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jjoonathan on Nov 29, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Are there any 4K “dumb” televisions?

The panels have the advertised resolution, but yes, for "smart" TVs you always have to figure out how to turn off the gross sharpening/compression filters that they use to win the Great Best Buy Screensaver Battle. It can be done, though, and certainly if the manufacturer wanted to omit them in a monitor offering it could.

ansible on Nov 29, 2021 [–]

Two of the most important settings:

Game mode. This turns off most/all the image processing, which greatly increases the lag.

Overscan. Also turn it off. This zooms in the picture a little to crop out artifacts around the edge.

jjoonathan on Nov 29, 2021 | [–]

^ This.

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