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- From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
- Subject: Re: Are TV's interlaced? Why no flicker?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.031825.6204@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
- References: <1992Nov14.032849.11189@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 03:18:25 GMT
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- jdc3538@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.D. Cronin) writes:
- >Why don't ordinary TV sets flicker? A friend told me that standard
- >NTSC video signals are interlaced. That doesn't make sense, since
- >the picture should flicker enough to be unwatchable.
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- They do. They are. It does. It is. Get closer to the screen
- and look. Try still-framing a VCR.
-
- John Nagle
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