AOC 23 inch IPS Monitor, Display Port, 2 x HDMI, VGA, MHL, Speakers, Vesa I2369VM

Product Information

There was some loss in peripheral sections (particularly corners) due to IPS glow but nothing game breaking.

| AOC Monitors

As usual the Nvidia card sent out completely the wrong colour signal to the monitor, washing out colours and hugely reducing contrast. It is ‘lighter’ (has a lower haze value) than the notoriously ‘grainy’ surfaces used on most older IPS models.AOC are not as well-known as many other monitor manufacturers, but they certainly know how to achieve that crucial combination of style, performance and affordability. This gives a greater number of milestones to work from and helps narrow down the input lag more reliably.

AOC I2369VM review | 65 facts and highlights - Versus AOC I2369VM review | 65 facts and highlights - Versus

There’s also an analogue PC audio input and a headphone jack should you prefer this option over the built-in speakers. Due to the ‘ultra wide’ aspect ratio there were black bars around 30mm thick at the top and bottom of the screen. This is cumulative and resets if you turn the monitor off then on again – there is no proximity sensor or anything ‘smart’ like that.

The first block blended into the background a little too well but the remaining blocks were distinct against the background. This provides fairly gradual adjustments to the backlight intensity, tending towards fairly high brightness even during mixed images.

AOC i2369Vm Review | Expert Reviews

Uniformity can vary between units but this is very pleasing to see for any class of monitor, not least a budget model. The sound obviously can’t compare to a decent set of standalone speakers but the speaker is there to provide simple sound output if you need it. The AOC i2369Vm gave a good static contrast performance, averaging 1058:1 across all the brightness settings tested for ‘Gamma1’. The ‘DPS’ (Dynamic Power Saver) feature which we’ve mentioned a few times already is another dynamic contrast setting which gives full access to all settings.Due to a production fault with our review unit these were printed onto a temporary sticky label but on actual production models they are printed properly printed onto the bottom bezel. Its IPS panel ensures great colour reproduction and wide viewing angles, but this display out-performs all others by some considerable margin by achieving the highest measured contrast ratio of any of the IPS displays.

AOC i2369Vm Review | PC Monitors

A highly sensitive camera was used to capture any trailing on the monitor that results from the pixel responses (changing state from one colour to another). The bottom left was the worst offender here but there was nothing particularly bothersome, which is good. A slight cool green tint to the image but no issues with over (or under) saturation or crushed shades. With pleasing image performance, strong responsiveness and attractive pricing the monitor already has a lot going for it. Because it is designed to save power it only dims from there, dimming most for the darkest (blackest) images.Then there are a few other nice additions to consider such as very slender bezels, an MHL-capable HDMI port and a DisplayPort input. Switching gamma mode had no detrimental impact here with 1055:1 recorded under ‘Gamma2’ and 1064:1 using ‘Gamma3’. The graphics card essentially recognises anything connected via HDMI as a TV rather than a monitor which means that a suboptimal signal is sent out. Our test settings involved some colour channel adjustments, reducing contrast slightly to 956:1 which is still good. Contrast ratio is the visual distance between the lightest and the darkest colors that may be reproduced on the display.