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 REALLY wanted to like this. I am used to an Eizo, or before that, Barco. I need color accurate REAL world representation of what will be printed. I do work for high end tv, streaming and theatrical advertising clients. The files I deal with have a bunch of effect and adjustment layers over composited images. It might be fine for single image photographs, but when I deal with crazy layouts created by art directors and designers that use 15 layers to create a single gradation, I have to see what kind of crazy banding or color shifts that I need to fix. I COULD NOT get this thing dialed in. I tried for 3 weeks to get it to show me accurate details, especially in the darks. This thing STRUGGLES with 3/4 tones. If I brightened the screen settings, I would get banding that wasnt there, and if I darkened the screen to reduce the banding, I could not see the difference between the 90-95% blacks and 100% black. A client pointed out to me that the finish that I was working on had issues with inconsistencies in the blacks. Once I switched back to my Eizo, it was clear as day. Maybe I needed to get a model with hardware calibration, but I wasnt going to take that chance and buy another BenQ when I knew what I was going to get with an Eizo. Ended up returning this and going with what I know works.

Competition drives some companies to provide quality and features the professional wants. BenQ definitely did that with this monitor. Innovative, great picture, and easy-to-use features. I would have never considered using my MacBook Pro as my main PC at the office, but this monitor changed that for me. Took the iMac home...but Im even thinking about doing the same thing there. Great monitor...definitely woke me up to whats possible.

Love this monitor so much I got another one. After years of dealing with one of my monitors not matching the other, Asus, one finally went out which was a blessing. got me to look for another monitor. After a lot of research, I got the BenQ. It was calibrated right out of the box and matched my printer. I liked that to turn the monitor on and off all you had to do was just run your finger across the bottom of the bezel, with no buttons to push in. My other Asus was still working but didnt match the BenQ, it was annoying. So I thought I would get another BenQ and hope it would match and it did. Happy camper. The 2 monitors match colors completely right out of the box. I print in the Prophoto color space and my old Asus PA249 handled it nice, but it went out and they discontinued it. I got the Asus PA248 didnt like the Prophoto color space. These BenQs handle the Prophoto color space beautifully. Lets just hope they last a long time. My Asus PA249 only lasted about 4 years. The PA 248 is sitting in the closet.

Ive had this monitor for a few days. Will review again in a month if theres any changes. The good: - They include a cable for pretty much everything. They even included a thunderbolt 3 cable for Macbook Pro 16 so I didnt have to order one from Apple (which costs $39 before tax). Just the cables are probably worth $150-200. - Good choice of external ports, has USB-C support - Solid metal base and stand, not wobbly, looks premium and not cheap - The stand gives you nice 360 degree adjustment The not so great - Although it provides charge to your macbook via thunderbolt, its not enough to power my MBP 16 so the laptop will drain power slowly. I had to also connect my regular charger. Maybe not an issue for less demanding macbooks. - Would have liked more than 2 USB-A ports - The speakers sound really bad. My iMac 2015 has much better sounding speakers. This is not a big issue for me because I rarely use the built in speakers and wear headsets. - Some fading at the edges of the screen if you stand too close

I was a little skeptical about this brand, but after some research in designer community blogs, I learned BenQ is a reputable brand. I was less skeptical when I committed to purchase the monitor. It arrived in time, worked right out of the box, set it up to my standards and so far it has been working great. I am happy with the product and quality to this day. I hope stays this way for a long time. If you are a designer in a budget and looking for a good monitor that will help you in your work. BenQ has you covered :) Perfect Size 24” Resolution is great 1440p Colors are perfect 100% RGB

I LOVE this monitor!! I got it for work (graphic design) and the colors are brilliant the crispness makes every other monitor in my house look like butt cheeks even my MSI gaming monitor (that was twice the price) isnt as crisp and vibrant as this baby. It does only hit 60hz but I love playing games on it anyways because they look sooo good. When it comes to work - I can see color imperfections that you just cant see on other monitors - so it has improved the quality of my projects.

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 $$$.

So far so good. I have two of these monitors, one hooked up via the thunderbolt cable, the other via HDMI to my 2020 M1 Mac Mini. Both are working perfectly so far, I note that some other reviews have commented about flickering problems. I did have one issue with flickering on one of the monitors which was resolved by some re-boots and uninstalling the print-pro software that is used with the BenQ monitors.

The positions that this can get into are Amazing. The portrait mode is crazy because it’s so high and skinny, but hey, some people might find it useful. Because it can do portrait mode, the vertical raising and lowering range when it’s in landscape mode is huge. ** Update: One little item of note, for some reason my monitor came with the default setting to limit the display of max and min RGB colors! I was noticing that some very light gray items werent appearing on my monitor (but were appearing on my other monitor when I dragged the window over to it) To fix this make sure this is set in the menu: Picture Advanced --> HDMI PC Range --> RGB (0~255)