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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 04/14/06 23:15
On 4/14/2006, Bill's News posted this:
> Gene E. Bloch wrote:
>> For fun, as well as in a spirit of intellectual honesty, I did an
>> experiment today.
>>
>> I took the lens elements out of a Wollensak Rapax leaf shutter (almost
>> as old as I am) so I could look through it at several LCD devices (an
>> LCD TV, a desktop monitor, and a laptop monitor) and one CRT device (a
>> TV). I triggered the shutter at 1/400 sec while looking towards each
>> of the respective screens in turn.
>>
>> On the CRT TV I saw a fraction of a picture (a horizontal band taken
>> from the whole). The band was in a different location each time,
>> because I couldn't synchronize my trigger finger with the vertical
>> pulse :-)
>>
>> In each LCD device I saw the entire picture every time. Every time.
>> Always. On the LCD TV, that was true for both standard def an high
>> def.
>> This corroborates ~P~ (and me) 100%.
>>
>> Gino
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> <snip>
>
> Admirable illustration of scientific (empirical) approach vs. speculation.
Maybe I should have added OT to the subject line :-)
Gino
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