Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:47:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "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: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20010121023752.B63679@citusc17.usc.edu>
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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 :-) > > Kris 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. :-( Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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