In addition to the monitor itself, BenQ supplies a desk stand – which you have to attach yourself using a small thumbscrew – an HDMI cable and a kettle-type mains lead. Colour performance is absolutely spot on, too. I measured the BenQ GL2780 using a colorimeter and found sRGB gamut coverage to be 92.4% (good) and the average deltaE measurement to be 0.99, which is superb for a budget display. Delta E is a measurement of colour difference: the lower the number, the less difference there is between colours on screen and the colours in real life and any result of 2 or below is very good. Stretching a resolution of 1080p across 27in means things can look a little pixelated but this is far from a deal-breaker because, otherwise, the picture quality is remarkably good. It’s a TN panel so if you look at it from the side or above, the colours do shift a bit. However, it goes pretty bright – all the way up to 326cd/m2 – and the contrast ratio is an excellent 1,316:1. This means images don’t look washed out. For a budget monitor, the BenQ GL2780 is unusually well fitted out when it comes to connections. Here’s a list of the video inputs you get: That’s it for video inputs but you do also get 3.5mm inputs and outputs, positioned underneath the monitor in the bottom left corner so you can hook up a pair of PC speakers or a headset. How good is the image quality?

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