Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!dsinc!bagate!cbmvax!jesup From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2320 Message-ID: <18695@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 8 Feb 91 02:21:59 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.co Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 31 m> <12912@hu <1991Feb6.135555@lemur.inria.fr> Sender: Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Keywords: In article <1991Feb6.135555@lemur.inria.fr> colas@lemur.inria.fr (Colas Nahaboo) writes: >In article <18572@cbmvax.commodore.com>, hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood) >writes: >> 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. > >Obviously, you didn't look at an european TV, which has a MUCH better quality >than NTSC (except when they brodcast american serials :-)). Moreover you are >forgotting the fact that movies are at 24Hz, and no mortal can see them flicker! >(and I think tv is at 18Hz, but this I'm not sure...) Movies are shot at 24 fps, but a) they're displayed in dark theatres, and b) they double-rate them (show each frame twice, for 48 fps effective). European TV flickers quite a bit, though it's far worse if you have 60Hz lights. Of course, that doesn't mean Never Twice the Same Color is any better... -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com BIX: rjesup The compiler runs Like a swift-flowing river I wait in silence. (From "The Zen of Programming") ;-)