BenQ G2400W Widescreen Monitor

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Despite its relatively mainstream-class specifications, the BenQ G2400W holds up surprisingly well in our tests. We were frankly surprised by its flexibility for the various scenarios in which we tested it. As a monitor for office needs, its low cost, simple design and good overall performance will appeal. For gaming needs, the HDMI port allows for easy interfacing with the third generation consoles and high-definition movie watching from set-top players. Additionally, its spacious screen size and native resolution of 1920x1200 allows watching HD movies in Full HD and facilitates indulgent gaming (as long as you've a speedy graphics card).

On the note of video/movie playback, it was generally good, but we noticed that colors were overly bright using the Movie setting of the monitor. Our calibrated settings when running DisplayMate tests also noted some problems with the darker hues of the color spectrum. Despite the problems with the darker hues, black levels in movies turned out fine and we were impressed with its capabilities. However those into illustration, photography and other works where colors play a vital role, this budget 24-inch monitor is not up for it as seen noted from our color ramp testing in DisplayMate. Then again, those who are serious about such works would be investing in professional monitors, thus we can't really penalize the BenQ G2400W as it's a general multimedia monitor.

Physically, the design of the monitor is very similar to past BenQ designs but with a change of color; BenQ has dropped the older silver motif and has used a very uniform matt black color, which we approve of. By adding a range of input connections, including the abovementioned HDMI port, the G2400W looks to have covered its bases in terms of connectivity. The only design issue that we've noted in the review is the badly positioned OSD menu buttons, which coupled with the barely readable button descriptions, makes navigating the OSD somewhat of a pain.