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    The state of >40inch monitors?

    Hmm. Well, given my specific mandates, the UHDxxx is sadly not even on the radar. I already notice the ~24ms latency I currently have. The UHDxxx displays have 56ms, which makes them even less appealing to me than a Samsung TV, unfortunately.
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    The state of >40inch monitors?

    Freesync/G$ync are actually just a bonus to me. Even less important than HDR. At best, I would use them to watch PAL at 50fps (which I admit would be nice for the convenience). I am not interested in a non-stable framerate, and anything less than 60fps can ultimately be solved with better...
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    The state of >40inch monitors?

    Greetings. I consider myself one of the earliest users of a large display device as my PC monitor. I'm actually still staring at the LG 42LD450 (2010) that I chose after personally dragging a laptop to multiple retailers in an effort to find a display that boasted low latency and 4:4:4...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    Just offering some data on this. 24ms (or 26.5ms, going by Rtings' hardware-based measurements) is acceptable latency. In fact it's more or less the latency of the TV I'm currently staring at. Unfortunately, in PC mode - which is what we may as well label the 4:4:4 mode that doesn't discard...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    "Game mode" may not be what your after in any event, since it seems universally to use 4:2:2 color by consequence. So far, I haven't heard of any 4:4:4 capable TV that does not revert to said color when using whatever they may boast as a game mode. Here is a review of a recent, comparable...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    I can confirm that my local Best Buy took back my first TV purchase even though I'd already opened it. Even though I had tested many TVs for latency and 4:4:4, some models weren't available for testing, so I gambled and tried out a model that was one step higher than what I'd found. It failed...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    It's only indistinguishable when the display you're staring at is effectively at near-retina clarity. 4k at a decently wide field of view (such as a 42" monitor on the desktop) is manifestly not so sharp as that. I'm not talking about gaming with a PS4 or whatever where it literally doesn't...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    Good old Panasonic. From what I recall, they were actually the very first on the market with a 4:4:4 capable model. (Maybe this very one?) I didn't know it had displayport. 37ms is pretty much the same as the best TV I saw on rtings, with the added bonus of not having the drawbacks of being...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    I don't know if I would give the label "advice" to unambiguous effrontery. I guarantee you not everyone is a faceless jerk. I'll offer the TL;DR: What's the lowest latency anyone's seen / heard of / experienced in a 4K 4:4:4 60fps display so far? If I were to narrow that down, I'd say...
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    New Samsung 4k for everyone.

    I am in the market. Right now, I am staring at a 1080p TV which I purchased five years ago after personally testing dozens of TVs at Best Buy etc. for their latency and 4:4:4 support (and making a detailed post about my findings). Using a 42" TV as a monitor is still novel even today, but I'm...
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    Mantle possibly coming to Gamebryo. Meaning what?

    Here's a rather more thorough analysis than I think either of us would be willing to make. Saves us both some time. http://peter.corrosivetruths.org/2011/12/21/is-skyrims-creation-just-gamebryo/ TL;DR: It's Bethesda's personalized & enhanced iteration of Gamebryo, not labeled as such...
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    Mantle possibly coming to Gamebryo. Meaning what?

    Well, I wasn't really expecting any kind of grand gesture. I was more hoping that the very process of adding Mantle to Gamebryo could potentially be transparently applicable to previously existing iterations of the engine, ie. the ones used by games already released. Sort of like how a new...
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    Mantle possibly coming to Gamebryo. Meaning what?

    This was pointed out in a different thread, but I had a particular question about what it means. This is mostly copied/pasted from a different forum. This seems to carry implications more for future titles like the inevitable Fallout 4 (which, as it was pointed out in the other thread, is a...
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