Re: Are TV's interlaced? Why no flicker?

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From: Alex Evans
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 01:41

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  The interlaced displays in NTSC (and for that matter PAL and SECAM) don't
appear to flicker badly because the adjacent lines in the display are very
similar. The flicker problem in computer displays is largely due to very
different adjacent lines, and short persistance phosphors (sp?).  When I put
an interlaced display on my monochrome monitors the do not visibly flicker
because the phosphor has a very long persistance.


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Theodore (Alex) Evans aka Alexei Vnebrachnei Ivanovitch
MOL College of St. Golias     | Free computer, where, when, how
Collector of dusty silicon    | "That probably won't run on anything I have."

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