[Gllug] Two Questions

David Damerell damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Feb 9 11:52:12 UTC 2005


On Wednesday, 9 Feb 2005, Nix wrote:
>Is the concept of a `refresh rate' even meaningful for a TFT? They're
>not scanning-electron-gun devices, after all: do they refresh in *any*
>way?

Well, there is a smallest interval of time t which it can take one
pixel to change, and 1/t is arguably the refresh rate.

OTOH the two are not directly comparable; 60Hz will boil your eyeballs
on a CRT, but it's fine on a flatscreen. 

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