50Hz LCD's are HORRIBLE!

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Dr.Grass said:

Pock3R said:
i got a 50 hz inmy bedroom and a 100hz in my living room.

can't tell any difference....

Strange, because when I looked at 50Hz and 100Hz standing next to each other it was VERY obvious that one was much smoother. They were playing some animation about bees on Bluray and even my girlfriend said the difference is obvious. She doesn't know anything about anything techno related btw.

That's called the soap opera effect. It basically adds at 100hz about 1 extra frame inbetween each frame from your source.

240hz(my TV) adds 3.

However, turning the amp on during gaming is very controversial, and most gamers don't actually do it. Basically, it's a form of image processing that can cause judder and blur, and it also increase input lag significantly on any set. Your best bet it almost certainly to game at 60hz, and if your television has a game mode, use that, because it reduces input lag even further. If your TV is for gaming, you don't want to artifically add frames that don't exist, you'll usually get a worse picture, even if you have a high end TV.

As for sideways judder mentioned in this thread, that's cause by images being interlaced instead of progressively scanned.

That said, the soap opera effect does have its uses when watching certain programming and it's very impressive. You can make SotC look as if it's running at 60fps, even when it's not, but again, it's not a smooth run, because you end up with judder, which can't be completely removed even with dejudder controls.