The problem itself is seemingly simple and yet so few people are aware of it. I thought I was an educated buyer walking into the world of HDTV, how could I have missed this problem?

The truth of the matter is that this isn't a completely unknown issue.

You can find articles going into greater detail than I possibly could on the net. Here's a few links to get you started;

• AVS Forum
• HDTV-Gaming-Lag: An Epidemic Exposed
• The HDTV-Gaming-Lag Report

Basically, the problem is directly related to the television's upscaling and image processing routines. The longer it takes to process the image, the more latency you're going to experience.

Upscaling a 480i image to an HDTV compatible format can take a long time on some televisions.

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