Can any VA panel owners please comment their monitor model and if you see any smearing on text in a black themed app for example? Sorry for responding to such an old thread, but I have a G7 and the smearing is awful, even on the slowest settings possible. will you think of returning it? I rarely notice smearing, I have to look for it to notice it with moving text and such. IPS TVs will lose lu… Overall, the S2721HGF stands tall on the strengths of its VA panel. Again you are pinning the blame on the panel type when that was not the root of the problem. Messages. Out of the three most common types of LCD monitor panels, ghosting is most noticeable on VA panels since they have the slowest response time. The amount of ghosting is tolerable for … Sign up for a new account in our community. Actually, I do have the Odyssey available in my country, but its 300% the price of a VA, would you still consider it if it was priced similar in your country? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Hi there! Most smeared pretty bad, the Samsung CHG70 didn’t and was unbelievably fast for a VA, it’s pretty much the pre curser to the G7 and unfortunately shares its flickering habits. My G7 has unbearable smearing at the lowest settings :/. It is a very good monitor, but the only problem I notice is that all dark colors, especially black have a noticeable smear. This is one of their advantages over other types of LCD. The Samsung 27-inch C7RG5 is a rarity, running at 240Hz with a VA panel. VA panels are often in the 10~20ms range for dark colors, actually. Started 28 minutes ago Posted in General Discussion, By The smearing is a complete nightmare, except the monitor that I currently have which is the G7 samsung(also VA). VA panels are great for TV's, if viewing angles are not important (unless you pick the "right" models that is). VA smearing is so horrendous that it got me to drop 900 cad on a G7 just so I could be rid of it, but ymmv. or is it tolerant with high overdrive settings? I own this right now and it exhibits awful overshoot at all overdrive settings in games and on desktop. Recommended trace free setting is 80, as 100 introduces a lot of overshoot. Some types of LCDs do this better than others.IPS TVs are a clear winner here. I wanted to know is there any fix to this. I currently own LG 32gk850g which is VA g-sync monitor. Hello, I bought the ASUS TUF GAMING VG24VQ Curved very recently. I would use the shittiest TN or IPS panel on the market over the best VA ever made because the smearing is too atrocious to stand. Saabmonkey 402. Press J to jump to the feed. Viewing angle refers to the angle at which you can watch the TV without seeing a noticeable drop in picture quality. Started 18 minutes ago The Spyder calibration saves me the time of using images to manually "eyeball" my color calibration, and it works just fine for the two main things and that's getting the white/black … My old AOC suffers from smearing terribly. IPS tends to stick within the 5~10ms range more consistently, or under for newer, … https://www.rtings.com/monitor/reviews/asus/tuf-vg27vq, You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. I looked at a tonne of VA panels before this one and was not happy with any of them, I use it mainly for gaming. A big advantage of VA panels is that they are capable of very high … Here is an article that talks about all 3 of the major panel technologies. Apparently, VA panels are notorious for this. Looks like it has pretty bad response times even for a VA panel. Most smeared pretty bad, the Samsung CHG70 didn’t and was unbelievably fast for a VA, it’s pretty much the pre curser to the G7 and unfortunately shares its flickering habits. Such high contrast ratio allows them to produce very deep black shades out of which pixels take longer to change from. This is an inherent behavior of VA monitors. See LCD Motion Artifacts 101: Introduction and LCD Motion Artifacts: Overdrive for some examples of motion artifacts.. This is because when the image is refreshed the physical pixels cannot update as fast as the image causing a smearing image effect on the display. MadDok Most VA TVs will have a sizable degradation in quality by 20° to the side, the way it can be seen is a dramatic loss of saturation. VA panels have the worst response time but they have the highest contrast ratio out of these three panel technologies. There are plenty of VA panels that exist and don't have this flickering issue because the overdrive is done properly, of course they still suffer from typical black smearing/overall blurry motion. Hi, I want to buy a VA monitor. The panels Overdrive feature fixes some of it but it's quite bad. The biggest downside of VA panels is the pixel response time speed. Edward78 The text smearing on VA is very real. VA panels have superior color to TN panels but worse color reproduction than IPS panels. In full screen mode, you can also drag to adjust the vertical position of the ghosting test. Kitsan Discussion in 'Monitors' started by karol_, 17 Nov 2019. VA = smearing, high refresh rate is not completely pointless but you will never get the same experience like TN/IPS in terms of smoothness. In monitors there's also a middle ground Samsung G7 which is VA but with slightly lower contrast (2500:1) which can go up to 240hz. Yes VA panels can have some ghosting/smearing in dark areas but IPS/TN have their own set of problems. All my work is word, excel, pdf files and Emails, so its all text (English and Arabic fonts). Obviously, if you read static content nothing happens, but with scrolling comes the trouble. AJB_YT Posted in Troubleshooting, By With strong overdrive, the odds are that you will get pixel ghosting and smearing. Posted in Programs, Apps and Websites, By I disliked it so much last time I fleed back to IPS panels and find LGs new high end panels suprisingly good and kinda superior for mixed usecases vs VA. Imho. Posted in Programs, Apps and Websites, By I had virtually no smearing or ghosting on my last panel, so I wasn't even aware of it originally. Then you don't really know how it works. 6 posts; 6 posts; Posted December 9, 2020. Some people can tolerate it but others can't even stand to look at a VA panel because of how terrible it can get. I had multiple VA monitors, they were smearing hard. However, VA panels are not without flaws. But now that I have a VA panel, the smearing phenomenon is actually quite noticeable if I'm looking for it. Daniel_1104 No smearing at all. On ASUS monitors the adjustable response time setting is usually called "Trace Free", but I don't know how much it will help.