A new Blur Busters article, Comparision of 60Hz vs 120Hz vs LightBoost, shows pursuit camera photography of the motion blur differences between each.

 60 Hz LCD

 120 Hz LCD: 50% less motion blur

 120 Hz LightBoost: ~90% less motion blur

pcmonitors.info confirmed that the 144Hz AOC g2460Pqu supports 3D Vision 2, which automatically means LightBoost support!  This is an unadvertised feature, but is good news!

There are several 27″ high resolution 2560×1440 computer monitors that are “overclockable” to 120 Hz using a high quality IPS (or PLS) panel, including the Catleap 2B and the Overlord Tempest X270OC.  These are not as clear motion as LightBoost (CRT clarity), but have much less motion blur than 60 Hz (photo comparison of motion blur).

These displays overclock using refresh-rate overclocking methods such as ToastyX Custom Resolution Utility (harder), or those found in EVGA Geforce Titan or GTX 680 (easier, shown in dialog below):

Recently, HardForum users have found that the much cheaper QNIX Q2710 Evolution 2 monitor (1440p) overclocks easily to 100-120 Hz!  The best thing is that these high resolution 27″ 2560×1440 displays cost a mere $340 on Amazon!

The ASUS VG248QE is currently available on NewEgg for $239 when combined with coupon “BOOSTTHIRTY”.  This is $269 minus the $30 coupon, plus free shipping. This gives you a 120Hz LightBoost monitor for only $239!

EDIT: This coupon is now expired.  There is the VG248QE on Amazon.com for $267.

The brand new SEIKI brand 4K HDTV has arrived with 3840×2160 resolution for only $1500 on TigerDirect.  This is an incredibly low introductory price for 4K HDTV.  A big bonus is that it also supports a native 120Hz refresh rate at 1080p!

A user on HardForum has discovered that the SEIKI 4K HDTV can run 1920×1080 successfully at a native 120Hz refresh rate!  Confirmed by Refresh Rate Multitool. It also appears to run at higher refresh rates as shown below, though 120 Hz is the maximum supported rate with no frame skipping.

There is a great Ars Technica System Guide that mentions LightBoost’s motion blur elimination benefits (page 3).  Check it out!

The world’s most powerful single-GPU graphics cards, nVidia GeForce Titan, cost over $1000 each.  But what happens if you buy FOUR Titans, and overclock all of them with water-cooling on triple-LightBoost setup?  Crysis 3 running at 120fps @ 120Hz on three ASUS VG248QE LightBoost monitors in surround mode!

See Vega’s recent post in the HardForum thread.  At Blur Busters, we think nVidia needs to sponsor an all-expenses paid trip for this rig to a gaming convention (E3, GDC, QuakeCon).  It would sell enough GeForce Titan‘s and LightBoost monitors to more than cover the cost of such a trip!  CRT-quality motion on triple monitor surround.

EDIT: 3DMark11 score of 33189 by userid CallsignVega! The world’s fastest 3DMark11 score for a true 24/7 gaming system; not a liquid nitrogen cooled system!

A user has posted first impressions of BENQ XL2720T on HardForum. Initial impressions are positive for its LightBoost motion blur elimination; and preferring this over IPS LCD.

BENQ XL2720T, a 120Hz 27″ LightBoost LCD, is also now available from Amazon.com.

TFTCentral has tested LightBoost with their equipment and found LightBoost outperforms all past scanning backlights they have ever tested, including the old BENQ AMA-Z and Samsung MPA from 2006.

Check out TFTCentral’s Motion Blur Reduction Backlights article!

NewEgg and ASUS are now both officially aware of the LightBoost tweak for eliminating motion blur on LCD displays.  LightBoost recently became a very popular feature driving sales of the VG248QE monitor.  It is mentioned beginning at 5:18 in this YouTube:

New customer reviews for ASUS VG248QE on both Amazon and NewEgg now mention the 2D motion blur eliminating feature of LightBoost more often than its original intended 3D Vision purpose.  Even googling “LightBoost” now returns more highly-ranked results in 2D motion blur elimination, than for 3D Vision!

nVidia needs to re-brand LightBoost as also being a marketing feature for 2D, and make it an officially easily-enabled feature; because it beginning to drive some sales of GeForce GTX 680′s and Titans in many forums threads.

OLED has been regarded as a Holy Grail for motion blur. Unfortunately, the portable Playstation Vita has lots of motion blur during fast scrolling animations. This is due to sample-and-hold. The PS Vita OLED is bottlenecked by this issue. Some newer OLED’s eliminate motion blur, but not all do. Even instant pixel response (0 ms) can have lots of motion blur because of sample-and-hold. Frames continuously shines for a whole refresh. When tracking moving objects, your eyes are in different positions throughout a whole refresh; this causes the frame to be blurred across your retinas:

(Source: Microsoft Research)
Middle image represents flicker displays, including CRT and LightBoost.
Right image represents sample-and-hold displays, including most LCD and OLED.

See new article: Why Do Some OLED’s Have Motion Blur?, including scientific references.

The Blur Busters has created LCD Motion Artifacts 101, showing accurate photography of ghosting, coronas, motion blur, and PWM artifacts!

We are the world’s first blog to utilize a pursuit camera for capturing motion artifacts!
Check out LCD Motion Artifacts 101!

Blur Busters Blog has a new logo! Our lovable alien mascot, in “8-bit” style, is also the flagship test graphic of our upcoming motion test app that is a 21st century equivalent of PixPerAn that works on PC and Mac’s. Launching in April!

In just three months, Blur Busters created the popular LightBoost HOWTO, the HDTV Refresh Rate Overclocking Guide, the Scanning Backlight FAQ, high speed video (Old LCD, LightBoost), homebrew, and covered science behind breaking the pixel persistence barrier.

Vega of HardForum set up an amazing surround CRT-quality setup with three ASUS VG248QE and GeForce Titans’s (plus the LightBoost tweak to eliminate motion blur).

This was made possible via a new method of enabling LightBoost (See comments!).  Although TN panels are not good for portrait usage due to viewing angles, fast panning motions remains as perfectly clear (CRT-quality) as stationary images. The CRT-like “smooth as butter” motion apparently outweighed TN panel deficiencies for some users!

Try that with CRT-sized bezels!