Benq Monitors

Historically, BenQ have been very successful in the gaming market - offering very high performing products at highly competitive prices thanks to being the only monitor makers that control their own entire production chain - of both panels and the surrounding electronics.

In 2014 they began to forge alliances with high end colour vendors like X-Rite, and now in 2017 we're seeing the fruits of those labours with the release of a wider range of colour accurate options at prices that are sure to make them very popular in the market!

The P Series is BenQ's flagship colour accurate series (i.e. models starting with PG and PV).

These monitors offer the same features as the better known options from Eizo and NEC - 10 bit input/panels, high bit depth/3D Look Up Tables (LUTs), Direct Hardware Calibration support, and excellent colour accurate quality and general ergonomics. 

The new PV27 model is sure to a winner - excellent size and image quality, incredibly good pricing for a complete package (you only need to add an i1Display Pro), and the addition of a number of video editing friendly features mean this one will be popular with both still image makers and video producers alike.

The range actually began with the very well received PG2401PT monitor - 24" monitors are still by far the most popular size, and BenQs offering in this area is very solid and very competitively priced compared to the NEC and Eizo alternatives, which are still several hundred dollars more.  That said this 24" model is now a little long in the tooth so unless you e.g have a laptop that won't support a bigger model, or a physical size restriction, the obvious choice in this range is the new PV27 flagship as it's only marginally more expensive.

Note the PV32 model is a little odd in terms of it's placing - this is a 4K standard gamut option, so consider also the SW32 below which is wide gamut.  Whilst the PV32 is uniformity corrected, many folks will probably find the wide gamut support of the SW32 more important.

Prosumer Monitors

The SW Range is BenQs 'Prosumer' range - and we've specifically sourced their 27" option here to offer a lower priced but still very good quality 27" monitor.  That said with the PV27 model above being only $300 more, give that strong consideration too.

Our favourite in this line is the new SW32 - 4K, wide gamut - and a massive giant of a screen with good performance and a great price!

These models have many of the features of the P range - wide gamut, high bit depth processing etc., and while it's not quite up to the P series quality, they're surprisingly close and it's a huge step up for colour accuracy from the pedestrian desktop monitors most people are running (like Apple Cinema Displays and Dell Ultrasharps).

Well worth considering if you're after significant improvement with your colour but you're on a tight budget!