Plasma pixel updates?

Question

Not exactly sure what I'm taking about here - but I'll try to be intelligible.

Looking at buying a plasma screen & my husband asked me to look up something about how often a line or pixel resets itself? Is a reset of each pixel/line or reset of every other better? And what do I Google to get some info on it? Cnet has lots of info on HDTV's, but I'm missing what info he asked for.

Answer 1

My guess is that your husband is looking for the refresh rate, NOT the reset rate. Top of the line LCD TVs refresh at 120 Hz (120 times a second) in an attempt to compensate for a technical flaw in their technology (motion blur and jitter). Plasma TVs do not exhibit motion blur or jitter because their response time is 1,000 - 4,000 times faster than that of the fastest LCD technology. Plasma TVs generally refresh at a rate of 60 Hz, though the 2008 Panasonic plasma TV's claim a sub-field refresh rate of 480 Hz!