Here we look at reflection and refraction, which figure highly in the cameras and lighting equipment used by broadcasters, to say nothing of the real word in which images are captured.
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Now that interlace is obsolete, we are left only with the problem of dealing with archive material that exists in the interlaced format. The overwhelming majority of video tapes, whether component or composite, analog or digital, would be interlaced.
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Refraction is a topic that is at the heart of waves of all kinds. It affects the broadcaster in many ways, in lenses, optical fibers and in the way transmissions propagate.
The human eye is not fixed and so it can track moving objects in real life and on screens. The tracking action changes everything. Without an understanding of tracking everything seems peculiar. With an understanding it seems obvious why certain things don’t work. Interlace is one of them.