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TV gaming most people think of it as just for console players or at least

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they did NVIDIA at CES 2018 got the PC

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gaming world super excited about big

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screen gaming when they showed off their 65 inch big format gaming displays or

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BFG DS and then promptly gave the entire

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community a serious case of the blue balls when they announced that they

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wouldn't be coming until sometime later this year well what if you don't want to

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wait until later this year good news because mostly under the radar there has

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been a way to get high refresh rate gaming in your living room on the

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big-screen TV for months the Vizio P

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series runs at 120 Hertz and you can buy

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one today but there are some compromises

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so are they worth it or should you keep

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waiting world of warships is a free-to-play historical online combat

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gameplay stay tuned later in the video for an exclusive offer

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so the 65-inch variant of is iou's

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flagship piece series behind me here uses a VA panel that means that you can

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expect good if not industry-leading viewing angles color gamut and overall

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image quality but and this is important

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for gamers it also means better pixel response times than a typical IPS and at

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normal viewing positions those other disadvantages melt away somewhat in

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light of its 120 Hertz capability so

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it's pretty compelling at least on the

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surface but it still requires some further investigation high advertised TV

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refresh rates are typically just motion interpolation an effect that

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subjectively looks terrible and objectively introduces additional input

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leg so it's really bad for gaming but I

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mean the panel itself like many TVs

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today runs at a hundred and twenty Hertz natively so what that means is that if a

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manufacturer chooses to expose it separate from any motion compensation

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nonsense which by the way the P series doesn't have any way the TV can and will

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accept and display a true

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120 Hertz input with a catch

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HDMI 1.4 doesn't provide enough

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bandwidth to run 120 Hertz at our panels

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native 4k resolution so we're stuck at 1080p but I mean if you've ever played

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around with a retina resolution calculator you probably know that unless

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you've got eagle eyes the difference between 1080p and 4k on a 65 inch TV can

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be difficult to discern from further than about ten feet away so this might

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still be viable but we need to answer some questions first will 1080p to 4k

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scaling cause blur and quality degradation how is the input latency of

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this display in its various modes and what about the rest of its features so

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to answer we've grabbed our test bench and our 8k high frame rate red camera

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and a seat on the couch we started with

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our biggest problem with other TVs input

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latency and we're happy to report that at a hundred and twenty Hertz in game

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mode it was basically imperceptible subjectively speaking it was actually

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pretty close to other 120 Hertz displays that we've tested and using our makey

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makey we measured an average end-to-end delay of roughly 40 milliseconds

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regardless of game mode so it could be

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better but it is definitely acceptable bumping up our resolution though we see

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a jump to 78 milliseconds though it should be noted as well that this was

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with game mode on and at 4k game mode

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did end up making a difference so this is still not too shabby for a TV and

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it's fine for casual games but to say we

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could tell the difference between high refresh rate mode and 4k would be an

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understatement as for image quality again it's pretty good it's not OLED but

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it's blacks are deep and thanks to the hundred and twenty eight zones of local

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dimming contrast stays high even when it's dealing with small bright objects

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on a dark background the app experience

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is really cool it's got a built-in chromecast that Vizio is calling Smart

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cast and it pairs quickly with Bluetooth 4.0 and uses Wi-Fi to actually do

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everything from powering the TV on and off to accessing all of its settings so

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fire up that app turn the sharpness setting to zero and for the most part

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enjoy your TV for the most part the

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scaler well it's not horrible but it's

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not gonna blow anybody away either it is certainly no M cable though with that

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said if you're using your TV with a PC as we're kind of proposing here you may

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actually prefer it that way since it does prevent the text anomalies that the

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M cable can produce in its current form now with five HDMI 's and a component

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input though we aren't stuck with PC gaming all the time modern consoles will

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run about like you'd expect so actually better than a typical 60 Hertz TV with

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high input lag but not as good as switching to 120 Hertz on a piece and as

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for retro content well at lower

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resolutions you'll see a big drop in quality as expected blurry text and

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characters with no obvious way to improve it and unfortunately that

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sharpness function doesn't help it just puts a sharpest filter over top of it

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and as for 720 and 1080 P modes on a

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super NT we actually got pretty clean

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results TLDR if you can pre scale your

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retro games you will actually get some pretty darn good results here and in

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fast 2d games it gets especially good if

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you enable the clear action back light strobing function this reduces visible

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motion blur at the cost of some brightness so bottom line then

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high-performance big-screen gaming what do you do well LG actually has a couple

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of OLED models the c7 and b7 that have

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this same 1080 120 Hertz functionality but I would recommend against gaming on

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oh let's not just those ones but in general because bright static on-screen

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elements like HUDs or speedometers are very very likely to cause permanent

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burnin bring your options then back to the P series here are waiting for

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invidious partners like a soos with their BFG DS

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so with a BF GD you get variable refresh

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rate with G sync which is kind of a big deal you get 120 Hertz at full 4k

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resolution assuming you have the hardware to run it and you get even

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lower input leg with an NVIDIA shield console built in however with the Vizio

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you get instant gratification because it's available now a well above average

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big-screen gaming experience and a pretty darn good TV overall also if my

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speculation is anywhere near correct and I think it is you also get a price that

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is anywhere from one half to a third of

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what NVIDIA solution will costs so the P series is actually looking pretty

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darn good let us know in the comments which one you'd prefer thanks to

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