I purchased a VG278H and a GTX680 earlier in the week, after hearing about this.
It works! It works! It truly eliminates motion blur.
Perfect clear motion on my LCD, just like a CRT.
Much, much, much better than regular 120 Hz, and it's night and day versus 60 Hz.
It looks even better than a Sony "480 Hz" \motionflow effect (on those new Sony HDTV's with "Motionflow XR 480")
Pans are Nintendo-smooth.
No added input lag. (thankfully!)
There are some faint RTC artifacts (response time compensation) artifacts, but it's a faint. Like the faint leakage between two eyes of shutter glasses, but instead as a faint double image chasing the image. I don't notice it 99% of the time in games. Only on sharp edges between certain colors. CRT's also have the disadvantage of phosphor ghosting. You get none of that here. In some ways, motion is better than CRT. On the other hand, the colors aren't as good as CRT. I've simply traded a CRT artifact (green phosphor ghosting) for very minor response-time-acceleration artifacts. (you cannot adjust response time acceleration when LightBoost2 is enabled; it's force-enabled at fixed settings optimized for LightBoost2). Too bad you can only get zero motion blur with a strobe backlight on a TN panel, as strobe backlights is not available on IPS. That WOULD be ultimate, but unfortunately won't work until computer monitor IPS panels become 3D compatible (a pre-requisite for successful strobe backlight operation).
It is somewhat user-unfriendly in some video games because video games stubbornly want to start up in 3D when LightBoost2 is enabled. However,
this forum user has an excellent list of games that was tweaked to work with LightBoost2, and a review of LightBoost2 behavior in 2D mode, and tips (e.g. avoid 60fps framelimits)
Amazingly, the difference between 120Hz regular versus LightBoost2 strobing is actually bigger (to my eyes) than the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz. It's THAT big (but only for games that run at full 120fps at all times. You need a GTX 680 SLI for Crysis at 120fps, but you can get by with a single 680 for Source-engine games) You really NEED, NEED, NEED your games to run at 120fps, for the CRT perfect "zero motion blur" effect.
I am noticing I am reacting an amazing full-fraction of a second faster in many videogames (this means zero motion blur is FAR MORE IMPORTANT than a 10 millisecond input lag difference). This is because I can clearly identify tiny objects while moving, and even shoot far-away snipers without stopping strafing. Formerly, LCD had too much motion blur to let me shoot tiny moving objects without stopping moving first. When I stop moving I'm a sitting duck. NOT ANYMORE!!!!! Everything is crystal sharp even while I'm moving fast now, and with a good gaming mouse, I can shoot tiny things while moving fast, without the tiny things being too blurry. This is a HUGE advantage -- almost like cheating (like using a CRT instead of LCD). That 5ms input lag is unimportant compared to the 100-200ms faster reaction time in the moving-while-shooting-faraway-snipers scenario, etc. Zero motion blur is MORE IMPORTANT. A "15ms lag + LightBoost2" will be far more advantageous than a "5ms lag" LCD. It will depend on the game you play, but if you're playing competition deathmatch FPS -- dump your LCD now in the garbage (yes, even yesterday's 120Hz LCD), get LightBoost2 pronto, and hack it to work in 2D mode instead of 3D mode. Competition gamers TAKE NOTE!!!!!! It's true, others agree too:
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Originally Posted by InuÂ
And OMG i can play scout so much better now in TF2, this is borderline cheating.
60Hz LCD is a scale of 4/10 --
garbage
120Hz LCD is a scale of 6/10 --
garbage
LightBoost2 zero motion blur 2D tweak: scale of 9/10 --
CRT lover approvedEdited by mdrejhon - 12/17/12 at 11:12pm
