[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kip gethinn [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Demache [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kip gethinn 72r is another way of saying 72hz lol. and okay movies look around 48 fps. still it is tricking the eye and you cannot do that in video games because of the 72hz/r. When you turn your console on, or your PC, you are running at a refresh rate of 72. No matter what your TV/monitor is. I have a tube TV not an HDTV. If i had an HDTV my fps would probably be better, depending on the quality though. Now when you turn your TV on to watch something off cable, or your DVD player it is running at a standard of 60hz so it can trick your eye and allow the fps to be down.[/quote]72r = 72 hz. I figured that. Anywho, you can set the hardware refresh rate. Not on the 360, but on your computer. Like mine is doing ~60hz on my laptop. On my computer monitor for my 360, it actually does 59.8hz. While not a very high quality monitor (its roughly 6 years old), that's the refresh rate the 360 is feeding it over VGA. Maybe I am just super special since I can tell the difference between 23.946 fps, 30 fps, and 60 fps.[/quote] yupp I know you can set it on the PC. How old is your laptop though? Can it play next gen games? Also any new game, if you have hardware decent enough, will optimally run at a refresh rate of 72. For older games they run in the 50hz and 85hz. Why they display thing worse is physics and i cannot explain that completely. It has something to do with the human eye though. Also your 360 tells your TV to go to 72hz, I don't know exactly how, but I remember reading it on xbox.com. I will try to find it for proper citing.[/quote]Actually no. My laptop is 3 years old and pretty piss poor at gaming. Even stuff as old as Half Life 2 (20 fps max for the win?) Although older games will peak at about 100 frames per second, the screen only can possibly do 60hz. The actual video card itself can do 120 hz if you have the right monitor.