From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jan 22 10:34:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B176B37B401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:34:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MIaxc91107; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:36:59 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Brad Knowles Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <20010122103659.A90890@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> <20010121155556.B75159@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:03:12AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 01:03:12AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:55 PM -0800 2001/1/21, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 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) >=20 > I've got a multi-system TV, too. Trust me, there's always a=20 > "native" format, and a converted format. Since most multi-system=20 > video devices seem to come from Europe, they would naturally be=20 > "native" PAL or SECAM format, and NTSC would be the converted format. Regardless, this doesn't affect the situation I was talking about: my two independent subjects were comparing the quality of PAL video on my TV (which is actually sub-optimal quality because of very slight display artefacts in the picture tube) with their experience of NTSC on presumably similar-quality NTSC equipment. Kris -- NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6bH3LWry0BWjoQKURArSKAKDDdORW8omvLoctFdjO867vxrL+fgCg5nZX sNvy5cYG5g//8mcj16j+2ZI= =8UF6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message