So I'm looking for a new HDTV and I'm curious if these new LED TVs are any good for gaming?
I'm mostly concerned with my Xbox 360 and PS3 games working okay with it. But I'm also after information about running older consoles on this set like the PS2, Dreamcast, Saturn, SNES, Genesis, and NES.
LED TVs.
Re: LED TVs.
I'm basing my observation with my Samsung Cellphone which has an AMOLED screen. Probably not a good analogy of LED HDs though. Cell is very bright but dim in sunlight. Indoors the cell has a very nice pic. Perhaps verify how that LED TV would look in a bright room. The store display usually unrealistic of home environment.
CRT vs LCD - Hardware Mods - HDAdvance - Custom Controllers - Game Storage - Wii Gamecube and other Guides:
CRTGAMER Guides in Board Guides Index: http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 5#p1109425
-
JordanPlayer
- 64-bit
- Posts: 361
- Joined: Mon Jun 08, 2009 1:41 am
- Location: Houston, TX
Re: LED TVs.
I've had an LED TV for over 6 months now (it is one with big square panels of LEDs that turn on/off, not tons of individual LEDs) and it has great colors and blacks. The TV looks good with all the lights off and is also good when there is light coming in from the windows. I use it for Dreamcast (VGA), PS2 (Component), Wii (Component), XBox 360 (HDMI), and PS3 (HDMI); the TV does everything perfectly for these systems. I had issues playing PS1 games on it (would not display video signal, would get audio), it also didn't have S-Video inputs and the composite on the old consoles would be a bit blurry in motion compared to a CRT. I bought a big CRT that had plenty of S-Video connections and it works great for the older systems.
-
ChuChu Flamingo
- 64-bit
- Posts: 343
- Joined: Sun Aug 01, 2010 3:49 pm
- Location: Michigan
Re: LED TVs.
LCD's when compared to Plasmas do blur things. Did you have your PS1 hooked up through component? If so the tv is thinking the signal is 480i when it really is 240p and trys to deinterlace it causing black screens, flickering, and the like. My HDTV looks like its having a techno raid when playing 240p(such as disgaea and ps1 games through component).JordanPlayer wrote:I've had an LED TV for over 6 months now (it is one with big square panels of LEDs that turn on/off, not tons of individual LEDs) and it has great colors and blacks. The TV looks good with all the lights off and is also good when there is light coming in from the windows. I use it for Dreamcast (VGA), PS2 (Component), Wii (Component), XBox 360 (HDMI), and PS3 (HDMI); the TV does everything perfectly for these systems. I had issues playing PS1 games on it (would not display video signal, would get audio), it also didn't have S-Video inputs and the composite on the old consoles would be a bit blurry in motion compared to a CRT. I bought a big CRT that had plenty of S-Video connections and it works great for the older systems.
Most TV's will play fine with old systems but keep in mind sometimes there is overscan (like in super mario bros blue vertical line on the left). Another thing to keep in mind is input lag. It can make or break something in a game and make jumping over a platform more hard than it should be.
