On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:13:28PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > TL;DR: at least sometimes 30Hz is fine. > > Everything depends on your individual eyes, what you use the monitor for, > and the setting of the monitor use. > > For my desktop use, 30Hz is actually fine. It's what I've used for over > six years. I have, within arm's reach, all I need to switch to 60Hz but > it hasn't seemed worth the reconfiguration effort.
I find a lot of youtube content is 60 fps, as is much of the content I have on mythtv so due to my video card not having HDMI 2.0, I run at 1080p@60Hz rather than 2160p@30Hz. Maybe someday I will update the video card to fix that, although none of the mythtv content needs 4K. X annoyingly thinks that when it detects the TV, it should run at 4K@30Hz rather than the explicitly configured 1080p@60Hz. This happens every time I change inputs on the TV. > Details of my use: > > - most of what I do is fairly static. I don't seriously watch videos on > my desktop (YouTube seems fine). I don't play games. > > - my monitor is 39" and perhaps 24"-30" from my face. UltraHD. > > - I wear special fixed-focus glasses when using the monitor (as opposed to > my regular progressive glasses > > Gamers want refresh rates well above 60Hz. To get that, they seem to be > willing to choose lower resolutions. That would be a terrible trade-off > for my use. > > Films are traditionally 25 frames/second (each frame is flashed > twice by traditional projectors). Well 24 unless you are in europe where they run the movies 4% fast when shown on TV. Shown 0.1% slow on north american TVs. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
