[mythtv-users] Blurring

norman norman at littletank.org
Wed May 30 20:28:27 UTC 2007


On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 16:18 -0400, William Munson wrote:
> norman wrote:
> > I am very new to looking at TV on the computer and I am quite happy with
> > the result. There is one thing, however, on which I would welcome an
> > opinion. Whenever there is rapid movement, such as scrolling captions,
> > noticeable blurring takes place of the moving images. Is this a function
> > of the video card and, if so, how should it be addressed?
> >
> > Norman
> >   
> If you are viewing on a LCD monitor rather than an old picture tube 
> monitor the blurring is due to the response time of your monitor. This 
> is very common with monitors as they are designed to "hold" the picture 
> for a short time. This prevents flickering on normal computer viewing 
> but is not desirable on a tv picture.

So, what you are saying is that it is a function of the monitor and
nothing else. If that is the case then, because I have a LCD monitor, a
different video card is no advantage.

Norman




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