BenQ Bl2420pt User Manual
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31 How to adjust your monitor Choosing an appropriate picture mode Your monitor provides various picture modes that are suitable for different types of images. See Picture Mode on page 37 for all the available picture modes. Go to Picture Advanced and Picture Mode for a desired picture mode. Connecting the monitor to your MacBook series product While the monitor is connected to your MacBook series product, switch to M-book mode which represents MacBook’s color matching and visual representation on your monitor. 1. Connect your monitor to the MacBook series product. 2. Go to Picture Advanced and Picture Mode. 3. Select M-book. The setting will take effect immediately.
32 Navigating the main menu Navigating the main menu You can use the OSD (On Screen Display) menu to adjust all the settings on your monitor. Press any of the control keys to bring up the hot key menu, and press (Menu) to access the main menu. See Basic menu operation on page 28 for details. Available menu options may vary depending on the input sources, functions and settings. Menu options that are not available will become grayed out. And keys that are not available will be disabled and the corresponding OSD icons will disappear. For models without certain functions, their settings and related items will not appear on the menu. For more information on each menu, please refer to the following pages: • Display menu on page 33 • Picture menu on page 35 • Picture Advanced menu on page 37 • Audio menu on page 40 • Ergonomics menu on page 45 • Eco menu on page 47 • System menu on page 41 The OSD menu languages may differ from the product supplied to your region, see Language on page 42 under System and OSD Settings for more details.
33 Navigating the main menu Display menu Available menu options may vary depending on the input sources, functions and settings. Menu options that are not available will become grayed out. And keys that are not available will be disabled and the corresponding OSD icons will disappear. For models without certain functions, their settings and related items will not appear on the menu. 1. Select (Menu) from the hot key menu. 2. Use or to select Display. 3. Select to go to a sub menu, and then use or to select a menu item. 4. Use or to make adjustments, or use to make selection. 5. To return to the previous menu, select . 6. To exit the menu, select . 50Display Picture Picture Advanced Audio System Ergonomics Eco Mode: Standard Auto Adjustment Auto Pivot Input H. Position V. Position Pixel Clock Phase ItemFunctionRange Auto Adjustment Optimizes and adjusts the screen settings automatically for you. Not applicable to a digital input signal. Auto Pivot Sets to rotate the display with the monitor. Input Use this to change the input to that appropriate to your video cable connection type.• D-Sub • DVI • HDMI • DisplayPort
34 Navigating the main menu H. Position Adjusts the horizontal position of the screen image. 0 to 100 V. Position Adjusts the vertical position of the screen image. 0 to 100 Pixel Clock Adjusts the pixel clock frequency timing to synchronize with the analog input video signal. See also: Picture optimization on page 30. Not applicable to a digital input signal. 0 to 100 Phase Adjusts the pixel clock phase timing to synchronize with the analog input video signal. See also: Picture optimization on page 30. Not applicable to a digital input signal. 0 to 63 ItemFunctionRange
35 Navigating the main menu Picture menu Available menu options may vary depending on the input sources, functions and settings. Menu options that are not available will become grayed out. And keys that are not available will be disabled and the corresponding OSD icons will disappear. For models without certain functions, their settings and related items will not appear on the menu. 1. Select (Menu) from the hot key menu. 2. Use or to select Picture. 3. Select to go to a sub menu, and then use or to select a menu item. 4. Use or to make adjustments, or use to make selection. 5. To return to the previous menu, select . 6. To exit the menu, select . 50 100100 RGB 100 Display Picture Picture Advanced Audio System Ergonomics Eco Mode: Standard Normal Bluish Reddish User Define Brightness Contrast Sharpness Gamma Color Temperature Hue Saturation Reset Color ItemFunctionRange Brightness Adjusts the balance between light and dark shades. 0 to 100 Contrast Adjusts the degree of difference between darkness and lightness. 0 to 100 Sharpness Adjusts the clarity and visibility of the edges of the subjects in the image.1 to 10
36 Navigating the main menu Gamma Adjusts the tone luminance. The default value is 3 (the standard value for Windows).• 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 Color Temperature Normal Allows video and still photographs to be viewed with natural coloring. This is the factory default color. Bluish Applies a cool tint to the image and is factory pre-set to the PC industry standard white color. Reddish Applies a warm tint to the image and is factory pre-set to the news print standard white color. User Define The blend of the Red, Green and Blue primary colors can be altered to change the color tint of the image. Go to the succeeding R (red), G(green), and B (blue) menus to change the settings. Decreasing one or more of the colors will reduce their respective influence on the color tint of the image. (e.g. if you reduce the Blue level the image will gradually take on a yellowish tint. If you reduce Green, the image will become a magenta tint.)• R (0~100) • G (0~100) • B (0~100) Hue Adjusts the degree of how we perceive colors. 0 ~ 100 Saturation Adjusts the purity degree of colors. 0 ~ 100 Reset Color Resets the custom color settings to the factory defaults. • YES • NO AMA Improves the gray level response time of the LCD panel. • OFF • High • Premium ItemFunctionRange
37 Navigating the main menu Picture Advanced menu Available menu options may vary depending on the input sources, functions and settings. Menu options that are not available will become grayed out. And keys that are not available will be disabled and the corresponding OSD icons will disappear. For models without certain functions, their settings and related items will not appear on the menu. 1. Select (Menu) from the hot key menu. 2. Use or to select Picture Advanced. 3. Select to go to a sub menu, and then use or to select a menu item. 4. Use or to make adjustments, or use to make selection. 5. To return to the previous menu, select . 6. To exit the menu, select . 50Display Picture Picture Advanced Audio System Ergonomics Eco Mode: StandardPicture Mode Senseye Demo Dynamic Contrast Overscan Display Mode Color Format HDMI RGB PC RangesRGB CAD / CAM Animation Presentation Standard Low Blue Light Movie Photo ItemFunctionRange Picture Mode Select a picture mode that best suits the type of images shown on the screen. sRGB For better color matching representation with the peripheral devices, such as printers, digital cameras, etc. CAD / CAM Enhances the contrast if a CAD / CAM software is used. Animation Enhances the contrast of the dark shades so you could work on the details easily when making an animation.0 ~ 10
38 Navigating the main menu Presentation Minimizes the differences of color, contrast, and brightness between the images displayed on the monitor and projected by a projector. Standard For basic PC application. Low Blue Light Decreases the blue light emitted from the display to reduce the risk of blue light exposure to your eyes. The value for each Low Blue Light mode indicates how much blue light is decreased compared with the Standard mode. Multimedia For viewing multimedia files. -30% Web Surfing For web surfing. -50% Office For office works or office environment. -60% Reading For reading e-books or documents. -70% Movie For viewing videos. Photo For viewing still images. Eco For saving electricity with low power consumption by providing minimum brightness for all running programs. M-book Minimizes the visual differences between the monitor and the connected MacBook series product. User Applies a combination of picture settings defined by users. Senseye Demo Displays the preview of screen images under the selected mode from Picture Mode. The screen will be divided into two windows; the left window demonstrates images of Standard mode, while the right window presents the images under the specified mode.• ON • OFF Dynamic Contrast The function is to automatically detect the distribution of an input visual signal, and then to create the optimal contrast.0 to 5 Overscan Slightly enlarges the input image. Use this feature to hide annoying edge noise if present around your image. Available only when the input source is HDMI, DP, or D-Sub (VGA converted from Component). • ON • OFF ItemFunctionRange
39 Navigating the main menu Display Mode This feature is provided to allow aspect ratios other than 16:9 to be displayed without geometric distortion. The options under Display Mode will be different depending on the input signal sources. Depending on your selection of Picture Mode, different Display Mode option is pre-set. Change the setting if needed. Full Scales the input image to fill the screen. Ideal for 16:9 aspect images. Aspect The input image is displayed without geometric distortion filling as much of the display as possible. 1:1 Displays the input image in its native resolution without scaling. Color Format Determines the color space ( RGB or YUV) based on the detected video signal. You might need to manually set the Color Format if colors shown on the monitor screen do not display properly. If the input source is HDMI or DP, color format is not selectable. In other words, Color Format is automatically set depending on the input video source. RGB • For D-Sub (VGA) input source from PC. • For DVI input source. YUV For D-Sub (Component converted from VGA) input source from a video device. HDMI RGB PC Range Determines the range of color scales. Select an option that matches the RGB range setting on the connected HDMI device.• RGB (0 ~ 255) • RGB (16 ~ 235) ItemFunctionRange
40 Navigating the main menu Audio menu Available menu options may vary depending on the input sources, functions and settings. Menu options that are not available will become grayed out. And keys that are not available will be disabled and the corresponding OSD icons will disappear. For models without certain functions, their settings and related items will not appear on the menu. 1. Select (Menu) from the hot key menu. 2. Use or to select Audio. 3. Select to go to a sub menu, and then use or to select a menu item. 4. Use or to make adjustments, or use to make selection. 5. To return to the previous menu, select . 6. To exit the menu, select . ItemFunctionRange Vo l u m e Adjusts the audio volume. 0 ~ 100 Mute Mutes the audio input.• ON • OFF Audio Select (for models with more than 2 audio sources)Allow users to select the audio source or let the monitor detect it automatically.• PC Audio • Auto Detect 50Display Picture Picture Advanced Audio System Ergonomics Eco Mode: Standard92Volume Mute Audio Select