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If you’re a geek of a certain age, a good portion of your childhood probably revolved around sitting too close to the TV, clutching a plastic safety cone-colored hand gun and blasting waterfowl out of a pixilated sky in Duck Hunt (also, trying to blow that dog’s head off when he laughed at you). The Duck Hunt gun, officially called the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Zapper, seems downright primitive next to the Nintendo’s Wii and Microsoft’s Kinect, but in the late 80s, it filled plenty of young heads with wonder. How did that thing work? Score... a direct hit!
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So then why doesn't it work with LCD TVs?
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Due the refresh rate[^]
You already knew that, didn't you 
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That's what I thought. But the explanation given in the blog entry doesn't seem to support that. Ergo, I think the blog entry is wrong.
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Mhm... rather not very precise 
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That was bleedingly obvious, you'd see a flashing white rectangle on a black background (or the otherway around). You could hold the thing against the screen and cheat it.
Wout
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