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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Gaming on a TV? Wouldn't like that low refresh rate personally

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

144Hz TVs are a thing and common. I'm using a 65" 144Hz 4K OLED right now.

Modern TVs are excellent gaming monitors, and they're much cheaper than an equivalent PC monitor. Especially LG OLEDs, since they are built with gaming in mind. Input lag is a thing of the past.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

What's the burn in like on the oled? I have an LG oled as my TV but haven't dared buy one as a monitor as oled used to be so bad for burn in

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

You're thinking of plasma TVs from like 12 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Here's what my LG C1 panel looks like after three years of heavy use (8+ hrs/day), used exclusively as a monitor. Primary tasks include gaming, watching YouTube in a window, and full-screen music production and video editing. (Edit: What you're seeing on the right side of the screen is glare, cause the TV is right next to a window.)

I've disabled the burn-in protection in the service menu (TPC & GSR) because they dim the screen too much and make text difficult to read. I left the remaining features in the user menu enabled, because they're not as dramatic, so I don't even notice that they're on (logo dimming and pixel shifting). The only other preventive measures I take are autohiding the taskbar and setting the wallpaper to randomly cycle every 30 minutes, but I probably don't even need to do that. I consider burn-in a non issue.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Its not 1987 anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

My gaming PC uses an LG C2 OLED. 120Hz, 4K, HDR, FreeSync. At the time, gaming monitors with competitive specs were all sold out anyway or way more money.

That said, I don't connect any TV to Wi-Fi directly, hate all that "smart" crap. The smart TV apps usually all suck compared to just casting from other devices to a compatible cast device. For example I just cast from my phone to Chromecast as my primary method of controlling my TV and consuming media on it.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, tried to play Dead By Daylight that way and it basically made skill checks impossible.

Edit: Where hte line appeared to be and where it actually was weren't synced up due to the TV's higher resolution

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The game kept checking. No skills found.