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- From: pwappy@well.sf.ca.us (Jeff Walkup)
- Subject: Re: DCTV flickers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Message-ID: <BuBxrH.HMA@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 21:16:29 GMT
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- mac1@Ra.MsState.Edu (Mubashir Cheema) writes:
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- > a friend of mine recently purchased a DCTV and it flickers.
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- DCTV's output is composite NTSC video. By definition, it is
- interlaced, so it will flicker.
-
-
- > We connected it to an A500 and it didn't flicker anymore.
-
- This puzzled me at first, until I realized that perhaps your
- A500 only has 1 meg of memory (or less?). If DCTV cannot grab
- enough memory to open an interlaced screen, it will open a
- non-interlaced one, which will not flicker. Be aware this is
- not a legal NTSC video signal, so if you are recording it to
- tape, be sure to use interlaced mode, or run SetLace/DoLace
- to force interlace ON.
-
- The de-interlacing card should not interfere with DCTV operation.
- The Toaster might, and I've found that you need to run the Switcher
- program to correctly sync the Toaster, otherwise you'll end up with
- the problems described earlier.
-