CES: LG Display shows off 480Hz screen

Jan. 7, 2009 11:47 AM PT

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LAS VEGAS -- If for Christmas you got a 240Hz LCD television -– which eliminates much of blur in fast-action sequences -- you might already be passe.

The LG Display company showed a 480Hz screen at the Consumer Electronics Show.

It looked extremely sharp on an action sequence from the movie “Transformers,” but it was impossible to tell –- without a side-by-side comparison -- just how much better it is than 240Hz. Maybe it will be imperceptible.

Just refrain from looking at a 480Hz TV if it makes it into the marketplace, and you’ll be fine.

-- David Colker

Technology Blog

David Colker

David Colker previously wrote and edited obituaries – a beat perhaps foreshadowed by being on the Timothy Leary death watch in 1996 when he took the assignment so seriously he was at Leary’s bedside when he died. He left The Times in 2015.

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