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Looks like we found an answer: apparently the higher the hz, the better the picture ‘moves’. I guess it’s kinda like when it’s changing from one screen image to another, the higher hz means it does it faster. Like when it’s scrolling across a scene, the higher the hz, the better the picture is without skipping.
Hope that’s what it means….let me know if I’m wrong.
60/120/240 = processor speed. basically, you are right. but you also have to correlate that speed to the color ratios you see. and since there is no standard color aspect in teh industry, comparing samsung to sony to sanyo to vizio is like comparing apples to oranges. pick a line and you can compare within that brand. for ex… if you have a samsung 120hz with 40,000:1 ratio, you can get the equivelent picture out of a (older technology) 60hz with 80,000:1. you have double the speed with half the colors.
color aspect is huge when looking at tvs. all else being the same, 80k:1 is night and day diff to 40k:1. that means that from a fade from black to white there are 80,000 different shades that it changes to switch colors. now how fast does it take to go through those colors? not long at all.. think of hockey, watching that puck fly around. thats why on older tvs it was hard to pick up the puck. now more colors means more of a tail (so to speak) of gray. they used to speed up the 60hz tvs by adding more color changes, that way they could differentiate subtleties better. but once you get into the 100-120k range, it tends to degrade. enter the 120s… double the speed with half the colors. now they are bumping up the colors again, enter the 240s. once the 1080 cable rage gets in full swing, they are gonna bump it again. ive talked to a couple sales buddies and they say that to get the 240s to look good, they have to turn the settings back to 120 to optimize the picture. i guess the 240 is too fast for the cable you have coming in and the picture can get choppy.
