Don’t despair, you are not the first or the last to cry out into the sky (metaphorically speaking) when unwittingly or drinking you died without knowing why or where the impact came from. You were well traced, moving as it should, but suddenly you’re on the ground, why haven’t you seen your enemy? Why, even if you are hiding, do they see you but you don’t see them? Careful because this technology gives a clear advantage to those who have it.
LG Black Stabilizer, a brand exclusive in its gaming monitors?
The technology is called Black Stabilizer and, as you may have seen, it is an LG patent. If you don’t know it is obligatory to say it because LG is one of the biggest panel manufacturers in the world, which manufactures for almost all brands of monitors and it is really hard to find a single manufacturer that does not do not have at least one. type of panel of this company.
For this reason, this technology is present in quite a large number of monitors, although it is not called the same due to the LG patent, but the effect is very similar. Some even dare to improve it with certain techniques that they believe give better results, always with the approval of the original manufacturer.
So what is LG Black Stabilizer?
Well, it is nothing more and nothing less than a function of LG panels which has a very specific and beneficial function for the gamer. What is sought is to optimize the game experience and give an advantage over other players, where for this the panel analyzes in real time the areas considered dark, that is to say the pixels that are in a shade of gray or black in a wide area.
The slab detects these areas as “dark” or low light, which is precisely where many players hide, in the shadows as has always been said, and then shoot or attack when they are not. not seen due to high contrasts and low light. serial panel calibration images.
Making LG black stabilizer is to find these areas and apply more localized brightness to them (more or less precise, it depends on the monitor matrix) and with it changes the contrast ratio of the panel, thus improving visibility in dark areas of the game. In addition, it is a technology that comes in a kind of “pack” that LG makes available to us, since it is normally activated with Dynamic Action Sync, which we already talked about at the time.
How active? It’s automatic ?
There is a bit of controversy here, because while LG has never made it clear that Black Stabilizer has versions, the reality is that internally it has undergone some major changes. Mainly because on “old” monitors, the effect of brightness and the change in contrast were visible on the whole screen. It was still more or less localized, but it affected the whole panel
What happened? Well, many users have decided to leave this technology turned off because the effect has not convinced them despite its usefulness. This is unimaginable in a competitive player, where the advantage is clear no matter how poorly portrayed it on screen, but the common user may not like it.
Therefore, LG had to innovate and in the new panels the effect of brightness and contrast is modulable, so that when active it changes the gray level and provides an increase in contrast such that no was not too visible before. perfectly visible and emerges in the dark (which is no longer so logical).
Now, Black stabilizer it manages to maximize the bandwidth of the image to be restored and by analyzing the current pixels on the specific luminance of the image and not on the entire panel. The effect is certainly not perfect, but it is currently more attenuated.
The function and setting must be enabled or disabled manually from the monitor panel itself, as this is a proprietary and hardware setting. To do this, we will have to go to the image mode configuration in its corresponding menu, enter it and from the sub-menu which is normally called “Black level control” activate or deactivate it.
What is the best? Activate or deactivate it? Does it affect performance?
There is an eternal debate here and it is something very personal to everyone. What we need to be clear is that any professional player needs to have it active because of the advantage it represents for the game, but leaving that aside … Normally people turn it off.
The problem is that it produces an image washout effect where black becomes a lighter shade of gray and if the panel is not functioning properly and we are in a scene with partial brightness although we can see the rest. in the “dark” panel can be too bright and even disturbing.
The second point is about colors, as they change the hue at some point, not reflecting exactly what they should be without them. LG black stabilizer. On the other hand, as it is a function of the monitor itself and as we said, it has to be turned on or off manually. If we use the monitor to play games or watch movies, in the first scenario we will have an advantage, in the second the feeling is much less immersive and it will have to be deactivated.
When it comes to performance, it doesn’t affect the panel itself or response times, just contrast and brightness, it doesn’t include any kind of input lag or milliseconds, so we can take it easy. in this regard and take advantage of a technology designed for the demanding gamer.
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