Posted by Bill's News on 04/14/06 22:57

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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Admirable illustration of scientific (empirical) approach vs.
speculation.

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