Thanks for that. I spent a lot of time of the AVS Forums and people there have the Nvidia 8600GTS and you can select from various resolutions such as 1920x1080 24, 50, 60 etc. Why would you think it would be locked to 60? Good idea about the 120fps.
To answer your other questions, its a 40'' LCD I'm looking at, doesn't need to be wall mounted, light is 'ok' but not too special. Can spend about £1,000
How does this all work though? Say I play a BR DVD thats 1080/24 - do I tell the tv that its getting 24? Or does it sense it automatically?
I thought if the card is told to output a certain res/hz then it wouldn't matter what the source is (file on pc or BR via pc) as the card would change it before outputting it - or is that how that software works? Changing the FPS to suit the file to save me manually doing it? If so, see my question about if the tv can sense it.
Phew... thats my last questions for now!
My understanding is some HDTV's have panels that can only do one resolution and/or refresh rate even if the inputs can accept others and finding this information can be hard. My TV now has a * next to the HDMI ports and at the end of the page I see that * is Accepts 480i, 480p, 720p and 1080i signals and displays at 1080p. When I was looking at TV's to buy this * wasn't specs page.
The PC refresh rates are very complicated. We have the Desktop refresh rate,3D refresh rate and (opengl and DirectX). Now your video playback can use overlay mode and this is normally the same refresh rate as your desktop or it could be using VMR7 or VMR9 and this seems to depend on the playback software your OS and video drivers. So if you set your desktop to 1080p/60 most playback software will be converting everything to 60FPS before sending to to your HDTV and this is why 120 is the best option if the display only does on refresh rate.
The software that auto changes your refresh rate based on the video playing is called
Reclock. It can be very complicated getting it to work.
If you can't control your light during the day you will need more contrast level and brightness or everything will be very dim / washed out.
Since your looking at the 40inch displays make sure you check out the OLED displays.
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