ELI5, You know the shimmer that can happen to some displays, while looking at the sky etc? What’s that called? They say its because some pixels can’t catch up to the dark. But why does it also happen in real life while looking at a light or the sky and is it called the same?

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ELI5, You know the shimmer that can happen to some displays, while looking at the sky etc? What’s that called? They say its because some pixels can’t catch up to the dark. But why does it also happen in real life while looking at a light or the sky and is it called the same?

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It can be many things, often times it can just be how what your watching is rendered. Like the example you gave above is actually a known issue in skyrims engine.

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Otherwise it would be local setting on your TV/monitor trying to do color correction/low refresh rate.