Thanks Cybereality! You've verified my frustration! =)cybereality wrote:The fact of the matter is that there is nothing to be confused about. Its all bogus. There are no HDTVs that I know of that accept higher than 60Hz. And even if there was there is no content outside a PC that will support those frame rates. Broadcast is 60hz max, BluRay is 24hz, etc. The only place where 120Hz actually plays a factor is the Nvidia 3D Vision ready LCDs which actually do refresh at 120Hz. But as far as I know, that is it. So we are talking about a half dozen displays at most. I hate marketing BS. Over in the Nvidia forums I swear every day there is at least one person with a "120/240Hz" HDTV wondering if 3D Vision will work. So much confusion for nothing. And I've seen this "motion interpolation" first hand and its garbage. Probably about as good as the 3D conversion on the new Samsung sets.
Seriously tho..... When I look at HDTV standards we have (max):
1080i@30fps (60 *fields* per second)
720P@60fps (straight up 60fps)
480i/p (who cares at this point)
The point being, according to standards there was 1080i@60 which = 1080p@30fps.... right? So broadcast-wise, there was no content over 30fps, so that was my point earlier about these 120/240Hz sets......... they're just displaying the same frame multiple times.... so who cares?
And that motion interpolation crap is just that, crap!
GC =)
)) there is going to be "naturally" (which isn't a bad thing) some degree of motion blur. That's video for ya. If anything, 3D rendered movies/productions became better over time because the finally built into the renderers features like Depth of Field (i.e not everything in frame is perfectly in focus) and motion blurring. They had to build it into the rendered so that the 3D rendered features looked *more* realistic. So I'm trying to understand where this notion came from that somehow A) these devices can display/render video frames somehow sharper (i.e. without motion blur) than they were recorded or that B) this is a "good" thing(!) to try to do anyway. Seriously, although 24 and even 30fps can appear choppy to some folks (like me), once you're up to 60fps, going up to 120fps isn't going to trick the brain into thinking the motion is smoother.... if anything I think there's enough understanding of how our brain interprets things as motion to indicate that past a given point (I'm suggesting 60fps is representative of that upper limit) anything faster than that is just lost anyway...... I think to a large degree that's proven with the fact a DLP chip can draw two halves of a 1920x1080 picture each 120th/sec apart and our brain not detect that they're separately being drawn......
