Hi, are you new to HDTV's?
https://www.cnet.com/news/best-low-lag-hdtvs-for-serious-gamers/
Almost every single television for the past 10 years incuding vaunted plasma have had input lag in the high teens to upto 70 ms at times. 22 ms for 4k at HDR is decent. You'll probably see worse input lag next year as sets focus on more blacks and better backlighting and HDR focus and less on games. Every year pretty much every major set has had 18ms, 33 ms, 58ms etc.
I guess it's just my background, people who play fighting games tend to emphasis using monitors that are around 10ms or less. 20ms at 4K HDR sounds tolerable, but I don't consider it decent. I run small fighting game tournaments and we often get complaints about monitors / TVs that have 20-40 ms of input lag.
I don't mean any disrespect but the TVs recommended in the CNET article you linked are not the best on the market. Display lags list is a bit better
http://www.displaylag.com/display-database/
But very few there are HDR. The best I've seen is 22 MS, but it isn't as though I've tested or seen tests of every 4K, HDR TV. Ideally I would want one with under 17, so that in theory, the input from your controller should come out on one of the next two frames (hypothetically, not accounting for input lag on the controller itself).
Also, I get what you're saying, a lot of TVs have had input lag in the 50ms + range, but for me, and for people alike, that just isn't good enough. 20ms is just about tolerable, but most of these HDR sets that people are buying or recommending, aren't even at that mark. Some of them like the LG E6 have over 50ms, and I've seen others that won't enable HDR outside of gaming mode, where the input lag is over 100ms. At least in my eyes, that's completely unplayable, I think this is something people should perhaps put more thought into.
Generally the way I have been buying thus far is just by picking sets under 16 MS, but I haven't been able to do that for HDR / 4K, so the solution isn't as clear cut. I find myself forced to make a compromise, the 22 MS set sounds like a decent bet, but it's still not quite there. Maybe waiting for HDR 4K monitors is the answer for people like me.
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