Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!hood From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2320 Message-ID: <18572@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 5 Feb 91 15:02:56 GMT References: <1991Jan29.054742.18143@cs.mcgill.ca> <3898@rwthinf.UUCP> <18245@cbmvax.commodore.com> <3901@rwthinf.UUCP> <189bc930.ARN13b6@venus.UUCP> <18435@cbmvax.commodore.com> <189ee486.ARN13cf@venus.UUCP> <18528@cbmvax.commodore.com> <12912@hu Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 29 In article <12912@hubcap.clemson.edu> ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu (Eat shit) writes: > >I have a question on the subject of the deinterlacer: > > I am using the A3000, and if I choose a PAL display, the screen >will flash (bright/dim) very rapidly (no flicker, though). Is this the >1950B monitor, or something internal? > >Doug >ddyer@hubcap.clemson.edu > >-- >"I/O's revenge is at hand." - Hennessy & Patterson What you are seeing is the 50Hz PAL refresh rate (pity the poor Europeans who have to watch TV like this) which appears to flicker. This is not a line interlace flicker in this case, but a frame flicker. It is made worse by the 10Hz beating between the 50Hz display and viewing the display in a room of florescent (?) lights that are running of the 120V 60Hz power. Regards, Scott Hood -- -- Scott Hood, Hardware Design Engineer (A3000 Crew), Commodore-Amiga, Inc. {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!hood hood@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com "The views expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer!"