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== Live Action TV ==
* Many a Trekkie has suffered brain damage trying to explain the dichotomy between the [[Viewer -Friendly Interface]] on computers in ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' and the flashy lights and hand-made slides in ''[[Star Trek the Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' -- we get a little help from the fact that we almost never see the screens of video displays on TOS showing anything other than fullscreen video. We get a better look at a TOS-era display in the ''[[Star Trek Enterprise (TV)|Star Trek Enterprise]]'' episode "In a Mirror, Darkly", where it appears to be a sort of art deco version of the TNG-era LCARS interface.
** ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine (TV)|Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' suffered from the same problem mentioned in the trope description of frame rate refresh being visible on screen. For that reason, only specialised TV monitors whose refresh rate could be adjusted to match that of the cameras were used, which meant that there you rarely saw an animated display in the background, only the ones necessary for the plot.
** While DS9 has considerably more animated displays than TNG, it makes it look like the Cardassians [[Salt the Earth|trashing the station on their way out]] replaced [http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/File:Bajoran_Intelligence_net.jpg certain displays] with (377-odd year old) Macintoshes, if the Chicago font is any indication. At least some of us wouldn't put it past those [[Affably Evil]] Cardassians....
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* In ''[[Knight Rider]]'', all of KITT's "complex" displays are source listings of BASIC programs.
* Even worse, in ''[[Timeslip]]'', a futuristic (evil) computer can output ''directly as brainwaves'' or on a video screen. The video screen ''shows the image of a teletype printing out the computer's output.''
* The makers of the original ''[[Battlestar Galactica Classic (TV)|Battlestar Galactica Classic]]'' made an effort to avoid (well, delay) this trope by using the top-of-the-line graphics systems then available for the bridge display of incoming enemy fighters. They looked rather impressive for about five years.
** Oddly enough, the [[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined (TV)|re-imagined series]] [[Invoked Trope|made a point of this]] with the computers on Galactica, which [[Word of God|have been described as]] being far below the specs of today's systems.
*** It is presumably due to trying to avoid this trope that you don't really see the computer displays on the Pegasus (which is a more up to date battlestar) or any of the civilian ships, all of which would be running the "current day" (or at least more modern) colonial computers as opposed to the obsolete systems on the Galactica.
*** The spin-off ''[[Caprica]]'' used much more flashy looking displays and technology in general - for instance, the tablet device Zoe uses and then rolls up to put back in her pocket.
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* Played with in ''[[Bones]]'' where Angela has a holographic display, with amber graphics resembling some types of 80s crt monitors. The resolution was way better, though.
* ''[[Max Headroom]]''. Everything is in wire frames. Then again, it ''was'' the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]....
* In the classic ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "Logopolis" it turns out the fantastically advanced TARDIS computer has a display that is out-performed by a ZX-Spectrum. Of course this ''might'' be justified in that The Doctor is enough of a [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]] to actually prefer that look over proper graphics.
 
 
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