EIZO announces Foris FG2421, a 240Hz VA gaming monitor!

Posted Oct 30, 2013 by

Eizo has announced the Foris FG2421, a new 240Hz VA monitor has been released! This is the retail gaming version of the previously released FDF2405W professional monitor which also uses a official/optional strobe backlight setting to eliminate motion blur. No interpolation is used!

Blur Busters is being sent a review unit from Eizo, and it will be arriving this month. And, yes, we will benchmark it against LightBoost. Being a VA panel with a LightBoost-like strobe backlight without color problems, we would naturally expect it to vastly outperform LightBoost quality, while also being easy to enable on any graphics card.

See the Eizo white paper about how the Turbo240 strobe backlight operates.  Also, this monitor can be 100% PWM free when you disable Turbo240, for the best of both worlds!

EDIT: FG2421 is now now available on Amazon.com.

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Eric Wang
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Eric Wang

On page 12 of its manual states that it accepts 24hz signal over HDMI.
http://www.eizo.co.jp/support/db/files/manuals/03V24721A2/Manual-JA.pdf
Quite curious if Turbo240 can be enabled when using 24hz mode.
I love watching movies with film-style motion xD (24p shutter at 48 or 72hz).

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

I don’t think they would enable strobing on HDMI. However, that would be an interesting way to recreate the original film experience (although harsher strobing than a 180 degree shutter on a film projector). I’m waiting to find out if Turbo240 can be truly enabled at other refresh rates than 120Hz (e.g. 60Hz or 72Hz). Then if that works, then maybe manually switching the monitor to 72Hz, and then using a PC Blu-Ray player, then it would work.

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10 years 5 months ago
neel
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neel

According to 01net who reviewed it (french), the turbo mode can be activated with 60 & 120hz.

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

That would be good news if true. I wonder if it is doing one or two strobes per refresh at 60Hz. More flicker but less motion artifacts if it is one strobe per refresh. This could make this panel great for emulator use, too.

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10 years 5 months ago
neel
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neel

Pinball user should love it too (virtual pinball could be a nice test for your review btw).

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10 years 5 months ago
boniek
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boniek

No g-sync? Also would love to know if standard VA panel weaknesses are present (like brutal color shift).

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

VA still has color shift, but it’s closer to IPS than TN.
Newer, modern VA panels are now closer to IPS than TN in color shifting.

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10 years 5 months ago
neel
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neel

I wonder how contrast/color vary across a white screen when looking at the screen from in front of one of the side bezel.

I’ve just discovered that switching PWM off with my fs2333 seems to dramaticaly increase both color shifting and contrast variation on this panel (and constrast is of course killed too. But I wasn’t expecting the viewing angle to be affected (and that much affected) by the PWM removal. Is it a result of the relatively matt coating of this screen ?).

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10 years 5 months ago
CYBER-NINJA
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CYBER-NINJA

Cool Eizo Foris FG2421 promo vid on YT:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vE3br4H2aI

A good in-depth review can be found here:-

http://www.flatpanelshd.com/review.php?subaction=showfull&id=1383107475

For Sellers and Distributors just select your country from the Global drop-down menu and then look in the bottom right corner:-

http://www.eizo.com/global/

They also sell direct in NA too!!! 😉

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Great news!

P.S. It’s now available for preorder on Amazon.com. We at Blur Busters, humbly suggest that Blur Busters readers buy such computer products, small or big, through our Amazon links to support the work of Blur Busters! Every time you buy anything through Amazon links located on Blur Busters, Amazon sends a few pennies (or dollars) to Blur Busters. That way, you give Blur Busters a “thank you”, and indirectly contribute funding to the operation of this site. It’s up to you of course, but now you know!

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10 years 5 months ago
Ewok
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Ewok

Also, this monitor is 100% PWM free when you disable Turbo240, for the best of both worlds!

Are you sure? The white paper you linked in your comment mentions “high-rate PWM”.

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Only at low brightness levels.
At most brightness levels, it’s 100% PWM free.

(“DC control covers high and middle brightness levels, and Hi-PWM control covers low brightness levels.” — bottom of page 7)

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10 years 5 months ago
neel
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neel

Do you understand as me from this whitepaper that their Hi-PWM should be running at about 20khz ? (sounds incredibly fast)

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Very likely, it’s probably a high number similar to that number. Fortunately, we have measuring equipment here — we will tell you the exact KhZ in our monitor review.

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10 years 5 months ago
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