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Interlacing is trash
Interlacing is native on CRT displays, which is what SNES was made for.
Interlacing is native to US broadcast TV. Crt's don't have to be interlaced. Computer CRT's were rarely interlaced.
Okay fine, be particular and ignore the context. Interlacing is native on CRT displays WHEN DISPLAYING NTSC OR PAL, which is what SNES was made for.
I'm just being nitpicky because you are using CRT interchangeably with Television. CRT's are used in TV's but aren't interlaced unless the circuitry around them sends interlaced. So no, interlacing is not native on CRT's when receiving an interlaced signal. If I plugged a Nintendo into my old ViewSonic CRT, I wouldn't get a signal because it didn't support NTSC interlaced input.
It's like saying interlacing is native on LCDs. LCD TVs are interlaced, not LCDs.
That was intentional on my part because of the audience and good communication. You're technically correct, but without a paragraph of tangential and irrelevant explanation your audience isn't going to understand you. Modern parlance usage of "television" isn't the CRT appliance, its any appliance that shows the moving pictures and sound content of television programming. If you walk into any store today and buy a TV, you're going to get an LCD, AMOLED, or quantum dot display. None of those are CRTs, yet everyone born after about 2002 will associate a TV or Television with a flat panel non-CRT display.
And in nobody's mind was the vision of plugging a SNES into a computer monitor CRT. You introduced that idea only to show how its wrong. You win at pedantry, but lose at communication.
If someone says to you "I'm watching TV", do you poke your head around the back of the unit to make sure it has a tuner in it and if it doesn't you quip back to correct them "You're not actually watching a TV, you're watching a monitor. A TV requires a tuner, which this unit does not have, making it a monitor, not a TV"?
If you were trying for good communication you would have said, "Interlacing is native on TV's which is what the SNES was made for. "
Everyone knows what a TV is.
Yes, hence my comments.