/vr/ - Retro Games

>>7713989
Get that cord out from beneath the leg of the table, you barbarian.

You might prefer the CRT look, but a CRT wont have any advantage over many modern and actual *good* LCD and OLED TV's in regards to "input lag". I always find that most plebs on boards like /vr/ have really shit/cheap/old LCD TV's, with anywhere from 50 - 250ms input latency.

For comparison, CRT's do NOT have zero input latency, that would be impossible. A 60hz CRT takes 8.3ms before the center scan lines have displayed the image, but it takes 16.7ms before the bottom scan line has displayed the image, because a CRT draws the image from top to bottom. The industry standard of measuring latency is by using the center of a display, so at best, a 60hz CRT has 8.3ms latency or "input lag".

Now take something like a LG CX OLED or Samsung Q95T (LCD) TV. Each TV has input latency of around 10ms at 60hz, at least if you're using the Game Mode. A human can't notice 10ms. Some autists don't even realise they need to use Game Mode on their TV's though. For example that same LG TV will have over 100ms latency when Game Mode is disabled. You'd notice "input lag" at 100ms.

The reason LCD/OLED TV's have latency to begin with is typically due to all the image processing that modern TV's do, which is why you need to enable Game Mode to disable most (or all) of that shit to get the latency down, because that's literally all it does, it just disables image processing.

Some modern LCD/OLED's will surpass CRT with input latency when using 120hz and Game Mode (LG C9 and CX series of OLED's), as they get down to 6ms at 120hz. No one will ever actually notice such a small difference no matter how autistic, but i'm just pointing out the fact that the average 60hz CRT TV has now been surpassed.

If we're talking about gaming monitors though, then they surpassed CRT's long ago in regards to input lag. The whole point of this post is basically just to say CRT's have no advantage anymore with input lag, and they haven't for a long time. You just need to buy the right TV/monitor.