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Date:      Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:11:37 +1100
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        Rich Wales <richw@webcom.com>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   VHS quality (was: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c))
Message-ID:  <20010121131137.C1263@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010121002650.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:26:50AM %2B1030
References:  <20010119222212.10896.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> <XFMail.010121002650.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sunday, 21 January 2001 at  0:26:50 +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.

Check the specs of a typical vanilla VHS VCR, if you can find them.
This value looks about right. SVHS does better, but it's still less
than the PAL or NTSC standards can do.

Greg
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