BenQ BL2420PT Color Accurate Design Monitor 24 QHD 1440p | 100% Rec.709 & sRGB | IPS | Delta E≤3 | Calibration Report | AQCOLOR | Ergonomic | Speakers | DisplayPort | USB Hub

I was searching for a long time to find a profiled monitor that was affordable. BenQ is the only company that does this better than any one else. Its a good size and comes with many types of cables and is packed very well. You could buy any good monitor and the equipment to profile it, but now you dont have to try and make the color right; this one is color corrected right out of the box. Im an award-winning hummingbird photographer in Wyoming and would purchase this again in a minute! Visit my website HogbatsPhotography.com and see for yourself what good color should look like. This BenQ 24 inch PC monitor is the best, period.

The BenQ display I received has weird pixel grid problem all over the screen, especially noticeable on the different shades of the gray. Looks like every 2 horizontal pixel lines of the display comes in pairs one is darker another is lighter. It maybe hard to notice, but easy to notice for me as I currently have another display that is free from this defect U3219Q. Deffect is visible on the photos, I have Night Shift options enabled, but those lines present when it is disabled as well. Tried all of the settings on the BenQ - no luck, switched display refresh rate to lower - the same. BenQ Display is connected with Display Port Cable. Dont want to waste my time with it. Kind of disappointed, returning.

Works well for office tasks and moderate gaming (max refresh appears to be only 60 hz with no freesync). Lots of connectors. Connected easily to my VESA mount. Easily switchable between inputs.

I have been using my BenQ PD2725U since mid-July, 2021. At the time, I tried a handful of monitors before settling on this one. Unfortunately, it has not survived my initial impressions nor lived up to my expectations. Recently (i.e., today before I started writing this review), Apple asked me to tweak some settings on the BenQ PD2725U to see if they had any effect on an issue I am having with my mouse cursor jumping between the PD2725U and my MacBook’s built-in display. I set the PD2725U’s KVM Switch to Thunderbolt 3, regardless of signal input—i.e., Video Input › None and Auto Switch › None. From what I can tell, these KVM Switch settings along with the Signal Input settings should use the specific input rather than automatically switching. Confusingly, there is also an Auto Switch › DP Auto Switch setting unrelated to the KVM Switch settings, which I have also disabled (this prevents the Signal Input from automatically cycling back to Thunderbolt 3 if I specifically set it to DisplayPort). But when I restarted my MacBook, an external drive I use for data and Time Machine backup didn’t mount—apparently, my changes to the KVM Switch or Signal Input prevented my external drive from connecting (which a factory reset of the monitor corrected). This is one area where I think that BenQ’s QA process fell down. The changes I made should not have permanently broken the USB-C connection from the monitor to my drive. But. They. Did. As for the display itself, I have 4 quality issues. (a) There’s a _ton_ of light bleed around the edges of the display—not visible in a well-lit room, but when the room is darker, very apparent. (b) The display occasionally starts to flicker—there’s no clear cause and I’m not really sure how to fix it except that poking around the settings for a bit, disconnecting and reconnecting, eventually resolves the issue. (c) The contrast setting is absolutely useless beyond its default of 50%—go above that even 1%, and the colors wash out and distort immediately (how is that for a “designer’s” monitor?). (d) I have a BenQ Screenbar Monitor Light, which anyone would reasonably expect to work _perfectly_ with a BenQ monitor—however, the PD2725U is too deep for the Screenbar clamp/hanger, which as a result must aggressively dig into the PD2725U bezel and causes gaussian-like distortions at the top-center of the display. In short, there’s a lot to be excited about in the PD2725U’s specs on paper. But the reality is that all that _stuff_ just makes for a complex, under-tested product. **Edit:** When I first wrote this review, I attributed the mouse cursor jumping issue to the PD2725U (as I noted above, Apple support seemed to think that some of the PD2725U settings might be to blame). Since then, I purchased an LG UltraFine 5K (which is designed jointly with Apple for Macs and iPads). And the cursor still jumps so the PD2725U can’t be the culprit. :sigh: So I bumped my original 2-star review to 3. The PD2725U is neither terrible nor great, just okay.

Picture quality is gorgeous, so I’m pretty happy. But the thing is really thick for the $$$.

I work from home. This monitor easily supports my work Apple Mac Book Pro M1 and my personal Mac mini M1. The remote switch allows me to move from one computer to another. Also allows Picture in Picture control and more. Great resolution with Thunderbolt and HDMI. Easy to mount to VESA stand. Very pleased. Great monitor.

If you need a big monitor that can go Verticle...this is not the one.

Out of the box, this is not a good monitor for doing photo editing. Significant detail is lost in the shadows and highlights, which makes it very tricky to know if part of an image is truly over-exposed or under-exposed. In fact my 15 year old Sony monitor does a better job of showing detail in the far reaches of the histogram than this monitor does. There are various settings you can choose (standard, picture mode, low blue light, CAD, SRGB, movie, etc...). But no explanation for what they do. Very frustrating when what I wanted out of my designer monitor was simply to see my photos EXACTLY as they truly were. There is no manual that comes with the monitor packaging nor a reference to one you can download. Eventually I did google and find this. This provided detailed information for a range of monitors in these series...and was somewhat helpful but not completely. For picture mode it just said this was meant for viewing pictures... Eventually after some tinkering, it appeared that SRGB Mode was best and also you HAVE to change the HDMI RGB PC Range which otherwise by default clips the highlights and low lights. Once I corrected this, the image accuracy improved dramatically. It still isnt top notch, but I assume that it is about the best you can do for a monitor in this price range. My other qualms are somewhat minor. You can easily adjust the monitor height and angle easily enough, but the max-height it too short for optimal ergonamics and taller people. Im 511 and I had to use an additional monitor stand to get the middle of the screen to eye height. Being able to adjust the monitor 90 degrees is slick and the components mostly snap into place without screws which is nice. The menu system is decent, but in a dark room it can be tricky to see which light to initially press (super minor). The low-blue light mode is nice...basically you switch to it when doing a lot of web browsing to reduce eye strain (you do lose color accuracy, but for web browsing this doesnt matter). For a monitor like this, obviously you dont want to use VGA (although you can and many dual monitor users might be tempted to do this). I tried this and and the max resolution for VGA appears to be about half of DVI or HDMI, so choose you cable connection wisely.

*Update: Shortly after this review, BenQ replaced my monitor. They sent me a new one first and then I mailed back the dying monitor. Very easy process and great customer service! No problems with the new one over the past 9 months. Updated rating to 4 stars. ______________________________________________ Bought this monitor about 4 months ago. Best looking monitor Ive ever owned! Use it for video and audio editing and production. Love all of the connection options and clarity of picture. However, about a month ago I noticed green/purple/pink lines creeping into my picture. Over the past month its progressively worsened. I can fix it temporarily by moving the monitor back and forth. Like Im relieving pressure from the back mount. But it always comes back. It is getting harder to fix and will probably be unfixable eventually. The monitor is stationary, so I dont believe it has been damaged. Its not a cord issue as it doesnt matter what type of connection I use, it always is present. Disappointed as I really like this monitor. Hope Im able to find a solution!

Just got this monitor, so I may update this later with more details, but heres my unboxing and initial set-up impressions: The monitor stand is a design disaster. It uses a tab/slot twist-lock to attach the stand to the base. It also has a pivoting base feature. The problem, you might surmise, comes when you go to pivot the monitor, youre never quite sure if the monitor is actually pivoting or if youre unlocking the base, as they are essentially the same mechanism. Ive dumped my monitor on my table twice so far (thankfully no apparent damage), and basically now just dont pivot it at all by the stand, and simply adjust the base. Theres also the uncertainty in that youll never know if youve completely locked the stand to the base since the pivot feature allows for a lot of play. The base itself is a weirdly textured, sloped plastic that invites you to place things on it (reading glasses, phones, etc.) but then disappoints by having anything placed on it simply slipping off eventually, thanks to the slope. Honestly, just get a VESA mount, the stand is trash. The color looks good, the viewing angle is incredibly wide, as is typical of an IPS monitor. No noticeable bad pixels, overall backlight illumination looks good - fairly even without any real bleed issues. Dark blacks, bright whites. It has tons of connectivity, supporting analog D-Sub VGA, DVI, DP, and HDMI - this will work with old systems as well as the brand new ones. Its a bit expensive for what you get - a medium-sized 2k monitor - but if you need that form factor, it does the job.