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From: David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer)
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Subject: Re: Why?
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Date: 23 Mar 91 17:50:22 GMT
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 PK> espie@flamingo.Stanford.EDU (Marc Espie) writes: 
 PK> >I myself have been submitted to the following experiment: migrate 
 PK> from 
 PK> >Europe to the US, buy an amiga 3000 and use it for 6 months in NTSC 
 PK> >mode. Then one day, try and switch to PAL. Lo and behold ! flicker, 
 PK> >awfully noticeable. 
 PK>  
 PK> But what you saw there is not the 50 Hz flicker, but the interference 
 PK> of the 50 Hz screen and your 60 Hz room illumination or other devices 
 PK> running at mains frequency. So you actually saw a 10 Hz flicker! 
 PK>  
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But as I sit here looking at my NTSC Amiga running in PAL mode, 
contemplating why it flickers, I can't help but ask what rate does the 
sun flicker at?  Totally natural room lighting, PAL still flickers.
And this is on a 2080, so I can't help but wonder what it would look like
on a 1084.


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