BenQ GW2780 Eye Care 27 inch IPS 1920 x 1080 Monitor | Optimized for Home & Office with Adaptive Brightness Technology

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Pros: Works great and as advertised. I use it for gaming; response & lag time are no issues at all. I benefit as well from the improved viewing angles (had a TN monitor before). Have had it for ~2 months now with 0 issues. Settings are a breeze to change and the menus are intuitive to browse through. I work from home as well and have stared at excel sheets on here for hours with minimal eye strain so whatever their eye care system does it works. Cons: Brightness was a little much for me at first. Had to turn it all the way down and still thought it was too bright but Ive gotten used to it.

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Good: -Its noticablly more colorful than traditional TN LED monitors -LIghtweight ultra slim bezel is sharp looking. -Blue light and zero flicker -Vesa mountable (which I use a dual monitor set -up) -I personally havent seen any limitations in lag or sloppy response times yet. I have my settings maxed in the games I play. BenQ has a three year warranty on there screens. Bad: -Not nearly as bright as traditional monitors -IPS screens in general and this one very much bleeds light out of the corners. -Trade of slim bezel smooth looking design for weakness and the potential of dust getting under the screen while cleaning -Speakers are awful but what can you expect. For who it was bought for its having sound where they dont now. My goal was to set up a dual monitor situation for my home office. So I wanted to have a matching set for ease of use and matching the screen settings. So I will be buying a second one to finish the pair. So even though this will be used on my business center, I first hooked it up to my gaming rig and did a little bit of photo rendering to see if I like the screen. I would use this with confidence for gaming , especially for working with photos. Games and pictures look much more vivid. I think the biggest drawback is how dark it appears in a dark room. I am still working with the settings a bit. I watched a Kong skull island on here, to test the special effects scenes, the bleeding on a wide screen with the black bars on top and bottom really, really stick out. You can definitely see corner bleeding. That being said the quality of the video was great, so it was a trade off. I would not watch TV on here much, or at least without getting some speakers anyway. I wanted to keep the price down and still get a quality product, I feel this was good fit.

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I am replacing my old iMac with a new PC but was very worried about finding a comparable screen for a reasonable price. I did a lot of research, read lists of "budget" editing screens, most of which were $300-$1000 -- still out of my current budget. Finally after reading tons of reviews on amazon I decided to try this one out and I am very pleased with this purchase! I got the 24 inch and played around with the settings a bit but really it was pretty great straight out of the box. I photograph portraits and weddings and I have a very vibrant style. Because of that I needed to make sure the color was pretty spot-on. I had used my husbands computer to edit a few times and found out the hard way that his screens color was way off and it can make peoples skin tones look sickly. So as soon as I get the monitor set up I pulled up images on both my iMac and the new BenQ screen and they looked very close! We actually noticed that my iMac whites are a little warmer so I pulled out a bunch of prints I have had made and started comparing and the BenQ seemed to be even More accurate to what my prints looked like! A lot of people complained that this screen is too bright, but I dont know if they have changed it since those reviews were written... it didnt seem too bright to me at all, I have it set to 100 brightness. Another reviewer posted settings to match the iMac display, but when I put the brightness level to 50 it was wayyy below the brightness of my iMac. So, I kept the settings pretty close to the automatic settings, I adjusted the gamma a little and a couple other things here and there. So I am very happy with this purchase, I will be sure to update if I have any issues or anything else to add!

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Working as a programmer, I constantly had headaches before due to the eye fatigue. Then this "eye-care" monitor caught my attention, I just wanted to try and see whether it works, if not I will return. It indeed helped my eye problem. I tried many monitors at work, cheap and expensive ones, to find one that will help my symptoms, I found a few, but the price is either very high or many of them require a better computing setup to utilize their full potentials. For example, the best one I used is Dell 4K ISP, but it cost over $500 (2018) and its on sale. Other brands are good, but I slowly realize its just a brand many of them use the same manufactory. So the price is basically depending on how popular the brand is. BenQ is not a very familiar brand in the US, but I used to have a BenQ laptop I really like, so I had a very positive feeling about this brand. At the moment of purchase, I had about 3 options: this monitor, a Dell one, and an Acer one. I had an Acer monitor before and its bad, it looks really nice, but when you used it, you will know its "cheap". Back in 2015 the Acer monitor costed about the same price as this one, not worth it. Dell one was more expensive, about $400 dollars and 4K, however, I know 4K monitor normally requires a better setup, I had a mac mini (last generation) at home, it doesnt support 4K, why bother to spend so much for that. This monitor is as it described on its amazon page. I just got it about a few days, and after a day of work, and then use this monitor at home, I didnt develop the headaches i used to have. Hope its a durable one also.

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Its a great product, I purchased 3 of them for a triple monitor setup on my current workstation. All three have very vibrant colors that pop well. The IPS model has amazing viewing angles. Have also done some gaming on them, they work great with my crossfire eyefinity setup. I did an unboxing and review of these on my Youtube channel if you are interested my Youtube channel is "Tech Sumo" and the video name is "BenQ GW2480 - Unboxing and Review - Eyefinity Setup".

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Using this as a wall-mounted vertical (portrait) display monitor, HDMI input, showing a slideshow at a business, near the business entrances. It worked right out of the box. The wide 178/178-degree viewing angle was the selling point. Not using DisplayPort, so I dont see any of the DIsplayPort issues mentioned by others. Walking past the monitor horizontally, the brightness is not totally continuous, but its very good - just fine for my clients purposes. Ive had several unsolicited positive comments on the increased viewing angle since replacing the old monitor. So far, no quality issues. A big plus (typical these days) is that if the power fails while the monitor is on, it powers back up by itself. BTW using the Gofanco HDMI -> twisted-pair dual-monitor extender (plus HDMI pass-through, so Im really feeding 3 monitors), also purchased from Amazon, with shielded CAT6 cable, and that is working flawlessly. FYI, resolution of the Gofanco device is limited to 1024, which is not an issue with me.

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This is a beautiful monitor. Have it paired with an ASUS Chromebox which attaches to the VESA attachment setup on the back of the monitor. I dont think you can beat the performance of this monitor at this price. The sound is marginal, but I use headphones or send the Chromebox audio to a MagicBox Bluetooth speaker. The viewing angles are as advertised (surprisingly wide) and there may be something to the claimed low blue light emissions -- subjectively this monitor seems much less harsh to look at than others Ive had

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After my expensive Benq died in only two years, I was desperate on deadline as a photographer and ordered this. After waiting 4 days for it to ship 5 days total, I plug it in...no sound. There are no speakers. I got a bunch of nonsense from tech support. Sending it back. What a waste of time and money over a very misleading description.

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This Gw2480 monitor model, I doubt its Ips, Led. This monitor has light leakage as if it were Lcd type. the angle is not the best, it is very poor. the colors are not vivid and the color black is not deep, it looks whitish. even, adjusting the color range. this 72% NTSC monitor is a crap for me. I have an XBR TV and it shows the difference in colors and blacks. It looks better than this monitor. I look for a monitor that colors are beautiful, deep blacks and the best possible angle. among other things, I really do not want it to be 144hz, 4k, curved monitor etc ... therefore this monitor did not fulfill my needs.

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Solid monitor for the price and looks really good. Didnt want to spend a lot of money on a secondary monitor as it would be for the kids and need to be able to put it away constantly when finished to save space around the house. The current idea is to use this monitor with a wireless hdmi transmitter/receiver running a VM+GPGPU to provide my kids with a extra computer. Test Configuration:[Receiving Hardware] BenQ GW2780 27 Inch IPS 1080p HDMI Monitor w/ Speakers OREI Wireless HDMI Transmitter Receiver Extender 1080P Kit with IR Remote IBRA Orange HDMI Cable 3ft - UHD HDMI 2.0 (4K@60Hz) Ready -18Gbps-28AWG Logitech MK345 Wireless Combo – Full-sized Keyboard with Palm Rest and Comfortable Right-Handed Mouse Configuration:[Test Source System] CPU: AMD ThreadRipper 1950X RAM: G.Skill 128GB DDR4 @2933Mhz GPU: MSI Radeon RX Vega 64 - Driver 18.9.3 NVMe: 2 x Samsung 960 PRO 1 TB Software: VMWare Workstation 15 Pro - Windows 10 NVMe Guest OS [1GB Shared Video Memory] Configuration:[Source System] "Not able to test yet, QNAP in RMA process" QNAP TVS-1282 4.3.5 GPGPU: GeForce GTX 1050TI Virtualization: macOS High Sierra / Windows 10 So since my QNAP is not here, I decided to test with my workstation machine just to see how well the OREI RX/TX worked for 1080p source/destination. As you can see from the screenshots attached, theres no more then 7ft between the source/destination, originally I tried putting it in a different area, but due to line of sight issues with my computer, the logitech keyboard/mouse input was very laggy, and the hdmi receiver dropped once, but that was due to moving the equipment around. But anyways, there was/is no latency from the video source and it successfully passes audio through the VM to the monitor with no latency. But wait, even better, the VM is running on the BenQ monitor as an extended screen from my workstation, so this is twice as intensive for image processing on the OREI. Other then the lackluster Logitech MK345 distance/input, even had to use an ASUS USB extender I found for the USB receiver to get a good input signal. Uploaded a 4K 15 second video running on the VM playing a youtube video with audio. The monitor colors stayed rich, good contrast and quality sturdiness (really needed because of the kids), hoping the gaming is smooth with no tearing, but will update once my QNAP is back. Will update once I get my QNAP back, and test a full blown DirectX game setup with the GeForce 1050 TI in passthrough, I hope others find this useful, as I was unsure of the power of this device due to the NAS/PC-to-VM requirements.

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