120hz televisions

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Guys

Does anyone know why what hi fi and many other magazines have very few reviews or write up about 120hz sets? I only see references from google on sites in america on this.

They seem to be popular because 24 divides into 120hz by 5 and therefore can be viewed as the "director" intends.

I was just about to buy a Samsung LE46F86 television however after seeing a few reviews about the issues with fast action films I'm not sure if I should be purchasing a 120hz set. I certainly don't want to spend 1400 pounds now and discover a much better 120hz set which handles this well for the same price in a few months time

Thoughts please?

Cheers

Matt

 

[Clare Newsome]

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Guys

Does anyone know why what hi fi and many other magazines have very few reviews or write up about 120hz sets? I only see references from google on sites in america on this.

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Hi Matt,

I bet American sites/mags have very little on the 100hz sets we write about all the time either - down to simple mathematics of the different TV standards either side of the Atlantic.

NTSC (US TV standard) is based on multiples of 30Hz - commonly 60hz, apparantly latterly 120Hz;

PAL (European/UK standard) is based on 25hz multiples - commonly 50hz, latterly 100hz.

 

[Anonymous]

Thanks Claire,

However isn't a 120hz picture also very useful for us brits because as I said it's an even multiple of 24 fps. I thought many british televisions touted support for 24fps 1080 HD and even blu ray players such as the Playstation 3 mention this.

I'm assuming it doesn't make that much difference or is not that useful then otherwise you would have covered this in more detail?

 

[Clare Newsome]

On the contrary! 24fps support makes a massive difference to TVs (the potential for judder-free performance with HD formats, primarily), but that's not a 120Hz issue - there are many 50- and 100hz UK sets that support 24fps, for example - it's all up to the individual processing capabilities of a TV, and its ability to recognise an incoming source and adapt itself to the optimum performance for that content.

We've covered 24fps and 100hz etc in detail both in-mag and on this site ....