how can a monitor have a 1ms response time when the refresh rate isn’t 1000Hz?

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My computer monitor advertises a 1ms response time and the refresh rate is 144Hz. Wouldn’t that mean that the best response time possible is 1/144s?

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You are a display’s processor, in control of one pixel, you can drop a red, green, or blue ball down a hole to land on the display. You can move up to 144 balls in one second, but, it takes 1 millisecond for the ball to land through the hole.

The main limit is not the time it takes for a ball to land, it’s how often you are able to pick and drop a ball.

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