speancer wrote: ↑25 Oct 2021, 12:06
Despite of what Chief said, I would strongly suggest to avoid IPS panels if you had VA before and prefer VA panels in general. You'd very likely be annoyed by common IPS issues, such as poor contrast ratio, poor black uniformity, backlight bleed and IPS glow, especially on NanoIPS panels, which are known for horrible contrast.
True.
That said, the overriding factor is this original poster appears desparate to a void inversion artifacts -- if he's pretty picky enough about inversion artifacts. The good news is that the new FastIPS is so vastly superior to yesterday's IPS when compared to TN panel perspective. Minor contrast ratio differences between TN and IPS is not as annoying as nasty inversion artifacts.
A left field option is the newer 42" LG OLED HDTV being used as a monitor, if you can get your hands on that one. Definitely no inversion artifacts and way superior to VA in all attributes (except possibly lag & fear of burn-in)
For me, I am more picky about inversion artifacts and motion resolution (motion blur -- this is
Blur Busters after all --
Some people are also super picky about other attributes like ghosting, which VA is very bad for dark colors too -- this becomes more of an issue at 240Hz+ though than 60Hz. The difference in GtG between different pixel colors is much more pronounced when certain GtG's complete within a refresh cycle and other GtG's take multiple refresh cycles to complete, creating the odd "lags less during bright picture, lags more during dark pictures" inconsistent lagfeel from VA smearing of dark colors. The inconsistent blurring/ghosting/lagfeel drives some people nuts. VA panels are much better now at higher refresh rates but far behind TN and IPS (especially newer Fast IPS). This isn't as important for low-framerate movies (24fps material etc) and VA is absolutely a fantastic movie-watching panel though.
Different people see differently, and see a bunch of artifacts they are pickier about. Personally I'm more picky about motion resolution than a 5x difference in contrast ratio.
For me, it takes a 20x, sometimes even a 40x difference (e.g. OLED, FALD, etc) before contrast ratio is punchy enough to compensate for other worsenings (e.g. inversion artifacts), when playing triple digit frame rate games. Some people are so picky about contrast ratio that even a 2x factor wins, but other attributes can outweigh sufficiently for some of us here at Blur Busters, where we're all about
motion/temporal quality (GtG, MPRT, lag, etc). People here, right here, on Blur Busters, are usually slightly less pickier than the average AVSFORUM or HomeTheaterForum user, and more motion-videophiles. Thusly. my advice is biased to the average forum pickiness, because people who post here instead of elsewhere, usually have a higher likelihood of temporal-issue pickiness.
The contrast ratio multiplier needed to outweigh annoyance of other artifacts (inversion, ghosting, etc) has become bigger now that IPS essentially mostly caught up in overshootless pixel response speed, with both IPS and TN roughly reached pixel response parity recently.
Many people willing to go IPS over VA should at least give the FastIPS technologies a try as a middle compromise (package deal of TN-like fast GtG combined with VA color gamut despite not having VA contrast ratio, and greyer blacks than VA). It used to be that TN was guaranteeed to be the fastest on the market but IPS has essentially caught up and half of the fastest post-2020 "Fast IPS" panels are now less ghosty than half of the worst TN panels still on the market today with an overlapping venn diagram. (Unless you go with fastest TNs like like XL2546's). VA and yesterday's IPS were closer in pixel response speeds but Fast IPS has pulled significantly ahead that the reduced blur of Fast IPS (especially in darker scenes) that it's instantly suddenly clear of its superiority over VA in triple-digit-framerate motion enjoyment, despite VA's superior contrast ratio.
Your advice is useful! An additional data point, especially if the original poster is a 60Hz home theater outlier who's posting here instead of wanting a 32" highest-Hz panel...
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