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shankle

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I've been reading here for quite awhile. Seems like a good h-ips monitor is way out of the price range for the average person. A decent h-ips monitor should not cost more that $300 to $400. I am sure if I live long enough the prices will come way down.
But now they have thrown in another wrinkle. Hence 120hz.

So I ask you why would I need an h-ips monitor if the 120hz monitor works better than the h-ips? If it does....
 
You are comparing apples with oranges...
H-IPS is among the best in terms of picture quality.

120 Hz has nothing to do with picture quality - and as of now the only 120 Hz panels are TN. So as of now you can't have both 120 Hz and good picture quality. You have to choose between quality and quantity (fps).

MrGuvernment said:
i thought 120mhz monitors were marketing BS more or less...
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Up until recently that was true, the new 120 Hz monitors (not HDTVs) actually take an 120 Hz input so they have something to offer.
 
There are currently three true 120Hz monitors on the market: the Samsung 2233rz, the Viewsonic VX2265wm and the Viewsonic VX2268wm (I'm not sure where the latter is availble but I've seen at least one HardOCP reader review the one he got). All three are 1680x1050 TN panels that will take 120Hz from the video card of a PC. Asus announced and even showed a true 120Hz 24" monitor early this year, but it has yet to appear on the market and nobody seems to know when it will; I would be shocked if it weren't also a TN. I haven't seen any hint of plans for any other true 120Hz monitors.

All 120Hz, 240Hz and 480Hz TVs only do that internally within the TV to make movies look better, and actually take only 60Hz or less from the video card of a PC.
 
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