LCD or CRT?

The PS3 doesnt upscale if it doesnt have to. If the game is default 720, it wont upscale to 1080; because there is no reason to. You wont be getting any boost in quality by doing so. The only time it upscales is in PS2 games; and the lag with the scaler has been fixed for about a year now.

As for the 60hz refresh rate.. now you are adding a THIRD dimension and a THIRD property that is completely unrelated...

Resolution Refresh Rate (frame rate) =/= LCD Refresh Rate =/= Input Lag Delay...

Frame Rate is how many screens you are seeing per second. So with a 60hz frame rate, you are seeing 60 frames per second... thus a single frame is 16.6ms. You shouldnt really care about this these days; all monitors do at least 60hz.

Refresh Rate is how long it takes a pixel to go from white to black to white again... if this is too high you get ghosting... however, this problem has been largely fixed in LCD monitors these days and its not something you need to worry about.

Input lag is the time it takes the monitor to recieve the input stream, and then display it out to the user. Most LCD screens have about 25-50ms delay; the input delay problem is largley NOT been fixed, as TVs are generally not designed for gamers. Some TVs have "game modes"; but the majority dont.
 
I'm using an LCD monitor with and HDMI input to play games on.

I couldn't find a test that had been done for my specific model but a similar one had about 30-40ms input delay. (The refresh rate is less than 5ms).

This means that anything I see on screen is about two frames behind whats actually happening. This really isn't noticeable. I.E. it doesn't hinder my ability to do just frames, GI, block lows, or escape throws.

It would however compound any issues with lag while playing online. But for whatever reason I can still do all those things.

It's an unfortunate reality that will hopefully be fixed in the not-too-distant future.
 
If your TV has a game mode, you should ABSOLUTELY be using it... (though through HDMI, you dont usually need it, with Sony TVs, you CANT put HDMI on game mode)

What Game Mode does is turn a large portion of the post-processing functions of your TV off. Most post-processing functions work to make the images look better, more vibrant, less grainy and less blocky. Each of these functions adds an element of lag; but this is why your games dont look as good with Game Mode on.

Frankly, dont buy a TV without game mode...
 
Jaxel said:
Input lag is the time it takes the monitor to recieve the input stream, and then display it out to the user. Most LCD screens have about 25-50ms delay; the input delay problem is largley NOT been fixed, as TVs are generally not designed for gamers. Some TVs have "game modes"; but the majority dont.
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So are you saying this also applies to LCD's that don't do any processing on their own like monitors or is this strictly LCD HDTV's?
 
Jaxel said:
If your TV has a game mode, you should ABSOLUTELY be using it... (though through HDMI, you dont usually need it, with Sony TVs, you CANT put HDMI on game mode)

What Game Mode does is turn a large portion of the post-processing functions of your TV off. Most post-processing functions work to make the images look better, more vibrant, less grainy and less blocky. Each of these functions adds an element of lag; but this is why your games dont look as good with Game Mode on.

Frankly, dont buy a TV without game mode...
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Actually I have a Sony TV and I use HDMI and game mode.


This might help:
http://gear.ign.com/articles/720/720303p2.html
 
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