Finally a TV For Gaming? – Part 2

[James]

Buy 2018 QLED TV:
On Amazon: http://geni.us/aQhlse
On Newegg: http://geni.us/noPb

 

This spring, Freesync 2 variable refresh rate support came to the Xbox One S and Xbox One X- but there were no TVs to go along with it! Now, Samsung has added Freesync support to its 2018 QLED TVs, including the Q9F. Is this the gaming TV we always wanted?

 

 

[Enderman]

1) people can game and have been gaming on monitors without variable refresh rate for decades with no problem. You do not need variable refresh rate to have a good gaming experience. A low latency tv without variable refresh rate is no different from a monitor without variable refresh rate. So no, you do not need to spend $3k on a samsung tv just because it has variable refresh rate to game on it. You can game just fine on a non-vrr tv like the $600 NU7300.

 

2) Freesync is on other samsung tvs, not just the QLED lineup. https://www.rtings.com/tv/reviews/samsung/nu8500 The 12Hz range is almost useless, so until that improves in the future it's almost as if the tvs had no vrr. So don't waste your money on this tv and just buy a far cheaper 6000 or 7000 series instead.

[Jtalk4456]

Awesome! I can finally have a tv that is better suited for gaming use!

NVM....

[SolarNova]

Never .. ever ...ever.. recommend a QLED Tv to someone. Please.

 

They are HUGELY overpriced for what they are.

$3000 for a 65" LCD display (or even $1600 for a 55"), you'd have to be clinicaly insane or ignorant of what else you could get, if you were to buy one.

 

Once you hit the price of an OLED, there is ZERO reason to buy any LCD display ,including QLED as an average user.

 

And in this instant, with FreeSync as the topic, a 12 frame freesync range is ..well ..pointless. And the whole 1080p bit, again pointless, aint no1 gunna be running 1080p on a 55" let alone a 65".

[Arika]

At least they didn't call it

 

Samsung Series (x) 55" GAMING TV

 

and slap 1billion lumen RGB stips all over it

[D13H4RD]

1 hour ago, SolarNova said:

Once you hit the price of an OLED, there is ZERO reason to buy any LCD display ,including QLED as an average user.

There's one. 

 

Lifespan. 

 

I'm the type of guy who keeps TVs up to a decade, so lifespan is important. And OLED isn't yet at that level where I am completely confident that it can deliver years and years of enjoyable viewing experiences without burning in prematurely. A lot of the channels I watch have static channel logos, so I'm not confident on OLED's ability to handle that without prematurely wearing. 

 

Thankfully, I'm not in the market for a new TV, so perhaps by the time I have to change, self-luminant QD panels would already be a thing. 

[Akkeio]

I'm no expert in TV motherboards but I do know the high end ones have video memory. I assume that the point of TVs are to make crappy cable TV shows look good, the insides of a TV are to like upscale and fill in pixels so Geico can look good selling their rubbish on your 60' TV.

 

So to get absolutely smooth, high quality frame rates, for GAMING aren't really what they are designed for. The number of people willing to spend upwards of $2000 on a GAMING TV are pretty low, I guessing the cost of supplying a GAMING TV outweighs the demands.  

 

A quick fix would be open up a TV, bypass the onboard video memory connect it directly to the screen connector and hope it don't go pop.

 

... More research is needed