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Any monitor experts here? Blurry motion in monitor? Rare afterimages in scrolling pics. HP V241p 23.6-inch

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So I have this monitor (HP V241p 23.6-inch) that I recently used to watch some videos and play some games. For some reason, the games have an exaggerated blur that I don't experience with my other monitors. When I scroll through images, there are "very rare" cases where the images seems to leave an afterimage if I try to scroll too fast. Note this only occurs with very specific types of images/colors and not others.

Is this because the monitor is just not good for games/etc? It has a 8 m/s response time, which surprisingly is slower than my other monitors (my other cheap monitors all have 5 m/s time)

Monitor specs link:
https://support.hp.com/hk-en/document/c04770617#AbT2
 
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Ah yes. This is a VA panel and not a fast one at that. VA (Vertical Alignment) is a different display tech from TN or IPS. Its also the 'slowest' one unless its heavily tweaked. Since this is a 60hz panel, its 'slow' VA. VA suffers from 'ghosting' in darker tones and transitions of color which is what you are seeing.

VA at high refresh is suitable for great gaming. The main advantage from VA, and you should experience this too when putting that monitor next to a TN or IPS, is the high static contrast. Blacks and whites are more pronounced, colors tend to 'pop' more. The specs on your link also show this: 3000:1 static contrast. As opposed to a mere 1000:1 you'd get on TN or IPS.

I use a VA panel myself (see specs) if you look that one up, it shows what you should look for in a 'gaming' VA panel.

You can try to tweak the monitor a bit with these tests:

http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

And in addition you can try to play with gamma settings to find one where the ghosting gets reduced, any change you make to the darker hues will affect how much you see it. That's about as far as you can take it without replacing it altogether.
 
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Ah, I see. I had never heard of VA panels before. So this ghosting effect is because of my slow VA monitor? I guess there is no way to resolve this then..and my monitor is just bad for games?

Are you referring to your Monitors-Expert bar in your signature?
 
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Refresh the page I gave you a website to check
 

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Blurriness is known as ghosting too, get a monitor with lower response time, 5ms is faster than 10 ms, 2 ms is faster than 5 ms etc.
 
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Blurriness is known as ghosting too, get a monitor with lower response time, 5ms is faster than 10 ms, 2 ms is faster than 5 ms etc.

Yeh, I know lower is better. I'm surprised this more expensive and more recent HP monitor from 2015 has a worse response time with noticeably worse ghosting than my old cheapo Dell monitor from 2009.
 

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Yeh, I know lower is better. I'm surprised this more expensive and more recent HP monitor from 2015 has a worse response time with noticeably worse ghosting than my old cheapo Dell monitor from 2009.

Always look at specs
 
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Always look at specs

I didn't buy this HP monitor - it was given to me for free. But I don't think the specs would've revealed the fact that VA panels have so much worse ghosting problem than TN or IPS panels anyways. The 8 m/s response time and all the other basic specs on paper should be perfectly adequate for gaming and fast scrolling on a TN or IPS panel.

It's surprising how a more expensive 2015 monitor is so much worse than a cheap 2009 monitor.
 
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Good bang for buck VA panels are Viewsonic's 75Hz range of 1080p monitors I'm using an VX2457MHD from Viewsonic and looks nice works well
1920X1080p @75Hz Freesync and wasn't very expensive
 
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I didn't buy this HP monitor - it was given to me for free. But I don't think the specs would've revealed the fact that VA panels have so much worse ghosting problem than TN or IPS panels anyways. The 8 m/s response time and all the other basic specs on paper should be perfectly adequate for gaming and fast scrolling on a TN or IPS panel.

It's surprising how a more expensive 2015 monitor is so much worse than a cheap 2009 monitor.

8ms response is a very telling spec that points at slow pixel response. 4ms panels like most decent IPS have are a good sign of 'sufficient' G2G response across the board. The real story behind that is that the spec they show is the average response time and VA has hues that transition noticeably slower than others. Which is why you see this ghosting. TN and IPS have more similar G2G response across the whole colorspace.
 
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