Game Responsiveness is More Than Just Good Frame Rate

[Steve the Pocket]

Funny how nobody has thought to start marketing "gaming TVs" that emphasize low latency. Or maybe they do and I've somehow never heard of it.

What's so funny about that?

You'd think they would. You'd think there'd be a market for it, and people would want to get in on it. You can buy keyboards aimed at professional writers and coders, that are built like keyboards from the '80s with the clickety-clacks. You can buy monitors aimed at artists, with more accurate colors and darker blacks. There's a whole cottage industry built around peddling useless bullshit that hipsters think will make their vinyl records sound better. And of course within the realm of TVs themselves there are things like Sony's "quattro" or whatever that have dedicated yellow subpixels even though red and green already make yellow and obviously they're being marketed to idiots who don't know any better, as well as double-HD resolution screens that nobody can use because cable and satellite and iTunes and Netflix are just catching up to regular HD and game consoles aren't even there yet.

And yet here is a niche with a genuinely useful application, and nobody's interested.

 

[Something Amyss]

You'd think they would. You'd think there'd be a market for it, and people would want to get in on it. You can buy keyboards aimed at professional writers and coders, that are built like keyboards from the '80s with the clickety-clacks. You can buy monitors aimed at artists, with more accurate colors and darker blacks. There's a whole cottage industry built around peddling useless bullshit that hipsters think will make their vinyl records sound better. And of course within the realm of TVs themselves there are things like Sony's "quattro" or whatever that have dedicated yellow subpixels even though red and green already make yellow and obviously they're being marketed to idiots who don't know any better, as well as double-HD resolution screens that nobody can use because cable and satellite and iTunes and Netflix are just catching up to regular HD and game consoles aren't even there yet.

And yet here is a niche with a genuinely useful application, and nobody's interested.

The things you've mentioned are either buzzword products, professional products, and/or relatively inexpensive.

We wouldn't be seeing a push for 4K and 8K monitors if not for the p wars, where buzzword fans want to make sure they have all the ps at any cost, even if their hardware doesn't have a source with that many ps.

A lot of that hipster crap is rebranded and at a premium. I've seen people put thousands of dollars into owning a fairly standard and unimpressive headphone amp--which they will then use with cheap headphones anyway. That may be on the extreme side, but I've seen record junkies spend fifty dollars for the type of products my dad used to buy with pocket change. And even then, this market blew up only after the "vinyl just sounds better" crowd became large.

I'm not sure they would have the same market for "low latency" TVs. I'm not sure it's popular enough to justify the cost to produce the monitors on a large scale. I think people would rather have more ps and ks.