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by MonMotha » Sun Oct 29, 2006 8:48 pm
I really, REALLY hope TV manufacturers soon realize that all the latency they're introducing due to scalers, non-sensical filters, etc. on these digital TVs is just plain unacceptable for many uses of a TV. Sure they're fine for watching TV, but anything interactive will suffer. Video games in multiple genres (music, obvioiusly, but also fighters and shooters) have major problems, and light gun based games are often completely broken, even on CRT based sets. In some ways, fighters are worse than music games since you can't anticipate and account for the latency like you can in a music game.
Heck, people have trouble just keeping the audio synced from external sources like DVD players as it is as some TVs have latency on the order of half a second or more! Down with crappy high latency digital TVs! Some nicer sets do have a "gaming mode" which helps, but usually doesn't completely eliminate the latency. On some types of sets (DLP in particular), the latency is unavoidable due to the way the TV works, but on CRT based systems, it just stems from the manufacturer being cheap and not wanting to make the set multi-mode (and rather scaling everything to 1080i or whatever it runs at).
The vast majority of the IIDX machines I played on in Japan had replacement monitors. Most were RP CRT and had good latency, but one had a plasma on it. Even the "regular locals" seemed to acknowledge that it was desynced, and I'm sure they'd gotten used to it.
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