Guitar Hero + HDTV...

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

anyone here with an HDTV?

I went round my mates yesterday to play Guitar Hero on his big 42" effort, and it seemed I was playing really really bad. Playing songs like Take Me Out on medium against my mate, and we were both missing the simple notes at the start and basic strumming patterns were really hard to pull off. Wed get to a 4x multiplyer like twice in a song, and that wouldnt last.

We set it up on a smaller old TV and the game went perfect, we got all the notes and kept our 4x

Has anyone else tried this and had the same problem?
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**Matt** · Joined: 04 Feb 2006 Posts: 3780 Location: Bethel, Vermont

I may be that the notes move faster on a bigger TV and you aren't used to that.

**Nytwolf** · Joined: 04 Mar 2006 Posts: 586 Location: Kansas City, KS

I seem to like it on a big tv. I had no problems switching from my 27" to my 60".

I've actually played better on the 60" tv.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

**Echelar** · Joined: 26 Feb 2006 Posts: 1246 Location: Fort Wayne, IN

The very first time I played was on a 70" widescreen HDTV.

As I was a noobie, I can't really make a comment about doing poorly or not.. but I thought I picked it up pretty quick.
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**EBT** · Joined: 28 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

you wil have a bad lag on most HDTVs dute to them up sampling the input signals this can run as bad as over a whole second of lag (an eternity ina music game) the common fix is use use composite connections (red yellow white) instead of svideo or component buy an external device or not pla on the TV

**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

we used the red yellow and white, it didnt work
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**MaximusDM** · Posted: Sun Apr 30, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject:

I can't play on my HDTV either because it lags because it needs to convert its resolution or something of that nature. I don't remember. I do know that some televisions have a game mode and that takes away some of the lag, if not all of it. Mine does have that mode though. I play on an older tv with the game.

There is a component that you can buy that is like 200 dollars and you need to import it and it allows you to plug your A/V cords into it and then plugs in through the VGA which doesn't give lag if you have the plug.

I have my computer hooked up to my monitor and games like Stepmania don't have lag because of the way it is plugged in through the VGA. I'm not exactly ready to pump out that kind of money for it and the developers on the forums said they were looking into the HDTV delay for Guitar Hero II so maybe the game itself will have a setting to fix that. Besides that, I'm fine playing on my older tv although it does look a hell of a lot crisper on the HD.
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**Genga** · Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 2474 Location: Glasgow, Scotland

awesome

as long as it wasnt just us then

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**nvega730** · Joined: 28 Mar 2006 Posts: 11

i play on a 52" and find it more comfortable then my buddies 32"

**MaximusDM** · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 2:12 am Post subject:

Well in most cases it is just the video feed that is lagging and not the audio although mine does have a bit off audio lag. You would hit the notes better on a lagging television by not looking at the bottom of the fretbooard to line up strummng but just watching the notes come down and listening to the music. The game is quite generous on giving you some slack on hitting notes so it might not be that big a deal. It certainly turns into a big deal if you are going for scores though.
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**HylianHero** · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 4673 Location: Santa Cruz, CA

Hmm. I play on my dad's HDTV in the living room all the time and haven't experienced any lag at all.

Maybe it's just the brand of TV that makes the difference between lag-free and lagging runs...
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**blah** · Joined: 12 Feb 2006 Posts: 129 Location: Chaska, MN

I've read on various other music gaming related forums that HDTVs with minimal lag do exist but are just uncommon, and IIRC, usually lacking other popular features.
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**Fly1ngV** · Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:42 am Post subject:

yea, i hear people complaining about the newer arcade versions of IIDX because the lag from the new screens in HD

**Phr34k** · Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:05 pm Post subject:

I have a 52" widescreen, with the PS2 hooked up through component and my computer through HDTV...never experienced any lag ever. And yes I play a LOT better using my TV with its huge ass sound system ^_^
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