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Smidlee on 29 February 2008
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ookaze said:



E) Yes, the difference is huge, especially for consoles like the Wii. You'll see some people complain that the Wii is no 1:1 because they see lag in the controller, when in fact that's their TV that's too slow.

You also have to understand that the response times TV makers give you, are without any treatment applied to the image. The logic applied to the image by every TV adds several ms to your response time depending on the technology. The game mode of some TV actually removes lots of logic, sometimes downgrading the image a lot.



Actually I believe the lag is cause by HDTV "upscaling " hardware and has nothing to do with response time. "Upscaling" is design mostly with DVD movies (24 fps) in mind and not for games or fast moving sports. My HDTV has a special "Game" mode to remove this lag which is most noticeable in games like Guitar Hero where split second timing is involved.

As you noted this is why if you want a HDTV you may want want to stay with 16:9 format and not a monitor in disguise since PC monitors may not "upscale" DVD as good as HDTV would. Yet if you have a good "upscale" DVD player then going with a 16:10 (Pc monitor) won't be much of a problem either.

Response time has to do with how fast a pixel can change to white to black and back to white again. Anything around 8ms is just fine since the older slower LCD had a "ghosting" image problem.