Composite Video on the NES: Why's it so wobbly?
zdw
77 points
7 comments
July 05, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (3 comments)
Dwedit
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.
brianpan
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!
RiverCrochet
See also: https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NTSC_video