December 16-Denno Senshi Porygon,an episode of Pokémon,is aired on TV Tokyo in Japan.20 minutes in the episode, Ash Ketchum's Pikachu uses its Thunderbolt attack on vaccine missiles,causing red and blue strobe lights flashing rapidly.This gives 685 viewers (310 boys and 375 girls) seizures and causes Indigo League (The series of Pokémon) to go into hiatus until April 1998.
Visuals in one form or another have always been a part of live DJ performances, but until the advent of this form of performance, the visual aspect was largely limited to computerized strobes and spotlights, laser projectors, and/or pyrotechnics.
The NRZ signal sent is fed with the clock signal through an XOR gate, creating a strobe signal.
Mary Millington (at that time using her married name Mary Maxted), Carole Augustine and Ava Cadell all worked as models for Strobe Studios in the early 1970s.
Link 1 is a point-to-point, duplex, non-encrypted, digital NATO Tactical Data Link (TDL) Standard for the automatic exchange of Track and Strobe data, combined with link and data management messages between ground based ASACS-elements / e.g. CRC and CAOC), specific units (TACCS / MC) and data link buffers (SSSB, CSI).
Dramatic music by Ken Caillat, strobe effects, and smoke machines were used in the arena during games to enhance play.
The channel was originally known as The Strobe from 2002 to 2011, when it was relaunched under its current incarnation, a homage to the New York City discothèque Studio 54.