AVRant #107: Bickering
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I think there is some confusion about 120hz.
120hz display means that you can display 24fps content without having to do a weird frame cadence.
It also just so happens that the display is a bit faster (I think they refer to it as overdriven) to get this fast. This helps with reduce motion blur that is inherent in the fact that LCD’s don’t switch fast enough which causes the video to look more blurry.
There is also another technology which is frame rate conversion. This is being placed on newer sets and also reduces motion blur by adding additional frames in between the frames that actually exists. So instead of the TV showing:
Frames 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,2,
It now shows:
0,0.25,0.5,0.75,1,1.25,1.5,1.75,2
So the jumps aren’t as large for the on screen video and there isn’t as much blur. Now you can actually do this with 60hz TV also but it requires quite a bit of processing power and is simplified if your frame rate falls on an even multiple of the TV refresh. Plus you can charge more for the 120hz TV so you can include the better processors there without breaking the bank.
At least this is how I understand it, the manufactures like to lump it all together sometimes but there are actually distinct technologies at work here.
“120Hz display means that you can display 24fps content without having to do a weird frame cadence.”
In theory you are correct. That’s what it’s SUPPOSED to be. Manufacturers are instead offering solutions that do more regarding frame interpolation than anything else. We haven’t yet seen anything that truly implemented 120Hz for the sole purpose of eliminating judder without resulting artifacts.
“Marathon Runner, but clumsy” Good comparison!
So I was in Fry’s Electronics not to long ago and notice the Samsung Tom reviewed. It looked like crap with its Dynamic setting, and the 120Hz set to high. Getting curios I wanted to mess with it. In Movie mode and with the 120Hz off, it looked really GOOD!! Man it looked good. With Dynamic and 120Hz on high, I couldn’t see artifacts, but that was cuz of the florescent lighting. Did notice the hiccup here and there very annoying. But what was really bad was the Video look it had with those settings. It looked like some PBS special, the Special effects of the movie looked really fake! But returning to Movie mode, and 120Hz off that Samsung looked really good!!! Of course Consumer-Joe has no idea what good image looks like.
lol still laughing “clumsy Marathon Runner” Good one Clint