Is ghosting inevitable on a VA panel?

[Netherspark]

In other words do ALL VA monitors experience ghosting or can some monitors avoid it?

I've just bought a new monitor (Acer Predator Z321QU) and it looks fine in most game but movies and videos look atrocious. There is some degree of ghosting on virtually every moving object, and camera panning makes everything "vibrate".

I've checked on three different VA monitors and even a VA television and it all looks the same. Is it even possible for a VA panel to have no ghosting?

 

[k1114]

Yes and it doesn't make much sense to be fine on games and not on movies when those are slower. I wonder if there's some setting that it's switching.

 

[k@rt]

VA Panels tend to have slower response times than other types of monitor. They have better rendering and color definition on static render but can suffer blurring on fast moving images.

It does seem odd that video renders worse than games, but it does depend a lot of what games you are playing, if you are playing games that are not dependent so much upon fast update then it may not be so noticeable compared to action movies. Check the response time of your monitor... 1-2ms is best, 3 or more is likely to cause ghosting.

Dont forget though that streamed video (especially youtube) can suffer artifacting too which may make monitor ghosting seem worse.

 

[Netherspark]

It's rated at 4ms, but of course like most monitors that's a bit of a lie.

Can you even get VA panels with a true low response time that absolutely will not get ghosting?

 

[k1114]

The past couple of years they have been getting faster. Go farther back and ips had the same issue. Now there are 1ms just like some va and don't have ghosting issues.