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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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