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Different feel to video game when playing on HDTV?

I really don't know how to ask this question, but for as long as I can remember I've played video games on a 30 something inch RCA TV set that my family had in the living room, probably since the late 90's. I would have my PS3 video/audio cables hooked up to a VCR, and Call of Duty is all I played. Last November, when Black Ops came out, we still had this RCA TV. I would play Black Ops just fine, and actually do well, just like I would when playing MW2. Come closer to Christmas, we finally got a brand-new 40 inch, Samsung, LCD TV. It's not 3D or anything too fancy. It's a basic HDTV, 1080P television set. Ever since getting this new TV, my COD abilities have slipped tremendously. A major example: When playing on my old TV, I'd easily have 25-30 kills, and maybe 5-8 deaths. Now, when I play, it's the exact opposite. Maybe 10-15 kills, and like double the amount in deaths. I can't exactly put my finger on what the problem is. It seems as if my player on the screen cannot move correctly, and it seems that other players can always shoot at me faster than I can shoot at them. I now use a VIZIO HDMI cable, and I have the TV set to game mode. I even brought my system upstairs to my bedroom TV (which is a smaller, flat screen Philips), hooked it up with the red, white, and yellow cables, played campaign mode and it felt just fine. It felt like it used to, on my old TV. What else could I try, or is it a matter of getting used to?

Public Comments

1. Yeah, you're just used to the worse quality. It's just a matter of time. I have an HDTV and am pretty good at Black Ops, but when I play on my friends home theatre I suck.
2. Well, with Game Mode on, you've eliminated one potential problem (the image cleanup features in most HDTVs), but you haven't completely addressed the othe problem. You need to set your PS3 to the Native Resolution of the TV set. Bear in mind that just because a TV can handle a 1080p signal doesn't mean it can display in that resolution. Without doing both of these, there will be a delay between when the signal gets to your TV and when the TV actually displays it, due to computer processing of the image signal inside the TV. Some TVs are quicker about this than others, which might explain why you don't have the issue on the bedroom TV.
3. First off, it can possibly be Video/Audio delay (lag). If you moved your PS3/Xbox, then maybe the connection changed. Most likely its Video/Audio lag or you're used to a small screen because you can see everything instead of just the middle part of the screen.
4. You just need time to adjust, youre used to it set for one way for to long it becomes like second nature, just give it some time, also like mentioned, see if the tv has a game setting, it does make a different in terms of gameplay and smoothness, game mode off simply slows the display down vs movie setting or music setting, and on a game like Black Ops, game setting does make a different, but other then that you just have to get used to the resolutions and such, hope that helps.
5. I had the same problem with a more drastic change. I went from a 20" TV to a 50" plasma 720p. One of the problem is the size of the TV. When you are looking at a smaller TV your eyes dont have to go as far to see the whole TV. But when it gets larger it takes more to see everything. Which you eventually get used to. Aslong as yo dont keep switching TV's then you should eventually be fine. Actually after i got used to the larger TV i got better.