My mother got this today.
Works fine and is flicker free.
Advertised as having 8 bit color on the box. No dithering on BenQ VA panels I hear.
BenQ GW2760HS
Was it by chance that this model was purchased, or was it something you had picked out?
13 days later
I vote on this monitor. I am planning to buy this one.
With native 8bit MVA panel designed in Taiwan. Flicker free.
Did your mom feel any uncomfortable on that one?
2 months later
JTL Glad this worked for you. I just bought it from BestBuy online after reading this. Here's hoping.
JTL Should be here in the next day or two. Just out of curiosity, this monitor still working for you?
ThackeryBinks Oh I don't use that monitor very much (I use my Macbook Pro with AMD graphics at the moment)
But when I do use it it's fine.
Looking into a 2.5 or 4k monitor for myself as something more permanent that will keep me happy for a while.
JTL Thanks man! Good luck on the UHD monitors!
ThackeryBinks Thanks
23 days later
Recently I purchased a brand new BENQ RL2455HM 24 inch Flicker-free Gaming Monitor, and this monitor is as advertised. No PWM across all brightness. I can use this monitor without eye strain. My only (small) complaint is that I would like the minimum brightness to be just slightly darker. Right now I am using the monitor at 0% brightness, the lowest brightness setting. Sometimes at night when all lights are switched off, I find the monitor too be a bit bright. I would prefer to if it can go a few steps darker. But this is just small complaint. What is more important is that this monitor is flicker-free and I can use it without eye strain.
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You should look at BenQ VA monitors. If you additionally lower the contrast, which on a modern VA doesn't look bad at all, you can reach iPad and iPhone minimum brightness levels (5 cd/m2). It's not gaming though.
I was told the BenQ GC2870H has 20 cd/m2 and so it probably can be lowered to such a level, too. Its casing looks similar to my BenQ EW2440L. Probably all those similar looking BenQ VA monitors have a similar low minimum brightness.
17 days later
Yesterday I've received Benq GW2270HM it's also PWM free and VA panel, contrast and brightness at minimum. After few hours of testing with connected MacBook Pro Retina thru HDMI my eyes get strong strain, head pain and almost threw up had to go to sleep for few hours. I'll try to use it tomorrow because today I still feel pain. Got 14 days to return we will see.
3 months later
degen I might wait for OLED displays. My OnePlus 3 smartphone which has a pentile AMOLED is much better for my eyes. As opposed to "minimum brightness, reduced contrast, dark room", I can use it at a reasonable brightness level in daylight. And I have almost no red or burning eyes when waking up anymore.
Some time ago I wanted to try the 28" BenQ GC2870H because it has a blue-green LED backlight (EW2440L has just "White LED" = blue), supposedly 8 bit panel without FRC, and is bigger. I thought if they also use a green LED they might have made the blue one less bright which might end up in me being able to use a higher brightness. I don't know the LEDs ratio though. In the OnePlus 3 it's 1:2:1 RGB, although the blue LEDs might be equally larger and then I'd have no good explanation for why the display is usable for me at high brightness.
20 days later
I've been using the GW2760HS for an hour now. My first impression is that my the muscles around my eyes are not as relaxed as when using the EW2440L. Also the minimum brightness is not as low.
I've been using it since I wrote that and my eyes are dry and tired, which is expected after so long. I don't thing its quite as comfortable as the EW2440L but it's very close. Definitely not a migraine monitor, I'm going to keep it. Love the extra screen size for gaming.