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100% contrast. People went to great effort to achieve the highest possible contrast in print, e.g. with barium sulfate coated paper, optical brighteners in paper, single-use carbon film typewriter ribbons, oil based inks so pigments could be used instead of dyes, etc. Contrast is good. The only good reason I can think of to use less than 100% is for syntax highlighting.
This text looks okay to me even if I manually adjust the gamma to approximate doing antialiasing/compositing in linear space. It’s on the thinner side, but plenty readable.
Which platform has “correct” font “blending” (and what do you mean by “blending”)? I have not yet heard of one which does antialiasing or compositing of fonts or other vector graphics in linear (vs. gamma-adjusted) space. The font hinting / antialiasing on Windows is super ugly. Linux varies a lot from one machine to the next and a long history of various font problems.
Maybe what you meant was “looks OK on the Mac with more-correct-than-usual font blending, and looks terrible on X other platform”?
More likely what you meant was “looks OK on a Mac with a high-resolution display (typical of recent Macs), but is harder to read on a lower-resolution display (still common among budget PCs).”
In the DVD era, PAL/NTSC used to interlace frames, which is a ghetto crossfade. I have no idea how this works in the Bluray era.
Interlaced had the advantage of looking better for fast motion, such as in sports; for example, 480i with 60 fields/sec would look better than 480p with 30 fields/sec, at equivalent bandwidth.
The purpose of interlace is to double the frames per second and capture motion better. The downside is some vertical resolution loss and some odd, but rarely seen, visual artifacts.
This is just the entrance to that rabbit hole though; for anyone interested in continuing the journey all the way down I'd highly recommend: https://github.com/leandromoreira/digital_video_introduction.
