BenQ's attractive FP767-12 delivers enough image quality for typical home use, but it isn’t quite all it's cracked up to be for gaming and video.
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The BenQ FP767-12's rounded, two-tone bezel and chrome-color speakers give it more pizzazz than other 17-inch LCDs, such as Sony's sober SDM-X73 or Planar's pedestrian PE170. The FP767-12's black-and-silver design recalls the era of chromed-up cars and two-tone shoes (it also comes in white and purple or white and silver). The rounded, black bezel runs three-quarters of an inch along the top and sides of the screen. The bezel's bottom two inches house a silver-colored control panel and set of speakers, which reminded us of the grille on a 1954 Cadillac Eldorado.
But for all its hints of golden-era car design, the FP767-12 is disappointingly stationary. Its base is an unremarkable plastic slab that doesn't prevent the screen from wobbling. The panel neither pivots nor swivels, and you can't raise or lower it. You can, however, tilt it about 30 degrees backward, and the panel will come apart from the base for use with a wall-mounting kit. There's a small slot in the base's back edge to gather the power and signal cables.
