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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by biztos on Friday October 02, 2020 @09:39PM (#24668783)
Was it not actually instant?

My recollection from the 80's was you switch the channel (physically) and it's... switched!

So was there some magical latency there that I just couldn't perceive, or are the "near instant" reports talking about some other type of TV? Or something else?

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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by ddingus on Friday October 02, 2020 @10:08PM (#24668914)
Change was instant, took a frame or two for all the sync, gain, etc to settle.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by simcop2387 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @11:11AM (#24672524)
There absolutely was some latency, about 13ms worth, because it had to wait for the next field to start so it could properly synchronize and start drawing. But you'd never notice that yourself.
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Re:What is the best dumb TV? by jedberg on Saturday October 03, 2020 @06:48AM (#24671110)
There was a few ms of latency but you couldn't actually perceive it unless you used a slow motion camera or something.
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