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Transatlantic Ping Faster than Sending a Pixel to Screen

posted by mrcoolbp on Friday March 28 2014, @05:40AM   Printer-friendly
from the 1ms-2ms-3ms-floor dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

Two years ago John Carmack tweeted, "I can send an IP packet to Europe faster than I can send a pixel to the screen. How f'd up is that?" And if this weren't John Carmack, I'd file it under the interwebs being silly.

Not convinced? You aren't alone, but Carmack appeared when called out to defend this claim.

We looked further and found this informative article from AnandTech about input lag.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Boxzy on Friday March 28 2014, @04:08PM

    by Boxzy (742) on Friday March 28 2014, @04:08PM (#22670)

    The only place where I argue CRT was ever superior is input lag. In virtually every respect LCD's have exceeded a CRT. LCD's introduced a problem CRT's never suffered with except in a few minor edge cases. Personally I have never been too bothered by tiny amounts of lag until lip-sync becomes a problem.

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  • (Score: 1) by cybro on Sunday March 30 2014, @11:17PM

    by cybro (1144) on Sunday March 30 2014, @11:17PM (#23413)

    You forgot black levels.

    • (Score: 2) by Boxzy on Monday March 31 2014, @04:04AM

      by Boxzy (742) on Monday March 31 2014, @04:04AM (#23478)

      Sure, that would be one of those minor edge cases. Not everybody obsesses about how black is black. "I'll stop wearing black when they invent a darker colour!"

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