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Subject: [OM] Re: [OT] monitor problem and questions
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:47:51 -0400
Good points all but I still don't understand this "response time" 
number.  For example, this Samsung 226BW claims a 2 ms response time.
<http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824001096>  What 
does that mean?

Chuck Norcutt

Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Phosphor glows - the image decays away and is overwhelmed by the next  
> frame/sweep.
> LCD's extinguish the frame before the next image.
> But the persistence of the human eye should be around 14fps, give or  
> take.
> After that, the illusion of movement kicks in.
> How the hell are you guys coping in a non-didge cinema with a 24fps  
> rate?
> There, half the time you're looking at a dark screen.
> That's a hellofalot slower than an LCD and has the same total  
> extinguishment for longer periods.
> It would have to be impossible.
> So if cinema is acceptable, we must be looking at a different effect  
> than simple 'persistence of vision'.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> On 28/09/2007, at 4:21 AM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm.  I find your answer unsatisfying.  Although a CRT lights each
>> pixel with an electron beam sweeping across the phosphors the beam is
>> moving at an extremely fast rate.  So fast that it hits every single
>> pixel once every  16.7 ms if the refresh rate is 60 Hz and faster than
>> that if the refresh rate is higher.  Obviously, the phosphors have to
>> have a persistence at least as long as 16.7 ms else they'd go dark
>> before the beam came around again... that awful flicker.
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