Which connections support 120hz?

[the big dill]

Hey there Neowainians (if you will), its been a while :)

I recently moved and bought a nice big tv :o

Samsung 6300 (46", 120hz)... Except i have never seen it work at 120hz.

Right now im connecting my HD4850 via a dvi to vga converter to a vga port on the tv (There is a source setting on the tv specifically made for PC labeled 'PC').

Questions are,

1. Is a VGA cable not able to support 120hz? (if so, which cable does?)

2. Could this be a driver issue?

3. How can i test the tv for 120hz refresh rate?

I attempted connecting via HDMI, but resolution went outside of the tv sides and looked like crap compared to vga.

Any suggestions?

[winrez]

If you have a Nvidia Graphics card enable 3d Vision

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-main.html

[Edrick Smith]

If you're connecting it to your computer what refresh rates does your display settings show? It's a setting on the device that's sending the signal. So if your computer is set to send 60 that's all the TVs gonna do. Is yours showing 60 but not other options if so that's probably because the system isn't properly detecting what the device can support. CRTs for example have always supported more than 60 HTz.

[the big dill]

If you have a Nvidia Graphics card enable 3d Vision

http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-main.html

I mentioned HD 4850, an ATI card.

If you're connecting it to your computer what refresh rates does your display settings show? It's a setting on the device that's sending the signal. So if your computer is set to send 60 that's all the TVs gonna do. Is yours showing 60 but not other options if so that's probably because the system isn't properly detecting what the device can support. CRTs for example have always supported more than 60 HTz.

I went into the display setting on the computer and disabled the "Hide unsupported refresh rates" check box and max is still 60 hz, so i am guessing it is the GPU not the TV.

[arrrgh]

When HDTVs are advertized as 120hz models, it generally means that they are 120hz internally. I would check the manual to see if it accepts 120hz input (which I doubt).

[the big dill]

http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/detail/supportPrdDetail.do?menu=SP00&prd_ia_cd=102&prd_mdl_cd=UN46C6300SFXZC&prd_mdl_name=UN46C6300SF&srchword=UN46C6300

Here is the tv...

I did some research and found that TVs have a different method of refresh rate to monitors... and 120 hz would not look good for computer games on a TV. Is this true?