Converting TTL monitor to Analog

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Thu May 10 18:21:53 2001

John Foust skrev:

>At 12:14 PM 5/10/01 -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>>Well, you may be onto something, but it was widely accepted back in the
>>'70's that a human couldn't see the flicker in an interlaced TV picture, and
>>they certainly wouldn't see flicker in 60 Hz refresh of a text/graphic
>>display.

>Did I miss the discussion of the variability of phosphor persistence
>and monitor color temperature, and how it affects perception of flicker?

>There were classic Amiga "devices" consisting of a slightly
>darkened piece of plastic. Placed before a monitor displaying
>a heavily flickering interlaced high-res Amiga screen, they'd
>seemingly reduce the flicker-induced headache.

These existed for most other systems as well, their intended purpose also
being that of preventing radiation.

Another classic Amiga device was a Commodore monitor with slow phosphor which
wouldn't go out between interlaced refreshes.

--
En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
G? med i SUGA, Swedish Usergroup of Amiga!
WWW: http://swedish.usergroup.amiga.tm/
BBS: 08-6582572, telnet://sua.ath.cx:42512
Received on Thu May 10 2001 - 18:21:53 BST

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.3.0 : Fri Oct 10 2014 - 23:34:07 BST