[RndTbl] Samples of red text on black background

[Adam Thompson]

I am somewhat curious... but not curious enough to drive across town to help you photograph the effect!
Most likely it was just your monitor not quite liking the video signal.  Why?  <Shrug>

-Adam


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From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> on behalf of Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 8, 2023 12:54:23 PM
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Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Samples of red text on black background

I foolishly assumed the screenshots I took would reflect what I was seeing, and I sent them without reviewing them. I suspect if I'd used an SLR and adjusted the shutter speed correctly the effect would have been apparent. I might try that if I feel motivated this weekend.

On Sat, Apr 8, 2023 at 9:36 AM Adam Thompson <athompso at athompso.net<mailto:athompso at athompso.net>> wrote:
You're saying the sample images you sent are not representative of what you were asking about?  Uh, OK... Perhaps photos would have been more useful, then.  Anyway, it's working now.

Unless you're a hardcore gamer, it's unlikely you'll ever notice the difference between 30 and 60Hz - enjoy your now-readable monitor! ;-)

-Adam

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Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Samples of red text on black background

You're all probably confused, since the images I sent are all readable. <eyeroll emoji> They are to me, too.

So I played around with a bunch of things, desperate to make my big monitor useful, and I seem to have it working properly now.

I don't know exactly what fixed it with 100% confidence, but it looks like it works fine if I set the refresh rate to 30 Hz, but at anything higher (50/59.97/60 Hz) some text becomes unreadable.

I'll call that a win.

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 3:56 PM Kevin McGregor <kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com<mailto:kevin.a.mcgregor at gmail.com>> wrote:
This is off-topic, but has anyone seen this sort of thing in Windows 10? Red and purple text on a dark or black background renders poorly, but other colours look clearly defined. The MS Code sample has a lighter gray background, so isn't affected...?

Kevin
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