Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!think!ames!elroy!gryphon!jdow
From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FlickerFixers
Keywords: Aren't they silly!?!
Message-ID: <5298@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 6 Aug 88 07:49:49 GMT
References: <2138@ssc-vax.UUCP> <2191@ihlpm.ATT.COM> <877@cunixc.columbia.edu>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (J. Dow)
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In article <877@cunixc.columbia.edu> suh@cunixc.cc.columbia.edu (Kenneth Suh) writes:
>In article <2191@ihlpm.ATT.COM> jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis) writes:
>>Having priced flicker fixers at $550 I am wondering, "Isn't this
>>a bit silly?" Reason being that the cause of flicker is the phosphor
>>decaying before the scan comes around again to refresh it.
>
>
>Doesn't a flicker fixer de-interlace?

Eyup - it do. It raises the refresh rate for the formerly interlaced screen
to 60Hz which materially (but not entirely) reduces the flicker. (I say that
because with my peripheral vision (even at my age) I can detect flourescent
light flicker. I'm so used to it I can live with it though.)
>
>/ken
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-- 
Sometimes a bird in the hand leaves a sticky deposit.
Perhaps it were best it remain there in the bush with the other one.

{@_@}
	jdow@bix (where else?)		Sometimes the dragon wins. Sometimes
	jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM		the knight. Does the fair maiden ever
	{backbone}!gryphon!jdow		win? Surely both the knight and dragon
					stink. Maybe the maiden should suicide?
					Better yet - she should get an Amiga and					quit playing with dragons and knights.