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BenQ EW3270U 4K Entertainment Monitor Review

2019-04-22
it seems like almost every monitor that we get in house to review always has the word gaming attached to it whether it's really for gaming or not but the product that we're gonna be looking at today from Bank you it's actually marketed as an entertainment monitor you guys are going okay like what exactly is an entertainment who monitor what is that stuff huh well an entertainment monitor means it's pretty much geared to do everything that you want to do it's made for playing games it's made for watching movies and the fact that it has 95 percent of the colored gamut you can actually use it for editing videos and stuff like that perdy well also so all in all this particular monitor is a nice product it's the e W 30 to 70 you kind of a long name the 30 to 70 you and uh it's a UHD monitor 3840 by 2160 for millisecond and gray to gray response time quite a few features inside of this bad boy I've got it right here behind me so let's just jump in let's take a closer look at this mother and see what it's really all about and does it entertain it features a thirty one and a half inch screen 3840 by 2160 resolution and it does is that 60 Hertz now the thing about this is that it also has free sync technology so if you guys don't know what free sync technologies it actually locks everything in your system and makes it so that your games play absolutely great the reason that this monitor probably only has is 60 Hertz refresh rate is because it is a 4k monitor you get the full UHD at 4k and it's probably a little bit hard to get a monitor that'll do you know 144 Hertz or faster at 4k now the panel is a VA panel which means it's right in between an IPS panel and one of those VN panels that people seem to really hate on this particular product has a three thousand to one native contrast ratio like I said it has 95% of the DCI p3 wide color gamut which is used for doing editing and stuff like that 16 to 9 aspect ratio has a brightness level of 300 CD has a hundred and 78 degree viewing angle like I said before the response time is 4 milliseconds great agree on the screen and the time was also very very short you guys can see it it's only eight point four to eight point five milliseconds which is a really really great lag time which means it has almost no lag whatsoever now the design of the monitor is pretty cool now the only thing that I would give it a little bit of a caveat is this as far as the adjustments of the monitor go there's really not a lot to talk about you really just get tilt controls that's really the only thing about it that you get now one of the very cool technologies about this particular product though is that it has HD R + bi which is brightness intelligence now all of this can actually be accessed by a button on the front right hand side of the monitor you can see it has a little HDR logo right there this has actually four different settings for you to choose from you also get quite a few picture options as well so whether you're gaming playing a movie you have different settings to either set it like they like it on a preset or you can set it to exactly what you like another really nice thing about this is the brightness intelligence level this means that no matter whether you're in a bright little you're a dark lit room but color hue of the monitor actually changes automatically you don't have to do anything whatsoever this is really good I care it also features flicker free technology so even though the monitor is at 60 Hertz you're still able to look at this monitor for a really long time now some people might you know stop a little bit and say oh you know what is I protect you well if you're staring at a monitor screen for eight - even 12 hours a day I care protection is something that is very important to your eyes I mean let's just face it you only have one set of eyes and I think that a lot of people really take the eye care protection stuff they take it with a grain of salt and think that's really no big deal but when you're looking at a monitor for a really long time you'll notice that some monitors actually make it so you start rubbing your eyes or you feel like you're really getting fatigued this particular monitor I was able to play games and surf the internet and I did it pretty much all day long yesterday and I never got a headache and I never felt that my eyes were being strained I'm sure that the freesync technology is helping a big you know a big deal inside of games but even just surfing the internet and everything everything is really nice to look at and having that brightness intelligence that automatically adjust no matter what rumor environment you're in that's also pretty cool stuff the OSD controls are located in the bottom right hand front of the monitor they're actually located right underneath the monitor they're very easy to access and you can see you can scroll through all of the different adjustments very very easily now one thing you guys are gonna find very interesting also about this particular product is it features something called smart focus now what this does this actually highlights certain areas of your screen so if you are watching a video or something you can actually highlight just the area of the video that you're watching or actually wherever you want and you can have that stand out separate from the rest of the monitor another interesting fact about the ew32 7 to you is the fact that it actually has upscale resolution now for you people out there who've owned DVD players you in the past they have these 4k DVD players and said that upscale the picture to make it look better it actually filled in all the blanks and made a nice denser higher you know clarity resolution picture this particular monitor has that feature in it so if you're watching something that actually has you know a lower resolution or something it's actually going to make it so that it looks better so it looks kind of like it's a 4k image that's kind of nice you don't even have to have a DVD player it does it automatically now as we turn around and take a look at the back of the monitor there's not a lot to talk about here there is however a base amount so if you want to mount your monitor a wall it does have that option through the basic connection now as far as all the plugs and stuff like that you get a USB type-c 2 HDMI 2.0 s a single DisplayPort a headphone jack and obviously your power cable port now like I said before the only real caveat about this particular monitor is the fact that it's not very adjustable whatsoever but then again it's not really geared to be a gaming monitor or a Professional Series monitor where you need to have portrait mode and all that other stuff so being the fact that this is a multimedia monitor that probably isn't that big of a deal for those fans out there wondering hey Elric what exactly comes in the box well obviously you do get the monitor itself that's a no-brainer right you get a type C power cable you get the standard power cable and you get a DisplayPort to main display port cable as well inside the box you also get a manual and a driver's seat you notice a lot of monitors don't come to the driver CD whatsoever they just automatically sync up through the plug-and-play but this particular monitor it does have a driver CD so you guys can see that this monitor does pack a lot of punches inside the monitor and for those people out there who really don't know what HDR is or HDR plus what HDR technology does is back in the old days if you had a monitor you'd notice that they have bleed to the back you'd see their light coming on the back you'd have hot spots on your monitor where certain places were brighter than others with HDR technology the lighting is actually spread out amongst the entire monitor so everything on the monitor you have darker darks you have brighter colors and everything just looks its absolute best with HDR technology and in fact it seems like HDR is kind of like the RGB of the other world you know I mean everything the computer world is going RGB everything in the entire industry is going HDR so the features are really nice I want to stress again that the I care is really nice if you're staring at your monitor for a long time I really like the fact that it's a flicker free monitor and all that stuff and there's another feature I didn't mention this particular monitor actually has 2 2 watt speakers that are built inside of it and guess what these speakers actually don't suck music sounds good video sounds good and these speakers can actually get pretty doggone loud as you guys can see right here and watching movies they look absolutely great all the colors in this particular panel like I said before our 95 percent of the color gamut so you're getting a lot of the nicest colors that you can get only really an IPS monitor has better looking color and those monitors are usually a lot more expensive and they have slower response times slower refresh times this particular monitor sits right in the perfect pocket for that and you guys can see that games look absolutely great as well with the free sync technology you're not getting any lag whatsoever you can play games for hours everything looks great there's no screen tearing whatsoever I know that the 60 Hertz might seem like it's not really fast but when you're dealing with a 4k monitor it actually is classed enough and makes the screen look perfect when you're gaming alright Tech fans so there you have it everything you want to know about the brand new bank you 3270 you monitor now this particular monitor like I said has a lot of features packed under the hood freesync technology for millisecond gray to gray 16 and 9 aspect ratio 3840 by 2160 full UHD 4k stuff a lot of great features now the only thing about this monitor that might freak some people out is that this particular monitor is $500 which is about $100 more than similar products on the market but the eye care technology inside this monitor is something that a lot of products out there don't have whatsoever and you really have to pay attention to that because the eye care may seem like it's just oh it's just some kind of you know funky little thing but it's really not these guys have won awards for this particular technology and if you stare at your monitor all day long really it comes down to is how important are your eyes is that extra hundred dollars that you're paying for the eye care and not to have fatigue is it really worth it I think if you're somebody who uses your monitor for everything which means you're a gamer you edit videos you watch movies you do pretty much everything on your monitor then this monitor says right in the pocket of being pretty much a perfect product it's not as great as IPS monitors there's a little bit better color gamut on those those are really made for it they're not really made for gaming but this particular panel it's right in the center of everything so if you're looking for a really nice monitor to everything it's gonna do it really nice it has great technology under the hood like I said the ability to not adjust the monitor that kind of sucks is you can't raise the monitor up you can't do portrait mode or anything like that but really since it's not geared you know specifically as a monitor for editing and stuff like that I can see why they've omitted those particular features because you want portrait mode you want all those things to be able to just especially if you're a person who does art strictly for a living you want to probably have a monitor that you can do a lot more adjustments on but a modern that's meant for everything and needs to sit in a really tight pocket I think this product really succeeds at what it does I always want to hear your guy's opinion like usual we will have a link down below you can check out more information if you want about this particular product or buy one for yourself and just 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