I don't think Sharp Aquos ever came in 100hz??? What would be the point 100hz does not divide into 24,30, or 60 and part of the point of high refresh rate was to accurately display each frame setting without frame adjustments. I have a Sharp Aquos 120hz, and it does not run at 120hz unless you turn it on. There is an option called Motion Enhanced Mode, which is found in the settings. Turn on Motion Enhance and it will run at 120hz. I find that at 120hz the motion blur is minimal.
Yes you're right games don't run at 120hz, NOTHING except for James Cameron's AVATAR runs at 120hz. Games run at either 30hz or 60hz, movies run at 24hz, and TV programs shot on video run at 29.97hz. The point of 120hz or 240hz is to give the LCD tvs less motion blur by raising refresh rates. For every signal it gets it simply divides the native frame rate by it's native refresh rate, and then repeats each frame according per signal.
My suggestion try to look for Motion Enhance in the settings and turn that on. Don't turn on Smooth Motion or Motion Plus, this will enage Soap Opera mode.
Sharp Aquos is a very strong brand. Better than Samsung or Vizio in my opinion. Vizio doesn't even make it's own panels, probably gets them from Sharp.
pimperjones
Probably a PAL TV, they run 50 Hz and 100 Hz. My HDTV has 100 Hz too.
@ TC: You should return it. Always read tests before buying a TV, i bought a 40" 1080p Sony, it was place 2 in a test out of 25 HDTVs and #1 was 2000 Euro more but the Sony had the highest mark in the picture quality category.
You should also look at the response time of the TV, it should be 8ms grey to grey or below for gaming. Some manufactures like Samsung don't give away the response times on their homepage so you have to google a bit to find it.
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