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BenQ ZOWIE XL2546

BenQ Announces 240Hz ZOWIE XL2546 eSports Monitor

Posted Jul 19, 2017 by jorimt

BenQ announces the 240Hz ZOWIE XL2546 monitor with Dynamic Accuracy (DyAc™ strobing), also compatible with the Blur Busters Strobe Utility, which allows user adjustment of the DyAc strobing mode, and increased motion clarify over factory...

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Blur Buster's Acer Predator XB252Q 240Hz Pursuit Test Preview

240Hz XB252Q Pursuit Test Preview

Posted Jun 26, 2017 by jorimt

As the inventor of highly accurate pursuit camera tests, we successfully photograph the exact motion blur of a 240Hz Acer XB252Q monitor via near-perfect camera tracking...

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Blur Buster's G-SYNC 101

240Hz G-SYNC Input Lag Tests

Posted Jun 19, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Presenting one of the biggest-ever input lag tests of a 240Hz G-SYNC monitor: https://blurbusters.com/gsync/gsync101-input-lag/ Over 5000 input lag measurements averaged into 49 graphs. 42 scenarios, 508 runs, 5080 individual samples, 45 hours, 508 high speed videos, totalling 17.5 gigabytes, taking 2 months...

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ViewSonic XG2530 240Hz eSports Monitor

ViewSonic XG2530 enters 240Hz eSports monitor market

Posted Jun 18, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

This week, ViewSonic announces the XG2540, their 240 Hz eSports monitor, 1ms, 1920x1080 TN, and supports...

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Biggest FreeSync 2 display at 49 inches! With HDR and Blur Reduction

Posted Jun 10, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Samsung announced the C49HG90, the world's biggest ultrawide FreeSync display, at whopping 49 inches with 144Hz, HDR, FreeSync 2, in a 32:9 aspect ratio, with a blur reduction...

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Apple’s new iPad supports 120Hz and Variable Refresh Rates

Posted Jun 5, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

At WWDC2017 today, Apple announces their new new iPad supports 120Hz and variable refresh rates: “The Most Advanced Display Featuring ProMotion: The stunning, redesigned Retina® display in iPad Pro features ProMotion, a new technology that delivers refresh rates of up to 120Hz for fluid...

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Adding Variable Refresh Rate Support to HTML 5.2

Posted May 11, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Variable refresh rate technologies are getting standardized as VESA Adaptive-Sync, HDMI 2.1 VRR, FreeSync, in addition to G-SYNC. Microsoft’s Scorpio Project (the next XBox) is already planned to support variable refresh rate. Mark of Blur Busters is now an Invited Expert in...

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Strobe Crosstalk: Double-Image Effect

Posted May 4, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Strobe crosstalk are double-image-effects during Motion Blur Reduction on gaming displays. We explain why this happens, and how this can be...

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This is the vertical blanking interval. It allows displays to synchronize to the next refresh cycle. We used to see it on analog TVs in 1930s through 1980s when the picture rolled during lost sync. Known as vertical synchronization, aka VSYNC (it is also padded with Front Porch and Back Porch) This hidden sync signal still exists in digital signals, DVI, HDMI, DisplayPort, and is seen on PCs and Macs via Custom Resolution Utilities.

Photo of an analog VSYNC signal

Posted May 2, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Games and graphics card often have a VSYNC ON or VSYNC OFF setting. But have you ever wondered where VSYNC comes from? It stands for Vertical Synchronization. From the video signal perspective, it is a signal to the display to begin...

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New 2017 Strobe Utility Supports Zowie Monitors

Posted Apr 29, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Blur Busters Strobe Utility is now Zowie compatible! In addition to several BenQ Z-Series monitors, the Zowie L2411, XL2420 and XL2720 are now supported....

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Engineering for High Quality Display Motion Blur Reduction

Posted Apr 21, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Some gaming monitor manufacturers are better than others in doing Motion Blur Reduction (e.g. LightBoost, ULMB, MOTION240, DyAC). We explain why this is a difficult engineering...

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Microsoft EDGE browser still stuck at 60Hz in W3C violation

Posted Apr 20, 2017 by Mark Rejhon

Unfortunately, the Microsoft EDGE web browser still does not support 120Hz+ on over 100+ gaming monitors. Chrome & FireFox teams purchased 120Hz+ monitors and fixed their browsers years ago. Why hasn't...

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