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What exactly is the point of all those extra Hz? I get that in this case it's just a "because we can" kind of situation, but in general... I've never paid any attention to refresh rate and it has never affected me. Is higher really better?
After a certain point, no, not really. 30 FPS is good for basic video. 60 is good for fine motion (sports, fast video games). 120 is good enough for basically every regular viewing use case. Beyond 144, it's really diminishing returns. You know how when something starts spinning really fast, it just turns into a blur? Yeah.
60 isn't fine
Then why has it been the standard for almost 50 years?
60 is fine, and its cuz we used the wall power 60 hz as a clock since it was extremely stable and free.
Because more means more costs which means people won't buy as many?
Because we didn't have as good technology for higher framerates
Not only do you need better screens, but also faster processing speeds