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Panasonic has launched two new LCD TVs boasting 100Hz processing. The 100Hz processing on both the 37in TX-37LXD85 and the 32in TX-32LXD85 comes courtesy of Panasonic’s 100Hz Motion Picture Pro technology, designed to reduce LCD’s traditional problems with ‘motion lag’. Other tricks of the LXD85 Series...

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As long as their cure for 'motion lag' doesn't end up with everything looking like it's been shot on video in a studio setting - having seen an old film from the 40's on a 100Hz B&O TV, it just looked massively wrong.

Originally Posted by R Thomson

Panasonic has launched two new LCD TVs boasting 100Hz processing. The 100Hz processing on both the 37in TX-37LXD85 and the 32in TX-32LXD85 comes courtesy of Panasonic’s 100Hz Motion Picture Pro technology, designed to reduce LCD’s traditional problems with ‘motion lag’.
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I have been drooling over the Samsung 40 inch 100hz panel at my local Comet. This is one of the stores that aims to meet Internet prices and the telly is priced at around £1k.

I am not sure that 100 hz is what I need on an LCD. Although 100hz makes for a really stable picture on my old Thomson CRT, I am not convinced that it is the right technology for a fully digital LCD based system. I can perceive individual frames on some of the Hi Res players that I've seen and I would think that 100hz is merely going to reproduce this effect more faithfully.

Interestingly, Comet do not even have their display model connected to a decent high res signal so I am immediately suspicious. It looks lovely on the SD feed and has impressive black contrast for an LCD but when I asked if I could view a high density source I was fobbed off.

I am one of those unfortunates who can't live with 50hz fluorescent lighting because I can see the plasma flicker between cycles whereas with incandescent light bulbs I do not suffer. Can anyone else with this sort of visual sensitivity share their experiences of 100hz LCD panels or any other technology that would help maintain a persistence of vision throughout all forms of digital media?

Incidentally, I have similar difficulty with audio. My hearing picks up a lot of the digital characteristics from what is commonly considered to be CD quality playback. I am told that what I hear is "aliasing". I have not tried SACD or other higher technologies to see if that is an improvement so again, I would love to hear from anyone with knowledge of the best ways to get a full dynamic range of sound from digital equipment without "artifacts".

In my humble opinion, LCD and high density formats in general need to mature a fair bit before I will spend a wedge on them. The news that 100hz sets are becoming more common is encouraging to say the least.