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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Interlaced monitors
Message-ID: <14991466@bfmny0.BFM.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 02:08:13 GMT
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Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
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>> >                              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..).
>> 
>> 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.
>
>I wouldn't endorse everything that's said in PC Magazine, but I
>think the notion that different people react differently to screen
>interlace probably has some truth in it.

Some truth, yes.  If there weren't SOME truth, it wouldn't qualify as a
really _half baked_ theory. :-)

No doubt there is some individual variation in both the threshhold at
which people notice flicker, AND the threshhold at which they experience
noticed flicker as annoying.  There is individual variation in
everything else, so why not in those things.

Nevertheless the original statement was that "flicker is noticeable to
some people and not to others," and that's a very different
proposition.  I will set up my Boca SVGA+ in 45Hz interlaced 1024x768
mode on the NEC Multisync 4D with its fast phosphor; I will configure
Windows with WEAVE.BMP (tiled) as the desktop wallpaper, and a dithered
monochrome Mac picture popped up in a window.  Now you tell me you don't
notice the flicker!  Whether you HATE it or not is another thing.
Whether you even know to LOOK for it is yet another thing!  (I'm sure
some people simply have no idea that this isn't how computer screens
_always_ look.)

Anyway, we can definitely conclude that you should look at the actual
combination of video adapter, monitor, lighting conditions, and screen
contents that you'll be using day-to-day before deciding whether an
interlaced monitor is acceptable.