Yep, that's why I was interested & hyped for the Pulsar panels in the first place... but sadly we didn't get the adjustability & HDMI 2.1 bandwidth i was hoping for.
Only thing we got was an exorbitant price point for a QHD 360Hz LCD (2022 pricepoint) in the 2026 market (where equivalent panels cost 200–400€)
The biggest thing people forget is that VSYNC ON is also a viable path to tackle 'tearing'...MPRT|GTFO wrote: ↑29 Jan 2026, 17:59It is especially good for the cases where the frame rate is always above the refresh rate. In those cases turning off any sync modes and FPS caps is often better for more consistent and a little lower average latency, for reducing geometric skew (turning it into a sawtooth pattern instead), and tear lines are very hard and rare to even notice anyway.
Tear lines only ever became a boogeyman once LCDs started being passed off for something appropriate for gaming and moving pictures. Yeah, of course people would notice tear lines when they're the only freaking sharp thing on a moving picture blurred by persistence and pixel response. And then, of course people would be irritated even more with global strobing, where tear lines become just a manifestation of a nasty timing error: frame fragments representing different moments in time are shown at the same moment in time. That's potentially an even bigger problem. The whole LCD evolution was a tale of "if you think the problems they create are bad, wait til you see their solutions" all along. So, now that we've done a full circle back to frame transport, scanout and illumination all being done in the same scanning manner, guess what, there will barely be any positive sides to capping frame rates or enabling VRR for the cases where the frame rate stays above the refresh rate. And those cases are many, and increasing.
Which is why I find the Pulsar aspect (VRR+PWM) mediocre as well.
Great write-up, I agree.
Yep. I'm waiting for such a model to occur.MPRT|GTFO wrote: ↑29 Jan 2026, 17:59So there will be a big and wide usefulness to a future display (not these, apparently) which may or may not even have VRR support at all, but which combines rolling illumination of some type (either LCD scanning backlight like Pulsar, or a return to rolling scan self-emissive, like some OLEDs already have) and low persistence/MPRT below 0.3ms (actually time spent anywhere near peak luminance, which is what causes the worst of motion blur with fast motion), like a CRT. But with some substantial improvement over all CRT monitors for once, like higher resolution and size, unlike those small TN panels.
For now, only the MiniLED panels (e.g.: MSI 274UPDF E16M) & the new Pulsar panels (but only ≥240Hz) are viable choices for rolling-scan backlight strobing that targets the ≤1ms MPRT range (closest thing to the term “CRT equivalent”)
Rest is either 'plagued' by global scan, KSF/PFS (red fringing), bad PPI (e.g.: XG270 & 27" FHD BenQ models) or too high of a refresh rate to avoid PWM desync (XL2586X)
I personally don't see reason to expose oneself to flicker (especially multi-strobe flicker from Pulsar) for barely any clarity effects.
