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@ShinJohnpv

If you’re going to go to places and check out tvs I would also recommend ordering a Time Sleuth from Citrus3000PSI, Time Sleuth Lag Tester. It’s a small device that has an HDMI port, and a USB port and can be powered by any tv’s usb port. You plug it in and hold it up to the center box and it’ll tell you how much lag there is. Now to compare it to a CRT you should remove 8ms from that number. (It takes a CRT tv 16ms to draw a frame from top to bottom, so on a CRT the Time Sleuth would show 8ms at the center box). I don’t know if this is something rtings takes into account on their lag ratings. They used to use a Leo Bodnar tool, but they recently built their own tool.

If the time sleuth is too expensive for you, there’s also a nearly free if more time consuming alternative using a raspberry pi:

A $5 TV Input Lag tester using a Raspberry Pi Zero