HDTV question. 120Hz vs 240Hz?

[Theo]

Username2324 said:

Theo said:
Just go to a tv store and check them out. Look at all the different hz TVs. Buy what you think looks good enough for yourself. Some people that watch my tv find it too smooth and much prefer the slower blurry movie frame rate of 24p.

Panasonic's neo PDP 600hz tv isn't 600 frames per second, Panasonic subdivides their plasma display panels into 10 sub-fields. Each sub-field is refreshed at a 60 Hz rate. 10 sub-fields refreshed at 60 Hz (10 x 60 = 600) produces a 600 Hz sub-field drive figure. It's misleading marketing, nothing to do with framerates.

Comparing TVs at a place like Best Buy, or any other commercial store is absolutely worthless. The video feeds to the TVs are crap, and none of them are properly setup making a comparison useless.

Well then go to a good tv store : )

The sony store near me has a demo area where the lighting and settings are all perfect, and they show blu ray movie content like the latest bond movies. And other parts of the store have 200hz televisions on demo mode, showing 50hz on the left hand side of the screen and 200hz on the right which is really helpfull.

And I found another shop in town where they were happy to put on any content I asked for. I asked them did they have any tech demo type stuff to show off their surround sound, and they had a demo disk with a helicopter that flew all around the room. It was so awesome I ended up buying some 5.1 speakers. I don't live in the states so I wouldn't know how bad best buy is, here in Ireland some shops have proffesional tech heads who love their tvs, setting them up right and showing them off.