We Designed the ULTIMATE Gaming TV
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,700 words · ~8 min read
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a lot of the time when we complain about a product around here we still have to
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acknowledge that the trade-offs made some amount of
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sense i mean i'm sure every engineer would love to make the thinnest
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most powerful coolest and quietest laptop with the
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best battery life but the real world is full of compromises there's one segment
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where we feel like all the technology is
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there and someone just needs to have the
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stones to build it so i present to you
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our vision for the perfect
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gaming tv
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the Corsair one features a compact form factor that is fast quiet and you
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guessed it compact check it out through amazon or newegg at the links below
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let's kick this off with a little disclaimer this won't be a cheap tv
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this is our concept for what would be the flagship of our gaming tv lineup so
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from here any tv manufacturer watching
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hi tv manufacturers could create value options with some of our ideas cut out
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the first crucial feature for our gaming tv is low input lag modern tvs run
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powerful processors and in many cases even full Android computers in them with
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enough power for everything from 4k HDR
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netflix to complex near real-time image processing
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and yet any cheapo monitor that i grab
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off the floor in the office will have lower input leg than almost any tv on
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the shelf at the store and there is no good reason for it i've heard it
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directly from a large tv maker that they
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intentionally leave a lot of processing on even in
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game mode so that if stupid end users
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watch movies in game mode the image will still have that instagram filter
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vividness no so we would be using an OLED panel for
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crt-like pixel response with a processing delay
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like the best gaming monitors of one to three milliseconds and game mode would
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run a simple srgb color profile with
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factory calibrated accurate colors
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speaking of responsiveness once you've used a high refresh rate display for
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gaming there's really no going back so our tvs electronics would be capable of
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driving its 4k panel at 4k 60hz or
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at 1080p at a higher refresh rate 120hz
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would be okay 144 or 165 would be better
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and we'd also want to build in a mode where you can choose to interpolate the
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reduction in resolution or use one to four pixel mapping for
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similar sharpness to running at native resolution with basically just bigger
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pixels we'd also throw in support for both g-sync and freesync which can be
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done if you're willing to use two separate input modules but to fit those
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in along with some of the other features we want to add we realize that some of
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the thinness will have to be sacrificed though i honestly feel these days like
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most people wouldn't care that much about an extra inch for gaming i'd
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rather have a tv that's thicker but has the goods in it to be able to do away
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with a standalone receiver so let's talk inputs
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we want all of them first off displayport why
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the is this not on tvs already
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it's a royalty-free connector with tons of bandwidth and great support for
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variable refresh rate just put it on so
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ours would actually have two one for g-sync and one for freesync
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and then as far as HDMI is concerned four seems like a pretty good number for
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the back current gen consoles from the big three and a set top cable or
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satellite box then oh we're not done yet
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for our older inputs like rca s-video
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component and vga our perfect tv would include a
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high-quality low-latency video resolution upscaler basically an
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integrated framemeister we'd have one set of inputs at the back for your
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favorite retro console with another set at the front for that ps2 or snes that
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you only pull out of the closet once in a while then while we're at it another
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HDMI would be nice and a powered usb hub
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for retro controllers and charging vr gear would be swell on to audio now we
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came up with a really flexible solution for that it should come with bookshelf
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speakers like a mackie cr4 but ones that
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are mounted to the side of the tv the audio signal could be passed to them
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using contacts on the side of the set so no wires but we'd also want them to be
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able to be easily detached and repositioned using standard speaker
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wires that way you could clip them on
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discard them entirely or integrate them into an aftermarket surround setup the
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audio outputs for the rest of which would just be good old-fashioned speaker
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wire running on a high quality amp and dac along with rca and toslink if you've
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got your own another no-brainer that we haven't seen enough of easy pairing with
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bluetooth headsets including support for
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multiple discrete audio streams and you would need that for our next feature the
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pstv had the ability to show a completely separate full screen image to
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two players using 3d glasses but since
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then with active shutter glasses and OLED panels the potential for in-home
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stereoscopic 3d has gotten much better but i don't want to use it for stereo 3d
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imagine this gamers you and your kids
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are wearing the a glasses gaming on a connected pc and speakers while your
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wife and her friend wear b glasses and
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watch 50 shades or whatever on their headphones each side is losing half of
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the vertical resolution but from my review of lg's 2016 OLED the half
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resolution experience at 4k is still
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excellent let's talk remote now then it would be bluetooth because anything else
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is kinda stupid and also so that you could easily use your phone as a remote
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without a built-in ir emitter also it
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would be pretty sick if it had a built-in keyboard and could be switched
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like some of logitech's keyboards to control a pc as a gyroscopic air
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keyboard like this one than just be switched back to the tv on the subject
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of using widely adopted industry standards hmm
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what kind of stand would we use maybe some kind of like weird like two feet on
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one side no how about vasa
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why do tv manufacturers keep reinventing the wheel here for both our 42-inch
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model which we think would be perfect for a dorm or a bedroom and our 65-inch
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model which is a great large format size for the living room without needing to
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be transported to your house on a flatbed this solution would allow the
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user to mount the tv however he or she wants a couple final housekeeping items
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while we're dreaming RGB mood lighting on the back could be controlled through
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the smartphone app controlled dynamically using an integrated dream
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screen controller or over usb with integration with razer chroma and one
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small thing that would make this tv much easier for use with a pc would be the
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option to disable hdcp 2.2 on a given
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source i've had some issues with it not allowing me to see anything until the
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Windows driver loads meaning no BIOS adjustments unless i go grab an extra
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monitor so let us know then in the comments
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is there anything that you think we missed and do you guys agree that if
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we're gonna be expected to spend four to five thousand dollars on a high-end tv
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well there should be an option with features that are meaningful for gamers
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because honestly i don't see why the vast majority of what we proposed
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couldn't be done for around that price point or a little higher
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