Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Amazon Basics Monitor doesn’t suck!”.
Monitors are getting too complicated these days. That’S why we’ve got the Amazon Basics, monitor powered by AOC, and you know I don’t know if it’s going to be any good or not because Amazon Basics is a little all over the place, at least from what I’ve purchased. Some stuff, you get it and it’s great, it’s honestly like just as good as any other name brand or even better. Sometimes it’s not so good. I have had the labs take a look at this, but I haven’t looked at their results.
Yet, although Brandon told me it’s exciting, so I’m very curious to see how it actually performs it’s 1080p 27 inches. It does come in a act. It does come in a 24 inch model. If you’re a little worried about pixel density 27.
Inch 1080p is going to be around 82 PPI. 24 inch is much closer to 100, so you know it’s kind of just up to you. The stand is actually okay. I don’t know if you can vase amount this, though no it does not appear that you can.
Oh, no, you can whoa okay. As for the rest of the stand, you know it’s not bad. We’Ve got to screw in on the bottom here, which is better than a lot of other monitors when you’re.
Looking at this price point, a lot of them don’t have the screw and they’ve just got something that Clips on and Clacks together. You know, and it’s okay, especially for something small like a 24 inch, but once you get up to 27, you want something a little bit more robust on the back. It’S quite a lot to be honest, but on the front it’s really not too bad.
You got the little Amazon Basics logo on the bottom, it’s not any worse than most brands. Really it would be nice if it either wasn’t there or it was a little smaller or maybe it was like gray on black or something sort of white on black. But I mean at the end of the day, you’re getting this to hopefully Save A Buck, and that’s just going to come with some labels being places where you might not want them to be.
One thing I don’t really like is the stand, is kind of weird to install it’s not well. Okay, that’s actually not bad. It’S kind of neat, it’s got these little rails here and it actually just slides on up and then locks into place like that.
It’S not awful. I’Ve definitely had worse stands, but I would really recommend if you can to just go with the vase amount, put it on an arm. Instead, while we’re down here, we got USB B to connect to your computer to two more USB a ports. Here, two more USB a ports on the side, power plug, which is nicely just a C13, and it doesn’t look like it’s going to any kind of external brick.
It’S DisplayPort, 1.2 and HDMI 1.4. Nothing too fancy, but we don’t need it because it’s not a high resolution or high refresh rate panel and then we’ve got our good old. Well, it says d sub. But that looks like VGA to me and then we’ve got headphone jack and a speaker Jack. One problem with a stand: that’s as basic as this guy is. It basically gives us nothing in terms of any kind of adjustability we can tilt actually has a you know decent amount of tilt, but there’s nothing else. It’S not going anywhere. No height adjustment you’re not going to swivel you’re, not going to Pivot, it’s stuck here, but that’s okay, because if you sit down okay, it’s a little low for me personally.
I’D probably put a book down or something here, so that would be the definitely biggest complaint that I have so far is my eyes should be a little bit lower than they are for this thing. As for the actual quality of the monitor itself, it’s not awful. It doesn’t feel premium in any way, but I mean it doesn’t feel flimsy. I’Ve grabbed a few like much cheaper feeling, TVs recently and you can just the whole thing’s kind of loose like the Amazon Fire TV.
When you move it, it’s like you can feel these panels separating a little bit, whereas this is you know solid and tight. It feels like it’s pretty well constructed overall. Another feature I actually really like is it’s got all of these buttons on the front. Here we don’t get a navigation nipple, but everything is in Clear View and so you’re never gon na have to go searching for which button to press well check out the OSD.
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I don’t know if I’m crazy or not, but I want to move it like just slightly this way, but that’s okay. Everything seems to be in order. Oh 60, hertz.
That’S not good enough. 75. This thing can do 75, Hertz refresh rate, which is a decent jump from 60.. It’S obviously nowhere near as good as 120 or 144 or so and so forth.
But you know what it’s doing it: it’s! Okay, it’s the 27 e2ua! I wish they’d had a easier monitor name to remember, but I’m one’s not too bad. As far as monitor names go, I don’t think it has HDR, which is not a Twist yep. I don’t see any options for it, so we’re not going to watch any HDR content to really justify, but we can always watch the content. We normally watch, that is an HDR, but an SDR and we’ll see how it is. You know as much as we kind of Proclaim. Hdr is the future, and it’s amazing, and it is, it looks really good on a nice display that supports it. Sdr content still looks really good, like this still looks like it’s got a bright point like obviously the range isn’t insane, but it’s got a range to it. The color is like pretty good. I actually don’t see anything. That’S like wildly out of whack uh, no crazy. Weird banding issues or anything like that, it’s IPS, which is kind of the best when it comes to LED screens, at least so I mean you’re not having to be stuck with VA or TN panels. Depending on what you’re. Looking for it’s a regular IPS panel, that’s Edge lit so you’re not going to get any full array, local, dimming or anything like that, but it also doesn’t have HDR in the first place. So that’s fine! It’S not going to make a huge difference. I want to try the OSD. We’Ve got pretty easy to read buttons here. You know it’s clearly power, so I’m not going to hit that one.
I’M guessing this starts it. Oh, that’s! My input switch okay cool. This is my OSD uh, that’s something I have never seen a horizontal OSD like this they’re, usually vertical, okay, eco mode standard uh, yes, always proceed, whoa! That’S because it went to text mode, internet game, movie, Sports, okay, so these are basically just changing the brightness.
That’S cool, oh wait: it does have HDR mode, there’s no way, there’s no way that I just enabled HDR hold on. This is cool. You can change like where all this stuff is, it seems game setting.
Adaptive sync is on so this thing does have seems to have adaptive sync, okay, so now that we’ve enabled HDR, let’s check it out, it’s got to just be yeah. It’S got to just be some picture mode profile thing, because there is no HDR Windows settings yeah and it’s only 8-bit uh there’s no way. Okay, I don’t know what exactly that HDR setting is changing, but I don’t trust it don’t buy this thing.
Thinking you’re going to enable that and get really Stellar HDR content. That’S just not gon na happen. We’Re gon na listen to crab Rave, because this thing has some speakers. I don’t know if they’re good or not it’s just the waves and stuff, but it’s not terrible right now. Okay, there’s basically no base, but there’s no sub like what do you expect? But, honestly, that’s not bad! We’Ll play we’ll play some games with it. It’S 75 Hertz and the pixel response time isn’t anything to write home about, but you know this is not bad.
This is like totally playable. I just want to spike one dude. Oh, come on you’re, so low, oh, no yeah! The speakers are okay.
Frankly, like I wouldn’t want to game with these I’d, rather, you know use some headphones instead, but these aren’t terrible. They definitely do in a pinch. This is totally acceptable as much as we brag about like high-end monitors and stuff, and they really have come a long way um.
I think it’s time we talk about the price, because this thing is only a hundred and fifty dollars. All of this, like actually looks pretty good. That’S because Labs tested this thing and it turns out it can do a hundred percent of the srgb color space it’ll do 90 of DCI P3, and it’s doing that all while hitting a very, very impressive, 2.5 average Delta e.
The reason that number is so important is because anything under two it’s going to be basically imperceptible to the human eye. So when you’re seeing something just fresh out of the box hitting a 2.5, that’s crazy, impressive – I I don’t I don’t know. Maybe Amazon is actually doing something right here. Um, it’s not just Amazon. It’S all! It’S! It’S all powered by AOC and for those of you who don’t know AOC is another monitor manufacturer who we’ve actually covered several of their displays on this channel, they’re, usually really good.
My my only complaint is typically the price. I think they’re just a little bit too high, but they haven’t done that here frankly, and the reality is especially because it’s an Amazon Basics, product you’re, probably going to see it, go on sale every every now and then I don’t think that you should pick this Up as your main display, I still think that if you’re gaming, you definitely want like 140 Hertz, 120 hertz minimum, but man do they really make a compelling argument. Here’S the thing there are plenty of other competitors at this price point. Scepter has a pretty cheap monitor. We cover that on. Why is everyone buying this monitor on LTT Acer? Has a pretty cheap, monitor they’ve all got pretty similar specs you’re going to see IPS at around this price range.
The problem is they’re, not all going to be nearly as color accurate. As this one, I think we measured the scepter closer to a Delta e average of six, which is good, it’s actually about what we were expecting for a monitor in that price range. If you need something, that’s actually relatively color accurate, maybe we got lucky. Maybe this is a golden sample and we we just happen to test literally the best one ever out of the factory, but I don’t think so. I think that they’re all going to be pretty much in this kind of range. It’S not going to do anything crazy high-end you’re not going to get amazing HDR experience on it, you’re not even going to get an incredible gaming experience on it because of the lower refresh rate. However, 75 Hertz is playable, 1080p ain’t, bad and honestly. What I want more than anything is I just want my colors to be like perfectly accurate, so I know that what I’m looking at on the screen is, what is is exactly what I should be seeing. Would I buy it yeah? I think this is a really valid choice for any kind of server rack that you might have, because it’s got a VGA in it. You know, you’ve got multiple inputs, it’s also a decent side.
Monitor, though, especially because while this can’t go into portrait mode, you could put it on an arm and throw it in as a side monitor vertical or you know, maybe you don’t even care about portrait mode. You can just throw it off to the side. Something like this and it’ll do the job just fine.
I would love some more height adjustment – that’s probably my biggest gripe with it, but other than that. I think it’s a totally valid, buy good job, Amazon and good job. Aoc you’ve actually made a pretty decent panel at a pretty reasonable price. Thanks for watching that’s the Amazon Basics monitor powered by AOC. If you want to check out any other monitors, maybe check out some of the AOC monitors.
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