The FP71V+ is another 17in TFT from BenQ, but the real selling point of this monitor is the super-fast 5ms response time. The FP71V+ is the first sub-6ms TFT to be tested in our Labs, but they've only just made it. ViewSonic also has a super-fast TFT on the way - and this one's a 4ms TFT.
These are extremely fast screens, and we were a little dubious about these claimed speeds especially since they've just come out so quickly after the 8ms screens. This is because the new ratings are based not on the time it takes a purely black pixel to tun to pure white and back again (the standard rating for response times of a TFT), but is based on the lesser known and potentially misleading, but more accurate rating of gray-to-gray (GTG). This is the time it take a pixel to go from one shade of grey to another and back - more accurate because most video, gaming and graphics work use a mix of these colours and not the polar extremes of black and white. It's also somewhat misleading because GTG is not an entirely accepted industry metric and is incompatible against those rated with normal response time measurements.
However, this 5ms GTG rating means that ghosting in movies and gaming is almost entirely eliminated, although under testing we did still register some tearing. The colours were extremely vibrant and the contrast and brightness ratios were also good. We were pleased to find excellent pixel tracking and timing lock, and the white saturation was almost perfect.
The FP71V+ also features what BenQ calls 'Senseye' image enhancement technology, which modulates the contrast, brightness and vibrancy of colours depending on what's being displayed. With the polished screen this makes movie or gaming a pleasure on this TFT.
It's definitely one of the best TFTs we've looked at, and although the response rate may not be a true 5ms panel in the traditional sense, it is quite simply one of the clearest, fastest and gorgeous displays we've tested.
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