480 Hz Monitor Prototype Now at Blur Busters!

Posted Aug 10, 2017 by in: Exclusives

EXCLUSIVE! We have received a prototype 480 Hz monitor at Blur Busters. Sent to us in kit form, we are now currently testing — and an article is coming out shortly.

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JBarriga
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JBarriga

Any update on this monitor testing? I’m really ecstatic about the whole idea of getting closer to the 1000fps our eyes actually see. The future of gaming is what I look forward to seeing.

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5 years 3 months ago
bulos
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bulos

seems kinda pointless though because 1) you need to run a game at 480 fps to benefit from it and 2) that game needs to be fast as hell, and i’m assuming you’re competitive enough to fully get use of it. isn’t that right?

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5 years 5 months ago
sean
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sean

how or when can i buy this, as i play on a 144hz monitor and serious about gaming and would love to see if this 480hz monitor would help me improve in anyway

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5 years 7 months ago
0mega1Spawn
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0mega1Spawn

Way late but would I be able to do the 240 Hz mod to my Asus vg248qe?

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6 years 7 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Tests still under way.

The great thing is that it does look like strobeless LightBoost. I’ve never seen that on any LCD before. And — this is just an off the shelf 28″ 4K LCD 1ms TN panel. With a custom motherboard+TCON. It isn’t a new panel at all. [That’s the jawdrop]. Probably, most manufacturers don’t even believe it’s necessary to get that far in refresh rate — and the low-resolution limitation is probably an issue for many.

But it makes “strobeless LightBoost” motion clarity possible. 480fps@480Hz looks like LightBoost without any strobe flashing. [Except for ghosting artifacts — there is no overdrive feature available]

Motion blur equivalence:

Persistence of strobed display = flash length (2ms on LightBoost)
Persistence of sample-and-hold display = refresh cycle length (2ms on 480fps@480Hz).

Strobeless motion clarity — CRT clarity in a sample-and-hold display will require going to 1000fps@1000Hz in the future (to equal 1ms MPRT strobed displays), and I now think 1ms TN LCD may actually eventually be capable of that with some ultra-high-quality overdrive (the type of overdrive calibration that is done by NVIDIA’s wizards. They do a stunning job of their ultra-precise overdrive calibration in some ULMB/LightBoost monitors, with photodiode oscilloscopes measuring >80% accuracy in some “1ms GtG” implementations — though the worst 240Hz displays do have twice as much motion blur than the best 240hz display — all because of overdrive lookup-table calibration differences.

I wish OLED could come sooner and do that sooner — but hey, if we’re stuck with TN — then at least, it looks like a well-tuned overdrive (80% accuracy in 1ms GtG) can provide good reduced-dynamic-range 1000fps@1000Hz (800:1 contrast instead of 1000:1) with little to no visible ghosting (like the world’s best 120Hz/240Hz monitors with the absolute-best calibrated overdrive).

I would surmise, that monitor makers will eventually be able to achieve 1000Hz gaming monitors within 10 years to achieve “strobeless ULMB” / “strobeless LightBoost” equivalence. As a result of this 480Hz display [even without overdrive yet], and photodiode oscilloscope measurements tested on some of my better 120/144/240Hz displays, I’m now convinced there’s still a lot of room to milk left in TN technology — and even beyond 480Hz (eventually).

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6 years 8 months ago
POVHFR Videos
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POVHFR Videos

Wow! Simply amazing…
I would say it could be sooner than 10 years. My guess is that if there is more and more innovation and breakthroughs, based on what you said we could see 4k or 8k 1000hz – 4000hz if not more in 10 years (2027)

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6 years 8 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Baby steps.

Consumer true-1000Hz by sometime during the 2020s (read: 2020-2029) is now starting to look feasible to me as a prediction. But it might be low-resolution and/or poor-gamut (e.g. TN LCD or some other tech that makes sacrifices).

It’s also possible, by then, OLED might be a savior, with some of the rolling-scan ideas I’ve written about in the Custom OLED rolling scans thread.

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6 years 8 months ago
POVHFR Videos
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POVHFR Videos

I agree, baby steps. And yes, consumer true-1000hz should be feasible I would hope by 2021.
I agree that there would be another display by 2020-2029 that would make sacrifices but that is still in a way better than current 2017 technology. I can see how OLED during the next decade would be a savior.

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6 years 8 months ago
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