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TV gaming most people think of it as just for console players or at least they did Nvidia at CES 2018 got the PC gaming world super excited about big screen gaming when they showed off their 65 inch big format gaming displays or BFG DS and then promptly gave the entire community a serious case of the blue balls when they announced that they wouldn't be coming until sometime later this year well what if you don't want to wait until later this year good news because mostly under the radar there has been a way to get high refresh rate gaming in your living room on a big-screen TV for months the Vizio P Series runs at 120 Hertz and you can buy one today but there are some compromises so are they worth it or should you keep waiting world of warships is a free to play historical online combat game from wargaming featuring an exciting blend of action and strategic gameplay stay tuned later in the video for an exclusive offer so the 65-inch variant of is iou's flagship piece series behind me here uses a VA panel that means that you can expect good if not industry-leading viewing angles color gamut and overall image quality but and this is important for gamers it also means better pixel response times than a typical IPS and at normal viewing positions those other disadvantages melt away somewhat in light of its 120 Hertz capability so it's pretty compelling at least on the surface but it still requires some further investigation high advertised TV refresh rates are typically just motion interpolation an effect that subjectively looks terrible and objectively introduces additional input leg so it's really bad for gaming but I mean the panel itself like many TVs today runs at a hundred and twenty Hertz natively so what that means is that if a manufacturer chooses to expose it separate from any motion compensation nonsense which by the way the P series doesn't have any way the TV can and will accept and display a true 120 Hertz input with a catch HDMI 1.4 doesn't provide enough bandwidth to run 120 Hertz at our panels native 4k resolution so we're stuck at 1080p but I mean if you've ever played around with a retina resolution calculator you probably know that unless you've got eagle eyes the difference between 1080p and 4k on a 65 inch TV can be difficult to discern from further than about ten feet away so this might still be viable but we need to answer some questions first will 1080p to 4k scaling cause blur and quality degradation how is the input latency of this display in its various modes and what about the rest of its features so to answer we grabbed our test bench and our 8k high frame rate red camera and a seat the couch we started with our biggest problem with other TVs input latency and we're happy to report that at a hundred and twenty Hertz in game mode it was basically imperceptible subjectively speaking it was actually pretty close to other 120 Hertz displays that we've tested and using our makey makey we measured an average end-to-end delay of roughly 40 milliseconds regardless of game mode so it could be better but it is definitely acceptable bumping up our resolution though we see a jump to 78 milliseconds though it should be noted as well that this was with game mode on and at 4k game mode did end up making a difference so this is still not too shabby for a TV and it's fine for casual games but to say we could tell the difference between high refresh rate mode and 4k would be an understatement as for image quality again it's pretty good it's not OLED but it's blacks are deep and thanks to the hundred and twenty eight zones of local dimming contrast stays high even when it's dealing with small bright objects on a dark background the app experience is really cool it's got a built-in chromecast that Vizio is calling Smart cast and it pairs quickly with Bluetooth 4.0 and uses Wi-Fi to actually do everything from powering the TV on and off to accessing all of its settings so fire up that app turn the sharpness setting to zero and for the most part enjoy your TV for the most part the scaler well it's not horrible but it's not gonna blow anybody away either it is certainly no M cable though with that said if you're using your TV with a PC as we're kind of proposing here you may actually prefer it that way since it does prevent the text anomalies that the M cable can produce in its current form now with five HDMI 's and a component input though we aren't stuck with PC gaming all the time modern consoles will run about like you'd expect so actually better than a typical 60 Hertz TV with high input lag but not as good as switching to 120 Hertz on a PC and as for retro content well at lower resolutions you'll see a big drop in quality as expected blurry text and characters with no obvious way to improve it and unfortunately that sharpest function doesn't help it just puts a sharpest filter over top of it and as for 720 and 1080 P modes on a super NT we actually got pretty clean results TLDR if you can pre scale your retro games you will actually get some pretty darn good results here and in fast 2d games it gets especially good if you enable the clear action backlight strobing function this reduces visible motion blur at the cost of some brightness so bottom line then high-performance big screen gaming what do you do well LG actually has a couple of OLED models the c7 and b7 that have this same 1080 120 Hertz functionality but I would recommend against gaming on oh let's not just those ones but in general because bright static on-screen elements like HUDs or speedometers are very very likely to cause permanent burnin bring your options then back to the P series here are waiting for invidious partners like a soos with their BFG DS so with a BFG D you get variable refresh rate with G sync which is kind of a big deal you get 120 Hertz at full 4k resolution assuming you have the hardware to run it and you get even lower input leg with an Nvidia shield console built-in however with the vizio you get instant gratification because it's available now a well above average big screen gaming experience and a pretty darn good TV overall also if my speculation is anywhere near correct and I think it is you also get a price that is anywhere from one half to a third of what Nvidia solution will costs so the P series is actually looking pretty darn good let us know in the comments which one you'd prefer thanks to wargaming for sponsoring this video world of warships is their free-to-play historical online combat game that fuses strategy tactical gameplay and engaging combat altogether you command a massive naval fleet including some of history's most iconic war vessels level up your important tech modules and prepare to dominate the oceans they've got four classes of ships a bunch of upgrades and strategically designed environments so the action never ends and every single match you play is different since launch they've actually added over 200 ships across eight nations and they 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