BenQ PD3200Q Designer Monitor (AQCOLOR Technology, 32 inch, 2K WQHD 1440P, sRGB/Rec.709, KVM)

I've spent a while trying to find the right monitor to replace my ageing Dell Ultrasharp, as anything above a certain standard seems to cost a heck of alot of money. I was going to buy another dell but it was over £700 to buy another one so I thought I would look around first. I had read a few reviews about BenQ monitors and they always seemed to get good reviews.I did try reading some of the amazon reviews but I've never really taken them too seriously as they either seem to be by people who are more concerned about asthetics or how they run with the latest armageddon game than how the damn things work, so I thought I would have a gamble and ordered this monitor - and boy - was I surprised. In a very good way...It was very well boxed and protected, comes with an excellent stand, a puck and some excellent documentation plus a Cd with some software. I put it together quite quickly, plugged-in to the PC and wow.... the colour calibration on sRGB was almost perfect straight out of the box.I am a full-time photographer and the monitor is attached to a PC with win 10, a Ryzen 5 CPU and a graphics card with 6GB of RAM. The only software on the PC is Photoshop, Bridge, Lightroom, Premier, Aurora HDR and Portrait Studio 19. Anything else I need or use is on another office PC. This monitor will be used as my main screen next to my Dell Ultrasharp, which is now my 'second' monitor for the palettes etc.I haven't used the puck as I see no need for it. It’s in a drawer somewhere. I honestly dont need it because once I have my monitor profile then that's what i work with. I calibrate my monitors every two weeks using a Spyder X and use this PC for editing and nothing else. Once the monitor is calibrated there was a slight colour shift, but that shift was to bring the monitor into the gamut I use. The colours set at the factory were already good so if you dont have a monitor calibrator, you can get away with working straight out of the box. It really is that good.This monitor is perfect for me because it provides accurate colour, doesn't change any colours or tones over time, doesn't get too hot, doesn't have any dead pixels and doesn't have any light bleed. It does everything its supposed yo do - perfectly and with consistency. The stand it great, too. Its got a good range of travel up and down so it’s really easy to tilt, swivel, raise or lower the screen. Also, the USB connections and the cable connections are on the side of the monitor - which I thought strange at first, but have come to accept that this is where the sockets should be located as they are easy to get to, with no more scrabbling around underneath the monitor to plug something in or remove a cable. Take a note other manufacturers - BenQ have the perfect place for sockets...I now want my Dell to hurry up and die so that I can buy another BenQ and have two perfectly matched monitors side-by-side because it’s BenQ all the way for me now. I've tried Dell, and they're good and long lasting, but they’re maybe too expensive. And I've also tried Samsung, but all they're good for is office computers or gaming. As a photographer who spends most days pushing pixels around a screen, the BenQ is a perfect monitor. It's a photographers monitor which does all a photographer could ask for - with consistency, reliability and at an affordable price.What more could I ask for...?

Firstly I am reviwing the PD2700U 4k 27inch monitor with HDR. I need to state this, as it seems that there are reviewes being included that are for other BENq models that are similar, but not the same.I was looking for a decent 4k HDR 27 inch calibrated monitor that can handle design work, coding, photo editing, and video editing, at around £500. I originally also was looking for g-synch gaming too, but that would pushed the price far beyond what I was willing to spend. So I decided that I would be better off getting a dedicated monitor for gaming as a second monitor later.Even still I knew that trying to get a monitor with all those features at this price point would have been a stretch. Certainly getting a 10 bit monitor. So when I saw this monitor with the claimed features, and a price bellow £500, i thought it was too good to be true. In the end I bit the bullet and ordered it, as if it didnt meet it's advertised specifications, I could easily return it.I can say for sure that I am NOT dissapointed! This monitor pretty much exceeded my expectations from the word go, and I have to say its absolutely brilliant in its colour reproduction, and clarity.I am not going to repeat what is said in the description, as i can assue its pretty much accurate. Instead I am goign to focus on stuff that may not be said in the description, that I think may be useful to know.Firstly, this is a true 10bit panel. This is extremely unusual at this price point as most of the competition at this price and size are 8bit screens with FRC, a bit of computer controlled trickery used to aproximate (or fake) HDR. This is really important and a point that is often missed. Whilst its very common for mid to high end tvs in the last 3 or 4 years to haev had 10 bit panels, for some reason the PC monitor scen has not caught up in the same way, with only some high end ones with a £1000 price tag having 10 bit panels. The rest tend to be 8 bit per channel, and at the very low end you still get some 6 bit ones.Whats worse is manufacturers claiming HDR10 support on their 8bit panels using some software trickery (such as AFC) which is never ideal (either causing flickering or fake dithering). HDR 10 at the minimum requires a 10 bit display (with other considerations)Many purists would claim that to have "true" hdr on a LED/LCD panel, you need more than just a 10 bit panel, you would also need Quantum dot, and zoned local dimming. Whilst I cannot say if this panel has Quantum dot or not, when placed next to my Samsung TV which is an older Quantum dot with 10 bit panel, it looks almost identical, and sometimes actually better. As for zoned dimming, although yes that would make it have a better that will push the price up extremely, as well as increase the thickness of the screen. In addition, some professionals dislike zoned dimming when working with picture and video editing, as it can decieve the true brightness levels.Havign worked on HDR and using different screens at different price points, this monitor has very good HDR and 10 bit support for its price.Although not advertised on the description, this monitor also supports Multi-Stream Transport (MST). This technology, provided your pc can support it, allows you to chain a second monitor to this as a secondary display.Finally, its a flicker free monitor. Most monitors flicker rapidy many hundred times a second to control backlight. This flicker can be seen still felt by some people. This monitor uses other methods to control flicker.Some caveats to this montor are:- Not all windows Applications support the high resolution well, and may appear a little blocky/blured. This is a problem with the applications though.- to get 4k at 60 hz you need either HDMI 2.0 or dp 1.3 minimum, as well as the appropriate cables certified for the high bandwidth.All in all its an excellent accurate monitor for the price, i can easily give 5 stars for this.