Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Why? Message-ID: <975@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 19 Mar 91 11:43:10 GMT References: <1991Mar7.135528.10099@ste.dyn.bae.co.uk> <1991Mar8.210436.11753@neon.Stanford.EDU> Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 13 In article <1991Mar8.210436.11753@neon.Stanford.EDU> espie@flamingo.Stanford.EDU (Marc Espie) writes: >I myself have been submitted to the following experiment: migrate from >Europe to the US, buy an amiga 3000 and use it for 6 months in NTSC >mode. Then one day, try and switch to PAL. Lo and behold ! flicker, >awfully noticeable. But what you saw there is not the 50 Hz flicker, but the interference of the 50 Hz screen and your 60 Hz room illumination or other devices running at mains frequency. So you actually saw a 10 Hz flicker! -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk