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by derealized 1056 days ago
Well, a camera wouldn't care about that.. only if you're capturing from HDMI.
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No, I meant that the screen could mess up the video stream shown so that it would look "fine" for the human eye but as a completely scrambled mess to a camera. You know how hard it was to film a CRT-monitor and AFAIK there have been some (abandoned) research on how to put something like that into LED specifically do defy the screen-capturing.
CRTs were never impossible to film - you just had to put in some effort to adjust shutter settings on the camera.

I can’t imagine there existing a technique for emitting photons perceptible to the human eye and yet it not being possible for a camera to capture them.

Got it, that makes sense. With monitors now in 60-120Hz being common, that might be doable.
The camera DSP might shut off if it detects a watermarked signal.