ZildjianKX: CRTs are in fact the only displays that actually support native interlaced and progressive scan--they just alter the scanning pattern of the CRT beam as nec. Digital displays in general are ONLY progressive scan, and must de-interlace all interlaced video, and that is where you get artifacts.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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ZildjianKX: CRTs are in fact the only displays that actually support native interlaced and progressive scan--they just alter the scanning pattern of the CRT beam as nec. Digital displays in general are ONLY progressive scan, and must de-interlace all interlaced video, and that is where you get artifacts.