HD Lag
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 3:45 pm
Something we never had to worry about until roughly the last 5-6 years. When I bought my first HDTV in 2007, I plugged in my original Xbox and loved the increased color saturation... but something felt off. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, until I saw something about "HD lag" online.
Of course, newer systems like the Xbox 360 and the PS3 do much to alleviate the problem, since the HDTV has to do much less work to scale the image. But that leaves us with limited options for enjoying our older consoles without lag. There are expensive scalers that will upscale composite and RF video somewhat quickly, like the XRGB-3. Maybe you'd prefer to keep a CRT around... but these consume a lot of space and energy.
How do you deal with this problem?
Of course, newer systems like the Xbox 360 and the PS3 do much to alleviate the problem, since the HDTV has to do much less work to scale the image. But that leaves us with limited options for enjoying our older consoles without lag. There are expensive scalers that will upscale composite and RF video somewhat quickly, like the XRGB-3. Maybe you'd prefer to keep a CRT around... but these consume a lot of space and energy.
How do you deal with this problem?