50Hz or 60Hz

senordingdong

So a few games have asked me this before.
I'm not sure what it means so can someone please explain it to me?

Dooom

It's the refresh rate on a TV/monitor. Pretty much all tv's support one, if not both of them. You can adjust the refresh rate on monitors manually, ranges depend on what the monitor is capable of.

Creamy Goodness

50/60hz on a monitor is sore on the eyes.

them refresh rates on tv's are normal though.

conzy

Basically, Ireland has 50hz electricity so we use Pal which is 25fps (50 fields per second)

America has 60hz electricity so they use NTSC which is 29.97fps (60 fields per second)

But alot of newer Tvs support 50hz and 60hz, so its an extra 5fps if you use 60hz!!!:eek:

K.O.Kiki

"fields per second"??

I was always under the impression that it meant "frames per second"...

Zillah

I can't play on anything lower than 85 on a monitor. I feel like im going mad otherwise. Things shift and blur and my brains starts to fry.

jaggeh

mmmmmmm fried brain.

Dooom

conzymaher wrote:

Basically, Ireland has 50hz electricity so we use Pal which is 25fps (50 fields per second)

America has 60hz electricity so they use NTSC which is 29.97fps (60 fields per second)

But alot of newer Tvs support 50hz and 60hz, so its an extra 5fps if you use 60hz!!!:eek:

You just had to go one better than everyone, didn't you?

Balfa

Spike wrote:

You just had to go one better than everyone, didn't you?

Or rather, he had to give the only useful answer so far. The original question was about console games on TVs and has nothing to do with monitors or PCs. It is fields per second. In interlaced video, there are usually two fields in each frame.

senordingdong, the only thing you need to know is that every TV sold in Ireland supports PAL 50Hz and most now also support PAL 60Hz. If 60 works, use it. You'll get a better quality picture. If it doesn't, stick with 50.

senordingdong

Thank you Balfa, that was what I was asking. The game in question was Resident Evil 4...but I don't think I can notice a difference.

Creamy Goodness

it's fairly hard to tell the difference of 5 frames on a tv.

Retr0gamer

I find it's very easy to tell the difference. Games seem to run much smoother and the picture tends to be a lot clearer as well.

Creamy Goodness

well it's a long time since i played 60hz console games think the last was power stone on the dreamcast or some other DC game.

mcgovern

A lot of X360 PAL games are 60Hz only.

senordingdong

Yeah, I still can't tell the difference but every time I pick the 60hz option, I hear this really high pitched wail...is that normal?