Why is 144hz the standard?

[kilos]

Why not 140 or 150 or 130

Any reason every monitor has 144 hz as the standard? just curious

[spacediver]

good question. My guess is that it has to do with 3D, where you'd get 72 hz in each eye, and perhaps 72 hz represents some sort of flicker/comfort threshold.

Just a guess though.

[masterotaku]

I guess that's because 144 is the next multiple of 24 after 120. Besides, it would be good if/when the Hobbit movies are released at 48fps in the future. It would also be good right now if 3D Vision worked at 144Hz, because at 120Hz there's judder in 3D movies (at 60Hz per eye you get the usual 3:2 pulldown).

[Edmond]

Because it divides in whole numbers with 24 and 48. To not have any microstutter or whatever during playback.
Which is supposed to be the framerate of movies. The 2 Habbit movies and Frozen have 48 fps versions. And they are shown in cinemas @ 48, as that is considered to be their standard.


But its incredibly fucking stupid if you ask me. Because most TV shows are filmed in 30fps or 29,97fps. And a lot are still filmed in 24 or 23,94 fps or smth. Oh and A LOT of stuff is filmed in exactly 25 fps and a very small number of video material is filmed in 50fps or 60fps. Youtube is 29,97fps and will soon have a 59,whatever fps option.

Its a huge mess and the 144 hz refresh had good intentions but its meaningless when you think about it.
The only way to get 100% synced up video playback in the future is to just have monitors of whatever max refresh... like 100 or 200hz (cuz we all like zeros at the end). And have gsync/freesync sync up the monitor to the video material whenever its fullscreened or smth.


And we NEED to move away from 24 already, because 24 was chosen to save physical film back in the day, as 24 was the min framerate at which everyones brains were fooled into believing that they are watching motion instead of a slideshow. 24/30 is horrible and its a friggin shame that it has persisted for this long for movies an shows.