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- From: barr@tramp.Colorado.EDU (BARR DOUG)
- Subject: Re: Are TV's interlaced? Why no flicker?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.154556.18027@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 15:45:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov14.032849.11189@ultb.isc.rit.edu> 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.
- >
- >Any ideas on what's going on here?
- >
- >Jim
- NTSC color television is the standard for North America, Japan and a few
- other countries. 30 frames (or pictures) are recieved a second. However,
- these frames are displayed by using 2:1 interlacing - 2 scans for each
- complete frame. The first scan illuminates the odd rows, the 2nd scan
- illuminates the even rows. This reduces flicker. By the way, interlacing
- in computer displays with computer graphic images can introduce strange
- and unwanted interference patterns.
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