I just recently purchased a new monitor (well....tv) It's a Toshiba 40" 120Hz 1080p LED, with that "Clear Form" Technology. I'm not having any issues with the monitor itself, it looks beautiful, everything I use with it looks simply amazing. I do have a couple curiosities about it though. I know that PC doesn't actually send a 120Hz refresh rate to and from the computer. I read that pretty much all signals are at 60Hz. I have noticed a huge difference when using my Xbox 360 with the monitor (Not games, mostly for watching Hulu and Netflix). Everything I watch looks significantly better via xbox than it does via PC. That is my question. Why is that? I'm not saying that the picture through the PC is bad by any means, it's just that the Xbox always looks better.

If I watch "Family guy" or "Touch" for example, on my PC, everything looks great, but when I watch it via Xbox, everything looks MUCH better and so much smoother. It almost looks kind of weird with how fluent and smooth everything looks. I have no idea why there is this much of a difference? I'm using an HDMI cable via PC and just the old school component vables via Xbox. I tried to explain this as best I could. If you need anymore info, just ask.

Thanks.

p.s. To give you another example of how different it looks on Xbox than via PC is, on a tv show, it looks so smooth, it looks like you're actually there watching it being filmed. (no, not 3D). Like I said, this is kind of hard to explain, if you saw it though, you would know in a second what I was talking about.

IIRC that is a feature of the TV. Something like filling in frames between the actual ones to make it look smoother and sharper. Personally I hate this feature. But anyhoo, its probably because the TV doesn't do this for signals from the computer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_interpolation


PCs are perfectly capable of doing over 60Hz Whenever you have a game over 60FPS, a monitor with over 60Hz refresh will be able to display those extra frames. Its just most LCDs (The most common technology for computer monitors) are capped at 60Hz, AKA 60FPS.

If you remember the old CRT monitors, they were able to do upwards to 240Hz easily.

It's probably artificially increasing the framerate for the Xbox and not the PC.