From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 17:24:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E5437B400; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:24:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 59E296AC18; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:54:16 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:54:16 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Halbert Cc: Brad Knowles , Kris Kennaway , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <20010122115416.G3066@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010122104232.M93049@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from res02jw5@gte.net on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:58:54AM -0000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 0:58:54 -0000, Jason Halbert wrote: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 > On Monday, January 22, 2001 00:13, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 1:03:12 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: >>> At 3:55 PM -0800 2001/1/21, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> >>>> It's a multi-system TV which does NTSC and PAL natively. No >>>> conversion is involved (unless I tell my VCR to convert from NTSC >>>> to PAL, in which case there IS degradation) >>> >>> I've got a multi-system TV, too. Trust me, there's always a >>> "native" format, and a converted format. Since most multi-system >>> video devices seem to come from Europe, they would naturally be >>> "native" PAL or SECAM format, and NTSC would be the converted >>> format. >> >> Look at the circuitry of a TV. You have one or more decoders which >> convert the incoming composite stream into RGB and sync pulses. >> Beyond that point they're as system-dependent as the monitor in front >> of you. The decoders themselves are so cheap that you'd think it >> would be easier to build multisystem VCRs. >> >>> I'm quite certain that if I hooked up a splitter from the VCR >>> or the DVD player and put the same video signal on both TVs, it >>> would look better on the true native NTSC format television than >>> they would on the one that has its own built-in NTSC/PAL converter. >> >> Well, you could try, but even then it would be a comparison between >> individual devices. > > Hmm... I'm thinking cheap is the reason I don't see a difference. I > don't have any cheap equipment at my house or the station I work for. > All my monitors are broadcast standard quality which is several cuts > above consumer. I use a broadband demodulator thats used in > broadcast. > > Maybe that's why I don't notice. This is the second reply I have had from you (the first was a private reply) where I don't know what you're referring to. Can't you interleave your reply with the text you're referring to (and remove the rest)? Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message