Can some explain the "hz" parameter?

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"Speaking of monitors, though, has anyone with a flatscreen LCD display noticed that it takes several frames for an old frame of graphics to `fade` from the screen, ie some of the color value or brightness is retained in the pixels and so when you have normally smooth moving objects like at 60hz, you get this blurred streaking motion-blur type of effect rather than a really crisp graphic? I find it somewhat annoying."

Yep. Actually it's kind of cool when you have a ton of space sprites with flames, etc, flying around giving you that extra motion blur. But otherwise, yah..it sucks.