I’m a little out of the loop on TV’s. I mainly PC game, but have a few consoles as well. My question is, what is a TV made today that just has the lowest possible input lag? I don’t give a crap about quality or any of this 1440p (i?) stuff (stopped caring many years ago. I still watch VHS tapes on my CRT’s). All I care about is input lag because it ruins the gaming experience for me.

Currently have a shitpile Insignia that is so bad, you can’t game on it (even racing games) and it’s so slow that video and audio often get out of sync on it and it needs a factory reset. It was free so i’ve been using it but it’s just upsetting me now. I’m wiling to drop $500-800 on an enjoyable gaming TV if something like that exists for that price. Something 40" or so is just fine with me. For reference the newest console on it would be a Xbox 360. I don’t play anything older than PS2 on modern TV’s as CRT’s are better in every way for old consoles.

Otherwise, I’ll just go back to all CRT and projector TV for consoles.

thanks yall!’

Edit: i also didn’t clarify, but I’d really like to not use a smart TV. I really hate them. I just want a TV to be a TV if possible, or have the least possible amount of features.

  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    Is there anything that’s just a “TV” with none of this extra bullshit though? All I want is a quality TV I can turn on, and it’s a TV with no lag.

    I appreciate your suggestion!

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      What you are looking for is a monitor. A TV will be filled with features.

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      If you don’t connect the LG to the network it can be just a dumb monitor. Set the tv to always use the last active input when you turn it on and you will never see a menu or any prompts.

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          Basically any TV out there you can get rid of the annoying post processing. But none of them are going to be that way out of the box.

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      All that BS is more beneficial to gaming than a generic TV, especially if your focus is low lag.

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          Game consoles never used to have those features either. 😉 That’s the trick, you need a set that supports modern console features.

          HDR management being a good one. The game developers encoded HDR to make a game look a specific way, you don’t want a set that either over-rides it and does it’s own, similarly you don’t want a dumb set that doesn’t support HDR.

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          Not anymore all TVs are “smart” nowdays they don’t sell dumb TVs,also i missing ips to not have burned pixels as phones has and also many modern matrix quality is suck actually, I checked one local shop and changing angle of view on small degree losing color details dramatically

          • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
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            Dumb TVs are still readily available. They are intended for commercial use and will suck for games or movies though.