Re: BENQ Zowie XL2746S/XL2546S Owners Thread
Posted: 31 May 2020, 13:33
Yes, while the venn diagram overlaps, there's certain preferences for TN behaviours of the newer TN panels.
Those champions that earn enough money to buy a house, definitely have to cherrypick -- even down to single-digit milliseconds and things like monitor-help features (boosting shadows, or using excess overdrive as a tracer-like motion alerting feature)
This is part of why I am sometimes frustrated at manufacturers for not providing a 128-level overdrive gain slider.
--> Some users prefer no overdrive at all (care less about IPS ghosting, their vision is super-sensitive to coronas)
--> Freezing homes (artic) will slow pixel response, requiring slightly higher overdrive
--> Hot homes (tropics) will speed pixel response, requiring slightly less overdrive
--> Some users have a preference to faster pixel response with slight coronas
--> Some users want super-excess blatant overdrive (BenQ AMA Premium) because it's like a tracer-bullet assist feature (enemy moves; it suddenly glows like a christmas tree thanks to ovedrive)
I did some OD-gain tests on the XG270 (during calibration, I had temporary access to 128-level overdrive commonly found in scalers/TCON) and I was able to make the IPS glow like a christmas tree almost like a BenQ AMA, at least at slightly lower refresh rates such as 224Hz. The ghosting completely disappeared but the panel was glowy like BenQ AMA. Not sure how fast it will feel to an esports player because of the shockingly disparate preferences (which I respect).
However, manufacturers typically do not want to do this, most just want to offer a piddly 3 or 4 or 5 adjustments for Overdrive.
This is a completely separate topic altogether, but I will probably be posting a new Blur Busters article to bring attention that the monitor manufacturing world needs to move to Overslide Sliders (an adjustment bar similar to Brightness and Contrast)
Those champions that earn enough money to buy a house, definitely have to cherrypick -- even down to single-digit milliseconds and things like monitor-help features (boosting shadows, or using excess overdrive as a tracer-like motion alerting feature)
This is part of why I am sometimes frustrated at manufacturers for not providing a 128-level overdrive gain slider.
--> Some users prefer no overdrive at all (care less about IPS ghosting, their vision is super-sensitive to coronas)
--> Freezing homes (artic) will slow pixel response, requiring slightly higher overdrive
--> Hot homes (tropics) will speed pixel response, requiring slightly less overdrive
--> Some users have a preference to faster pixel response with slight coronas
--> Some users want super-excess blatant overdrive (BenQ AMA Premium) because it's like a tracer-bullet assist feature (enemy moves; it suddenly glows like a christmas tree thanks to ovedrive)
I did some OD-gain tests on the XG270 (during calibration, I had temporary access to 128-level overdrive commonly found in scalers/TCON) and I was able to make the IPS glow like a christmas tree almost like a BenQ AMA, at least at slightly lower refresh rates such as 224Hz. The ghosting completely disappeared but the panel was glowy like BenQ AMA. Not sure how fast it will feel to an esports player because of the shockingly disparate preferences (which I respect).
However, manufacturers typically do not want to do this, most just want to offer a piddly 3 or 4 or 5 adjustments for Overdrive.
This is a completely separate topic altogether, but I will probably be posting a new Blur Busters article to bring attention that the monitor manufacturing world needs to move to Overslide Sliders (an adjustment bar similar to Brightness and Contrast)