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today we're gonna be having a look at a pretty cool product from BenQ now we recently looked at a 24 inch monitor from BenQ that had a VA panel and an LED backlight but this one's a little bit different it has some additional features so this is the BL 2400 PU it is also a 24 inch da panel with LED backlighting however it also has some other cool features so let's get this guy opened up and have a quick boom inside shall we the first thing we are going to find is hey look at this BenQ switching to a more eco-friendly packaging they're using they're using a die cut cardboard insert in order to give you the the best biodegradability possible you can actually see they're using like they're using double they're doubling up on the cardboard and a lot of the areas to make sure that you've got really good rigidity to this overall I mean that's that's standing actually there's a lot to be learned from packaging like this actually I mean I know I I talked about the Box a lot these days but you unbox enough products and it starts to just sort of come natural so here's the base here we've got our rubber feet on the bottom so that the monitors not gonna slip around we've got a pretty standard little screw in for attaching the monitor it's kind of like that okay so that's the first piece we find inside the box next we're gonna go ahead and remove oh we're gonna find disc okay I've never been able to understand why monitor comes with the disc so get rid of that and let's take this out so no accessories okay here I am I keep wanting to take out the packaging but I can't do it yet we have a USB a2b cable so that's gonna be for the built-in USB hub we have a power cord we have an audio cord it does have built-in speakers and then we also have an included VGA cable okay for those back in there and then now we can take this out look at that all kinds of like one elaborate piece yeah somebody probably has to fold this my hand I'm telling you that stuff probably how it works so then we find the monitor itself and this is where things start to get a little bit more exciting because I've already given away the big secret which is the VA panel and the LED backlight but what I haven't told you is that this monitor also has some pretty unique connectivity options so I'm going to go ahead and attach the base just for the sake of showing you how simple it is so hopefully I can make it look pretty simple here otherwise we're gonna be in for a bit of a rough show all right here we go so we're just gonna go ahead and take the base position it in there just like that and then we're gonna tip it up all right so that's pretty straightforward and then we're just gonna screw it in and hopefully this works you can use a screwdriver but you can probably get it tight enough by hand anyway so I wouldn't worry too much about it and there we go that was the whole assembly process for this monitor so I want to show you a few things right off the bat first of all there is a built-in USB hub so if you go and look on the right-hand side of the monitor here you've got 4 USB ports so that was what that a 2b cable was for you just plug from here into the back of your computer and that's gonna be your hub right there that looks like it's gonna be a passive hub not or capacitive a non powered hub so you're only gonna be using things like keyboards and mice I wouldn't expect to be powering a bunch of two and a half inch you know hard drives or anything off of it ok next we've got the options for all of this stuff so we're gonna press in here and okay hold on let's see if I can figure this out oh okay hold on we got to tear this off first and then we can lift yes there we go so that's for security and shipping okay ah yes okay well I put the base on before taking that off so that won't work quite as well but you can see that it actually adjusts up quite high cameraman if you want step back and have like a quick look at the monitor itself so it adjusts all the way from way down low like this all the way like that so you can pretty much adjust it to whatever is ergonomically comfortable for you this monitor also has a side-to-side option okay you can tilt it up and down just like that actually here you want to grab it from the side so that I can show you just how much you are able to tilt it so depending where you're sitting you can sit and look up at your monitor like this or are you kidding sit up here and look down at it you have all the options in the world available to you and if you view a lot of photos or anything like that you can also go ah there we go 90 degrees to the side and have it in portrait mode so while you got it in portrait mode why don't we have a quick look at the connectivity that I was talking about so here we've got our power button right there and then our speaker bar is running all along the oh no it isn't my bad the speakers are actually here on the bottom but here we go right here there's our power oh here's all the buttons camera man's trying to show you that I guess that's justified so here is enter here is the brightness adjustment this looks like something else menu and auto so I'm sure once you have the on screen display up you'll be able to figure out what all of those do fairly easily here's our power in and then finally we have audio in headphone and DisplayPort how's that for cool we have finally a good value DisplayPort monitor that offers a VA panel an LED backlight a pretty slick-looking design and a price point that isn't ridiculous so that is pretty darn cool and I'd say that sort of feature number one I mean the Eyefinity guys are going to go nuts over a monitor like this because you don't have to use any expensive adapters you can just grab three of these monitors and boom you got affinity with three times HD resolution we've also got your standard DVD and VGA inputs we've got a Kensington lock on the back and you can see we've got a standard four point screw mounting system so you can actually arm mount this monitor or hey if you want to run it in eyefinity you can even get one of those triple monitor mounts so thank you for checking out the unboxing and first look at this Bend KVL 2400 series LED monitor and don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips