UPGRADE PLASMA

[Titan7417]

I want to see Linus take a Samsung plasma TV that has 600 hz and upgrade its guts to hdmi 2.1 and g-sync to have the ultimate gaming TV

[Senzelian]

7 minutes ago, Titan7417 said:

I want to see Linus take a Samsung plasma TV that has 600 hz and upgrade its guts to hdmi 2.1 and g-sync to have the ultimate gaming TV

600Hz plasmas aren't actually 600Hz.
Some manufacturers in early LED days even advertised their TVs at over 1000Hz.
In reality these are interpolated, which simply means that the TV refreshes its backlight 600 times a second. The actual TV was often only 50 or 60 Hz and at best 100Hz.

[Titan7417]

27 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

600Hz plasmas aren't actually 600Hz.
Some manufacturers in early LED days even advertised their TVs at over 1000Hz.
In reality these are interpolated, which simply means that the TV refreshes its backlight 600 times a second. The actual TV was often only 50 or 60 Hz and at best 100Hz.

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-600hz/

read this it may not be 600 hz but plasma screens are different

[Senzelian]

20 minutes ago, Titan7417 said:

https://www.cnet.com/news/what-is-600hz/

read this it may not be 600 hz but plasma screens are different

Well, I guess I wasn't 100% correct, but the end result is the same.

I hadn't looked at plasmas in such a long time, that I assumed they had an actual backlight. What I described was the case with high refresh rate interpolated LED panels. Tho, in both cases the technology behaves quite similar.
 

The TV shows the same image multiple times, which makes it impossible to show high frame rates.

So in case of the 600Hz TV: If that shows each frame 10 times, then in reality it still looks more like a 60Hz TV than a 600Hz TV.

In this case to display 240FPS you'd need a 2400Hz plasma TV and then you wouldn't even be close to what modern high refresh rate LED panels can achieve.