100/60/50/24hz?

Standard UK TV works on 50Hz, so 100Hz can theoretically give better quality by interpolating extra frames, with particular theoretical benefits for motion smoothness.

I keep saying 'theoretical' because many other factors affect image quality, and 100Hz in itself is no guarantee a set will be better.

Same goes for the US NTSC system, which uses 60Hz as standard, but also gets 120Hz sets.

Blu-ray at 24fps is shown by those sets able to handle the format properly by running at multiples of the24fps rate - usually 96Hz.

Coming  next year in profusion - 200Hz sets, and of course 240Hz ones in the NTSC region.

Can you tell I've just spent two weeks here in Korea talking nothing but TV tech?

Andrew Everard:

Same goes for the US NTSC system, which uses 60Hz as standard, but also gets 120Hz sets.

Blu-ray at 24fps is shown by those sets able to handle the format properly by running at multiples of the24fps rate - usually 96Hz.

Coming  next year in profusion - 200Hz sets, and of course 240Hz ones in the NTSC region.

If 24p is coming to become more common-place, why don't they just sell us 120 and 240hz sets, since both are multiples of 24? Or is there no way of displaying UK 50Hz TV on those?

Because 120/240Hz would have no real advantage over 100/200Hz with a PAL signal, and would indeed require more processing to show PAL.

Let them keep on optimising sets for Europe, I say.

Andrew Everard:

Because 120/240Hz would have no real advantage over 100/200Hz with a PAL signal, and would indeed require more processing to show PAL.

Let them keep on optimising sets for Europe, I say.

Nice you're back. I had nobody to argue with.

Not back yet. 00.10am, Seoul, Friday.

Doesn't mean you can't argue.

Simon Lucas:

Doesn't mean you can't argue.

You're right but I get him when he's really jet-lagged.