I was reading an article on the new LG display with a refresh rate of 7680Hz and it says:

While a typical refresh rate for a monitor might be 60Hz-240Hz, an outdoor display designed to be viewed from a distance needs to be much higher

The idea that there’s an intrinsic link between refresh rate and viewing distance is new to me and feels unintuitive. I can understand the need for high brighteness for far view distance. I also could understand refresh rate mattering for a non-persistent (CRT) display. But for an Led display surely you can see it far away even if it refreshes once a second?

Refresh rate normally needs to be high enough to avoid pixels “jumping” between refreshes on high resolution displays, so wouldn’t higher view distances allow you to decrease the refresh rate?

Is the article just spouting bullshit? Or is there an actual link between refresh rate and view distance?

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    My guess is there’s been a game of telephone with the information.

    Marketing BS, really. Especially things like “view distance”

    except on curved screens, it’s fairly forgiving. Curved monitors, you should be seated as close to its radius; but otherwise, you can have the same apparent monitor size/ resolution with a small, monitor sitting closer as a large monitor further away.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      9 months ago

      More like marketing running with something they didn’t understand. They took what they thought they heard from the engineers, and wrapped it in marketing BS. A monitor with “7.68khz led drivers” (quite reasonable ) became a monitor with “a 7680hz refresh rate” (quite insane).