Author: Michael Crider / Source: reviewgeek.com
The cheekily-named “BFGD” program—for “Big Format Gaming Display,” and nothing else—was announced at CES 2018, a full year ago. We expected these overpowered, gamer-friendly screens to hit shelves before the end of that year. The wait was worth it.
Technically, the HP Omen X Emperium 65 is only a “display,” not a TV—a distinction required in the US because it lacks a tuner for over-the-air TV programming.
But what it lacks in rabbit ears it makes up in every other category. Looking at it purely as a TV, it’s a 65-inch, quantum-dot, 4K HDR screen, with a 120Hz refresh rate. Which is nice. But that won’t get people to fork over five grand for a don’t-call-it-a-TV.What will? Let’s break it down. First, since it’s technically a gigantic gaming monitor and not a conventional TV, it comes with G-SYNC. That’s NVIDIA’s anti-tearing frame-syncing system that slows down the refresh rate of the panel to match dips and valleys in a PC game’s performance. It’s enabled by an extra bit of NVIDIA hardware built into the screen. But it’s not the only extra bit, because there’s also a built-in SHIELD to handle the Omen’s smart TV functions. NVIDIA told us that this is the same Tegra X1-based system as the stand-alone SHIELD, which is far and away the best set-top box on the market. It will even get its frequent software…
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