ViewSonic XG2431 Discussion Thread [Blur Busters Approved XG2431 - 24" 240Hz IPS with Best Strobing]

[ZMN]

Would the response and processing benefits of this monitor also improve movies/video?

I'm looking for a screen about this size to watch podcasts on. These podcasts tend to be 1080p @ 30fps. Main thing I'm interested in is low ghosting and smooth motion, particularly if the video is presented at a higher frame rate. Is this a great monitor for podcast viewing or should I look elsewhere? Note, I don't want bigger nor do I want higher resolution for the content I'm interested in.

Cheers!

[chandler]

are there any input lag + motion response time measurements of the XG2431 by the way? even something "relative" so to speak? I look at RTINGS charts for comparison and I assume they haven't reviewed it yet.

I just wanna know how it compares to my XL2540 (or the XL2546K) ...being "Fast-IPS" vs these 2 TN models..

I know that picture quality wise after seeing the only 2 decent reviews on youtube, its not even a competition between the viewsonic and the XL2546K, the benq's ufo pictures honestly look like some generic 60hz display shots compared to the XG2431 (which is the closest Ive ever seen to the reference ufo image)

** I INTEND TO USE 144Hz FOR AT LEAST A COUPLE OF MONTHS** ... and the 144hz strobed images of the XG2431 look stunning.. (I assume the reviewers [both Bijan Jamshidi & Optimum Tech] didn't tweak the VT also and that the pictures they provided can be improved even a bit more)

my only 2 concerns are about the non-adjustable gamma and the question of how fast is this panel exactly (input lag and response time)

[pmbaron]

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Thanks for the very detailed answer! I guess I need to see the differences with my own eyes, then. I havent managed to try DyAc on the 2546k so far, strobing on my 2540 didnt yield great results.

Thanks for clearing up some of the confusion around MPRT, it isnt a metric I payed a lot of attention to, so far.

Thanks for this website btw, I am lurking for many years and am impressed how you rather single-handedly managed to make moving pictures great again. It shudders me when I think about lcd-monitors before the dawn of 120hz. those almost destroyed the entire genre of FPS.

[Chief Blur Buster]

Would the response and processing benefits of this monitor also improve movies/video?

I'm looking for a screen about this size to watch podcasts on. These podcasts tend to be 1080p @ 30fps. Main thing I'm interested in is low ghosting and smooth motion, particularly if the video is presented at a higher frame rate. Is this a great monitor for podcast viewing or should I look elsewhere? Note, I don't want bigger nor do I want higher resolution for the content I'm interested in.

It's a good general purpose movie-watching and video-watching screen too.

For color and contrast, it is not wide-color-gamut like many LG NanoIPS or VA screens, which would be superior 24fps movie watching screens, but it is much better than most 24 inch monitors in movie motion. The XG2431 does smoothly support 24p (either natively or via multiples, 48Hz, 72Hz, 96Hz), and the fast pixel response time means you won't see the characteristic LCD smearing -- just ordinary persistence motion blur typical of sample and hold displays that is par for course for virtually all 24" flat panels ever greeting a desktop.

But, there's something that shines here: 60fps sports without motion blur

Since PureXP supports 60Hz (and nearby common 59.94Hz too). If you want less motion blur in video material, the XG2431 is almost the best 24" 60fps LCD "television" on the market you can watch sports action on unimpeded by display motion blur, due to PureXP GPU-independent single support for video, cable boxes, 60fps consoles, and 60fps material. It was a mandatory requirement that PureXP supports 60Hz.

For 60fps video material of ultra fast action, like sports POV camera (or racing / red bull air race / skydiving and wingsuiting / skiing / roller coaster / etc), it's kind of neat to enable PureXP and see CRT motion quality video on a ViewSonic XG2431. No other 24" monitor can pull this off reliably with video material. The ViewSonic XG2431 60Hz PureXP motion resolution handling beats all plasma televisions (even Pioneer Kuro) in motion handling, and all LG OLED TVs with BFI=ON. While not as bright or colorful, it is one of the only 24" panels to match and beat the motion resolution of a CRT tube for 60fps 60Hz material in a GPU-independent video-source-independent manner. Granted, there will be a fair bit of flicker, but you will have no noticeable 60fps video motion blur (excluding camera shutter motion blur) whenever PureXP is enabled.

For 24fps and 30fps you won't want to use strobing (although 72Hz single-strobe can look good if you like projector multi-strobe -- triple images for 24fps material may be preferable for some people, it has kind of a plasma motionfeel that way)

Be noted 60Hz PureXP is NOT recommended for stationary content like bright Windows 10 apps, 60Hz PureXP is intended when there is motion, and that the motion blur is the worse evil versus 60Hz style CRT flicker. Adjust brightness, viewing distance, and your content, and 60Hz turns from "painful flicker" to "more-comfortable-than-motionblur" when watching things like wingsuit BASE jumping or other fast action content. You can turn on/off PureXP as needed. Your mileage will vary depending on what video content you watch.

As our name sake is Blur Busters, we're pretty proud of the blur busting feats. Be warned, 24fps and 30fps are somewhat beyond blur busting ability since it would require uncomfortable flicker or artificial fake interpolation to fix the persistence-based component of the motion blur or stutter-feel of 24fps... But no 24" display can anyway, and it won't add any ghosting-feel (of worse LCDs).

[kyube]

Any news in regards to availability in EU? It's almost April and no new dates in sight

[Chief Blur Buster]

Any news in regards to availability in EU? It's almost April and no new dates in sight

Patience -- the arrival is not measured in days or weeks.

Official PR told me earlier Spring 2022.

However, off the official PR word, in my personal experience, it may more realistically be a "sometime this year" type of thing.

Extra Detail (the famous Blur Busters wall-of-text Way): Supply shortages are rather severe, and thus has also cascaded rather severely to shipping capacity shortages worldwide, and it's getting even worse (Covid and now Russla...). While USA/Canada is slowly moving into endemic status, the factory (Taiwan/China/etc) is still in super-lockdown pandemic status. Lately, sometimes container ships takes 2 months just to dock to unload a truckload of monitors: Example of almost 100 waiting container ships idling and waiting weeks and months in a harbour before the arrived ship can finally dock! Before the overloaded cranes can offload those truck-sized containers. In addition, the monitors destined for Europe is possibly not yet manufactured and thus not yet loaded on the first container ship. The ViewSonic XG2431 also uses a specialized scaler/TCON chip that can reprocess over 1.5 billion subpixels per second, and fabs such as TSMC have a months-long backlog in manufacturing chips. Some panels (AUO vs Innolux) are a bit more constrained than other panels too. So certain models utilizing more specialized chips are arriving a bit slower, etc. Once there is sufficient quantities (and capacity to push the quantity through manufacturing & shipping) ViewSonic will send them to Europe. Also FedEx and UPS can no longer fly high-value electronics to Europe over Russlan territory, and courier charges have skyrocketed with air cargo delivery times that takes ~1.5x longer and ~1.5x more expensive to Europe (Arctic flight route or India Sea flight route), and/or redirected low priority shipments onto ships instead, etc. Usually Amazon orders the monitors by boat instead of air too, and this does a dominoe-effect to original product launch timelines.

Yeah, me too, "hurry up and wait" affects Blur Busters too.

[11440]

I'm currently breaking in an XG2431 that is exhibiting what I believe is a fluid distribution issue. It presents as a smooth gradient starting from the lower right-hand corner of the screen. I'm wondering why I've never encountered something like this on a TN panel. Wouldn't uneven fluid distribution affect all types of LCDs?

[Reverae]

Question, I usually play FPS video games like Apex Legends & Valorant so I wanted to use 240hz but someone in the comments in YT in reviewing this monitor said that playing at 120hz with large vertical totals is better than 240hz? Is that true? To give some more additional details, my FPS is usually 230 at Valorant and somewhere around 160 in apex legends if that factors anything. Would it better to match a 165hz when playing apex legends then maybe a 224hz for valorant?

[11440]

Actually on reconsideration what I'm seeing is probably IPS glow. I see that there have been multiple reports in this thread of IPS glow being much more prominent on the right side of the screen, which is what I'm experiencing.

[Chief Blur Buster]

Question, I usually play FPS video games like Apex Legends & Valorant so I wanted to use 240hz but someone in the comments in YT in reviewing this monitor said that playing at 120hz with large vertical totals is better than 240hz? Is that true? To give some more additional details, my FPS is usually 230 at Valorant and somewhere around 160 in apex legends if that factors anything. Would it better to match a 165hz when playing apex legends then maybe a 224hz for valorant?

Right tool for the Right Job -- these modes have pros/cons.

240Hz -- lowest lag for use with games like CS:GO
120Hz -- best strobing and motion blur reduction (clearer motion than 240Hz but slightly more input lag).

The 224Hz mode you heard about is only for XG270 -- the XG2431 can strobe very well all the way to 240Hz.

If you are using PureXP=ON, then you need to decide what your priorities are (latency, clarity), but yes, all strobing technologies including PureXP does work best when framerate=Hz, and you might want to use low-latency methods of framerate=Hz.