Just a shout out because I'm a picky as hell about this and have spent months looking for a monitor I can live with. So, after god knows how many returns within the 7 day window I've come across the BenQ BL3200PT.
I eventually gave up on IPS for a larger desktop screen, despite the good viewing angles the glow is just too much, blacks have no depth and every single model I tried had minor to major backlight bleed. Noticeable in dark games and terrible for movies. Contrast is okay but really all they have going for them is accurate colour, as important as that is.
So this is the first VA model I've ever tried, in this case AMVA. And it's the best I've used. Great build quality. 32" at 1440p is great, found it a tad small at 27" for text. At this scale it has the same PPI as a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. Absolutely no noticeable backlight bleed (finally!) and far deeper blacks than TN or IPS can deliver - good for games and movies. The black bars are actually black, not grey or almost black with light leakage here and there.
The colours and viewing angles are just as good as any modern IPS, and viewing angles used to be the weakness of VA tech so it's clearly moved forward. Another drawback of the tech is contrast shift but again, not noticed any, from what I've read it only shows up clearly when viewing straight on when you have grey text against black - not common.
In the past VA response times have been poor but again, on this one they're no worse than an IPS screen now so they're okay. Probs not enough for anyone used to a 120Hz 1ms TN but still fine.
Basically I have no idea why IPS is still being pushed and not AMVA.
Of course there had to be something. Much like my laptop, a dead pixel. Monitors suck.
I eventually gave up on IPS for a larger desktop screen, despite the good viewing angles the glow is just too much, blacks have no depth and every single model I tried had minor to major backlight bleed. Noticeable in dark games and terrible for movies. Contrast is okay but really all they have going for them is accurate colour, as important as that is.
So this is the first VA model I've ever tried, in this case AMVA. And it's the best I've used. Great build quality. 32" at 1440p is great, found it a tad small at 27" for text. At this scale it has the same PPI as a 24" 1920x1200 monitor. Absolutely no noticeable backlight bleed (finally!) and far deeper blacks than TN or IPS can deliver - good for games and movies. The black bars are actually black, not grey or almost black with light leakage here and there.
The colours and viewing angles are just as good as any modern IPS, and viewing angles used to be the weakness of VA tech so it's clearly moved forward. Another drawback of the tech is contrast shift but again, not noticed any, from what I've read it only shows up clearly when viewing straight on when you have grey text against black - not common.
In the past VA response times have been poor but again, on this one they're no worse than an IPS screen now so they're okay. Probs not enough for anyone used to a 120Hz 1ms TN but still fine.
Basically I have no idea why IPS is still being pushed and not AMVA.
Of course there had to be something. Much like my laptop, a dead pixel. Monitors suck.
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