diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/player/views/player_view.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/player/views/player_view.js.coffee
index 80440d6..6506718 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/player/views/player_view.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/player/views/player_view.js.coffee
@@ -65,7 +65,10 @@ class AsciiIo.PlayerView extends Backbone.View
 
   bindEvents: ->
     @movie.on 'started', => @$el.addClass 'playing'
-    @movie.on 'finished', => @$el.removeClass 'playing'
+
+    @movie.on 'finished', =>
+      @$el.removeClass 'playing'
+      @rendererView.stopCursorBlink()
 
     @movie.on 'paused', =>
       @$el.addClass 'paused'
@@ -77,13 +80,13 @@ class AsciiIo.PlayerView extends Backbone.View
       @$el.removeClass 'paused'
       @hudView.onResume() if @options.hud
 
+    @movie.on 'wakeup', => @rendererView.restartCursorBlink()
+
     if @options.hud
       @movie.on 'time', (time) => @hudView.updateTime(time)
 
     @movie.on 'render', (state) => @rendererView.push state
 
-    @vt.on 'cursor:blink:restart', => @rendererView.restartCursorBlink()
-    @vt.on 'cursor:blink:stop', => @rendererView.stopCursorBlink()
     @vt.on 'cursor:show', => @rendererView.showCursor true
     @vt.on 'cursor:hide', => @rendererView.showCursor false
 
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/player/vt/vt.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/player/vt/vt.js.coffee
index 5438ddc..10c9632 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/player/vt/vt.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/player/vt/vt.js.coffee
@@ -259,12 +259,6 @@ class AsciiIo.VT
   bell: ->
     @trigger 'bell'
 
-  restartCursorBlink: ->
-    @trigger 'cursor:blink:restart'
-
-  stopCursorBlink: ->
-    @trigger 'cursor:blink:stop'
-
   feed: (data) ->
     @data += data
 
diff --git a/app/assets/javascripts/player/workers/main_worker.js.coffee b/app/assets/javascripts/player/workers/main_worker.js.coffee
index a7705cc..a18571c 100644
--- a/app/assets/javascripts/player/workers/main_worker.js.coffee
+++ b/app/assets/javascripts/player/workers/main_worker.js.coffee
@@ -37,21 +37,11 @@ addEventListener 'message', (e) =>
     postMessage evt: event, src: 'movie', args: args
 
   movie.on 'reset', => vt.reset()
-  movie.on 'finished', => vt.stopCursorBlink()
-  movie.on 'wakeup', => vt.restartCursorBlink()
-
-  lastRenderTime = (new Date()).getTime()
 
   movie.on 'data', (data) =>
     vt.feed data
-
-    now = (new Date()).getTime()
-
-    if true #or now - lastRenderTime > 40
-      state = vt.state()
-      vt.clearChanges()
-      movie.trigger 'render', state
-
-      lastRenderTime = now
+    state = vt.state()
+    vt.clearChanges()
+    movie.trigger 'render', state
 
   console.log 'inited!'