Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

On 2/27/2025 7:55 PM, Sylvia Else wrote:

As a slight aside, I tried watching episodes of the first series of Star Trek a few years back. It was rather obvious that the display panels on the Enterprise's bridge were actually back-lit paper. Good enough for TVs of the time, apparently, but not for modern digital displays.

Filming "monitors" leads to visual artifacts as the frame rate
need not agree (i.e., with REAL film) or the synchronization
can wander.  So, it's was always best to fudge.
Of course, nowadays, these issues are easily overcome.
ObTrivia:  "The Guide" (in the first series/movie) was
actually projected from below.  I guess hand-held tablets
were technically impractical, for emulation, at the time.