Are Low Refresh Rates Bad for the Eyes?

Posted by Cliff on Monday December 23, 2002 @03:22PM from the the-flicker-it-hurts dept.

suwalski asks: "Often when I go over to someone's house to help them with 'computer stuff' (translation: free support), I notice that many people who don't know better still use 60Hz as their refresh rate. XP seems to automatically tune higher, but for the others, I immediately bump it up, because it hurts my eyes. They say they don't see the difference. Am I right to assume that low refresh rates that make my eyes water are not healthy? If people don't notice the low refresh rate, does it still damage their eyes? Anyone know of any studies or papers?"

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Re:Now it's everything else...... by spectral · 2002-12-24 13:17 · Score: 3, Interesting

I have the exact same problem, though none of my friends seem to. In addition, in most every movie I've seen recently (yes, EVERY movie I've seen recently. In fact the high budget ones seem almost worse with it) that has any sort of high speed movement, it doesn't look crisp. I don't know if they're doing this intentionally, but the second there's any decent amount of motion, everything gets.. well, motion blurred. To the point of being practically one big mess where they're just colored blobs streaking around, and no more identifiable than that. Again, none of my friends seem to notice.. :(