andimoon wrote:Is the XL2720 with the new software superior to the XL2540?
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Via equivalent adjustments (via monitor menus instead of via strobe utility) -- the XL2540 is able to create a mostly strobe-crosstalk-free 144Hz mode on the XL2540, while you cannot do that on any of the -11, -20, -30, or -35 suffixed monitors from BenQ/Zowie. This is because the XL2540 and XL2546 are both capable of even larger vertical totals than the monitors supported by Strobe Utility. However, instead of using Strobe Utility, you adjust via the monitor menus.
andimoon wrote:Or are there better "alternatives"? I really want the best results of motion blur and it's even more impossible than WQHD or IPS or something.
You've already tried a blur reduction (strobe backlight) mode before? If not, you might prefer one of the easier pre-calibrated ones.
andimoon wrote:I also read about VTweaks? But I can't explain what this is even while read the article here:
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3343
Don't base your monitor buying decision based on this post.
andimoon wrote:So, does this mean that I change my resolution from 1920x1080 to a resolution with (virtual) more pixels in height ?
It's
not increased vertical resolution. It's increased vertical
total.
Virtually, yes it's kind of like offscreen pixels -- but these have always existed in all video signals since the 1930s as "synchronization signals". The vertical sync stuff is metaphorically a hidden black bar above/below the bottom edge of your screen.
If you are a kid who's grown up in the 1970s, you'll remember old analog TVs that had rolling picture because of misadjusted VHOLD -- a rolling picture with a black bar separating the refresh cycles. The "vertical total" is the height of the active picture
PLUS the thickness of that black bar.
If you're already familiar with that -- then a bigger vertical total, simply means adding more time to separate the refresh cycles. The number of scanlines per second go faster to achieve the same refresh rate, meaning less time spent scanning visible picture and more time spent scanning off-screen (the synchronization signal) -- which today, digitally, just simply translates to a bigger pause between refresh cycles.
This is a synchronization signal, the vertical blanking interval. More information can be found in the
Custom Resolution Utility glossary (it uses the calendar metaphor to describe the shape of a video signal, from a CRU perspective).
Again, don't base your monitor buying decision based on this info.
This knowledge is only useful for
blur reduction strobe backlights requiring manual calibration such as on several BenQ/Zowie monitors. This knowledge is not necessary for automatically pre-calibrated strobe backlights such as ULMB or LightBoost which is pre-calibrated by the manufacturer.
andimoon wrote:I also found @the benq xl2540 a new model number 9H.LG9LB.QBE ( the "old" one is 9H.LFNLB.QBE ). Do you know something about that ?
That's XL2540 versus XL2546
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BenQ Zowie XL2540
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BenQ Zowie XL2546
They both have strobe backlights. The former needs to enable it via the service menu (unbranded strobe backlight), while the latter is easier to enable via main monitor menus (branded DyAC).
andimoon wrote:And how about the 24GM77 (24GM79B)?
From user reports, it has among the worst strobe crosstalk, and it has no strobe calibration capabilities (like BenQ/Zowie are able to). Far worse double-image-effect than ULMB / LightBoost / DyAC.
LG has already been notified by me, and hopefully their engineers will release new monitors that solves this.
andimoon wrote:I'm interested only on 120+ Hz strobing in general
Since you have LightBoost experience, if you're willing to spend hours (it can take more than 1 hour to fiddle with Vertical Totals & calibrate a strobe backlight) -- one of the lowest strobe crosstalk monitors available at 120Hz+ is certainly the XL2540/XL2546 since they can be tweaked to do a faster 1/240sec scanout velocity at 120Hz (more time to strobe between the refresh cycles -- creating less strobe crosstalk -- less double image effects).
Obviously you cannot strobe at the monitor's maximum refresh rate (reduced totals / reduced blanking) without massive strobe crosstalk, but you can certainly get pretty close to LightBoost-quality (and sometimes bypass it) in low strobe crosstalk. The ability to do 1/240sec LCD scanouts at 120Hz, leaves plenty of room between the refresh cycles for the strobe backlight, to minimize strobe crosstalk.