TV gaming most people think of it as just for console players or at least
they did NVIDIA at CES 2018 got the PC
gaming world super excited about big
screen gaming when they showed off their 65 inch big format gaming displays or
BFG DS and then promptly gave the entire
community a serious case of the blue balls when they announced that they
wouldn't be coming until sometime later this year well what if you don't want to
wait until later this year good news because mostly under the radar there has
been a way to get high refresh rate gaming in your living room on the
big-screen TV for months the Vizio P
series runs at 120 Hertz and you can buy
one today but there are some compromises
so are they worth it or should you keep
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so the 65-inch variant of is iou's
flagship piece series behind me here uses a VA panel that means that you can
expect good if not industry-leading viewing angles color gamut and overall
image quality but and this is important
for gamers it also means better pixel response times than a typical IPS and at
normal viewing positions those other disadvantages melt away somewhat in
light of its 120 Hertz capability so
it's pretty compelling at least on the
surface but it still requires some further investigation high advertised TV
refresh rates are typically just motion interpolation an effect that
subjectively looks terrible and objectively introduces additional input
leg so it's really bad for gaming but I
mean the panel itself like many TVs
today runs at a hundred and twenty Hertz natively so what that means is that if a
manufacturer chooses to expose it separate from any motion compensation
nonsense which by the way the P series doesn't have any way the TV can and will
accept and display a true
120 Hertz input with a catch
HDMI 1.4 doesn't provide enough
bandwidth to run 120 Hertz at our panels
native 4k resolution so we're stuck at 1080p but I mean if you've ever played
around with a retina resolution calculator you probably know that unless
you've got eagle eyes the difference between 1080p and 4k on a 65 inch TV can
be difficult to discern from further than about ten feet away so this might
still be viable but we need to answer some questions first will 1080p to 4k
scaling cause blur and quality degradation how is the input latency of
this display in its various modes and what about the rest of its features so
to answer we've grabbed our test bench and our 8k high frame rate red camera
and a seat on the couch we started with
our biggest problem with other TVs input
latency and we're happy to report that at a hundred and twenty Hertz in game
mode it was basically imperceptible subjectively speaking it was actually
pretty close to other 120 Hertz displays that we've tested and using our makey
makey we measured an average end-to-end delay of roughly 40 milliseconds
regardless of game mode so it could be
better but it is definitely acceptable bumping up our resolution though we see
a jump to 78 milliseconds though it should be noted as well that this was
with game mode on and at 4k game mode
did end up making a difference so this is still not too shabby for a TV and
it's fine for casual games but to say we
could tell the difference between high refresh rate mode and 4k would be an
understatement as for image quality again it's pretty good it's not OLED but
it's blacks are deep and thanks to the hundred and twenty eight zones of local
dimming contrast stays high even when it's dealing with small bright objects
on a dark background the app experience
is really cool it's got a built-in chromecast that Vizio is calling Smart
cast and it pairs quickly with Bluetooth 4.0 and uses Wi-Fi to actually do
everything from powering the TV on and off to accessing all of its settings so
fire up that app turn the sharpness setting to zero and for the most part
enjoy your TV for the most part the
scaler well it's not horrible but it's
not gonna blow anybody away either it is certainly no M cable though with that
said if you're using your TV with a PC as we're kind of proposing here you may
actually prefer it that way since it does prevent the text anomalies that the
M cable can produce in its current form now with five HDMI 's and a component
input though we aren't stuck with PC gaming all the time modern consoles will
run about like you'd expect so actually better than a typical 60 Hertz TV with
high input lag but not as good as switching to 120 Hertz on a piece and as
for retro content well at lower
resolutions you'll see a big drop in quality as expected blurry text and
characters with no obvious way to improve it and unfortunately that
sharpness function doesn't help it just puts a sharpest filter over top of it
and as for 720 and 1080 P modes on a
super NT we actually got pretty clean
results TLDR if you can pre scale your
retro games you will actually get some pretty darn good results here and in
fast 2d games it gets especially good if
you enable the clear action back light strobing function this reduces visible
motion blur at the cost of some brightness so bottom line then
high-performance big-screen gaming what do you do well LG actually has a couple
of OLED models the c7 and b7 that have
this same 1080 120 Hertz functionality but I would recommend against gaming on
oh let's not just those ones but in general because bright static on-screen
elements like HUDs or speedometers are very very likely to cause permanent
burnin bring your options then back to the P series here are waiting for
invidious partners like a soos with their BFG DS
so with a BF GD you get variable refresh
rate with G sync which is kind of a big deal you get 120 Hertz at full 4k
resolution assuming you have the hardware to run it and you get even
lower input leg with an NVIDIA shield console built in however with the Vizio
you get instant gratification because it's available now a well above average
big-screen gaming experience and a pretty darn good TV overall also if my
speculation is anywhere near correct and I think it is you also get a price that
is anywhere from one half to a third of
what NVIDIA solution will costs so the P series is actually looking pretty
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