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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badugib
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badugib

Thank you Chief Blurbuster for this news! I’m really looking forward to your research on the Comparision of input lag: LightBoost vs Turbo240. Your hard work is definitely amazing and appreciated!

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10 years 4 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

I have the numbers. Keep tuned for the end of the month! 🙂

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10 years 4 months ago
JuryPoolReject
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JuryPoolReject

Darn, the Eizo is @ $604…. think it was @ $555. several days ago, wasn’t it? That hurts, esp after the intended upcoming purchase of the Galaxy 780-HOF model vid card….

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10 years 5 months ago
JuryPoolReject
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JuryPoolReject

Based on posts of certain members at Anand’s and HardOp, it’s sounding like this monitor has the best of both worlds, ie, low lag/latency/reduced blurr of the TN/120Hz BenQ and Asus, but with better color, blacks, and contrast.

I’m getting the FG2421 when it’s available at Amazon. Another etailer has it now, but for @ $50. more.

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10 years 5 months ago
Mark Rejhon
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Mark Rejhon

Good news, at least one Amazon seller currently has it in stock.
(November 2nd, 2013)

P.S. When buying from Amazon — if you’d like — feel free to Amazon links via this Blur Busters site. This helps support the expansion of Blur Busters testing!

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10 years 5 months ago
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
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