Re:Frame rate perception (Score 1)

Unfortunately, Fatality (or whatever his name is) likely found that 120Hz doesn't mean 120 frames of actual input source per second. The latest 120Hz TV's at least do better than inserting a black frame in between each real frame (which only is supposed to help the LCD response rate, not perceived framerate), and that is that they interpolate between frames. This is said to make things look smoother with more clarity, but it doesn't always work right. If movement is so fast that the system can't make what it thinks is an acceptable in-between frame, it just repeats the last frame. Anyway it's not really giving you the extra time resolution. Bottom line, it's fake and has more to do with the blur from low response rate LCDs. The fastest LCD's, like the Samsung 226BW (2 ms gray to gray) are TN panels, which means they have poor color/gamma/contrast off axis. The better looking ones that are acceptable at +/- 60+ degrees off axis (which is what you want for displays being viewed by multiple people) are slower, in the 8-25ms range. Oh and off topic, but all 22" LCD's are only 6-bit, so you get just ~250K colors rather than the 8-bit 16+million. SO they all have problems of some sort :)