Benq el2870u, new monitor that boasts of excess hdr

It is increasingly clear that we are going to have to walk with four eyes when buying a monitor with HDR technology, as manufacturers tend to boast about it more than they should because of the capabilities of their products. A new example of this is the BenQ EL2870U.

Characteristics BenQ EL2870U

BenQ EL2870U is a new monitor that is based on a 28-inch panel with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 pixels and a response time of 1 ms thanks to the use of TN technology. The rest of the characteristics of this panel include a maximum brightness of 300 nits, viewing angles of 170º / 160º, an NTSC color spectrum of 72%, a 1000: 1 contrast and AMD FreeSync technology to achieve dynamic refreshment on your panel. 60 Hz.

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BenQ has included anti-flicker and blue light reduction technology to take care of the eye health of users who need to spend many hours in front of the computer, whether for work or leisure. Includes video inputs in the form of DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0. Its approximate price is 377 euros.

So far nothing that makes us think that it is a bad monitor, and that it is not. The problem comes when the manufacturer boasts of HDR technology, firstly, TN panels are not the best in terms of color representation, and secondly, their brightness of 300 nits is not even the minimum required by the HDR400 standard that is located at 400 nits.

With this it is clear that if we are going to buy a monitor and we want it to have HDR technology, we will have to look carefully at its specifications so that they do not give us a hare.

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