technology I need help with my monitor's refresh rate. Confused with cables?

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

You know when you walk in a store and those TVs have that really smooth sense of motion? Things move fast like the fps got upscaled. I get confused with refresh rates. My parents have a 120hz smart tv and they have 1080i cable and it's moving so smoothly with just a bland HDMI cable. Now I have a 144hz monitor from asus and the dual link DVI isn't giving me that smooth sense of motion. My games look nicer and display a higher FPS( some of them). But can someone please clear this up with me? If I use display port which supports 120hz, will my *movies* on this monitor be like a TV? I don't know what tech term is used for smooth motion. I know it has to be the cables. Because this monitor currently just looks like 30hz for movies and 60hz or gaming with a dual link dvi plugged in.

[VitalSpark 1,830]

Blu-ray only supports up to 60 fps. In fact, even the Ultra Blu-Ray format, which hasn't been finalized yet, is expected to support no more than 60 fps.

 

All the above is overkill though, as the cameras used to record most films record at 24 or 25 fps. Some directors have started filming at 48 fps. (The Hobbit is probably the best known example of a film filmed at this rate.) But most cinemas are not equipped to show 48 fps, and the film needs to be downgraded to 24 fps first.

 

Therefore, while Blu-ray might support 60 fps, the vast majority of films will only be available at 24 or 25 fps.

Edited February 1, 2015 by Vital Spark

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

My parents's new TV upscaled the motion for Rainbow Rocks.. The movie moved faster, it looked smooth. Why can't my monitor do that?

[VitalSpark 1,830]

A lot of screens will flicker the LED backlighting behind the LCD picture faster than the real frame rate so that you see a frame, it goes dark, and then you see the frame again. It does, bizarrely, look smoother then.

 

(Many cinema projectors use the same trick, achieving 72 fps from a 24 fps film by flickering the projector's light source three times per frame.)

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

A lot of screens will flicker the LED backlighting behind the LCD picture faster than the real frame rate so that you see a frame, it goes dark, and then you see the frame again. It does, bizarrely, look smoother then.

 

(Many cinema projectors use the same trick, achieving 72 fps from a 24 fps film by flickering the projector's light source three times per frame.)

Is there a way to enable this in the NVIDIA panel? This is an LCD monitor only. But there should be a way. 

[YouAreWorthSoMuch 102]

Can your computer actually run your games at 60 fps?

 

If you're running a toaster, no monitor will help your framerate.