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Samsung Electronics said Wednesday that it will demonstrate a 15-inch monitor with a new technology that drives images at 240 Hertz, twice as fast as the commercial 120-Hz technologies on today's cutting-edge HDTVs.

The "Blue Phase" technology will be on display at the SID (Society for Information Display) 2008 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, which will be held in Los Angeles from May 18 to 23.

Samsung said it expects the new displays to be mass produced beginning in 2011.

Manufacturers have begun to sell higher-end digital televisions with so-called 120-Hz technology, that displays an image 120 times per second. The additional frames eliminate the stuttering or judder, that occurs when 24-frames-per-second film source material is converted to 60-Hz displays. (Twenty-four frames per second does not divide equally into 60 frames per second, resulting in duplicated frames. However, 24 frames per second, multiplied by 5, equals 120, meaning that film typially reproduces smoothly on the faster displays. In practice, some 120-Hz televisions insert "interpolated" frames, that the television itself creates to smooth the images.)