Low Price BenQ G2222HDL 21.5-inch Widescreen LED Back-Light Monitor (Full-HD, DVI-D, Glossy Black, 5ms, Vista Premium) for Sale
September 5th, 2011
Affordable BenQ G2222HDL 21.5-inch Widescreen LED Back-Light Monitor (Full-HD, DVI-D, Glossy Black, 5ms, Vista Premium) – Review & Rating
- Response time: 5 ms
- Display brightness: 250 cd/m²
- Display diagonal: 54.6 cm (21.5 “)
- Display: TN+Film
- Number of colours: 16.7 M
BenQ G2222HDL 215 LCD Monitor LED Backlight 169 Widescreen Full HD 1920×1080 Resolution 250cdm2 Brightness 50000001 Contrast Ratio 2ms Respone Time 28W Power VGA DVI VESA 100x100mm 2 Years Onsite SWAP Warranty Gloss Black 9HL3RLNIBE Monitors Monitors
List Price: £118.91
Excellent for a cheap monitor,
Very nice monitor with good crisp vivid colour rendition – which is what impressed me the most, something good when editing photos. Some photos seem to pop out and good sense of 3D appearance to them. Seems bright and crisp for a light room allowing comfortable viewing. I have seem more expensive models with poorer colours. No HDMI socket, but that is found in more expensive E model not this G one. Despite some reviews mine came with UK plug, guess it depends which seller you use. No built in speakers, but this is perhaps why you get a monitor with excellent image quality for this price. I would recommend this monitor if you are looking for a very good image 1080p widescreen monitor with a good price.
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|Re: VESA Mount, MB Pro, watching videos,
The monitor is exceptionally bright and clear, and I am quite surprised that the quality is as high as it is, given the low price.
I’m using this as a second monitor with a 2010 MacBook Pro. As others have written, you need to buy a DVI cable (for example: Belkin F2E4141b10-DD – DVI Flat Panel Replacement Cable) separately, which is why it only gets 4 stars. It comes with a VGA cable, which is too low-resolution for my needs, but may be OK for others. If you have a recent Mac Laptop, you’ll need an adapter, e.g. Apple Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter cable by Neet® – ( for Unibody MacBook – Pro – Air etc. )). Be advised that the DVI plug on the back of this monitor is DVI-D (dual link), so check this against your own computer/laptop output plug. (if you don’t know the difference between DVI plugs, google ‘DVI’ and the wikipedia page will give you examples of the different types.) VGA is VGA, so if you are only going to use this input, you’ll be covered by what’s in the box. The power lead to the monitor is pretty standard length — no problems there.
I am taking advantage of the VESA mounting capabilities of this monitor, and have attached it to a standard VESA mount Cantilever LCD Monitor TV Arm Bracket Wall Mount with Swivel and Tilt (also bought on Amazon). If anyone else is considering using the VESA mount, be prepared to fight a bit with the stand when you are removing it — BenQ has made this a little more difficult than it needs to be, but I can’t dock them a star for this one-time frustration. Be prepared though, removing the stand is not as easy as it should be (the screws are easy enough to get to, but it took a lot of fidgeting to get the stand to separate from the monitor, due to the design of the area where they connect; I’m pretty savvy with taking apart computers, and I found myself cursing at how long it took me to do this… by comparison, my old dell monitor came off its stand in under a minute. This one probably took me about 10 minutes. Could have been bad luck or my idiocy, but I think its down to design).
The monitor gets use for document, film and photo editing when I’m working at my desk, but it also gets called on for watching DVDs at night, from the bed. I do not have a TV, so anyone with a large screen might not find it sufficient, but for my needs — work and video watching — its fantastic; the only drawback of watching films on it from bed is that you have to get up to turn it off (I do this to save electricity — if you don’t mind it being ‘on’ all night, you could just leave it on — there is a green LED that stays on, even when it is asleep). Compared with my other monitor (24″ Dell, TFT), the LED back-lighting of this model makes a real difference in clarity, colour saturation and, of course, brightness. (I do not have the monitors side by side, so I cannot make a direct comparison). I have not recalibrated the monitor at all, as the factor settings suit my needs. I have been using this monitor daily for over a month.
There are no speakers in this monitor, which suits my needs. I wouldn’t want cheap speakers in any case and use the speakers built into my laptop for casual video watching. The lack of speakers is one reason this monitor is so cheap. It also has the benefit of making it exceptionally light and keeps cable clutter behind the monitor to a minimum.
I did a lot of research and do not make purchases lightly. I also compared different vendors, and Amazon offered the best price when I made my purchase (due to their free shipping). Even given that I had to buy the DVI cable to use this monitor, due to the VESA mount, LED backlghting, size, resolution, widescreen and overall cost, it was absolutely the best choice for my purposes.
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|Excellent Screen – Shame about the plug – Beware,
I really love the screen and it is brilliant – but for a screen to be sold in the UK and only be supplied with a two pin plug I found both annoying and stupid. Beware you will need a converter plug.
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