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Date:      Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:15:24 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Jason Halbert <res02jw5@gte.net>
Cc:        Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c)
Message-ID:  <20010122101524.I93049@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net>; from res02jw5@gte.net on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:36:52PM -0000
References:  <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMAELICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net>

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On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 15:36:52 -0000, Jason Halbert wrote:

> (missing attribution to Peter Wemm)
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:26:50AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
>>>> [redirected to -chat]
>>>>
>>>> On 19-Jan-01 Rich Wales wrote:
>>>>>  The picture resolution is 352x240 pixels (NTSC) -- roughly VHS
>>>>> quality.
>>>>
>>>> If a VCD is VHS quality either NTSC is much worse than PAL or you
>>>> need a new VCR.
>>>
>>> The former :-)
>>
>> It was a pretty rude shock to discover how bad NTSC VHS was when I
>> got here in the US.  At first I thought the machine was broken, but
>> alas, it was not to be. :-( What is really sad is when PAL tapes
>> still display better after having the video signal converted to
>> NTSC by a pretty marginal converted...  I wish I had a
>> multi-standard TV now. :-(
>
> Err..  In what way is PAL better then NTSC?  NTSC may have about 100
> lines less to scan, but it refreshes 10Hz faster then PAL. 

5 Hz.  30 Hz vs. 25 Hz.

> I used to work in a facility that had a lot of PAL dubbing... if I
> watched the PAL monitors for too long I would get a headache.  You
> can actually watch PAL flicker.
>
> I must still be missing something even after working in Television.

It's a thing called "resolution".  Is 800x600 better than 640x480?

Greg
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