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I was able to get 80% of the color quality back with LightBoost. Google "LightBoost calibration". It helps if you have a Spyder4 or an i1 Pro. No longer washed out anymore, no bleached gamma anymore, just plain dim -- as LightBoost won't throw any more photons to your eyes per second.
Thanks for the great reference!
Depends on the type of gaming.
what mark said. very precisely, as usual.
also, see this post by vega comparing the vg248qe and the 130 hz catleap, which have the same panels as my xl2411t and overlord.
basically, the IPS is clearly superior for everything except shooters. unfortunately, i play shooters almost exclusively
my overlord can run at 120 hz, however, i said before that regular 120 hz are still relatively blurry, giving me a sort of movement sickness, although far less than 60 hz.
lightboost has eliminated this completely, as far as i'm concerned. i'm really happy about this, because getting dizzy after a while ruined the fun in gaming for me. it's indeed clear as motion on a CRT, as has been said. no "flowing" wall textures during a fast turn.
the benq also makes dark corners much better visible, at the expense of deep blacks of course.
this is the benq's downside: colors are outright bad out of the box and don't come anywhere near the image quality of the overlord despite all tweaking. it has a strong black crush and generally makes a mess out of all those shades of browns and greens. it's a monitor for playing competitively, not marveling at the map's beauty.
the CRT-like clarity is also severely hampered by the matte film, imo. the samsung and the overlord are both glossy, matte screens look dusty in comparison. i hope glossy 1 ms lightboost monitors will come out. better control your lighting than have manufacturers ruin the image with anti-glare.
there's also the question of frame rate. ideally, you want to maintain stable 120 fps, which is far harder at 1440p than at 1080p.
meanwhile i also like the overlord for its graphics quality so i'll keep it - for whatever i'll do besides shooting someone.
Multiple suppliers sell the ASUS VG248QE on Amazon. (Amazon does not directly sell the VG248QE). You can see it by the tagline "Ships from and sold by The Nerds." or "Ships from and sold by ACME Exploding Monitors Inc." You must have hit a supplier that's not willing to honour a loss-leader order. Try cancelling and re-ordering on Amazon through a different supplier. Most people have gotten their monitors from Amazon very quickly.
The 670 has more than plenty of power to do perfect 120fps in many older Source Engine games at maximum detail and even AA enabled (e.g. Team Fortress 2). It may be older games that only truly benefit from LightBoost on less than a Titan.
Ohhhhh, night and day.
Bloody is correct when comparing the best 3D Vision 1 display. But there's some additional information that neither Bloody nor I knew in Year 2012. I was comparing examples of an early 3D Vision 1 panel, with a 3D Vision 2 panel. On average, 3D Vision 2 panels *do* have much less crosstalk, if you test all 3D Vision 1 displays versus all 3D Vision 2 displays.
Actually, we are both correct. That too. nVidia did say from time to time, that LightBoost also greatly reduce or eliminate crosstalk. Also, see high speed video which also helps explain illustrate the other effects of LightBoost.
That's okay. Catleaps are excellent displays. They are amazing for many things; and not everyone is sensitive to motion blur. Some people love LightBoost because there is 7 to 12 times less motion blur on those displays for hard-core FPS games (than a regular 60 Hz LCD). That means in situations of ultra-fast motion, where you have 12 pixels of motion blur during fast motion, there is only 1 pixel of motion blur on LightBoost displays -- (fast pans moving at nearly a full screen widths per second, like fast strafes, fast turns, fast flyby / zoombys). As a result, it becomes much easier to track eyes on fast-moving objects on the screen. It's like keeping the full high-definition during fast motion (fast panning images as perfectly sharp as static images).
I am mighty curious if your Planar have an undocumented stroboscopic backlight mode to help improve its 3D quality, much like Samsungs do (SA700D, SA750D, SA950D).
I find if I keep my VG278H contrast down to 65, the crosstalk goes down a lot. Does the guy on Rage3D adjust contrast to balance out crosstalk?
It improves crosstalk on all LightBoost displays, to keep the contrast at around 65-ish. It also prevents the gamma bleaching effect, and colors look much better, especially when calibrated. However, it might make the picture too dim for some people.