<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 7, 2008, at 2:03 PM, Brad DerManouelian wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Matt S. wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Correction... Your CRT is _probably_ an "interlaced" display. It is<br>probably not "progressive", although they do exist.</div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>Correction... your CRT is 99% likely a *progressive* display.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_scan</a></div><div>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">Progressive scan (also known as: P-Scan) is used for most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube" title="Cathode ray tube" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">cathode ray tube</a> (CRT) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_monitor" class="mw-redirect" title="Computer monitor" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">computer monitors</a>, all LCD computer monitors, and most <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV" class="mw-redirect" title="HDTV" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: initial initial; ">HDTVs</a> as the display resolutions are progressive by nature."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">I can't remember the last time I used an interlaced computer display. Maybe my Apple //c from 1985. I hope his CRT isn't that old.</span></div></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Rule of thumb: If it's an ordinary, standard-definition TV, it's interlaced. Otherwise, it's almost certainly progressive. There are exceptions but if you have a piece of equipment that doesn't fit this rule, you probably already know it. :)</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>