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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Just like how you see an after-image when you look away from a bright light, It takes time for an LCD pixel to change colour. Response time describes how quicky a pixel moves between opposite colours. The shorter the response time, the less images blur as they move across the screen.

You want the response time to be shorter than the refresh interval. Otherwise one frame just bleeds into the next and surplus speed becomes meaningless.

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