LCD vs Plasma - Fact vs Myth

[csczero]

i think lag is negligible LCD/PLASMA, unless you are a professional gamer playing counter strike or like that sort for pin point accuracy .

 

[krinamob]

Not necessarily a pin point accuracy games, even normal games like NFS if played for hours the lag will be felt much in LCD. And one more point is playing on Plasma for extended hours is not too much stress on eyes as LCD does.

 

[adder]

Not necessarily a pin point accuracy games, even normal games like NFS if played for hours the lag will be felt much in LCD. And one more point is playing on Plasma for extended hours is not too much stress on eyes as LCD does.

In todays tvs be it plasma or lcd ,the lag primarily depends on the image processing used.
care to explain the second point?
A whole lot of gamers or majority of the gamers use lcd monitors and no one has complained anything about it.

 

[NetFreak]

In todays tvs be it plasma or lcd ,the lag primarily depends on the image processing used.

Lag depends on three things:

1. Input format supported by TV (E.g. 720p @ 60 Hz or 720p @ 100 Hz )
2. Image processing delay
3. Screen's native refresh rate (24 Hz to 200 Hz)

Plasma is better w.r.t. #3

 

[adder]

^I said in todays tvs it PRIMARILY depends on the image processing.

 

[NetFreak]

Even today's LCD TVs have response time in 2 - 4 msec range. While plasma has it in .001 msec rage.

So, while in Plasma lag is determined by video processing, in LCD it is still driven by native response time on screen.

But yes, for normal usage its a non-issue.

 

[Gfreeman]

Even today's LCD TVs have response time in 2 - 4 msec range. While plasma has it in .001 msec rage.

So, while in Plasma lag is determined by video processing, in LCD it is still driven by native response time on screen.

But yes, for normal usage its a non-issue.

REsponse time is the least of all causes for input lag and is mostly
considered different from lag

If you are talking about 2-4 ms of response time why should it ever affect
lag which can end up averaging 30ms-60 ms(in game mode) in today's TVs and in some TVs even 80-90 ms(some Samsungs go upto 110ms)
without game mode.

A couple of years ago with game mode enabled people used to measure <10 ms of pure lag on LCD TVs. So then what has changed??


In LCDs overdrive can cause lag. It is done to reduce the ill-effects of response time but more often ends up contributing to lag.


Image processing hence has a lot more to do with input lag rather than response time

Additionally users playing games like Guitar Hero, Rock Band and Killzone 2 are known to have notice lag more easily


Response time affects motion on LCDs rather than lag