Is My HDTV Lag Free?

[Deleted member]

From what I understand, CRT TVs are preferred for Melee, as they can take the older signal a GameCube outputs, and provides no image processing.

I have a Wii with component cables, and an HDTV that accepts component at 480p. Melee supports progressive input. The TV itself reports 6ms response time, and it also has a gaming mode.

If 1 frame of Melee (60FPS) is 16.67ms, and my TV has a response time lower, does this mean that my TV is able to play Melee at 480p with less than one frame of lag?

I've been told to buy a CRT if I wish to go very far in the competitive scene but now I don't know if it is necessary for me. Is my TV good enough?

 

[EPsilon933]

Response time has nothing to do with lag. It has partially to do with total image change time

Response time is the time it takes for a TV to change a pixel from black to white back to black

Lag is how long it takes for the TV to process the signal before it can start changing the screen's image

lag / processing time happens 1st, then response time happens (half of it). Both of those things combined make total image change time

 

[-Philip Coast Philip-]

Short answer: No.
Long answer: Noo.

Your HDTV is not 480p, it's something higher, so your HDTV has to convert the signal to match the tv, which using progressive scan/component cables helps with somewhat. This causes lag. Then, the tv applies post-processing, which gamemode usually disables some. This still has lag. CRTs don't have to convert the signal; and they don't have to apply the post-processing that HDTVs normally do, so they don't lag.

Like EPsilon said, "response time" is basically "ghosting," which happens after everything else.