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today I have something to unbox that I and as far as I know pretty much everyone else knows almost nothing about this is a product that is so brand-new that this is the first one in Canada and I don't mean the first retail one in Canada I mean the first one this is the first one in the country so our BenQ contact was able to give us the hookup to bring this to you pretty early this monitor actually isn't even going to be available at retail for probably around the end of August so it's least another month okay and let's get started here so this is a MVA panel it is LED backlit so between those two qualities right there off the hop we should be looking at a monitor that exhibits exceptional color reproduction it is a 27 inch 1080p monitor so it's a very very good size so what I found about 24 in time I personally use a 30-inch monitor at home and what I found about 24 inch is it's a touch small especially for people who have trouble reading texts when you have a very high pixel density so 27-inch was something that what I found was a very good balance for people like my parents who don't see quite as well as they used to so you've got that same 1080p resolution which is a hundred percent ready for all HD content but you've got a little bit more size to it so it looks a little more more more blown-up okay so let's start with vbase mm-hmm very nice check this out so we've got a brushed metal finish but I can tell from here there's either oh okay yeah we have a plastic cover on it so let's see what its gonna look like when we remove that because it's got some bubbling under it there we go mmm that's more like it okay so that looks like a brushed stainless steel it's got a very very slick look to it see how fingerprint proof it hey not bad actually that's not bad at all very nice one of the problems I have with brushed aluminum which this really doesn't look like is that from time to time you can get brushed aluminum finished as but as soon as you touch them once indelible fingerprint is on there forever because the acid in your fingers will will etch it so hopefully they don't have that problem with this one but it looks so far like the oils are not staying on it so if you have certain coatings or if you have brushed steel for example it's much more resilient than just a bare brushed aluminum finish all right let's get some of the packaging removed here as well like I said guys I'm flying blind here I know almost nothing about this thing other than that it's a VA panel it's 27 inches it's LED backlit and it's actually pretty slick looking okay so let's get let me get it assembled on the stand and I'll be back in a minute so guys I've assembled it now this is a premium product so aesthetics matter okay period they matter so let's have a look at the overall aesthetics of this particular monitor let's start with the base which we looked at already once now what it appears is that the base is a brushed metal finish as is the stand but what is actually the case is that if I tilt the stand more and more and more you're gonna see there you go I here look at it look at it straight on it's actually just a chrome sort of very ultra shiny finish so what happens is when you're sitting in front of the monitor and you look at it from the front it appears to completely match the finish of the base which is kind of a neat little effect however when you look at it from the back you can clearly see the super shiny finish that is is this little rectangular stand right here so I actually like that it's a nice touch it's something a little bit different um but it's not something different that's bad would you see so often on monitors these days all right the panel itself has a black frame that is edged by just I'm gonna take this off and then we'll look at it separately in a minute but it's kind of detracting from the overall look at the monitor right now so it's got a black bezel not a super thin bezel but this is a large screen likely not intended to be used in a multi-screen environment most people don't have room for two or three 27-inch monitors on their desks so I would consider that just fine you've got a bit of a silver edge around it and then on the bottom you see a thicker silver edge now what this does is it houses the power button all the on-screen display controls are touch sensitive here on the side and then the other thing that the bottom part houses is speakers so you can see we've got stereo speakers I love the stealth implementation of the speaker's because I really hate seeing them on the front of the monitor I prefer something that I'm gonna be looking at to be something that I look at not something that I can see it makes down so having them down here even though it's gonna hurt audio quality a little bit I've still very much prefer and let's face it if you're using the speakers built into your monitor how concerned are you with audio quality by some real speakers if you want good audio quality so I actually really like to see that let's move around and let's have a look at the back of the monitor once more so you can see you've got a very glossy finish on the back in terms of fingerprint proof nests yeah it's a boat I'd say it's about middle of the road you can see the fingerprint but you can also wipe it off quite easily even without a cloth so that's not bad at all and I said those were touch sensitive on the side there actually looks like the buttons are on the back so that's fine having them on the back is okay because you do have that tactile response so if you were trying to feel around the back for touch sensitive buttons that obviously wouldn't work very well at all would it okay let's have a look at the inputs and outputs and all that good stuff we've got our AC power in so that's a universal input 100 to 240 volts we've got our headphone jack a line in so this is pretty good to see and a line out so I'm not sure exactly how that works with the headphone and the line out but it's possible they have an audio switch if anyone wants to do that research for me and leave a comment under the video if you guys could all thumbs up so we all know exactly how these work that would be great over here we can see something fairly obvious we have two HDMI inputs so that means you can have your computer hooked up well you could have your computer hooked up by HDMI then you got your ps3 and your Xbox tucked up or rather by DVI and then you can hook up a couple other devices by HDMI so you have three digital inputs as well as your more traditional VGA input which I still do find cause to use every once in a while and finally there's your USB input because that is going to be powering the four port hub on the side of the monitor now let's have a look at the accessories so first thing here is we have a little remote so it looks like we can use this Hey okay Wow I was I was I was even you know I was kind of giving it a hard time I was like oh it has you know touch panel for the on-screen display oh no it doesn't well actually has a remote so that's a pretty cool feature too so you can mute you can change the input you can use the set side feature you can looks like this changes the scaling honestly I'm guessing right now you can adjust the volume brightness contrast and you can navigate the on-screen menu entirely with the included remote that includes a battery alright next we have the USB cable so they've included that you don't need to buy one next we have an audio cable so that'll plug into the back of your computer or the back yourself card vga cable this is a questionable inclusion I think if you're buying a nice true 8 bit 27 inch 1080p monitor you're probably going to be using DVI or HDMI but at least you have something functional in the meantime while you pick up another cable and finally we have a standard computer power cable so let's see what else they have to say for themselves on this little document that we got rid of so ultra high three thousand to one native contrast ratio so that is not a dynamic contrast ratio that is a true contrast ratio it's actually I mean it doesn't sound that impressive when you compare it to the one hundred thousand to one contrast ratios that are advertised but on some panels but that's a dynamic ratio so a lot of the time you're going to be compromising on the overall image quality by using that dynamic intelligent contrast ratio versus just having a panel that is able to display whiter whites and blacker blacks without any voodoo magic okay we've got a true 8-bit color 8-bit color panel so that would be my expectation for anything that's in this kind of a price range that claims to deliver excellent reproduction awesome to see we have two HDMI inputs USB times four we've covered this dual three watt built-in speakers yeah three watt like I said if you want great audio quality maybe get something else but these will be functional if you just want a nice clean aesthetic like you can see the demo they had here where the monitor is just sitting entirely by itself and has some kind of okay there's a mouse and there's a keyboard I don't know where it's getting aI don't know where it's getting a video input from but I think they're making their point anyway and last but not least it does have a remote control so you can control all of your inputs and whatnot remotely just don't let your little brother or sister get their hands on this because you'll be sitting at your computer and they'll be behind you changing the input on you every 30 seconds you'll be like oh what's going on with roll with my monitor they're gonna send an armada BenQ and they're gonna be like well where's your remote and then trouble so in summary 27 inches true 8-bit VA panel available sometime at the end of August I should say August 2011 cuz who knows how long from now you'll be watching this video it has what would appear to me to be somewhere in between a mat and a glossy finish and I've actually seen this before and I'm a big fan I don't generally prefer glossy screens because they're very reflective if you have a light behind you it can be distracting and disruptive to your workflow or to the image quality of a game or whatever the case may be but this is a good balance because you do have some reflection but it's not a mirror-like surface so you get some of that extra vibrancy from the colors from having a slightly more glossy finish but you don't have quite the same degree of distraction that you would from a full glossy finish 1080p to HDMI inputs and I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the e W 27:30 from Ben Q don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech couture on boxing's reviews and other computer videos one last thing I forgot sorry guys is that it does include the mounting holes for a standard VESA mount so you can just pull this bottom stand right off and you can mount it using an arm or whatever the case may be using the standard VESA mount Oh