What's the deal with 75hz monitors?

[koksy]

Do they actually run at 75Hz? How come there are so few of them? How come it was such a huge breakthrough to make 120Hz monitors if it was no problem going from 60 to 75? So many questions D:

[Helloworld_98]

for your first question, yes, second, because it was to please CRT users in the early days of the CRT to LCD switchover, well doubling the hz on a monitor with double the pixels on them is pretty hard to do considering voltage, heat, etc can cause failure a lot quicker.

think of a 120hz LCD like taking an i7 920 and overclocking it 100%, it's not going to last as long whereas if you used a w3580 and overclocked it to the same speed, it'll last quite a bit longer.

[Aedubber]

They actuall do have a gaming LCD monitor that is 120 hertz now and a lot of the new TVs are coming out like that as well.. LED is going to be the next new big hit soon

[MadHacker]

also 120Hz monitors can do 3D, 60Hz per eye.

[MrDiaz]

also 120Hz monitors can do 3D, 60Hz per eye.

No they can't

edit: thought you said "all"

[MadHacker]

No they can't

edit: thought you said "all"

depends on video card as well.
Nvidia supports this with shutter glasses,
so it alternates showing 1 eye to the other.

i didn't know there were 120Hz lcd that didn't suport this.
can you give an example?

[STEvil]

MadHacker - any 120hz LCD that uses interpolation cannot do 3D at 60hz.

However, any LCD on the market can do 3D at 30hz.

[MadHacker]

MadHacker - any 120hz LCD that uses interpolation cannot do 3D at 60hz.

However, any LCD on the market can do 3D at 30hz.

thanks good to know.

[Serpentarius]

60Hz vs. 120Hz vs. 240Hz vs. 480Hz - LCD Response Rate

[zanzabar]

MadHacker - any 120hz LCD that uses interpolation cannot do 3D at 60hz.

However, any LCD on the market can do 3D at 30hz.

since standard film is only 24hz it makes u wounder why there is the push for 120hz 3d and if its nothing more than forced obsoleteance

[koksy]

Very interesting.

So how come there are so few 75Hz? the more the merrier, right?

Also, does v-sync work the same way on 75Hz monitors, as with 60Hz? Or will you still be limited to 60fps on a 75Hz monitor?

[RaZz!]

60Hz vs. 120Hz vs. 240Hz vs. 480Hz - LCD Response Rate

you have to consider the difference between TVs and pc monitors, though. both handle the refresh rate slightly different.

[STEvil]

Very interesting.

So how come there are so few 75Hz? the more the merrier, right?

Also, does v-sync work the same way on 75Hz monitors, as with 60Hz? Or will you still be limited to 60fps on a 75Hz monitor?

Because 75hz was a dead standard.. nobody cared.

VSYNC locks you at the refresh rate that the display is set to display.. 24, 25, 30, 60, 75, 120. anywhere you choose.


Serpentarius - That link is junk for the most part. Refreshing a pixel with information it already holds gives no performance increase. No LCD actually works beyond 120hz (everything beyond that is interpolation), and only approximately 6 displays on the market today are actually capable of producing a TRUE 120hz image.

most of them are very scarce.

[Soulburner]

since standard film is only 24hz it makes u wounder why there is the push for 120hz 3d and if its nothing more than forced obsoleteance

120 divides into 24 nicely, by 5. 60 doesn't

[zanzabar]

120 divides into 24 nicely, by 5. 60 doesn't

u need special cameras why why not just use 30fps film (or capture now) as u do for tv, or in europe with pal they use 25frame cinema and 50 frame tv so why do they need to upgrade it seams perfectly linear

[MadHacker]

actualy NTSC framerate for tv is 29.976 FPS
what does that divide into nicely?

[Soulburner]

actualy NTSC framerate for tv is 29.976 FPS
what does that divide into nicely?

59.952Hz

I was simply implying 120Hz allows 24fps material to play without judder, something LCDs normally cannot do.

[STEvil]

Also they are going for 120hz because thats what you need to do two 60hz images to produce a playable 3D picture for gaming.

120hz means backwards compatability with everything that is less than 120hz.

[Cow2kie]

Because 75hz was a dead standard.. nobody cared.

... and only approximately 6 displays on the market today are actually capable of producing a TRUE 120hz image.

most of them are very scarce.

What are the true 120hz pc monitors?

[STEvil]

What are the true 120hz pc monitors?

Acer has a couple, Alienware uses them in their knock-off body jobs.

thats assuming you mean 1920x1080 panels. There's one or two that are 1680x1050, but who cares about that resolution?

edit - everything else is a "TV"

[Shalamay]

so, no 1920x1200 panels?

[Cow2kie]

Acer has a couple, Alienware uses them in their knock-off body jobs.

thats assuming you mean 1920x1080 panels. There's one or two that are 1680x1050, but who cares about that resolution?

edit - everything else is a "TV"

Are all the ones from Acer true 120hz? (that are marketed as 120hz)

[STEvil]

There's only two that I know of.

[Cow2kie]

What are the two that you know of?

[STEvil]

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