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>Is this why computer screens always "flicker" on TV?
Computer screens "flicker" on TV for approximately the same reason wagon
wheels go slowly backwards or forward in movies.
It's a strobe effect caused by a small difference between the
sampling/projection frequency of the recorded image and some frequency in
the scene--the screen's vertical refresh rate in this case. ...RM
Richard Mateosian Technical Writer in Berkeley CA srm -at- c2 -dot- org
