Comment by kragen
12 days ago
Conventional wisdom a few years after the Macintosh was that 50Hz was annoyingly flickery. Obviously this depends on your phosphors. Maybe it was already conventional wisdom at the time?
I feel like the extra 16% of screen real estate would have been worth it.
A white background at 50hz was pretty flickery, at least to my NTSC-experienced eyes, on a TV. Maybe they could have used longer persistence phosphors in their monitor, but then motion and animation would blur.
Speaking of phosphors, early Photoshop had a setting to pick what you were using. These adjusted RGB balance according to published or measured values. https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/154371808662010265...