Tv gaming - most people think of it as just for console players. Or, at least they did. Nvidia at CES 2018 got the PC gaming world super excited about big-screen gaming when they showed off their 65-inch big-format gaming displays, or BFGDs and then promptly gave the entire community a serious case of the blue balls when they announced that they wouldn't be coming until sometime later this year.
Well, what if you don't want to wait until later this year? Good news - because mostly under the radar there has been a way to get high refresh rate gaming in your living room, on a big-screen TV, for months https://magicdb.net/playing-fortnite-blindfolded-w-myth-gaming-with-marshmello/. The vizio p series runs at 120 hertz and you can buy one today. But there are some compromises - so are they worth it or should you keep waiting? World of Warships is a free-to-play historical online combat game from Wargaming, featuring an exciting blend of action and strategic gameplay. Stay tuned later in the video for an exclusive offer. (Upbeat electronic music) So the 65-inch variant of Vizio's flagship P series behind me here uses a VA panel. That means that you can expect good, if not industry-leading viewing angles, color gamut, and overall image quality. But - and this is important for gamers - it also means better pixel response times than a typical IPS. And, at normal viewing positions those other disadvantages melt away somewhat, in light of its 120Hz capability. So, it's pretty compelling, at least on the surface. But it still requires some further investigation. High advertised TV refresh rates are typically just motion interpolation - an effect that subjectively looks terrible, and objectively introduces additional input lag, so it's really bad for gaming. But I mean, the panel itself, like many TVs today, runs at 120Hz natively. So what that means is that, if a manufacturer chooses to expose it, separate from any motion compensation nonsense - which, by the way the P series doesn't have, anyway - the TV can, and will, accept and display a true 120Hz input. With a catch - Hdmi 1.4 doesn't provide enough bandwidth to run 120Hz at our panel's native 4k resolution. So we're stuck at 1080p. But - I mean if you've ever played around with a retina resolution calculator, you probably know that unless you've got eagle eyes, the difference between 1080p and 4k on a 65 inch tv can be difficult to discern from further than about ten feet away. So this might still be viable, but we need to answer some questions first. Will 1080p to 4k scaling cause blur and quality degradation? How is the input latency of this display in its various modes? And what about the rest of its features? So to answer, we grabbed our test bench and our 8k high-framerate RED camera, and a seat on the couch. We started with our biggest problem with other TVs - input latency. And we're happy to report that at 120Hz in game mode, it was basically imperceptible. Subjectively speaking, it was actually pretty close to other 120HZ displays that we've tested, and using our Makey-Makey, we measured an average end-to-end delay of roughly 40 milliseconds, regardless of game mode. So it could be better - but it is definitely acceptable. Bumping up our resolution though, we see a jump to 78 milliseconds - though it should be noted as well that this was with game mode on, and at 4k, game mode did end up making a difference.
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