120Hz is not a gimmick. When you want to watch a movie, which is 24fps, 60fps just won't reproduce it as well as a display at a multiple of 24Hz, like 120Hz.
Additionally, if you want to talk about gimmicks or fakery, plasma has the ultimate. Plasma is incapable of outputting ANY gradations of luminance. So in order to simulate different luminance levels, it has to flicker the display pixels.
They both have their advantages, and one of LCD's is power usage. I think it would be fantastic if plasma's power usage could be lowered to be in line with LCD. But I don't mean just fakery like plasma's stated contrast levels (which are actually not even possible on anything resembling a real image). With enough fakery, anyone can come up with a misleading stat (witness LCD's BS "4ms" numbers). So I'd love to see plasma really meet the power challenge, not just come up with rigged tests.
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120Hz is not a gimmick. When you want to watch a movie, which is 24fps, 60fps just won't reproduce it as well as a display at a multiple of 24Hz, like 120Hz.
Additionally, if you want to talk about gimmicks or fakery, plasma has the ultimate. Plasma is incapable of outputting ANY gradations of luminance. So in order to simulate different luminance levels, it has to flicker the display pixels.
They both have their advantages, and one of LCD's is power usage. I think it would be fantastic if plasma's power usage could be lowered to be in line with LCD. But I don't mean just fakery like plasma's stated contrast levels (which are actually not even possible on anything resembling a real image). With enough fakery, anyone can come up with a misleading stat (witness LCD's BS "4ms" numbers). So I'd love to see plasma really meet the power challenge, not just come up with rigged tests.