From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 22: 7: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from queasy.outpost.co.nz (outpost2.inspire.net.nz [203.96.157.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEB511527A for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:07:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crh@outpost.co.nz) Received: (qmail 20940 invoked from network); 17 Nov 1999 06:06:58 -0000 Received: from officedonkey.outpost.co.nz (HELO officedonkey) (192.168.1.3) by outpost2.inspire.net.nz with SMTP; 17 Nov 1999 06:06:58 -0000 Comments: Authenticated sender is From: "Craig Harding" Organization: Outpost Digital Media Ltd To: "David Schwartz" Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 19:06:44 +1200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Video Stupidity (was RE: Judge: "Gates Was Main Culprit") Reply-To: crh@outpost.co.nz Cc: chat@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <000001bf30b5$b82c5470$021d85d1@youwant.to> References: <199911170254.TAA05982@usr08.primenet.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.52) Message-Id: <19991117060702.DEB511527A@hub.freebsd.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Schwartz wrote: > Both VHS and Beta exceed broadcast quality. Ha ha. A piece of advice David - don't utter such mindbogglingly stupid statements in the midst of an argument you're trying to win. People who actually know about broadcast video (ie me) might start to judge the veracity of everything you're saying on the appalling ignorance of the comment above. -- C. PS I don't have the technical specs of Betamax and VHS to hand to compare them, so I'm not going to argue on technical performance, but everything I've read suggests VHS won because of (relatively) free and open licensing vs Sony's desire to control and own everything that was Betamax. Unfortunately Sony's tactics have been much more successful in the broadcast arena. PPS In my experience, SVHS lost the consumer war because the small increase in quality (can anyone here say chroma noise?) wasn't sufficient to justify the vast increase in cost, when people who wanted quality could obtain much more of it for a similar price from laserdisc. -- Craig Harding crh@outpost.co.nz "I don't know about God, I Outpost Digital Media Ltd crh@inspire.net.nz just think we're handmade" http://www.outpost.co.nz ICQ# 26701833 - Polly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message