[sumtechguy]

What is more fun is the latency those effects add to images. Found that out the hard way playing some twitchy 'have to be just right' on the controls games. In my case it was almost 1/4-1/2 of a second. Even with all of the settings 'off' there is still a decent latency on the screen (down to about 70ms) which is just enough to mess me up on some games but not all.

[jaywalk]

Most newer TVs have a game mode that significantly reduces latency by getting rid of almost all processing, including stuff that you otherwise can't disable in the menu.

[sp332]

And some TVs only offer low latency on certain inputs, so it pays to do some research.

[copperx]

Research sounds like a huge time investment. Just read the manual.

[Dylan16807]

Research means you look up the TVs you're considering buying in a giant chart on websites dedicated to this.

Reading the manual doesn't help when your TV doesn't have a fast mode. And many don't.

[ansible]

I've been using a 46in 4K TV as a monitor, and the lag from the video processing felt super odd, until I switched the HDMI input to "game mode".

[sumtechguy]

Mine still has the lag with 'game mode'. It is just a quirk of the thing I bought 10 years ago. It could also be like some of the other commenters are saying maybe the HDMI port I have it does not have the low latency bit but maybe 1 of the 4 does. Have to check again. It was not really a big deal as that is not really the use case for my TV. Which was watching movies :)