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- From: Dale_Adams@gateway.qm.apple.com (Dale Adams)
- Newsgroups: rec.video
- Subject: Re: Visible scan lines in large TVs
- Message-ID: <33997@goofy.apple.COM>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 20:31:09 GMT
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- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA
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- In article <Bz0MD7.GAG@fc.hp.com> rjn@FC.HP.COM (Bob Niland) writes:
- > The NTSC standard has only ~482 horizontal scan lines of active picture. If
- > you sit less than 4 picture-heights from ANY size monitor, these lines will
- > become visible (unless the display is defocused).
- > ...
- > If you insist on sitting at-or-closer-than 4PH, you will need an RGB-capable
- > monitor and device called a "line doubler", or an IDTV (built-in line
- > doubler). This may get you to 3 picture-heights, possible less, before scan
- > lines become visible again.
-
- It's a bit less than 3 PH on my system (Runco Super-IDTV on a 10' diagonal
- screen - i.e., a 6' picture-height). I sit at a distance of 14-15 feet and
- see no visible scan lines with typical program material. I have to move
- quite a bit closer than that before scan lines are visible. At my viewing
- distance, there's still the occasional artifact (like stair-stepping on
- near horizontal diagonal lines), but overall it's an enormous improvement
- over conventional NTSC. Of course sitting this close you do become pretty
- critical of poor quality video signals. :-)
-
- - Dale Adams
-