50Hz 100Hz 200Hz....

aliEnRIK

phillh79 wrote: »

When loading some old PS2 games a screen used to come up asking what hz your tv ran at. Usually a choice of 50hz or 60hz.

Does this mean watching TV may not be affected but if your planning on playing games will a 100hz refresh rate make for a better gaming experience?

If memory serves, the 60Hz was usually in progressive which would be a step up in quality (progressive is showing the ENTIRE picture frame by frame so no errors occur, otherwise its INTERLACED which actually shows a HALF of each full picture one after the other ~ if done badly can have a lot of problems)

As for 100Hz ~ as ive already explained if its done well it can be worth having. Its really down to the tv and the way it works

aliEnRIK

aldo wrote: »

I have 200Hz LG and very impressed with the picture quality

Has that got anything to do with it BEING 200Hz though?

spaceboy

Those colour meters are much cheaper in the US than here.

kwikbreaks

Well Rik reckons he can see the difference between a £5 HDMI and a £50 one and I can't but he also reckons he can't see any difference between a 50Hz TV and a 100Hz TV and I certainly can - I see a flicker with 50Hz kit which 100Hz makes invisible to me.

Those alien eyes must work differently from mine

My advice - compare in the shop even though it is a bad place to see TVs well. If you can't see the difference yourself then take an eye test and check again after. Still no difference then save your pennies because 100Hz TVs tend to be more expensive.

INT1

spaceboy wrote: »

Those colour meters are much cheaper in the US than here.

Are the 600Hz really that much worse? :eek:

aliEnRIK

kwikbreaks wrote: »

Well Rik reckons he can see the difference between a £5 HDMI and a £50 one and I can't but he also reckons he can't see any difference between a 50Hz TV and a 100Hz TV and I certainly can - I see a flicker with 50Hz kit which 100Hz makes invisible to me.

Those alien eyes must work differently from mine

My advice - compare in the shop even though it is a bad place to see TVs well. If you can't see the difference yourself then take an eye test and check again after. Still no difference then save your pennies because 100Hz TVs tend to be more expensive.

I never said there wernt BAD 50Hz
I said a good 50Hz is very comparable to a good 100Hz
The source used can also make a hugh difference

And how can you compare in a shop if theyre never setup right?
And which hdmis did I compare again?

aliEnRIK

aldo wrote: »

Are the 600Hz really that much worse? :eek:

I was reading just yesterday about a guy who bought a 600Hz panasonic in the belief that motion would be awesome. He said it was the WORST motion of any plasma hed owned before and he was well gutted

Eric_Pisch

aliEnRIK wrote: »

I was reading just yesterday about a guy who bought a 600Hz panasonic in the belief that motion would be awesome. He said it was the WORST motion of any plama hed owned before and he was well gutted

the human eyes can only see what 60fps anyway and 24fps of blue ray etc looks smooth to us

aliEnRIK

Eric_Pisch wrote: »

the human eyes can only see what 60fps anyway and 24fps of blue ray etc looks smooth to us

Actually, its possible the human eye can 'detect' differences into the thousands of frames per second (I read a study a few months back). But everyones eyes are different so what one person can see another may not

Its also important to note that whilst bluray 'only' runs at 24Hz, it is in fact far better quality than 60Hz as the vast majority of 60Hz content is actually converted from 24hz film (Although there are others, all with their problems), and the 60Hz either runs 2 frames one after the other that are exactly the same (progressive), or half one frame then half the NEXT frame right after (interlaced)

soulandy

Thanks for all the replies on this. Crickey I wanted a bit more time in choosing the TV as a TV nowadays is a bit more than a TV but as it was a present and had to be sorted quickly.........
Its a good tv http://www.currys.co.uk/martprd/store/cur_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@0575688994.1259339657@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchadeimehfjjfcflgceggdhhmdfof.0&page=Product&fm=11&sm=0&tm=3&sku=034748&category_oid=
a tad dear but hey, a gift horse and all that.

Cheers