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0 pointsmort961mo ago0 comments

I have no idea what you mean. Why would upscaling make it so that a display can't hit 240Hz?

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tosti1mo ago· 2 in thread

Because the amount of pixels on a flat display is fixed? So 8K is always 8K and if it does 8K@120, the display is really just 120Hz, no?

mort96OP1mo ago

Yes, 8k @ 120Hz is 120Hz. Did I ever imply anything else? And who brought up 8k @ 120Hz?

I've been talking about 8k @ 60Hz and 4k @ 240Hz, because those are the same data rate; 1 990 656 000 pixels per second. One expressed as 7680 x 4320 x 60, the other expressed as 3840 x 2160 x 240.

What does any of this have to do with upscaling?

tosti1mo ago

Because an 8K pixel display is always 8K. So the display on a typical TV always has the same mode. That could mean your 4K@120 signal could (in theory) translate to 8K@60 internally. The data rate over HDMI would still be the same. HDMI is just an interface. What the TV does internally is up to the manufacturer.

Besides, it wouldn't be the first time a TV advertises a higher mode than the display can actually handle.

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