Horizontal lines sounds like interlacing, which is normal. From Wordnik.com. [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference
It's called interlacing, and that set's display properties would be classified as 480i: 480 lines, interlaced. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Test: 720p, 1080i ... What Does It All Mean?] Reference
In most cases it is easier to dissect the filling side, that is, the interlacing of each warp-thread in the threads of the filling system. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of Silk Weaving A Treatise on the Construction and Application of Weaves, and the Decomposition and Calculation of Broad and Narrow, Plain, Novelty and Jacquard Silk Fabrics] Reference
The average length of the rushes was about twelve feet, but by a kind of interlacing system a raft, or. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of El Dorado] Reference
Lifted their slender shafts, with leaves interlacing, and forming. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
And "Arcadia" ends with two waltzes interlacing in two centuries. From Wordnik.com. [Mind Over Matter] Reference
Fig. 164 is an example of a pretty piece of interlacing strap work attached to a fastening. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
It is hard to realize that a life with its interlacing roots and fibres is broken off short. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
The lower arcade, however, has interlacing arches, which indicate a late period of the style. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Bees communicate to each other the death of the queen, by a rapid interlacing of the antennae. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
The whole of the cope except the border is covered with interlacing quatrefoils outlined in gold. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Instead the order of interlacing moves one thread to the right or left with each filling thread that is woven. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
"Seven Guitars" is a metaphor for the characters, seven people interlacing the bluetoned music of their lives. From Wordnik.com. [Theater: August Wilson's Gritty Guitars] Reference
The interlacing boughs and vines formed a low arch over its mouth, that looked like the entrance into a dark cavern. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
This consists of bundles of delicate fibers interlacing and crossing one another, forming irregular spaces or meshes. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
Through such interlacing institutions, she said, the burden of providing "public goods" could be spread more broadly. From Wordnik.com. [Will Marshall: Hillary Rebuts the Declinists] Reference
The mender must have a good eye for colors necessary to produce various effects and for the interlacing of the threads. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Fig. 146 shows a monogram composed of the letters I.G. ornamented and bound together by a ribbon-like interlacing band. From Wordnik.com. [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference
Above the archway there is an arcade of interlacing round shafts -- the shafts, which were destroyed, having Norman caps. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Look at the cloth under the pick glass and describe the appearance and structure of its interlacing threads, called weave. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Two serpents are trailed along the whole front, and by the interlacing of their bodies divide the surface into square panels. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
Next come two rows of a double interlacing fret, and then another string course, from which the second row of arcading springs. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
So they plodded on getting so many scratches and slaps from overhanging branches and interlacing bushes that they made a joke of them. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Besides these there were extensive forests of thick-growing trees, whose dense branches, interlacing overhead, threw down heavy shadows. From Wordnik.com. [The Cryptogram A Novel] Reference
I'll be following up on whether or not the interlacing requires a loss of resolution in exchange for the ability to present a 3D image. —. From Wordnik.com. [No more pricey glasses: Vizio to introduce polarized 3D TV in 2011] Reference
About us were other villages and great estates, and from house to house, interlacing, correlated, the gentry, the fine Olympians, came and went. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
By interlacing paths, from the tremulous gray willows under the somber, clashing eucalyptus spears, under dark wings of cypress they were moving. From Wordnik.com. [The Coast of Chance] Reference
All around was the brilliant carpeting of flowers; overhead, the intensely blue sky, latticed here and there with the interlacing boughs of trees. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
After determining the direction of the warp and filling, the next point is to determine the interlacing of the warp and filling threads -- the weave. From Wordnik.com. [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference
Note the elongated, sausage-shaped cells (a) the larger oval cells (b) and the globular cells (c) the former two often interlacing and growing as a film. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference
Chandi Sewon, the "thousand temples," includes in the number myriad unimportant shrines, ruined, overthrown, or covered with a green network of interlacing creepers. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
Great Banda, clothed from base to summit with nutmeg trees, shadowed by huge kanaris, their interlacing canopies protecting the precious spice plantations from the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
He had already been struck in the arm, and the words had scarcely passed his lips when another shot pierced his head, and he fell dead upon the interlacing pine boughs. From Wordnik.com. [The County Regiment A Sketch of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, Originally the Nineteenth Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War] Reference
Gathering all his energies together he managed to keep ahead of them until the woods became less dense, and he saw through the interlacing branches the open meadows and fields. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
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