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ASUS has demonstrated the first 300 Hz laptops, after ASUS and others debuted 240 Hz laptops earlier in the year:
Designed specifically for hardcore gamers and esports professionals on the go, the ASUS ROG Zephyrus S GX701 will be the world's first notebook with a display supporting up to 300 Hz refresh rate and a 3 ms GtG response time. This machine will be available already in October, 2019. In addition, similar LCDs with a 300 Hz refresh rate and a 3 ms GtG response time will be featured on a prototype ROG Zephyrus S GX502 as well as on the 15-inch and 17-inch models of the ROG Strix Scar III.
ASUS does not disclose the maker of its 300 Hz/3 ms display panels, though it is highly likely that the company uses panels with a 240 Hz native refresh rate in overdrive mode. What is noteworthy is that production 240 Hz ROG Zephyrus S GX701 and ROG Zephyrus S GX502 will feature factory-calibrated displays with Pantone Validation, so in addition to gamers, these machines will also be appreciated by professionals who use color-critical applications.
See also: Blur Busters Law: The Amazing Journey To Future 1000Hz Displays
(Score: 4, Insightful) by epitaxial on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:51AM (4 children)
Interesting how games want an ever increasing framerate but movies are somehow stuck at 24. The number is 24 because in the film era that was the minimum framerate required to fool your eye. Real life doesn't happen at a limited framerate so why are we still watching media that tops out at 30?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 05 2019, @12:57AM
Because it's different, that's why.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday September 05 2019, @01:14AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_frame_rate#Usage_in_the_film_industry [wikipedia.org]
Peter Jackson used 48 FPS for the Hobbit trilogy. But it was apparently "toned down" [theguardian.com].
Interpolation of 24 FPS content may be responsible for some of the lingering revulsion [reddit.com] towards higher frame rates.
Some action CGI films look like trash at 24 FPS. Like a certain Michael Bay film.
60 FPS content is now very common on YouTube. And you can get some of it in 8K [youtube.com].
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(Score: 2) by Mykl on Thursday September 05 2019, @03:40AM
As I understand it, the first TV shows to start using higher refresh rates were things like soap operas. For reasons that are unrelated to logic, a higher frame rate was somehow associated with 'bad quality' entertainment in the minds of the general public. So Hollywood deliberately stays with 24 FPS because the public 'knows' that is used in good quality movies.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 05 2019, @04:05AM
Because high framerate movies look like shit.
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