I've got to say Falkentyne, that monitor does look damn nice! However what are Eizo like as a monitor manufacturer? I've never owned any of their monitors before, are they focused on high-end solutions or have I just been living under a rock for the last few years!?
Also, what makes you think it'll be any better than the ASUS MG279Q?
Eizo will cost your arm, leg and your firstborn. Remember this is an IPS 2560x1440, so it won't be cheap
The MG279Q does not have ANY sort of blur reduction. the Eizo will, which makes it far more attractive just for that alone.
If the Eizo can do 60hz single strobe without crosstalk covering 80% of the screen I'll be all over that thing.
Wonder if the Eizo can use freesync with blur reduction at the same time. THIS will be interesting...if it double strobed, there would be no 60hz strobe backlight flicker for low framerates...
And Eizo got a very bad rap on hardforum due to their Foris FG2421 VA panel (with 105hz-120hz strobing, although it double strobed, 105hz via custom resolution was the low limit) being a bigger panel lottery than the Acer XB270HU was. They were using parts that didn't meet QA standards for their $4,000 satellite panel (it was basically 100% identical spec wise) so you could have any sorts of random issues like big screen imperfections, bad gamma issues, discolorations, crosshatching so obvious it made games look bad in certain spots, or you could wind up with a panel that looked like the best thing you have ever seen.
Simon @ Tftcentral (And PCM2 of pcmonitors): if you get an Eizo for testing, PLEASE test the blur reduction at multiple refresh rates!
/rant mode on
I'm still going to call benq later and ask them if they can fix the strobe issues with the XL2730Z. I don't even think they KNOW why vertical total tweaks worked on the previous Z series also, but I'm 100% sure its a "feature" (side effect) of them using part of the Lightboost hardware and adapting it to blur reduction through the Mstar scaler and some extra logic added, e.g. the brown wire allowing full LED on/off control of the backlight. Benq claimed to someone who had asked about the strobe bugs, that single strobe could not be added by a realtek firmware update, but that doesn't explain the 100hz sync issue. I mean...I can make the XL2720Z go out of sync also by using the 120hz vertical total VT at 100hz via a custom resolution on the Mstar ones!! So I don't get it...
The whole reason our older Z series monitors would strobe at every refresh rate was because it 1) would revert to failsafe 60hz backlight pulse widths (persistence values) if the vertical total were not at the default VT expected for that resolution, but would keep the strobe pulse for the refresh rate correctly, and 2) the Vertical Total value controlled the strobe "Area" (pulse) Signal to the scaler (VT 1500=lightboost crosstalk aka "Accelerated scanout", which is why VT 1502 is the highest VT possible (1440p type VT).
