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Vertical blanking interval

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Vertical Blanking Interval (1999) by Jack Stenner

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Vertical blanking interval

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Laserdisc vertical blanking interval

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TV Flicker On Video, Vertical Blanking Interval, and Frame Rate

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VHS tape vertical interval (with captions, no Macrovision)

In a raster graphics display, the vertical blanking interval (VBI), also known as the vertical interval or VBLANK, is the time between the end of the final line of a frame or field and the beginning of the first line of the next frame. It is present in analog television, VGA, DVI and other signals. During the VBI, the incoming data stream is not displayed on the screen. In raster cathode ray tube displays, the beam is blanked to avoid displaying the retrace line; see raster scan for details. The signal source, such as a television broadcast, does not supply image information during the blanking period.