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I was recently in the same position (well not the aging eyes part).
I decided to go for the FORIS FG2421 display (http://gaming.eizo.com/products/foris_fg2421/[^])
For games (some of them) it makes some difference, for movies I find (although I haven't watched many on it since I have a bigger tv connected) it makes no difference that I can see, sometimes it even causes the movie to be played in short bursts or lose frames. Could also be because of my graphical card although it should be able to play it with ease, or drivers, or settings, or quality of the movie (I still need to dig into all the settings and such on my graphical card).
As I understand it the human eye can distinguish between 60-120hz easily, but above that it becomes more difficult. So the gain between 60-120hz is a lot higher than between 120hz and 240hz.
I do find I prefer looking at that screen (I have 2 more 60hz screens connected (and the tv)) but that might just be because the others are a lot older.
If you want me to test something for you (wouldn't know what) shoot me an email and I'll see what I can do.
Tom
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BillWoodruff wrote: Just curious if anyone else with older/diminishing eyesight here has considered this issue.
Have you tried glasses? 
Marc
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Thanks, Marc, well, yes, I have glasses, but what's happening to my eyes cannot be helped by those: it takes a laser to do that.
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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The move to 120 was for a couple of reasons. First, as someone already mentioned, when viewing 3D content using active shutter glasses it allows the usage of 60fps source material. The other reason is with Bluray devices now having flexible frame rates, they can present content in the original frame rate instead of using the abomination that was 3/2 pull-down.
Original frame rates for most US-based content is 24, 30, or 60. What's the least common multiple of those numbers? 120.
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"60Hz ought to be enough for everyone". Anything more is a gimmick, IMO. What I mean is, if it's "only" 60Hz, it's absolutely fine and wouldn't be a deal breaker to me. The bad CRT flicker days are gone - back then, I could immediately tell when a CRT was running at 60Hz, and I'd get nauseous within a minute.
That said, while 60Hz is fine for an LCD/LED monitor, don't settle for anything less either, especially if it's gonna be used as a computer monitor.
My 4K TV, like a lot of 4K displays hooked up to a computer, is limited to 30Hz. The mouse pointer is visibly more jittery, especially when moving it around the screen quickly. When I grab a window on my 1920x1200 monitor and drag it over to the 4K one, you can see as it crosses over that it renders significantly slower - for example, if I drag a window from the bottom of the screen to the top (and it runs across both monitors), you can immediately see that the 4K one needs a fraction of a second to catch up. Fullscreen video can get noticeably out of sync, but I don't use it to watch video.
Given the price I paid for it however, the extra desktop real-estate is still worth it to me, and I'm not going back. Caveat emptor.
[tl;dr version]: 60Hz for an LCD is fine, even if you were sensitive to it back in the CRT days.
[Edit]: Somebody else's point about 3D is probably valid. I can't say I've experienced 3D on a 60Hz-only TV--not sure if this is factor to you. And FWIW, I still have better than 20/20 vision after having laser eye surgery back in 2003.
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☭☢☣⚡⛓ [5]
Just say what you see
veni bibi saltavi
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Norks!
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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1 white and 1 black would have been really weird.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I am right that we play white as right letter wrong place? 
veni bibi saltavi
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Power ?
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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DEATH
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CHINA
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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FORCE
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KOREA
cheers,
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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1b 2w but solved below
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CRUEL
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#ding#
We haves a winner!
veni bibi saltavi
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Finally the Mastermind rules helped me!
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Short prisoner with limited food surrounds emblem to cause huge fire (13)
Have fun!
Sometimes, it just is, OK!
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CONFLAGRATION?
Short prisoner CON (from "convict")
emblem FLAG
limited food RATION
huge fire CONFLAGRATION
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