- 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 gonna be any good
or not because it's 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 24 inch model
if you're a little worried about pixel density.
27 inch, 1080p is gonna be around 82 PPI
24 inch is much closer to 100.
So you know, it's kind of just up to you.
Oh, the stand is actually okay.
I don't know if you can vesa mount this though.
No, it does not appear that you -oh no you can!
Whoa! Okay.
As for the rest of the stand, you know it's not bad.
We've got a 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 in.
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 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've 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 instead 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 gonna 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, oh 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 vesa amount and put it on an arm instead.
While we're down here, we've got USB-B
to connect to your computer,
Two more USB-A ports here, two more USB-A ports on the side
Power plug, which is nicely just a C13.
It doesn't look like it's going
to any kind of external brick.
It's display port 1.2 and HDMI 1.4.
Nothing too fancy but we don't need it
cuz it's not a high resolution or high refresh rate panel.
And then we've got our good old
well that 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 there's a, you know
decent amount of tilt but there's nothing else.
It's not going anywhere.
No height adjustment, you're not gonna swivel
you're not gonna 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.
That's 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 gonna have to go searching
for which button to press.
Well check out the OSD later once it's powered on.
Speaking of turning it on, I'm gonna turn this bad boy on
and game on it
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I gotta make some adjustments here cuz all I
have is tilt.
It right away doesn't completely feel level.
I don't know if I'm crazy or not
but I wanna move it like just slightly this way
but that's okay.
Everything seems to be in order.
Aw, 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 on so forth.
But you know what?
It's doing it, it's okay.
It's the 27E2UA.
I wish they'd had a easier monitor name to remember
but that 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 gonna watch any HDR content to
really justify it 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
and 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
outta whack.
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 gonna 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 gonna make a huge difference.
I wanna try the OSD.
We've got pretty easy to read buttons here.
You know that's clearly power so I'm not gonna hit that one.
I'm guessing this starts it.
Oh that's my input switch.
Okay cool.
This is my OSD.
That's something I have never seen a
horizontal OSD like this.
They're usually vertical.
Okay, eco mode standard.
Yes. Always proceed.
Whoa, that's cuz 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 seem to have Adaptive-Sync.
Okay, so now that we've enabled HCR, let's check it out.
It's gotta just be, yeah
it's gotta just be some picture mode profile thing.
Cause there is no HDR Windows settings.
- [David] It's only 8 bit.
- Yeah, and it's only 8 bit..
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 gonna
enable that and get really stellar HDR content.
That's just not gonna happen.
We're gonna listen to a 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.
(Crab Rave plays)
Okay. There's basically no bass, 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 wanna 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'd definitely do in a pinch.
Oh, this is totally acceptable.
As much as we brag about like high-end monitors
and stuff and they really have come a long way.
I think it's time we talk
about the price because this thing is only $150.
All of this like actually looks pretty good
and that's because labs tested this thing and it turns
out it can do a 100% 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 gonna be basically imperceptible to the human eye.
So when you're seeing something just fresh outta 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.
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, on this channel.
They're usually really good.
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 gonna 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 gonna see IPS around this price range.
The problem is they're not all gonna 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 just happened to
test literally the best one ever outta the factory.
But I don't think so.
I think that they're all gonna be pretty much
in this kind of range.
It's not gonna do anything crazy high end.
You're not gonna get amazing HDR experience on it.
You're not even gonna 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 could 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.
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