G-Sync Projectors

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G-Sync Projectors

Post by Alcazar » 05 Jun 2014, 20:28

I have a friend who lives to play games in his home theater with a projector, but like so many he is stuck at 60hz. To date I have not found any 1080p 120hz projectors for him to try (the ones that say 120hz are really just doing stereo, not true 120hz refreshes).

Now that G-Sync exists, it has the power to kind of changes things for projectors. The G-Sync brand means something, and sets a requirement to support up to 140hz or something, right? So if any projectors are coming out with the G-Sync support, gaming would be pretty awesome in such a home theater.

Anyone heard of any projectors planning to support G-Sync? If they did, the color wheel would need variable speed I think. Not impossible, I guess. Curious to hear your collective thoughts on this topic.

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Re: G-Sync Projectors

Post by Chief Blur Buster » 06 Jun 2014, 07:49

The ones doing 3D stereoscopic actually often support TRUE 120Hz (undocumented, not advertised)
http://www.blurbusters.com/gigantic-120 ... projector/
And several BENQ projectors too.

Some GSYNC monitors will only support 60Hz, such as the newly announced 4K GSYNC displays. So it doesn't mean every GSYNC display is 120Hz+.

There are likely probably no GSYNC projectors for the near future, although it is technologically possible with LCD, LCOS and 3-chip DLP. The target market for GSYNC is gamers but it could find applications i. Home theater, for perfect playback of any arbitrary video framerate (present and future).
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