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  • Comes with her own set of blended-lens fashion frames in six wild colors (half-frames too!), neck chain, and large-print editions of Vogue and Martha Stewart Living.

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

  • Your TV doesn't have the necessary processing to isolate and expand these half-frames into two distinct full screen frames, each of which would be alternated on the screen at 60 Hz for a total display refresh rate of 120 Hz. Unless your TV is 3D-ready and compatible with side-by-side 3D broadcasts, this is what the new 3D channels will look like on your TV. (sample 3D side-by-side image from wikipedia)

    Big Picture Big Sound - Home Theater, HDTV, Movie Reviews 2010

  • Interlaced content does not refresh faster than it's progressive counterpart, but it displays only half a frame at a time (either even scan lines or odd scan lines first) and the two half-frames (called fields) are from two different points in time, so for 1 second of 29.97 fps interlaced material, you'll see 59.94 fields.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Interlaced (as opposed to progressive) content consists of fields or half-frames.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Interlaced (as opposed to progressive) content consists of fields or half-frames.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • Interlaced (as opposed to progressive) content consists of fields or half-frames.

    VideoHelp.com Forum 2009

  • PAL delivers 625 lines at 50 fields (half-frames interlaced) per second.

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  • The NTSC standard for television defines a composite video signal with a refresh rate of 60 fields (half-frames interlaced) per second.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows converttstodvd 2009

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