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Originally Posted by TheVoiceOfReason
Most monitors are LCD screens with LED backlights just like tvs. LED tv is just a marketing term for a different backlight that caught on to replace fluorescent backlighting. Monitors and tv's are still either IPS, TN, or VA LCD panels. (Besides OLED, but they are another story). Throwing around the word LED means nothing to this discussion.
Many new tv's do have acceptable input lag if put in game mode to turn off extra image processing. Still not as good as many monitors however.
Everything has a refresh rate of at least 60. 120 means almost nothing unless you actually have your game playing higher than 60. consoles can't even take advantage of even 60 unfortunately. Many tv's do weird things like frame doubling to claim 120 or 240, but it is usually not the true refresh rate like 120hz monitors have. When you put the game mode on it will most likely turn any of the fancy stuff off and be straight 60hz.
So yes, tv's are good enough for most people, but monitors are still usually faster. The numbers on the tv box are known for being misleading. Personally I use consoles on a tv, pc on monitors.
CRT's are still the fastest.  |
can't beat CRT's and also the blurriness helps so much to not make old game graphics give you nosebleeds like on modern displays.
Don't be too hard on Strife, just looks like someone who got caught/hooked on all the marketing BS tv manufacturers have been trying to feed people for the past 15 years.
Strife, I will leave you with this, remember about 10 years ago when all TV's were being marketed with Hz being the main selling point? Buy this new TV its better than the other with its 600hz refresh rate... where are all those super refresh rates now? in the garbage can of marketing departments where they belong since it was just marketed this way by doing math magic