Comment by Dwedit
12 days ago
60 interlaced fields per second, not 30 frames per second. The two fields do not necessarily contribute to the same frame.
12 days ago
60 interlaced fields per second, not 30 frames per second. The two fields do not necessarily contribute to the same frame.
Which unfortunately also has continued to plague us much longer than we have used any display technology where that might have made any sense.
Yep, once again thanks to broadcasters spreading FUD. When the progressive vs. interlaced debate raged during the development of ATSC, broadcasters whined that progressive would disrupt their entire production pipeline... which was utter BS because they'd been showing film-based content for generations.
If you get those fields out of sync, you will have problems though, so it's okay to consider them in pairs per frame for sanity's sake.