Yes, I wrote several posts there.
I am familiar with crowdfunding and its inherent risks. However, they have have (with the usual crowdfunder entrepreneur difficulty) finally shipped an actual computer hardware product. We do not comment on the relative success or customer satisfaction-ratios, except know that crowdfunding is simply an inherently risky affair. I also know what (real!) panel Eve is going to be sourcing for this specific gaming monitor initative.
Regardless of whether they ship or not:
If they ship, and I hope they will, then at least it'll be better because of our help. By having information, they're less likely to botch up the strobe-backlight portion of their project. Many monitor vendors have used our information to improve their gaming monitors. I've seen too much botched firmwares over the years. It is best that if they ship the monitor, that they have all the necessary information. There is much kudos to any manufacturer willing to avoid making mistakes with their strobe backlight programming.Chief Blur Buster wrote:Blur Busters "rising tide lifts all boats" policy is to volunteer the freely-available portion of Blur Busters information -- the non-NDA stuff we've already publicly published over the last decade -- to all monitor vendors (new or established) to help them improve the quality of their monitors.
Please note that for all crowdfunding initiatives, it is a "buy at your own risk". That said, I do support dozens of crowdfund project (with only 1 failure in my record; and a great patience for 3-month-late through 18-month-late shipments for various crowdfund sites I've supported). Delayed delivery is par for the course, so factor this accordingly in your decisions. Some projects fail and some projects succeed, and I've accepted that risk when I (give, send, offer, donate) money to a crowdfund initiative.
But that's beside the point. Blur Busters offers free information in a "rising tide lifts all boats", the same valuable freely available information and white-papers any manufacturer can obtain from us freely (before paying for our services). Since that monitor has a strobe backlight, I wamt to make sure that they have all the information necessary to make that portion good enough and tunable enough. While we are indeed very picky about Logo Certification, we freely volunteer various information (Strobe Backlight Hacking FAQ and dozen other documents) that can help a manufacturer avoid mistakes with blur reduction modes, etc.
All crowdfund initiatives (IndieGoGo or KickStarter or others like these) are inherent risks. It doesn't matter regardless of Eve or not -- The general advice applies; Do not buy from a crowdfund if you cannot tolerate risk of losing your money. However, if you understand the risks and wish to support / invest / contribute to a crowdfund initiative, go for it.
Crowdfunding is crowdfunding, risk is risk. That said, we're glad to offer the large trove of freely available portion of Blur Busters knowledge to make sure they have the information to engineer the strobe backlight properly. It is true that they still have to utilize/use any information we offer -- but I'm always very glad to provide generic publicly-available non-NDA information to any manufacturers, big and small. We have some of the best publicly available information, knowledge & tests about strobe backlights that aren't hiding behind paywalls or NDAs, stuff we've published since 2012 when our website used to be "scanningbacklight.com" before it was renamed Blur Busters.
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