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- From: lnosek@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (Luke Nosek)
- Subject: Re: Are TV's interlaced? Why no flicker?
- References: <1992Nov14.032849.11189@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 05:16:18 GMT
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- jdc3538@ultb.isc.rit.edu (J.D. Cronin) writes:
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- >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.
-
- >Any ideas on what's going on here?
-
- >Jim
-
- Ah, but they are interlaced - and there is flicker!
-
- The difference lies in the kind of images that computers and tv's
- get to display.
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- A computer often displays thin crisp lines, boxes, etc. These things
- have small features that may span a single scan line - consequently as
- the lines alternate - these features flash on and off.
-
- A tv has pictures. The color transitions are smooth, and any lines,
- text, boxes, are large because they need to be seen. Plus an ntsc signal
- makes things a bit fuzzy, so if there are any tiny features you won't see them.
-
- Try this:
-
- Look at a good gif on an interlaced computer monitor - stand about as
- far away as you would it were a TV.
-
- You shouldn't notice the flicker.
-