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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Interlaced monitors
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Date: 14 Mar 91 06:32:45 GMT
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In article <27D66A39.5235@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
>Just in case people following this discussion about the flicker problem with
>interlaced monitors think that all users of them are suffering, let me 
>say that I use 2 such, including the machine that I'm using right now, and 
>there is absolutely no flicker at all.  They are both IBM 8514 monitors, one
>of them the color monitor and the other the large monochrome.  Furthermore
>I know 3 other people that use them, and they do not notice any flicker 
>either.  

Great, now bring up Control Panel and select WEAVE.BMP for your
desktop; then select a dithered color for your title bar; now save that,
bring up a GIF image in Paint Shop and dither it for a Mac.  Stand back
and have a nice day!  If none of THOSE things flicker, you're safe.

>         One of the reasons I think, is that these monitors have a slowly
>reacting phosphorus that minimizes the flicker.  

That helps a lot, but carries a cost.  Things that NEED to change
quickly look strange with slow persistence phosphors.  This is how you
get the "mouse tail" effect, like running Windows on an LCD laptop...

>                                                  The other may be that flicker
>is noticeable to some people and not to others, at least that was mentioned 
>recently in an article in PC Magazine (I think it was PCMag..).
>Carl Riehm.

Good old PC magazine... home of the half baked theory. :-)  I'll wager
that given the same screen and image, nearly everyone notices interlace
to the same degree.