What do I need in a ultimate gaming room?

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lexii

I'm doing a makeover for my room and I want to know like what I would need in my room to have it like the ultimate gaming room.

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ultimate gaming room? I have one such plan for myself when I win the lottery. it's the ULTIMATE gaming room (also home theater and music).

Display:
you playing on console or PC? the display choices are different depending on platform. if you do both then go with the PC monitor.
Console: 1080p theater-grade projector IMO better than a 80" LED 1080p TV.
PC: Toshiba 55ZL2G 55" 3D autosteroscopic 4K TV. consoles will not support a 4K TV, there's no point getting this 4K TV unless the console supports it. In fact, PCs will barely support this. just way too many mind-blowing pixels! (8.3 MP!)
autosteroscopic means you have 3D without those retarded glasses.

again for speakers:
go with a premium Bose or Creative (Bose being much more expensive) THX 5.1 or better surround sound system if on console. only get speakers with as many channels your console supports, there's no point going with a 8.1 if the console only supports 5.1. might actually degrade audio if you force a 5.1 system to drive 8.1 speakers!
if on PC just go nuts. PC's have much better audio abilities than consoles. your choice of vacuum amp or digital amp (I prefer vacuum- the glow of the tubes ads a nice touch) designer top notch dedicated woofers, plaster tweeters, and mid range speakers. 400-1200W depends on size of room.
Of course, you'd also need a decent sound card! like creative sound blaster xfi-fatality (for gaming)

system:
consoles of your choice. consoles are prone to overheating, what I'd do is pop the cover, upgrade the heatsinks and use silent fans to greatly improve cooling (warning: may void warranty).

PCs you'd need a crazy system to support a 4K TV at decent frame rates. I suggest the older LGA 1366 platform- the EVGA SR-2 mobo with two Xeon CPUs, 48 GB ram, Win 7 (or vista) Professional x64, and I figure you'd need at least two nVidia GTX 590's to drive the display. this display requires 4xHDMI 1.4 cables. well it'll be best if you can put FOUR 590s in SLI x16 config if you can afford it. if you do you might as well add in liquid cooling/TEC since there's no way you'd air cool it!
Although LGA1366 is being phased out I don't see any new system that has 24 CPUs (12 physical), supports 48 GB DDR3-1600 ram, and has 7 PCI-e slots for up to FOUR graphics cards all going at 16X!
you'll also need RAID 5 array of SATA3 SSD's for your data and games. I mean, the basic hardware costs as much as a car, you probably shouldn't cheap out on the storage!

as for furnishings and stuff, we all have our own tastes...
I dunno if wood paneling (solid wood, none of that particle board crap), leather sofas (all natural), hand laid hardwood floor, small bar, sheepskin rug is what you have in mind...

I'm in the market for a 60 to 70 inch LCD or plasma. which do you recommend?

wolverin02

I'm willing to spend a bit (3-4k) but I want the best picture quality for the price. Its going in a well lit room with lots of windows so I prefer a brighter one.

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I will tell you that if you plan on putting it in a bright room I wouldn't recommend a Plasma. Whether the TV is a 32" or a 65" it still has 2 million pixels. All that you have done is stretch the pixels...on a plasma this would not be a problem because of the refresh rate (600Hz or 0.001ms) which is a 1000 x's faster then the fastest LCD which has a refresh rate of 240Hz or 3ms.

When you have pixels that big the LCD cannot refresh fast enough for you not to see pixelation during fast-action movies or sports. Plasma however being so fast you cant really notice any pixelation(bubbles around fast movement).

Being that you are going to be putting this in a bright room I dont recommend plasma because of the glass. You are safe with a 55" LED LCD with a 240Hz refresh rate. One that I might recommend is the UN55B8000 or UN55B8500 which are Samsung's Top Model LED LCD's.

LED LCD have almost as good of colors as a plasma, so your not losing much(if any)contrast by going with the LED LCD.

Best of luck to you on your purchase!

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What is the currently best TV on the market for sports and gaming?

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Peter

Hey,

What is to today's date the best TV on the current market for watching sports and gaming PS3?

I want the best picture quality available, it doesn't matter whether it's a SmartTV or not, LCD, LED or plasma. Price is not a factor.

I was looking at either the new sony 4k TV, or the Samsung 75 SmartTV. But are there any better out there? And which of these two is the best?

PS: The bigger the screen the better. Thanks!

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If you want the absolute best picture quality available right now either to with a sharp elite. Very expensive though. Or get a panasonic vt-50 plasma. However if you wait a few more months they are releasing OLED and 4k televisions that will basically be the best thing to ever touch home theater. Also panasonic is real easing the beyond reference plasmas which add a red phosphorous which makes your picture even better than the vt-50

How long do you think it will take for the price of OLED TV to come down?

Trinidad

I heard that the price of OLED TV will come down after some time. Normal people like us can only wait for that time in order to afford it.

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I don't agree with people predicting 5 to 10 years for OLED to come down to the price of a really good LCD or Plasma TV. Yes the first flat panel TVs were crazy expensive. The price of the first sets in 1997-98 were in 10k, 20k, just insane, and the image quality was horrid, and they weren't even HD. By 2005 or so, a really good plasma TV was about 3-4k give or take. That was only 7 years later.

Just 3 years ago, I kept reading that the first mass market OLEDs would be small, and very expensive. I also read that large sizes would be difficult to make. Sony made one for 2k but it was tiny, and not mass market. Now LG and Samsung announce that they are launching OLED, and it will drop in 2012, and it will be 55 inches. Also rumors keep floating around of a 10 thousand US dollar price point.

We all know everything gets better and cheaper, but everyone also forgets the faster part. If OLED launches this year, it will only take 3 years, 4 max for OLED to cost what a top notch LCD or Plasma TV does today. TV makers will stick to larger sizes to command higher prices and profit margins, but they cannot do it forever. by 2016 LCD and Plasma tech will be on the way out.

By 2020 I cannot imagine LCD would even exist, maybe only for rock bottom, budget stuff. Plasma could still be a niche market for those that might not like the 'look' of OLED. But let's be honest, plasma could be dead, and another new tech like Sony's crystal LED could be floating around.

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Will the release of oled and 4k drop the price of regular tvs?

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Original W

hello, i was wondering if anyone in the tv sales or home theatre communities thought that with the release of oled (organic light emiting diode) or 4k resolution tvs sometime in 2013, that the price of tvs that aren't oled or 4k will drop much like standard definition tvs dropped in price when high def came out? In case your wondering im looking at the price of a Panasonic Viera Tcp50st30. THANK YOU

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Yes the prices will go down, but not all of a sudden. Like all other electronics, the prices are constantly going down. Even when HDTVs came out, the prices on standard television didn't dropped overnight. Also, OLEDs TVs and 4k TVs are still a novelty, with only very pricey model are available to the general public. It will take 2-3 years to become mainstream and to challenge the plasma/lcd/led prices.

This is especially true if you want to buy a very specific model, like your case. If you are willing to wait that model would be when the new models will come out (so the stores need to sell their old stock). This is usually in the February-April time frame.

What is the next big thing after Ultra HD 8K tv?

another

We have analog tv with black, and white, then color tv,
then plasma tv, lcd, then blue-ray tv, , and then omeled, super omeled, and then
4k, so what next Ultra HD 4k, then 8k and UHD 8k,
so what next?

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You're mixing terms here..

Display technology: CRT B&W -> CRT Color -> CRT rear projection -> DLP/LCD/rear projection LCD/Plasma -> LED -> OLED -> ???

TV resolution: 480i/SD (analog) -> 480p (analog/digital) -> 720p / 1080i / 1080p -> 4k/Ultra HD -> 8k? really?

Professional movie theaters use 4k right now. 4k makes no sense for screens under 60". I can see theaters going to 8k, but I can't see home equipment ever going this high simply because 99.999% of homes just aren't going to be large enough to support a screen large enough to make the difference between 4k and 8k visible.

Blu-ray only supports 1080p right now. It is possible to put 4k resolution video on a blu-ray disc but you'd only get about 30 minutes of video per layer. So you'd need a quad layer blu-ray disc or some other storage device with >100GB capacity to store a whole movie in 4k.

I don't see blu-ray doing this. Frankly, I don't see 4k ever going mainstream on the consumer market. What's the point? Most TV stations are still at 720p, and even most HDTVs in peoples' homes are barely big enough for people to differentiate between 720p and 1080p. Now you're asking them to jump to 4k? Not going to happen.

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