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Panasonic vs. ViewSonic: The shootout with OLED, LCD and gaming monitor
- Panasonic vs. ViewSonic: The shootout with OLED, LCD and gaming monitor
- Panasonic OLED TV TX-48JZW984 in the test
- Panasonic LCD TV TX-49JXW944 in the test
- Viewsonic Gaming Monitor Elite XG320U in review
- 120Hz TV vs. gaming monitor: overall conclusion
- How we test: Gaming
- Here’s how we test gaming latency at 240Hz and VRR
It has been an open secret for many years: who takes a particularly impressive picture at the gaming or want to work should be a TV use as a monitor. The consoles are designed for the living room anyway, but even the much more powerful gaming PC thirsts for immersion through giant images. The technical requirements are display immense in gaming and far exceed what you would expect for a perfect movie display needed.
Although has HDR late in entering the gaming and PC industries, but juggling frame rates that can quickly exceed ten times that of film production. HDMI2.1 in its highest transmission rate becomes a must. However, support for this feature is by no means a guarantee for one high quality pixel fidelity.
The best gamer TV devices need one game mode, which not only reacts quickly, but also reproduces colors razor-sharp and does not draw shadows around details. So is a cheaper 55-inch devices with a 60 Hz panel are by no means always a good choice as a replacement for a PC monitor. The ones tested here Panasonic TVs are the smallest and best models with 120 Hz and top image. You have to come with me PC monitors compete, which have awakened from their technological slumber and deliver frame rates up to 360 Hz this year.
We particularly liked the characteristics of OLED and LCD interested, and we have the Panasonic duet a gaming specialist from Viewsonic contrasted, which offers higher frame rates and lower latencies. The result surprised us in several aspects.
Here are the individual gaming shootout participants:
