The following reviews of the FP241W are available so far:
TrustedReviews
Review (Sept 2006) - Full English review
IT.com.cn
Review (Translated - Sept 2006) - Wide range of detailed pictures and
some text
Beareyes.com
Review (Translated - Sept 2006) - Plenty of pictures, minimal text
PC User
Review (Japanese Translated - Sept 2006) - a look at the new model
[H]ard|Forum.com
User Comments (Sept 2006 onwards) - user comments from this page onwards
Bit-Tech
Review (Nov 2006) - English Review
Tom's Hardware France
Review of FP241W (Nov 2006 - Translated)
Tom's Hardware France
Review of FP241WZ (Nov 2006 - Translated)
BeHardware
Review of FP241WZ (Dec 2006)
TRUSTEDREVIEWS: "With a resolution of 1,920 x 1,200, I was getting the full benefit of the 1080i signal of the Sky box’s output and I have to say that the image looked superb....What I did notice when watching films is that the BenQ does a good job of picking out detail in low light scenes, while blacks managed to look, well, black rather than grey. A lot of LCD monitors have problems with greyscale gradation, but the FP241W had no such issues....without even a hint of green or pink creeping into the midrange, as is often seen on other screens....Likewise, the colour scales test was spot on, with no compression at the high end and every single colour falling off uniformly at the last block.
Talking of gaming, this monitor isn’t just great for high definition consoles like the Xbox 360, if you’ve got a fast enough PC you’ll soon realise how good it is to play games at such a high resolution....I was more than happy with the response on this screen. When you throw the HDCP compliant HDMI port into the equation, BenQ really does have every single base covered with this screen."
For the full and detailed review of the FP241W,
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Review (Sept 2006)
IT.COM REVIEW (Translated): "Brightness is extremely high, if you set the parameter to 100% it is more dazzling, but not suited to word processing and office work. We found 10% setting was most comfortable but for office work in dark light conditions even 0% brightness is preferable. The P-MVA panel technology achieves good results in black depth. There is minimal backlight leakage from the panel and it will only really be slightly noticeable in dim light conditions. The greyscale DisplayMate tests were impressive showing all 256 tones, even the difficult 1 and 2 grey levels. This achievement can be attributed to the high brightness and good contrast ratio. Grey transitions are very smooth with no banding evident. The same result was seen with colour gradients with the screen showing smooth transitions (see pictures previously in article). Viewing angles are good horizontally with a slight change in contrast and colour hue evident at about 80 degrees. The definition of the image is still pretty good even at 88 degrees. The viewing angles are comparable to Samsung's S-PVA panels. Vertically the viewing angles are also good with the image being clearly visible even up to past 75 degrees. Greyscale, colour saturation and grey scale are within an acceptable range.
Photo viewing was impressive and the screen is suitable for graphics design, due in large part to its large 1920 x 1200 resolution. Colour rendering is not quite as good as S-IPS based panels, but is still perfectly good enough for general users. Watching 480p DVD content from a couple of metres away soon makes you forget the low resolution of the source. 720p content was impressive as was 1080i and 1080p. You can really see the close up detail from a metre or so away but even the 6ms response time does not quite feel enough in some fast scenes. Gaming is very good, and dark scenes are rendered well. However, the responsiveness is still not quite enough for some fast moving scenes, with some blurring noticeable. Hopefully the addition of BFI (see below) in the FP241WZ model might help improve this."
[H]ard|Forum.com User Comments and pictures:
WOOD2395: "First and foremost, absolutely NO vertical banding - absolutely smooth gradients. Second, the component input is gorgeous. I've been playing Xbox 360 for the past 2 hours on this baby. Videos on the pc are perfect quality 16:9 with appropriate sized black bars above and below. I haven't plugged in a DVD player to the HDMI port to see if it stretches the image or not yet. Maybe tonight. The stand is rock solid, sturdier than the 2407's. It won't go as low to the desk, but sits 4 1/2 inches up at the lowest horizontal setting. It's not as sexy as the Dell's stand, but does sort of disappear, rather than drawing attention to itself. It's amazingly easy to raise and lower and can be rotated a little clockwise or counter clockwise so you don't end up with one side lower than the other, which my 2407 did to my dismay before I returned it. It really is a pain in the can to have the adjustment buttons on the side of the monitor, but I guess I'll get used to it. Overall, at first blush, this thing rocks. I'm super glad I returned my Dell and waited another 3 weeks for this."
BELBEDERE79: "So it would appear everyone's fears have been confirmed. Every source I checked the OSD and no 1:1 pixel mapping options appeared. This is a minor disappointment for me but I'm sure its a deal breaker for some. If you wanted a single display for your desk for PC and HD consumer electronics, the BenQ 241W is NOT your ideal solution. That said, it seems to be an awesome desktop PC solution that has additional bells and whistles. Luckily for me it was between the dell 2407 and the BenQ, and after all the initial frustrations of the 2407 its nice to have a nice display that actually works."
CHALOUX: "I bought my monitor last Thursday and have been nothing but happy with it. It's primarily used for my PC so the 1:1 stretching really isn't an issue. I Mostly do video/photo work and the extra space has been excellent. The colour and brightness compared to my 19" CRT is really quite astounding, I didn't think it'd be SO much better. I also play some FPS and have been for 6 years. I am a bit fussy about certain settings so I was hoping that there wouldn't be any noticeable input lag. For me, there isn't and I'm very happy about that. That's the primary reason I bought the BenQ over the 244T, I was scared of having to deal with a super laggy monitor. I don't notice any lag in desktop or in games."
Much of this content is derived from the various reviews already available, mostly internationally. My thanks to those sites for some of the content and pictures featured here. Thanks to BenQ for some pre-release Whitepaper information about the FP241WZ and BFI technology.