[Gllug] Two Questions

[Chris Bell]

On Wed 09 Feb, Andrew Farnsworth wrote:
> 

> most people set the refresh to 72 hz or higher.  Interestingly enough 
> the 1/60 of a second is the speed that a camera shutter is set to so 
> that it synchronizes with the flash which is why when you take a picture 
> of a TV or monitor you get strange banding in the picture.  The 
> Macintosh used to have a tool that would fix this problem, one of the 
> many reasons that the Macintosh was used in to many movies, this tool 
> basically set the monitor refresh rate to 60 hz.
> 
> Amazing the trivia you pick up over the years.
> 
> Andrew Farnsworth

   We used to generate computer graphics synchronised to our TV sync pulses,
and were able to use similar facilities anywhere given time, but then came
cost cutting.

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Chris Bell

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