Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?

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• Dwedit 1 hour ago
  The missing dot is not just a thing that helps stabilize the colors in a picture, it's literally a missing dot. The first scanline is literally twitching left and right by one pixel every other frame. You probably can't see it on your TV without messing with the vertical hold.
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  • nicole_express 16 minutes ago
    Nothing is actually rendered on the pre-render scanline, though?
  • nubinetwork 52 minutes ago
    I thought the first scanline was wacky because it's sending one extra pixel than the other ~239 lines...

    Side rant, isn't that actually scanline 22? Scanline 21 is off-screen, its where closed captions used to come from...
• brianpan 1 hour ago
  Growing up I definitely noticed the wobble.

  But I'm also so used to it that I didn't realize a lot of examples were videos.

  Really interesting investigation!