 Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the BenQ GW2750. This is a pretty unique product in that it is a 27 inch monitor. It has a VA panel. It uses an LED backlight which means a lot of things so you should have excellent viewing angle and color reproduction, great power efficiency, and a really really low price point. I know I never really talk about price in these videos but this monitor is around three bills for a 27 inch VA LED backlit monitor. Monitor unboxings are kind of tough to film live because there's a whole lot of unpackaging and assembling that needs to be done. But what I'm going to do is I'm going to unbox all the components and stuff that we're finding here. And then I'm going to assemble it off camera and then I'll show you, I'll fire it up really quick here, and I'll just kind of show you guys and give you my impressions of how the image actually looks. Because it's one thing to say, okay, it's got a VA panel or it's got an IPS panel or whatever other kind of good panel technology that's, well really anything but TN at this point. But it's a whole other one to actually fire it up and have a look and see how impressive it is. So there's the base, glossy base. I mean I wish we'd get away from glossy but it is what it is. And here's the arm. So because this is more of a value priced high end panel monitor, you're not going to see things like height adjustable stand or anything like that. So it's a pretty basic stand. But personally I believe that the image quality of the monitor is priority number one. And then if you can afford the luxuries of things like, you know, pivot and height adjustable stand and all of that, then good for you. Like that's great. But good panel first. Don't get a fancy TN monitor because it doesn't make sense. The part that you're going to be staring at is the part between the bezels, not the part on the outside of the bezels. And depending on, you know, sort of how your personal tastes go, I'd rather have a really nice image sitting on top of like, you know, a video card box to get it up a little bit higher than a crappy image. That's at exactly the right level for me to look at it. I mean, if you look at my desk though, it's fairly evident that it's pretty ghetto. So I guess that's all to be expected. So here we go. Here's the monitor itself. Oh, you got it. Okay. 178 degree viewing angle. It's a VA panel. I believe it. 5000 to one native contrast ratio. Now you see contrast ratios out there that are like one million to one. That's a dynamic contrast ratio. It is. It is a bit of a trick. 5000 to one is a very good contrast ratio. And especially if it's a true contrast ratio, 16 by nine. Okay. This is pretty much to be expected. And check this out. This is another thing that you don't find at this price point. Matt screen. Matt. Ballin'. So finishing unpackaging the product, so we got our power cable, our audio cable, our CD for whatever reason. It probably just has a manual on it. Brought to my attention that the one display cable included with this monitor is a VGA cable. Sad face. I've seen this from BenQ before. If you're going to include one cable, I'd really appreciate if it was a DVI cable as opposed to a VGA cable. I understand why they did it because the VGA cable means that no matter what, especially for like big box retail customers who might maybe not aren't as educated or don't have as high end a machine as like an NCIX customer would have, it'll prevent returns because they will have the cable that they need to run the display even if it's not optimally. But it just makes me sad to see a beautiful panel, beautiful monitor like this and think that someone somewhere is running it off of VGA. OK, moving right along. Side buttons are here. Auto menu, up, down, enter and power. So nothing out of the ordinary there. Inputs on the bottom. Again, nothing out of the ordinary. So you got your power in. You've got your audio pass through. You've got your HDMI DVI. And sad face connector. The assembly is very, very quick for this monitor. So you just slide this piece into here, screw this in and then the usual finger tight screw thing on the bottom that sets the base up to that. You've got your ventilation holes in the top there that are keeping. I mean, it's not as much of a concern with LEDs as it was with cold cathodes because cold cathodes kick off a lot more heat for the amount of light they produce compared to LEDs. So internal power supply and just a little bit of ventilation is no problem. You can also see just in the thickness, even though it's a 27 inch panel, it's still quite thin. If I could find my iPhone and we'd do the old iPhone comparison so you can see exactly the thickness of the connector. Just a sec. Now Slick and I are actually both pretty impressed with the monitor overall. It's a 1080p monitor, so you don't have that additional resolution that, you know, personally, I'd like to see once we get above about 24 inches, 27 to 30 inch. I'd like to see 2560 by 1440 or by 1600, but it's not the end of the world. And what you do get with the VA panel is the viewing angle that you need because these large format monitors. Okay, is this one perfect? The answer is no, but it's a $300 monitor, so you have to keep your expectations in line with what you're paying for. It's very, very good compared to anything with a TN panel, what it'll ever be in terms of the color depth, which is very noticeable on cheap monitors where even watching a video like this, you'll be able to see that there's no color depth in things like the jeans. Everything turns to blockiness on things like a black box where it doesn't have, it can't pick up enough detail to show you the differences in color between the slightly less black and the slightly more black. So it's got that going for it. However, you know, if you get a little bit up high on it, then you can see a bit of a shift in the brightness more than anything else. From the low up is not nearly as bad and side to side is excellent. So there are very few scenarios where you'd ever run into this. Now, the most important thing, because this is a monitor, it's not like you're going to have six people watching it like a TV, you know, from all kinds of different angles. This is a monitor, you're going to sit here and you're going to look at it like this. With a large format monitor, never buy a TN because TNs will distort the color and the brightness at as little of an angle as this right here, which is a big problem. Because it means that by the time you look at the edge of your screen, you're seeing color loss or distortion at the edge of the screen up and down. Large panel monitors must be VA, IPS or PLS. That is the only way to go. So if you're looking for a value monitor in a 27 inch 1080p, don't get a TN. Get something like this where maybe it doesn't have the height adjustable stand. All it's pretty much got is tilt. It'll pivot, nothing like that, but it's a good panel. So, I mean, you've always got the option of getting a better mounting arm for it or something because it's got VESA mounts on the back in the future if you do want to go that route. Something to bear in mind about the whole resolution thing is as much as I might harp on 1080p monitors that are larger format sizes, that's not necessarily going to be the case for everybody. Because just because I like a 30 inch high density monitor doesn't mean that my, you know, my in-laws want one. Actually, they recently complained about their 23 inch 1080p monitor saying they wanted something bigger but more magnified. In which case, something like this would be perfect for them. When your eyes aren't as good anymore, it's helpful to actually just have everything be a little bit bigger. So the same resolution but a larger monitor. And 27 inch you'll start to see the gaps between the pixels a little bit, but let's face it, if you need the magnification, you probably aren't seeing that anyway. So thanks for checking out this unboxing and first look at this actually incredibly good value monitor, the GW2750 from BenQ. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.