My dad just bought a 50-inch flat screen TV. He paid like a thousand dollars for it. He was ripped off.
Last night, I noticed that our new, fancy TV has one very minor flaw (which of course I consider crucial). The audio and the video are not perfectly in sync. The audio is just a hair slower than the video. How did I find this out?
I tried playing Guitar Hero. Mind you, it had been a couple of weeks since I've played. So, when I started it and got booed off the stage half way through Pat Benatar's Hit Me With Your Best Shot (just about the easiest song ever for you non-addicts), I thought, 'WTF, mate?'
So I tried again and noticed that I was behind all the notes, and that to actually hit them, I had to strum before the down beat. Didn't get booed off that time, but didn't do especially well. (After all, deliberately playing ahead of the beat is just weird.) I tried changing the batteries in the wii remote, tried connecting the wii directly to the TV, instead of through the VCR, but still nothing. It still wasn't in sync.
And then, to further prove that I was right about the TV being fucked up, and not the wii or my playing, I played Lay Down by Priestess, which is a song I don't screw up. I've played it a hundred times because I love it. And what happened? Well, I didn't get booed off, but I only scored 150,000 points or so.
Then, I muted the sound on the TV and played again. Well, what do you know? 230,000 points. It's not me. It's the TV.
Now how do I tell dad that his precious TV is flawed?
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
to be in sync
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Silly Steph. You always need to sync your game when you change your hardware setup.
It's in the game settings. :P
Really? If I can figure out how to do that, you might just become my new hero...
Yep, that clinches it. You're my hero. =D
Actually, upon further experimentation, you're only partially my hero.
I did what you said and calibrated it (numerous times), but what it does is compensate for the lag, but the video is still ahead of the audio, so even when I play the notes on the beat, it still looks like I'm doing it wrong. Which is fine for a lot of it, but during the hard parts when there's a shit ton of notes and it looks like I'm doing it wrong, it confuses me. Plus when it's just guitar and there's nothing to keep the beat, like in opening solos or whatever, I'm screwed.
I just googled it, and apparently the solution is to get an external speaker system. Stupid LCD TVs--so advanced they can't even handle themselves.
Yup, an actual Home Theatre system would fix that. :P
Better cables might kill the lag too. It's just a difference in signal time from the system to the TV.
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