I wanted to inform I have completed tuning the EVE Spectrum 4K 144Hz monitor.
https://eve.community/t/blur-buster-eve ... tion/29085
P.S. For those with concerns about crowdfunding issues, check out my other post first about crowfunding topics. This thread is ONLY to discuss about EVE strobe features; any crowdfund politics will be moved to a different thread. Thank you!Chief Blur Buster wrote:As Chief Blur Buster I want to personally confirm that I assisted Eve with strobe tuning. I completed my strobe tuning work this week. Talk about tight timing!
I personally requested that my completion is not pre-announced since this is a first-time gaming monitor vendor that needed to pass through the whole Blur Busters process first. I prefer not seeing terrible strobing happening. I was not sure they were able to achieve it -- but I can confirm that they were able to implement all my strobe-tuning modifications. Now we went through the process and I can trust that my features is now going to be put into the shipping firmware -- I can tell more.
(For new posters, "strobing" is a motion blur reduction feature to allow LCDs to match the motion clarity of impulse-driven displays such as CRTs, plasmas, etc).
So without further ado:
Strobing Works With PC, Consoles and Televisions Sources
No computer is mandatory for strobing -- any HDMI & DP video source can gain motion blur reduction via strobing. Cable, Blu-Ray, PlayStation, X-Box. You will be able to watch sports cable television from a cable TV box connected to an EVE Spectrum, at 60Hz and 120Hz single-strobe
Despite KSF phosphor, less motion blur than a plasma TV
Users here may be familiar with the link I posted earlier -- www.blurbusters.com/red-phosphor -- as Eve has the great wide-gamut color but the KSF phosphor has a (smallish, depending on your POV) con when it comes to strobing. Fortunately I was able to confirm that the Eve 4K Spectrum manages to achieve less motion blur than a plasma TV. The middle of the screen at 60 Hz has almost no strobe crosstalk and fairly little KSF ghosting with most video content. Plasma televisions (even the famous Pioneer Plasma) has a well-known yellow-ghosting issue, and the KSF ghosting with well-tuned strobing is currently less visible than that. Despite KSF, sub-millisecond MPRT is still possible with the Eve Spectrum.
As I already posted before -- due to the impressive color but slow-strobing KSF phosphor, it is unable to pass the criteria required for a Blur Busters Approved logo. However, it went through the whole process for the best-possible that I think a KSF panel can get! However, for a KSF panel, it's not bad. I was able to tune the Eve Spectrum to have significantly less phosphor ghosting than a plasma TV.
But, the important thing at the end of the day -- EVE Spectrum manages to ghosts less than a plasma TV. Not bad for a KSF panel!
Easy Factory Pretuned Modes
The easy factory pretuned strobe refresh rates are are 50Hz, 60Hz, 100Hz, 120Hz and 144Hz.
User Defined Pulse Width
The user defined pulse width is adjustable in the onscreen menu from 1% refresh cycle to 25% refresh cycle, translating to resulting MPRTs between 1% to 25% of the refresh interval. This is a brightness versus motion clarity tradeoff. Metaphorically, it is like adjusting the speed of a CRT phosphor! Dimmer & clearer motion, versus brighter & very slightly softer motion (but still clearer than without strobing). Shorter pulse widths can be great if you use material with ultrafast motion speeds (2000 pixels/second or faster panning motions).
Retro Friendly Low-Hz Strobing
Yes, you emulator users, single-strobe custom Hz including 50 Hz and 60 Hz is supported! So your 60 years of legacy 60fps 60Hz content can be strobed faithfully like a 50-60Hz CRT at both PAL and NTSC strobe frequency. For best ergonomics, keep low-Hz strobe disabled in the bright Windows Desktop (flickers too much), and enable the strobe when you launch your copy of Sega Sonic Hedgehog or anything that demands single strobe CRT emulation! Something NVIDIA strobing (ULMB) cannot do with an external video source!
For Advanced Users: EVE Strobe Utility software package coming
As a service to all manufactures we help strobe-tune, we optionally provide a free skinned/branded versions of optional strobe tuning utilities for users. EVE has opted in. Therefore, I will ship an EVE Strobe Utility software package shortly (0-100% Strobe Phase, 1%-25% Strobe Pulse Width, and 64-Level Overdrive Gain!) for advanced users who want to dive deeper into strobe tuning. Just like professionals sometimes buys a colorimeters to calibrate advanced color, this is for advanced blur reduction users who would like additional optional control above-and-beyond. Any custom strobed Hz from 50Hz to 144Hz can be created via a custom resolution. For example 3840x2160 running at 128Hz with your custom strobe tuning.
Choice For User
Some people gets more LCD motion blur headaches and strobing is the lesser evil for some people. So your mileage will vary. Purely optional -- backlight strobing can be turned ON / OFF. Everybody has different preferences!
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Even though KSF is disqualified from a Blur Busters Approved Logo, it is a legitimate option for people looking for "wide gamut strobing" (over 130% sRGB!) that can still easily handidly beat plasma with fewer artifacts than plasma (even if not quite match CRT). But, of course, if you absolutely hate any ghosting of any kind, you'll still want to go for KSF-free options on the market.
Strobe quality is still tunable to be pretty good (KSF ghosting is less than plasma TV ghosting, but worse than CRT ghosting) as long as you're tolerant of minor red-phosphor ghosting. Crosstalk on many competing brands of monitors is often worse than the red-phosphor ghosting of KSF. Many of us are superlatively picky, so Blur Busters Approved is not awarded for KSF panels, but KSF panels can still be superior strobing than 80% of LCDs, since there's a lot of crosstalky LCDs out there, to the point they're worse than KSF ghosting.