BENQ XL2720Z: Another official motion blur-eliminating strobe backlight

Posted Oct 31, 2013 by

The tsunami wave of low-persistence CRT-motion-quality LCD’s continues.

Hot on heels of G-SYNC official strobe mode, and EIZO’s Turbo240 official strobe mode, BENQ announces the XL2720Z (Z-suffix) with the Motion Blur Reduction feature, which Blur Busters confirms is another high-efficiency LightBoost-style strobe backlight, official and easily enabled in monitor menus.

EDIT: Blur Busters confirmed strobing directly from BENQ staff; BENQ is also sending a review unit to Blur Busters before the Holidays, for us to test as well.
EDIT: See new Blur Busters Strobe Utility to tweak BENQ Blur Reduction.

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felvhage
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felvhage

I was kind of expecting BENQ to devliver a G-SYNC monitor next. But this sounds like another proprietary (yet lightboost copy) strobing system.
Still hoping for a Monitor with “adaptive-rate backlight strobing”.

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damiola
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damiola

You are doing great work Mark. Waiting for reviews and benchmarks.

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Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

I’m told November or December, so we’ll get it before the Holidays. Keep tuned.

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boniek
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boniek

Why another tn@1080p wtf?

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Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Patience; given the pace of strobe backlight technology, it’s probable that strobe backlights will arrive to 1440p and possibly 4K within a couple years. It will probably need DisplayPort 2.0 for that to happen.

Being designed for 2D motion blur reduction (rather than 3D Vision), the BENQ Motion Blur Reduction Mode will be much better than LightBoost, but not as good as IPS/VA. This is a good first step: The tsunami wave of official LightBoost copycats.

BENQ is sending a review unit to Blur Busters (ETA: Before the end of the year).

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boniek
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boniek

Yeah. I guess I am just too impatient ;). 4k is way out of reach though (too costly to buy and maintain) and I would be perfectly happy with 1440p. Thanks for all your work to educate people about issue.

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SS4
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SS4

The reason why lots of gamer sticks to 1080p is because its easier to get higher frame rate in game. The more pizel your pushing the harder it is to constantly put out that 100+ fps needed. I cant imagine what kind of crazy GPU setup it will take to get 100+ fps on a 4k screen unless you turn down all the graphic options . . . but then you end up with a very fluid ugly image so its not any better lol.
Until GPU makes a tremendous leap i as well as many other will stick to 1080 although we would prefer higher res . . . just pick your poison i guess 😛

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Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

That’s true too. 1080p makes it easier to keep the high frame rates needed. Strobe backlights looks best at stroberate matching framerate, and most strobe backlights run at triple-digit strobes per second (e.g. 120Hz). So, 120fps@120Hz looks best with LightBoost. And it’s easier on a GPU to do 1080p@120fps than 1440p@120fps or 2160p@120fps (4K).

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