What frame rate can PDP/LCD/etc be typically *natively* driven at?

....or do any of them, perhaps the high end ones, exceed 60FPS input?

Note, I'm trying to stay clear of the Hz terminology as much as I can to stem confusion with the internal refresh rates.

It's not a spec that I can readily find---I'm not even sure what the industry term would be for it.

To try to ask this better (or worse, I'm sorry):

I've seen mentioned what the *output* limitations typically are (I don't remember them all) of various content producing machines, such as: 24fps directly (no pull-down from blu-ray) or 30fps (DVD/blu-ray movie w/ pull-down) or 30-interlaced (from comcast STB) or up to 60fps from blu-ray (I'm fuzzy on all of these---please correct me if you like!!!!!!).

However, I can't seem to find anywhere if there are any, say, "120Hz TV's" could be driven at 120FPS directly through the HDMI from some source truly producing 120FPS (PC? Or some magic hardware box purporting to it's *own* better interpolation).

Perhaps a scenario where some 120 Hz TV's "gaming mode" can accept up to 120FPS frames a second (and hence bypass it's own interpolation)?

What I figured on the input. I know full well about the interpolation numbers.

It's a bit of a fringe reason for it anyway currently, but I consider it to be non-trivial. There's already an external box out there that can "convert" any non-3D tv to 3D, and I can envision a world where the purists buy just a raw "dumb" display and have external hookups for the interpolative and 3D effects from companies specializing in *just* that. Or even have boxes that allow externally programmable algorithms that you could download from AVSforum and similar websites. As a software engineer with imaging background, I could supply a version or two of those, but there are more than a few real heavy hitters out there that would try, including perhaps, real imaging companies like Pixar and their expertise. For the 3D t'd have to be active-3D, or passive analglyph-3D (eek!) unless the TV had polarization to begin with.

Leave the physical pixels to the physical pixel guys, and the tweening to the tweening guys, etc.

Things the VIP 3D Theater, and other hardware converters, might really take off with access to the full 120FPS TV input. {shrug}

HDMI would certainly handlle that bandwidth. If you believe wikipedia, 1.3 (already yesterday's rev) allows for this: (To not cause any confusion out there: the 340 MHz is a data bandwidth clock specification and not directly related to FPS)

So, a 2560x1600 @ 60FPS (4,096,000 pixels x 60 FPS = 245,760,000 pixels per second) data trunk could certainly handle a 1920x1080 @ 120FPS (2,073,600 pixels x 120 FPS = 248,832,000 pixels per second). That is only a 1.25% increase in required bandwidth.

Sigh, probably not.

But the 3D converter gadgets are already there. But they're able to drive only at 60Hz total for the flat panels. One I saw can drive anything, even an 1970 black and white tube. Lots of flicker of course. All options are active shutter and analglyph-3D.
Edited by tgm1024 - 1/2/13 at 1:14pm