> Anybody wrote:

>>> "Al Smith" address.com> wrote...
>>>

>>>> I wonder how they are going to explain all those retro CRTs? Maybe
>>>> say that LCDs won't work due to the effects of warp drive?

>>> How did they explain them in the TOS movies? IIRC, they just didn't.
>>>
>>> It's ironic that the most "advanced" looking visual displays in Trek
>>> were the ones created in TOS with the most primitive film equipment.
>>> No video flicker, no grain or out-of-focus issues, not even glare on
>>> the screen surfaces.

>>
>> Flickering CRTs in modern TV shows and movies is down to sheer laziness
>> or lack of money by the makers (or in some cases "arty" film making).
>> Film makers are meant to sychronise the screen refresh rates with the
>> camera so that the flickering doesn't happen.

>
> Even without flicker, it's still obvious to the movie audience that they
> are looking at a CRT, with its curved screen and 4x3 aspect ratio. That
> always has the feeling of quaint falseness when it's depicting the
> supposedly futuristic panel of some future spaceship.
>
> That was the problem with a couple of the Star Trek movies, like ST VI.
> They used CRTs to implement the bridge displays. No flicker, but they
> still *looked* like CRTs. Even though nobody expects actual CRTs to be
> around in the 23rd century--except in museums.