Belinea o.display 4_24" LCD review

Page 2 - Belinea o.display 4_24" up close

As usual in ModReactor, we focus first on the packaging and accessories coming with the product. In this case the display 4_24" comes in a solid cardboard box and is held in place by three foam casts. That's good, knowing full well that our new gadget that came all that way from Asia, its nice that not that much thrust was bestowed on the shipping agents, after all it's common sense for a product with such price. The box houses the monitor, its stand, HDMI<>DVI cable, DUB9<>DUB9 cable and audio cable with 3.5мм<>3.5мм jacks. Let's not forget the power cable and the small useless book an many languages (including Bulgarian).

Let's move straight to the monitor's looks. After all except how one thing looks is important to most users, it still is the first thing you base your judgment on

The design is rather clean, the monitor is composed of two major parts - his majesty the screen and the stable stand. Here is the place to point out a drawback on behalf of Belinea o.display 4_24" - it's available only in white. That is a tad silly and a bit odd, knowing how nowadays most people like their monitors to be black. At first we assumed that Belinea didn't want to lose sales of their other, more expensive line of LCD monitors - b.line, which is definitely more stylish, but in it the biggest monitor is 4_22". Meaning it's just 22" (again odd since that line too uses a TN+Film matrix - the same as the one in o.display 4_24

Very few other monitors have such good stand. It's a pity how many companies overlook the fact hat better positioning options for the monitor give highly comfortable working environment. The stand of Belinea o.display 4_24" is incredible. Te display can raised very high or lowered all the way to the desk surface. It also can be rotated 180* either left or right (a 360* on the horizontal that is), is there any point commenting on it's ability to be positioned up or down? :) The display can also be tilted a full 180* (from landscape to portrait). We'll let the following few pictures cleat you idea about the stand:

As it is was already cleared from the table on the previous page, o.display 4_24" has both digital and analog inputs. Analog can be fed through the DUB9 connector. It is indeed for a monitor of such price and class highly unrecommended to use this option. For one that won't give quality picture, and in the end any decent and recent (from the last 3-4-5 years) videocard has DVI or another type of connector for digital signal. It's assumed that if you are spending 850 leva (~430 Euro) for 24" monitor would be in the group with digital outputs, still a bit of insurance from of Belinea is understandable. But in this monitor the HDMI input is the more important, through HDCP it allows working with information that is protected from copying. HDMI is completely compatible with DVI and even the cable that comes with the monitor is HDMI<>DVI. Last but not least is the analog audio connector for the integrated speakers of course.

And now with great eagerness we begin the testing.