14 DAY TRIAL // Another day, another monitor. BenQ has formally launched the BL2411PT, whose name doesn't exactly do a great job of telling everyone just what the display is capable of, beyond the screen size.
Indeed, the BenQ BL2411PT has a display diagonal of 24 inches, which is actually above the norm for common consumer and office monitors.
The aspect ratio is slightly less than common as well, at 16:10 instead of 16:9. It will provide buyers with just a little bit more workspace than normal Full HD models.
Speaking of which, the native resolution is of 1920 x 1080 pixels (16:9 would have demanded 1920 x 1080 pixels instead).
And since we're on the subject of specifications, we may as well go through all of them, so here they are.
The newcomer has an IPS LCD with viewing angles of 178 degrees, both horizontally and vertically.
LED backlighting ensures good brightness, while the 20 million:1 DCR (dynamic contrast ratio), the brightness of 300 cd/m2 and the static contrast ratio of 1,000:1 lead to high-quality, sharp images, always.
In fact, the BenQ monitor can display approximately 16.77 million colors, with a good scanning frequency to boot (Horizontal: 30 ~ 83 (KHz) / Vertical: 50 ~ 76 (Hz)).
The response time is the only one that leaves something to be desired, and seals the status of the BL2411PT as business/work product: 14ms.
Finally, BenQ tossed in the Senseye 3 image correction technology, which uses "contrast enhancement," "color management" and "sharpness enhancement" to change color balance according to five modes: standard, movie, photo, sRGB, Eco, browse.
BenQ will begin shipping the 24-inch BL2411PT LCD monitor on May 31, 2013, (tomorrow as it were) for 40,800 Yen (about $400 / €308 – 400). Buyers will be glad to know that it has an Eco mode where brightness is suppressed, reducing power consumption with about 30%.