My one sticking point with the XL2730Z is its TN panel, which lacks the vibrancy and excellent viewing angles of an IPS LCD. The screen uses a nice anti-glare coating, with no crosshatching visible unless you get your eyes very, very close. At full brightness, it reaches a plenty bright 350 cd/m2 , and the monitor itself is packed with features and adjustments: game specific settings including blur reduction and auto game mode, which will switch display profiles based on the genre of game you start up; the usual picture settings for brightness, contrast, gamma, etc., plus BenQ’s pixel overdrive mode AMA; and a display mode feature that uses the monitor’s scaler to display a range of 4:3, 16:9 and 16:10 screen sizes, from 17 inches to 24 inches. The display mode also features 1:1 pixel mapping, if you’d prefer to run a game at its native resolution without scaling it up to the full screen size (running a game at 640x480 would only use a small portion of the overall display, for example).