The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300

Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by mabster on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:11AM (#46354722)

I'm guessing you're talking about interlacing?

I've never really experienced it because I've always watched PAL which doesn't have that.

But I would have thought it would be perceived as flashing at 60 Hz with a darker image?

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Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by pledg on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:20AM (#46354825)

PAL had interlacing

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Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by walkerbrown on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:38AM (#46354971)

For anyone this deep on the thread, check out this video (great presenter!) explaining TV spectrum allocation, NTSC, PAL, and the origin of 29.97 fps.

https://youtu.be/3GJUM6pCpew

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Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by DonHopkins on Monday December 22, 2025 @12:39PM (#46356409)

TIL NTSC: He explained that NTSC stands for Not The Smartest Choice, but I always assumed it meant Never The Same Color.

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Re:The biggest CRT ever made: Sony's PVM-4300 by mabster on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @10:57PM (#46381940)

Memories shattered. Yeah, you're right and I would have watched interlaced broadcast content.

I saw interlaced NTSC video in the digital days where the combing was much more obvious and always assumed it was only an NTSC thing!

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