From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 2:54: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (sydney.lemis.com [192.109.197.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3F837B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 02:53:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by sydney.worldwide.lemis.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0L2Bbe01493; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:11:37 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from grog) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 13:11:37 +1100 From: Greg Lehey To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: Rich Wales , 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> References: <20010119222212.10896.richw@wyattearp.stanford.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from doconnor@gsoft.com.au on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 12:26:50AM +1030 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 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 -- 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