Black Friday: Blur Busters Approved ViewSonic XG2431 Finally in Stock at Amazon

Posted Nov 26, 2021 by in: Display Motion Blur Monitors

Today, on Black Friday 2021, lots of items are on sale now at Amazon, including multiple gaming monitors

ViewSonic XG2431 Finally in Stock on Black Friday 2021!

What makes this Black Friday particularly special for Blur Busters is that ViewSonic XG2431 gaming monitors are currently in stock on Amazon USA for under $300.

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XG2431
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IPS		 1920×1080
99% sRGB		 240Hz
1ms IPS		 G-SYNC 
& FreeSync		 Yes
PureXP+

Blur Busters Approved 2.0 Programme

Earlier this year, we announced ViewSonic XG2431’s is the world’s first monitor to gain Blur Busters Approved 2.0 Certification from our new motion blur reduction tuning programme. We factory-tuned ViewSonic XG2431 monitors to achieve among the world’s best motion blur reduction for an LCD, even better than the previous gold standard, NVIDIA ULMB

Blur Busters Approved 2.0 monitors are among the most CRT-motion-clarity desktop LCDs ever invented. In addition to pre-installed high quality strobe modes built into the monitor (strobing now even supports cable TV boxes and non-PC video sources), the ViewSonic monitor supports the optional ViewSonic Strobe Utility to allows advanced end users to get better-than-factory strobe tuning.

It can do any CRT-motion-clarity refresh rate in 0.001Hz increments from ~59 Hz through ~241 Hz, and even supports Quick Frame Transport (QFT) tweaks. This allows some refresh rates to gain perfect zero-crosstalk operation with lower-lag-than-factory strobing completely free of double image effects. With a truly multisync strobe, you are not stuck to presets like only 120Hz. End-user strobe tuning is now easier than using a colorimeter via an easy step-by-step guide.

Massive Parts Shortages And Container Ship Congestion Hit XG2431 Hard

The same electronics parts shortages that impacted GPU manufacturing and car manufacturing, also impacted the 23.8″ Innolux panels inside ViewSonic XG2431 monitors. The panels and the special chips used by them (scaler/TCON) were hit extremely hard by semiconductor fabrication shortages, as well as the pandemic. To put salt in wounds, there were container ship shipping problems worldwide.

This impacted the ability to accelerate shipping of Blur Busters Apprroved 2.0, until Amazon USA got a large container shipment on time for Black Friday. Currently, monitor is not yet available in Europe. However, you can still order overseas shipping from Amazon USA if you’re looking for the most CRT-like LCD motion blur reduction modes.

Rave Reviews for Blur Busters Approved 2.0

The Blur Busters Discussion Forums has posted several rave reviews of the ViewSonic XG2431:

SaberEdge wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 17, 2021 4:02 am

I received mine and I have spent all afternoon and evening with it. I love it. It’s an exceptional monitor. I’ll share more specific impressions later after I test out more features and have time to write it all up.

sunisc wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 17, 2021 9:28 pm

I got mine. It’s nice.

dreemlan wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 18, 2021 12:47 am

Just received it yesterday! (like two days after it changed to status pending) I’m really enjoying it so far.
[…] I’m very happy with my purchase and it was worth the wait/hassle IMO :)

SaberEdge wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:23 am

Further impressions… I’m still loving this monitor. I can safely say that it is the best monitor I’ve ever owned. The motion quality is exceptional and very customizable. As others have reported, 60Hz up through about 120Hz is perceptually crosstalk free while using large vertical totals. Which is amazing. CRT motion-clarity without noticeable artifacts is finally here!

Update: Blur Busters is also looking to hire a part-time guest writer, to restart daily/weekly news on the cover page for all better-than-60-Hz monitor technologies. Chief Blur Buster Mark Rejhon is too busy helping manuafcturs improve monitor technologies and we need a Blur Busters superfan to step up to the plate to write news for our media department!

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ViewSonic
XG2431
24″
IPS		 1920×1080
99% sRGB		 240Hz
1ms IPS		 G-SYNC 
& FreeSync		 Yes
PureXP+

About Mark Rejhon

Also known as Chief Blur Buster. Founder of Blur Busters. Inventor of TestUFO. Read more about him on the About Mark page.

11 Comments For “Black Friday: Blur Busters Approved ViewSonic XG2431 Finally in Stock at Amazon”

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Jason74
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Jason74

Can we calibrate the X270 in the same way as the 2431?

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2 years 2 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Unfortunately, XG270 does not support Blur Busters Strobe Utility.

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2 years 1 month ago
h4llstorm
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h4llstorm

The version with 144hz (ViewSonic OMNI XG2405), its the same but with less hz?

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2 years 4 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

No – It does not support the strobe features.

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2 years 3 months ago
boniek
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boniek

Still not available in Europe… Is this US only monitor?

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2 years 9 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Supply shortages, just like for other chips and GPUs. I have been told it will be coming to Europe later this year as supplies increase.

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2 years 8 months ago
namcost
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namcost

I bought it. Mainly so i can run it through my battery of tests using a photodiode and oscilloscope. See if it’s actually good or not. 300 bucks is decently cheap. Also want to test out your supposed superior motion clarity. So fun times ahead

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3 years 2 days ago
namcost
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namcost

So, for those reading the comments, I did in fact buy it. And I did in fact test it.

The 120hz with large vertical totals to reduce motion blur and increase motion clarity does in fact work. I would say it literally looks better than the native 240hz mode in terms of motion clarity which I prefer. Granted you have to run a custom resolution to do this.

The 240hz native mode is pretty decent.

The pixel response is pretty decent as well. Still not perfect like OLED (1ms for OLED) but its good enough. And considering the price its a killer deal (got mine for $300 on sale, and its normally $330).

Colors are a little off factory wise, and even after tuning you can’t get perfect colors, but its not “bad” again for the price its a killer display.

If you are not used to running custom resolutions or don’t understand blurbuster instructions (they are kind of hard to understand) I would simply say run 240hz mode and use the monitors basic blur reduction and that should be good enough for most people who would be budget limited anyway. I think I would still prefer say the $800 LG nano IPS displays they have which have the lowest pixel response on the market, and are 4k 144hz.

I personally believe 240hz or higher is more of a gimmick, because pixel response usually doesn’t fit the refresh window. Simply put, one Hz of the 240hz will change in 4.16ms. Which means the “slowest” pixel response of a monitor will need to be 4.16ms or lower. If any change pixel change rate over is slower than 4.16ms, you get motion blur and bleed over images from one refresh to another. Which ruins the point of running high refresh rate. Which is why the XG2431 with large vertical totals at 120hz looks BETTER than 240hz in my own testing. There is simply less motion issues thus a clearer image. 360hz everything just gets worse.

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2 years 11 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Hello!
Thank you for posting that Amazon review.

One thing I should mention about the 60Hz strobe mode is that many people love it while others hate it. We warn people not to enable 60Hz PureXP during Windows because high brightness makes 60Hz single-strobe very flickery.

For those who wish to use 60Hz single-strobe, make sure:
– Adjust to a dimmer picture (50 nits or less);
– Add extra viewing distance;
– Increase amount of room lighting (never use 60Hz PureXP in dark room);
– Enable only during retro content (e.g. when YouTube 60fps or console 60fps is already playing).

This is because:
– Yesteryear’s CRTs were small (17 inch)
– Today’s monitors are HUGE, so flicker is worse.
– Yesteryear’s CRTs were dim (50 nits)
– Today’s monitors are BRIGHT, so flicker is worse.

We’ve already written this warning in multiple places, even though ViewSonic opted not to include this warning in the monitor manual. So you might have missed this important memo, apologies, since it was not mentioned in your Amazon review…

Using the retro-friendly 60Hz strobe needs to be used only for the right content — for retro material, not for Windows desktop (especially if you’re not already in Dark Mode). Different people are less flicker sensitive than others, and it’s important to offer the user choice.

EDIT: After realizing different meanings worldwide (outside of my country), changed “yesterday” to “yesteryear” to correctly culturally refer to the Olden Days of decades ago. For example, back in 1994, most computers came with a 14″ CRT and you couldn’t easily purchase a CRT tube bigger than 17″ which cost four figures at the time in the early half of the 1990s. Also, the average used CRT can fail to reach sufficient brightness, due to wear and tear. Sufficiently bright CRTs (that don’t get fuzzy at brighter settings) are getting gradually harder and harder to find.

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2 years 10 months ago
3dfan
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3dfan

thanks namcost for sharing his XG2431 amazon 60hz single strobe impression.

as a fan of CRT monitor technology enthusiast, specialy for its saldy still unbeatable motion clarity quality and experience, and active user of them for over 20 years, and owner of FW900 and compaq 7550 CRTs, i have to rectify a couple of things here being wrongly informed:

-FW900 CRT as a widescreen viewable screen area of 22.5 inch as described on its manual:
https://usermanual.wiki/Manual/SonyFW900.1260067910

-XG2431 as a widescreen viewable screen area of 23.8 inch as described on viewsonic’s XG2431 monitor site:
https://www.viewsonic.com/global/products/lcd/XG2431#specs

there is only a very small difference between both viewable monitors screen area of just 1.3 inch, so, to say screen size to justify worse flicker on current monitors like XG2431 is not correct, also there are many other non widescreen CRT monitors (from which you can also use widescreen resolutions via custom resolution) currently being used that has screen viewable sizes up to 19.8 inch viewable screen area, also not to far size from XG2431 23.8 inch viewable area.

the real reason of why flicker is worse than CRTs on same frequency on modern strobing monitors is due to the nature of how its strobing backlights flash at once: backlight black (backlight off) and on (backlight on) between frames, instead of CRTs rolling scan nature of generating each frame from top to bottom and also dont get completelly dark like backlight turned off, between frames, which results in CRTs being brighter than modern strobing monitors at same motion quality strobing mode and less flickery at same fecuency.

i personaly find 60hz CRT flicker soft enough , that i have been using CRT 60hz at even desktop usage on my CRT monitors for years with no disconform issues due to flicker, also i use 55HZ for some 55fps mame games (classic mortal kombats) with no flicker issues as well.

CRTs can reach up to 100 NITS easily from their OSD menu (in CRTs its called “contrast” setting from OSD menu that manages maximum luminance levels (brightness) and their white level.

also fortunately i dont persieve the fuzzyness mentioned here when using my monitors at their maximum brigtness levels, sure there are some CRT monitors suffering from focus problems that usually get solver by adjusting internal potentiometers, and i have never needed to use any CRT monitor i have owned in a “cave” room, so dark that you need a room with no lights coming from daylight or with no room light turned on to be able to see the screen as i see youtube reviewers like “aperturegrille” and “Bijan Jamshidi” said on their XG270 and XG2431 reviews respectively when using those monitors best CRT like motion clarity mode.

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2 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Some corrections. Don’t forget that XG2431 can go up to 200 nits strobed, see the new RTINGS review.

You have a very wide choice of brightness tradeoffs with Blur Busters Approved 2.0 from dim through bright, with a choice of 40 different pulse widths via Strobe Utility.

It’s definitely true that 60Hz single-strobe is a polarizing feature — some love it and some hate it. Everybody flicker sensitivity is different.

The IMPORTANT thing is that the XG2431 provides people with the choice, and there are many who like the feature despite flicker. Follow the best-practices mentioned, for mitigation measures.

The FW900 checks important boxes (blacks, colors, authentic texture, rolling flicker, zero processing lag, authentic retro experience, etc).

The XG2431 checks other important boxes (best strobe tunability, geometry, weight, ease of purchase, more refresh rate choices, etc).

Motion-blur wise, you can much more easily beat the motion clarity of a Sony FW900 with the XG2431 than you could with the XG270, because of the additional adjustments available.

Many peoples’ venn diagram will favour the XG2431 and others favor the FW900 depending on your priorities. If your mix prioritizes a lot of the right important boxes, it’s hard to beat the XG2431 as few panels support extremely comprehensive strobe tuning.

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2 years 3 months ago
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