ViewSonic shows off 22-inch 120Hz LCD monitor at NVISION 08

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Originally Posted by RPGWiZaRD

Many argues a person cannot see above "x" FPS anyways but AFAIK there's no real answer to that and probably varies a bit from person to person. I honestly after a lot of testing know I can see a difference up to around 100Hz, between 120 and 100Hz I see no noticable difference anymore.

120Hz should also be a good addon if talking about tearing, more games could be run with vsync off I suppose.

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I'm with you on that, I can distinguish up to ~100fps pretty easily but above that I can't tell any more.

Here's something interesting, if you're just watching a game can you see anything above ~60? The only way I can tell is how the game responds. I've been trained that ~100fps is "normal" by all the fps games I've played over the years, anything that *ever* dips below 60 makes me perceive the game to be running "choppily." I guess I'm spoiled, lol.

i have a flat screen TV that is 120 HZ but it isn't LCD or plasma its an older one so its still got a tube. Would that work like a 120 HZ monitor hooked up to my computer?

and yes when we first got it, it made everything look fake in movies and on normal TV. took a while to adjust

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Originally Posted by Hoboclese

i have a flat screen TV that is 120 HZ but it isn't LCD or plasma its an older one so its still got a tube. Would that work like a 120 HZ monitor hooked up to my computer?

and yes when we first got it, it made everything look fake in movies and on normal TV. took a while to adjust

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That TV is probably one of those few 120Hz CRT TVs with a controller that creates more frames by "calculating" how the next frame will be like which is inserted "between" the frames in order to improve motion smoothness. But like you said it also affects the way people move or how movies look like and creates the "soap opera" effect and might even look unnatural. So I doubt hooking up that to your computer would give you any benefit at all, it's not the same thing as running it as true 120Hz refresh rate. Running at true 120Hz shouldn't affect how streams/vids or how movies look like, you could even run at 500Hz and it shouldn't make a difference if it's true 120/500Hz and not an interpolation trick etc.

The same applies to today's 120Hz LCD TVs, it shouldn't make any difference over a LCD monitor for games hooking it up to the computer AFAIK but I haven't really checked out every manifacturer's version of this feature how it works etc so can't say for 100% but I'm pretty sure it'll have no benefit for comp usage.

What resolution does it operate at? If it is 1024x768 then its probably 120hz true.

still no news?

Dude, could you please stop bumping this thread? You keep giving me false hope that there will be actual news inside.