On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:21 PM Lennart Sorensen via talk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > Unless you count the subliminal frame. Then it's 25 fps. https://www.ijcr.eu/articole/330_07%20Maria%20FLOREA.pdf Remember to buy popcorn and enjoy a cool refreshing coca cola. > > -- > Len Sorensen > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- Russell
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