120hz vs 240hz

Thinking about hitting the Memorial Day sales and getting a 47 inch LED LCD TV. My question to the BEEBS is...should I save the coin and just get the 120hz?

 

no!!

 

no go for the 240 it makes a noticeable difference in motion quality on the screen.

 

Panasonic Viera plasma, and forget about refresh rates. I am consistently stunned by how good it looks.

 

+1 to plasma

 

Be sure you understand frame rate vs. refresh rate before you get bogged down by the numbers. Blue Ray content uses a slower frame rate of 24fps vs. 50 or 60fps. Lots of HDTVs can't actually display 24fps which is superior. More isn't always better.

Frame rate is how many frames per second. Refresh is how many times that frame is repeated and not nearly as important.

Don't get bogged down by 120 vs 240Hz, check out the individual tvs and judge for yourself.

 

haha I didnt want to start a plasma lcd argument here, but yeah +1 panasonic plasma's are absolutely stunning the colors are very accurate esp after calibration. However they do consume quite a bit of energy, but worth it.

 

Yeah, I'm getting an LED-LCD. It's between an LG or a Samsung...most likely going to get the LG. From what I have seen the 240 is about $300 more than the 120hz

 

+2 My Panasonic 50" 720p is all you need and they sell for around $650 on sale all the time.

 

They consume more energy at startup but require less energy than LCDs while in use, fwiw

 

might want to research a bit here: avsforum.com they have some really in depth information for just about every unit out.

@Bleacht: didnt know that, thanks.

 

My buddy has a 55" Samsung LED with 240hz and some sort of motion blur technology bs. It made everything on his HD cable, movies and tv shows, look like a cheap spanish soap opera. We had to go into the settings and manually turned one of the adjustments down from 5 to 0 and the other from 5 to 1. Now the picture is incredible and the movies actually look like movies again.

My parents got a 70" Sharp LED with 120Hz and we still had to turn down some of it's technology as well so the movies didn't look fake. I think all the Hz bs is over rate.

 

When we bought our 46" samsung LCD we looked at the 120 and 240 side by side and we couldn't tell a difference. I actually think we thought the 120 looked better IIRC. I've been very happy with it and I saved a couple hundred bucks too.

 

Also, make sure the differences you are referring to seeing are not "motion flow" being enabled vs. the 120-240hz comparison.

If you are talking about the animated looking effect (some refer to it as fake looking or 3D looking), this is the motion control not the refresh rate. Most experts hate this look and turn it off since it can be disturbing.

I am torn as it looks kinda cool...but I am not sure if I would get used to it.

 

Samsung LED at 240. Amazing picture.

I run the information superhighway for a living, so I see alot of tv's, and the Samsungs are what I have in my house.

 

they sell 1080p 50" for about $800 or less in the newspaper ads all the time. I am very pleased with my 2008 tv so far

I wish it had 24 fps support but i'm not getting rid of it anytime soon :P

 

Thats not true.

On a lcd refresh rate is still how many times per second the screen is drawn. On plasma they skew the numbers, so its not quite the same meaning... hence Panasonics "claimed" 480hz refresh rate... (8 sub-fields * 60hz = 480hz)

 

I never really understood it, but admittedly I haven't looked into it much recently either. I used to be very up to speed on the technology.

If your content is only 24,30,60fps, what's the benefit of redrawing (refreshing) the screen 240x/second?

 

you can fit more refreshes into a single frame, and reduce the "blur"... the higher rate also allows them to generate the info between the frames which is how they do the smooth motion stuff

if you can only refresh the screen once per frame there's no room to interpolate the next frame info to "smooth" it out

fwiw, I hate smooth motion technology. I put it on 1 for pixar/animation stuff but turn it off totally for everything else

plasma had to make up that 480hz refresh as a marketing trick to keep pace w/ the lcd's marketing, even though it doesnt mean anything important