BenQ GW2475H Computer Monitor 24 FHD 1080p | IPS | Wide-Viewing Angle | Low Blue Light | Eye-Care Tech | Flicker-Free | ePaper Mode | Tilt Screen | Headphone Jack | HDMI | VGA

This display is fine enough for media consumption and the size is excellent for multitasking, but gaming on this display is very limiting. Fast games like first-person shooters are disappointing on this display because of its 60hz refresh rate, meaning the highest FPS you can visually see on this display is only 60. Games where you shouldnt care about FPS are quite fine though, even enjoyable. If youre looking for a cheap, large 4k psuedo-TV/multitasking screen/content creation tool then Id say that the BenQ EW3270U is a viable option. If you prioritize eye care and are serious about cutting down your blue light intake, then I would recommend this display as it has many options for you. However, when looking to buy products with as many details to consider as a computer display, Id recommend doing some research and looking into some other options. Most people care about what their monitor is capable of and dont automatically buy the first product that they see. I recommend going on rtings.com if you havent already and do some comparing and window shopping. If nothing else tickles your fancy and you can live with the slow 60hz refresh rate, then this display is a good candidate for what you should buy. Another solid option for a large 4k 60hz screen at this price point is the Dell S3221QS 32 Inch Curved 4K monitor, also sold here at amazon.

I love everything about this monitor except what I bought it for. HDR will not work. Cannot stream 4K or HDR from Vudu. Cannot stream 4k HDR from Netflix or Amazon Prime. Ive tried 3 different Displayport 1.4 cables to rule them out. I have a GTX 1080 which i know has dispalyport 1.4. BenQs website and several reviews say the monitor is comes with Displayport 1.4 connection, but other reviews say its only Displayport 1.2, which cant handle the data needed for HDR. I can turn HDR on in Windows 10, but the selection to stream in HDR is grayed out and cannot be turned on. I dont know if its a Windows problem or BenQ is lying about its Displayport capability or its HDR capabilities. Other than that....its a nice monitor. Update 2-10-19: Turns out there was a Windows 10 update that completely screwed up HDR streaming. Its become an issue for a lot of people. And Vudu doesnt support HDR or 4K to desktops. Games that are HDR capable WILL display proper 4K HDR.

This monitor is everything I hoped it would be - easy to use and sharp enough to read the tiny print. I am using this as an external monitor on a Dell G5 laptop with the Nvidia 1060 chipset. The display is super sharp; I regularly use large Excel spreadsheets and I can operate as low as 70% scale and still read the cells(Calibri 11pt). I do wear a pair of computer glasses tuned to 1 beyond my fingertips, with all the blue blocking, etc.... The only thing I have a complaint about is that with the HDR turned on (Windows 10 recognizes its an HDR display), if the system goes to sleep, then when I wake it up, the brightness is muted. I havent found any setting to fix the issue, but power cycling the monitor fixes the issue, so I assume its the monitor. Also, I have one one application that was nearly impossible to use with the HDR enabled...all of the colors/brightness were, seemingly, turned down to the point that you could barely differentiate the text from the background. only selecting one of the high contrast color schemes made the app barely usable. Disabling the monitors HDR fixed the issue. Honestly, I dont see much difference between HDR enabled and disabled.

Very good

Nice monitor, not used it for gaming. use mostly for watching videos, internet and displaying images which all seem to be good with, like the fact has 3 HDMI Inputs and has audio out and build in speakers. I use it more of a entertainment monitor, have a PC, Roku and DVD Player hooked up. No complaints.

Nice size display with good resolution and decent build quality, but Im returning it. We were looking to standardize on a high quality 4K monitor for use with the latest MacBook Pros and iMacs that have only USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 port for external displays. The specifications and price on this EW3270U looked good, and I called BenQ to confirm full compatibility of the USB-C with Macs . Unfortunately the monitor was a disappointment. I got past the rather confusing on-screen menu choices required to optimize the settings for our work and was immediately disappointed with the brightness of the BenQ. At maximum brightness it looks REALLY DULL & DIM when used next to the very bright, sharp retina display of any recent (2017+) 27 inch 5K iMac, especially in a well-lit room. The brightness alone would not have been enough to cause me to return the BenQ. We could have found a use for it, for example in a dimly-lit video editing bay. So I moved it to an iMac Pro... and immediately started having what appear to be USB-C related problems. Thunderbolt and USB-C HDs and SSDs that had been working just fine would now frequently fail to mount at boot time. The iMac Pro has four 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 ports with USB-C connectors supporting 10 Gbps USB 3.1 and DisplayPort 1.2. My storage devices had their own USB-C ports and the BenQ had its own port, but with the BenQ connected the reliability of the drives was degraded. Its unlikely a cable issue. USB-C cable compatibility is a disaster, however at one point I tried replacing ALL the USB-C cables with costly certified full 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 cables that should support anything needed by either the BenQ Display or the external drives. The problems persisted. I have no BenQ software installed, so thats not causing the low-level panics It got worse. Shortly after moving the BenQ to the iMac Pro the iMac had the first of many low-level panics, which dumps your work and forces a reboot. This persists at random but frequent intervals and either stops or is drastically reduced when the BenQ is disconnected. It happened at least 30 times on the iMac Pro. When I moved the BenQ and a couple of external drives back to a 2017 5k 27 iMac THAT computer started to have panic restarts, although not nearly as frequently. BenQ support was polite and seemed reasonably knowledgeable, however they had little to say, no fix and seemed rather unconcerned. Given the USB-C problems and the disappointing lack of brightness this monitor just wasnt worth keeping. Were purchasing more LG 5K Thunderbolt / USB-C monitors that work fine with iMacs (including the iMac Pro) and MacBook Pros. Theyre only 27 and cost 2x the price of the BenQ. But theyre 100% compatible with our new Macs and the LGs have screens just as sharp and bright as the latest 5K iMacs and MacBook Pros.

This was a real letdown, coming from a 6 year old LG IPS panel (27EA31). Its a good size for gaming, movies and graphical work and the color performance is good right out of the box, but the nature of the VA panel and iffy uniformity just kills it for any kind of art, video or photo applications. Sitting in front of this display, even at dead-on center with a 50% grey full screen image, is like looking down a well of shadow. Oddly reminiscent of Samsung AMOLED phone screens, true black pixels never shift or suffer from off-angle issues because theres no light coming through, so if you have a color or monochrome image that has any real black, that part will remain jet-black while the rest of it shifts and lightens if you move off-center. Its a little weird -- and I assume its how they claim those amazing contrast numbers. Theyre tricking the tests. Color is accurate as long as you stay absolutely still and face the monitor with optimal angles, but if you so much as incline your head a bit in any direction the levels shift. Its almost like a TN or ancient STN display, like you got on old PDA devices where the viewing angle was different from your left eye to the right. It really is that bad. HDR is funky and changes settings, most of which you cannot adjust to taste, so it has limited practical use. Backlight uniformity is lacking, too. A grey image showed dirty screen effect and there were obvious darker bands/lines running vertically. Not sure if this is due to the coating/texture of the matte screen or what, but Ive noticed other BenQ models get dinged for this issue. If all I was ever going to do was play games and watch movies, this might be fine. The display is bright enough, despite that being a common criticism and contrast is good as long as you dont incline or move your head too much... But any time I load Photoshop or any other graphic editor the color-bleaching viewing angles and uniformity problem are dealbreakers.

The picture quality is overall ok, the main issue is that I have to completely unplug (not just restart) the monitor for it to connect to my macbook pro m1 computer. Makes it not very convenient to use, since I cant just connect computer to monitor for it to function.

El monitor tiene muy buena calidad de imagen para editar fotos,videos y ver películas o series y tiene un buen lHDR lo único que no lo recomendaría utilizarlo para juegos pero para lo demás es excelente

Acquired this neat monitor mostly for coding / business purposes and not gaming / video. Previous monitor was an AOC 1920 x 1080 curved monitor. Overall: I like the BenQ EW3270U and would highly recommend it, especially if you are into software development. Pros (anecdotally of course): - Text: very clear, especially at 4K; noticeable improvement over 1920 x 1080. - Nice color distribution, dark colours especially nicer than precious AOC 1920 x 1080 monitor - Eyes feel less strained - its just a joy to code in Cons: - it took me a while to determine it was my laptops mini-dp input that was faulty and not this monitor. In the future, folks like you and me will develop relatively simple ML models that determine the root cause of unexpected behavior. As a temp workaround, leaving the laptop lid half-open resolves the problem. Longer-term, a new laptop.