Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
PCs (and screens in general, particularly old CRTs) are a b*tch and a half to film.
You typically film at E.G. 21 FPS, while your PC runs at 50 / 60 (which isn't an integer multiple of 21), so you get Vsyncs somewhere during each frame, making each filmed frame a superposition of two frames onscreen. You also have to be careful about how long the film is exposed for, as, on a CRT screen, the electron gun goes left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and the top-left corner of the frame is no longer visible when the gun reaches bottom-right. If your film isn't exposed for the entire duration of the frame, parts of it may never be visible.
This is why there was a cottage industry of PCs and PC monitors designed to run at Hollywood frame rates. Cathode Ray Dude has an excellent video on why this was a problem and how the problem was solved[1].
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Fun Fact: in king of queens, most of the pcs (for example airport episode with doug's parents) are just RCT tvs with paper printout of a screen taped over it.
PCs (and screens in general, particularly old CRTs) are a b*tch and a half to film.
You typically film at E.G. 21 FPS, while your PC runs at 50 / 60 (which isn't an integer multiple of 21), so you get Vsyncs somewhere during each frame, making each filmed frame a superposition of two frames onscreen. You also have to be careful about how long the film is exposed for, as, on a CRT screen, the electron gun goes left-to-right, top-to-bottom, and the top-left corner of the frame is no longer visible when the gun reaches bottom-right. If your film isn't exposed for the entire duration of the frame, parts of it may never be visible.
This is why there was a cottage industry of PCs and PC monitors designed to run at Hollywood frame rates. Cathode Ray Dude has an excellent video on why this was a problem and how the problem was solved[1].
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qicQUvSUbPM
Reminds me of the fake computers (and TV's) in furniture stores that were made of cardboard