Postby TorTorden » Sat Feb 18, 2017 11:45 am
Problem with input lag is it's still very poorly documented.
It's getting better and things like the displaylag database is a good effort, but it is failing completely at being up to date, basically after 2014 it's hardly relevant.
*Rant warning*
Also, model numbers change over various regions as well, and albeit you should be able to generalise between them, nothing is as simple as that in reality and one market could, and often do, either get substandard panels and or substandard processing, although in the same frame, similar price etc etc.
It is also highly individual of what people notice when it comes to input lag.
Some start barfing and throwing the controller out below 40ms, some doesn't even notice it at all before it passes 100ms.
And it also depends an awful lot on what type of games you play, For ED it is actually not that critical.
And just to mention for lag free 60hz gaming. You need a minimum response time of 16ms.
For tv's, at least the past few years, finding a screen capable of anything less than 30ms has been like finding a unicorn in the wild.
That's ok for the industry, since console games don't really bother to go for more than 30fps in the first place, and most don't even reach that, happily staying between 20 and 30 fps.
Self emitting panels has often been good, but plasma has gone the way of the Dodo bird, Oled has all the promise in the world.
But LG has a long standing policy of running substandard image processors and never given two hoots about input lag.
Hence why their Oled's are measuring in the high 50's.
In fact the processing in the LG B series oled from last year is so substandard, non UHD source images look poorly compared to the competition, and you need some source device to run the upscaling from 1080p to the UHD 4k resolution to acheive a good image.
Compared to my Panasonic that I honestly can barely tell the difference between upscaled blueray and native UHD, that is quite suprising.
I have actually yet to test UHD gaming on it from the pc, since that would require yet-another long HDMI cable, and 1080p from the pc is just fine for the gaming I do there.
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