it in person). Highly recommended for anyone (gamer, professional or other).

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Jordan

Solid Monitor For Any Application.

Reviewed in the United States on April 27, 2015

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I will start by saying I am coming from a 39" 1080p Magnavox TV. I was only using it because it was all I had at the moment and I didn't want to cheap out on my monitor. This is my first computer build also, and the first monitor or display in general that I've bought. I have seen many high quality displays though.

When it came in the mail it came in a regular cardboard box. I opened it up and I will have to say the boxing is not the greatest. The product is however protected well. When I saw the panel I was amazed at it's size, I'm not sure why cause I've seen many 32" TVs before but this was very thin and very large. I put it screen side down on my bed mattress and installed the stand. The stand is very thick and sturdy, high quality feeling too. Next I took out everything in the box.

In the box you will get a lot of cables. VGA, DVI-D, Display Port, HDMI, SPDIF (aux cord), power cord, and the usb cable that most printers take. You plug that into the screen and then to a usb port on your computer so that all the USB's and card readers and such work on the monitor with your computer. It also has in a separate box the OSD menu puck. Very nice of Ben Q to include all of this.

The reason I bought this monitor instead of a 32" TV is because all of the features. First of all it has much higher resolution than most 32" TV's except 4k ones. It has height adjustment, tilt, swivel and pivot. It also has an SD card reader, lots of USB ports and a higher quality build.
The reason I bought this monitor instead of a 27" monitor or any other smaller size is because I have desk room, and it's in my bedroom so I can watch TV from a distance with this.

Turning on the display: I run a dual boot system of OS X and Windows 8.1 when I arrived at my desktop in OS X I noticed my background was a little blurry, with this WQHD screen you should make sure you're using high res desktop backgrounds. I changed my background to one of the pictures I took with my DSLR, but I started to notice the faults in my images. I finally found one of my good pictures. This monitor really shows the flaws in my images. In safari everything looks sharp and I was afraid Text would be too small to read with the resolution but not at all. In fact it's better than my bigger lower res TV. It really is the perfect ppi.

Games: I haven't played too many games on this monitor yet and I am no hardcore gamer but I have excellent eyesight. I will come back and update this review later after I play GTA V and Mass Effect 2 and maybe some racing games. So far I have played Borderlands 2 and in 1440p everything looks amazing and the response time and input lag is less than my TV. Everything is so smooth. I also Emulated some old gamecube games like Pokemon XD and Naruto Clash of Ninja 4 and while cutscenes look terrible the actual rendered games a lot better than when I played them in 1080p. The contrast also helps a lot so everything is visible in game even when it gets dark like in Batman. I have a GTX 970 pushing this monitor.

Resolution Benefits: As i mentioned before, text is perfect size. You really see a benefit when it comes to games. Also I can fit safari, iTunes and Photoshop all on this screen and everything is readable. Text also looks super sharp, sharper than I've seen on any display, maybe that's due to not only resolution but contrast also. I have the perfect amount of real estate. I'm glad I chose this over a smaller 4k screen. Text would be very small on a smaller 4k and I wouldn't utilize all the real estate 4k would give me.

Viewing Angle: I know IPS have best viewing angles and would be known as a benefit. This is an (A)MVA panel and VA panels are known to have bad viewing angles and good contrast. This specific panel has AMAZING contrast and yet the viewing angles are just as strong as any IPS in my opinion. A reason I didn't get a TN panel was because they have bad viewing angles and I would have trouble watching this from my bed which is at an angle. This monitor has very good viewing angles, it looks the same to me unless I go to an extreme angle which IPS would probably start to color shift at that angle also. Also this isn't IPS so none of that bad GLOW.

Quality Other Thoughts: The monitor does not wobble much at all even if I bump into my desk, I would expect a screen this big to wobble a lot but it merely just vibrates. This monitor doesn't make any sound like other monitors. The flicker free thing is nice, I never noticed flickr on the TV I was using before but it sure did put a strain on my eyes, not this monitor.

Cons: When I am booting up I notice those vertical bands everyone is talking about. I know it varies from panel to panel but they were so slight. I was looking out for this cause I knew it could be a problem but I don't notice it anymore. And when I did notice it I had to focus hard on it to tell. The pros outweigh this minor con by a lot.

Value: For $599 most competition includes 27" IPS WQHD screens, 4k TN panels and high quality 1080p IPS screens. When this first came out it was $1000. It has dropped since the 4k IPS version came out. I just think this is the best value monitor for this price range as long as you have the desk space for 32". If you absolutely need 4k because your editing 4k video or want to play games in 4k then that's another reason, however as far as gaming I'd rather game at 1440p with smooth frame rate and high native contrast than get a TN panel that does 4k and have to spend more money on GPU's to match frame rate. There is also those 144hz 1440p gaming screens but I don't see that as competition. The color to me is very accurate and similar to IPS, I'm no professional but nothing looks over saturated and all the colors blend together well like the safari logo and in album artwork on iTunes it looks like it would look if you were holding the CD cover in your hands.

All in all this is a very good monitor overall. Fast enough response time for gaming, sweet spot PPI, High Contrast, and good enough size to double up as a TV. This monitor is suitable for all applications equally and doesn't fall behind far in any department. Sure there are other monitors with a thing or two better but for this price this is the best all around monitor.

Update: Sorry my review is so long I just feel like expensive items should be reviewed deeply. That's what I like reading before I buy. Anyway I've had this monitor for about 3 weeks I think. Just want to add that it is perfectly fine for games I never noticed any ghosting its not a hardcore gaming screen but its better than a lot of IPS monitors I've seen in this price range. So I also want to add that I didn't really notice the contrast benefit so much when I first started using this. But after playing intense games in the dark I really notice how strong the contrast is. Everything looks so real. Not washed out like on many TN and IPS panels. Also with photography from my camera I can see details in the shadows so nice. If I could change anything with this monitor I'd make the power cord in a better location. When I pivot the monitor in portrait mode it makes my power strip come off the ground lol. I guess I could buy a longer power cord too. However I hardly use portrait mode. Keep doing what you do BenQ I like the way MVA technology is heading. Perhaps in the future we will see BenQ with OLED panels. I also love the semi gloss finish. It's definitely more on the matte side but with a hint of gloss where colors aren't dull. Don't notice any fingerprints on it even when fingers touch the screen.

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Jay M

A Desired Monitor

Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2017

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I was having hard time to find a right headline preview for this monitor but finally I was convinced that nothing would be better than honestly.
But honestly who am I? I'm a guy who makes his own computers for decades and someone who has a bit knowledge about computers and IT technology.
Who am really exactly? I'm also someone who works hard to make money necessary to make a medium based lifestyle in this economy.
So I have already two monitors except this one in 27" and 32" with AOC and Samsung brand and both are okay and functional but what did I purchase this monitor when I am not even a soft core gamer?
The answer fortunately is what you can find with the capabilities you can get out of this monitor that you don't see in most of other brands on the market.
I had this monitor on my list while it was two times more expensive just about a while ago and even when the prices started to drop down (thank goodness) I was waiting for the right time to buy because I also had a long list of my other inquiries (mostly on computer related parts and devices) that I needed them so bad.
Finally time came and I made the move and one more time Amazon did it's fantastic job to wrap up the sale and deliver this heavy package on time to my address.
Monitor is exactly as it was described by others on physical design and the way it looks so I skip this part with confirming all people who said this monitor is really magnificent by design. One thing that I couldn't picture before having it unwrapped in front of me which also is the biggest plus on design in my opinion is the joints from base to the tower handle and finally the joint to the back of the panel. All of the necessary rotations from up to down and left to right and even the right angle of the screen based on your desire need is simply and effortlessly possible as long as you have at least one hand to use. But the result of having a 32" screen display that you can look at in every possible rotation is the beauty. Not to mention that because of what I am doing, I need to spend hours and hours in front of the display and with this design I will definitely feel the minimum pain over time.
Getting to the tech specs: I am going to skip the details because it was described by others and mostly quite true but consider the fact that this monitor has been designed to be a proper display screen for Cad/Cam designers and what exactly does it mean? It means that you are getting one of the most accurate screen resolution out of this monitor and this is the area people are experiencing the monitors differently even on a same brand. First- as an advice please calibrate your monitor right after installing the parts and right before start using it professionally and Second- as I mentioned I'm not a gamer so I did no test for the monitor response on different frequencies but for what I was trying to make sure it was enough work to do that it took almost three hours of my time before I get to my final part and tell myself what a nice! And this preview is what I am doing right after.
This is not a cheap monitor and I totally get it but in our recent market the price of this monitor is not even close to those expensive monitors specially the 4K generations that I personally have no use for them or the curved screen monitors that I believe in this size is completely useless but it's me and my idea.
This monitor is for you if you are looking for a screen display with super high quality design and unlimited options to choose and adjust your desire view and a package that %99 provides you what you need to connect it to your source of display right after unwrapping the box.
This monitor is for you if you want keep it for a long time without worrying about the loosing a second of a quality screen that you always desire to have.
I'm sorry that I am wrapping up my preview at this point because there are a lot to talk about the power of this monitor but I promise to answer anyone's question about this monitor if there is any.
Good luck with your purchase and thank you Amazon.

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