Comments on: HomeTheater 101: The Display http://thoughthead.com/55 Opinionated rants for the masses. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: twistedsymphony http://thoughthead.com/55/comment-page-1#comment-75 Thu, 03 May 2007 20:33:45 +0000 http://thoughthead.com/?p=55#comment-75 While it’s true that some HDTVs have slow video processors it’s incredibly rare with most new displays. Since the release of the 360 there was a large consumer back lash against displays that were not friendly towards gaming and to avoid being labeled as THAT brand people want to avoid they’ve quashed the issue.

If you’re buying a used display then I’d highly recommend checking it (IIRC it was mostly Samsung DLPs and Sony RPTVs that had problems). Also problems like those are usually only prominent when up converting from SD sources in which case if you were shopping for a know quality processor (like the Faroudja DCDi) there would be no issues what-so-ever.

Even still it’s a good idea to bring your console to the store and test it on the TV you’re looking at if you’re not sure.

]]> By: thax http://thoughthead.com/55/comment-page-1#comment-74 Thu, 03 May 2007 17:41:15 +0000 http://thoughthead.com/?p=55#comment-74 Make sure to rigoursly test your display when you get it for lag. Some HD displays still have old processor chips which take almost 1 second to process each frame. This makes most video games unplayable. Even a small amount of lag can make playing online multiplayer games difficult because reaction time is critical to winning.

Check to see if the display has a game mode option, this is a good sign that there should not be problems with the display. The game mode might cause problems however if it disables the scaler/filter on all inputs or needs to be manually configured through the menu when you want to play a game. Check to ensure that you can toggle it with a discrete remote code if the display supports a game mode.

Be sure not to test the display using 480i/p, most HD displays do heavy processing on this frame type to help make SD look less crappy. You will need to configure your xbox to output in HD, it doesn’t do it automatically. It is best to configure the xbox output as close as possible to the native resolution of the display so that the image doesn’t need to be rescaled in the display.

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