So I have a 10-year-old 50" Panasonic TC-P50S1 plasma which I am perfectly happy with quality-wise... beautiful (1080p) picture and my games look and play great. I have the original NON-4K Xbox One and PS4, and an MSI GTX 970 Gaming which lets me play PC games via HDMI on the plasma — and with basically no input lag. I'm not a competitive/twitch/CoD gamer by any means, but I do play first person shooters and am very happy with the input responsiveness on my plasma. And my 970 is surprisingly powerful, letting me almost completely max out my games at either 1920x1080 on my TV, or at 2560x1080 (ultra widescreen) on my monitor, and easily get 60fps+ even on newer games like Ghost Recon Wildlands, Wolfenstein, Hitman 2 and more.
However my plasma has had a flickering black bar start to sporadically appear and I either need to get it repaired for a few hundred bucks or take the leap to a new 4K. After much research I've landed on the LG C9 OLED — which is about $1,200 more than repairing my plasma, but I've read nothing but good things about picture quality and 4K gaming. It also has a 13ms input lag in game mode which I imagine would be at least as responsive if not more responsive than my plasma.
My concern is, if I make the leap, are my 1080p games going to play okay? And not look weird at a non-native and upscaled resolution? Again I don't have a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X, so my consoles will not be in 4K. And I've read some mixed things about the 970 being able to achieve 4K on PC... it gets some marks in articles about "4K gaming on a budget" and I might be able to do some games in 4K if I dial down the details from ultra to medium/high. But otherwise 1080p is still the target wheelhouse for the 970, and I don't LOVE the idea of having to take the details way down (not sure if lower details in 4K will look/play better than higher details in upscaled 1080p).
Either way, with the gaming setups that I have, would YOU be happy with these consoles and PC on a new 4K OLED? Or would you just get the old plasma repaired and stick it out for a few more years?
However my plasma has had a flickering black bar start to sporadically appear and I either need to get it repaired for a few hundred bucks or take the leap to a new 4K. After much research I've landed on the LG C9 OLED — which is about $1,200 more than repairing my plasma, but I've read nothing but good things about picture quality and 4K gaming. It also has a 13ms input lag in game mode which I imagine would be at least as responsive if not more responsive than my plasma.
My concern is, if I make the leap, are my 1080p games going to play okay? And not look weird at a non-native and upscaled resolution? Again I don't have a PS4 Pro or Xbox One X, so my consoles will not be in 4K. And I've read some mixed things about the 970 being able to achieve 4K on PC... it gets some marks in articles about "4K gaming on a budget" and I might be able to do some games in 4K if I dial down the details from ultra to medium/high. But otherwise 1080p is still the target wheelhouse for the 970, and I don't LOVE the idea of having to take the details way down (not sure if lower details in 4K will look/play better than higher details in upscaled 1080p).
Either way, with the gaming setups that I have, would YOU be happy with these consoles and PC on a new 4K OLED? Or would you just get the old plasma repaired and stick it out for a few more years?