Arrived and set up. Haven't calibrated it yet, but have a few first impressions. I'll get the bad out of the way as it was the first thing I encountered setting it up, but the stand is BAD. I mean really, really bad. For what is a £550/£600 RRP monitor it's nothing short of shocking. The 27" AOC had a better stand, the 32" Acer has a much, much better stand. In fact I'm fairly sure with 15 minutes, the box it came in, a couple of sticks and some gaffa tape, I could make something better.
That aside, I'm very happy with the screen. Yes it glows, way less than the AOC, not as little as my Eizo, but importantly no bleed, no dead pixels, very good performance even before calibration. The little OSD touch buttons are quite nice too (even though it would be good to have some sort of indicator where they actually are, difficult locating them in a very dim room).
Importantly for £275 it's a ridiculous bargain. Add another £100 for an Ergotron and it's still a cracking deal. Much higher IQ than the AOC, I presume the BenQ too, with the ability to go higher with hardware calibration. I'd say it would be a push to heartily recommend it at full price, only because a monitor that much should really have a better stand, but as long as the image it displays is good that's really what counts.
