PSA: Real LCD HDTV refresh rates are getting harder to find behind marketing fluff

Electronics makers love a spec they can get behind and make the center point of their marketing efforts — no matter how useless it is as a comparison. The undisputed be all arms race HDTV metric for the past few years, LCD refresh rates, has recently become even muddier according to HD Guru. Terms like Clear Motion Rate (Samsung) and Scenes Per Second (Vizio) are meant to confuse the customer while resembling the somewhat useful (and, as of late, unmentioned on the box) refresh rate. Our advice? Ignore this spec completely and instead find a TV that can accurately display your favorite content at its native frame rate (24, 30 or 60) — leave all that soap-opera looking frame interpolation technology to the modern day twelve o’clock flasher.

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