From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 15:45:46 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 F22D337B401; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id A6AE56AC18; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:15:24 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 10:15:24 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jason Halbert Cc: Peter Wemm , Kris Kennaway , Daniel O'Connor , Rich Wales , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <20010122101524.I93049@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> 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 Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 03:36:52PM -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 Sunday, 21 January 2001 at 15:36:52 -0000, Jason Halbert wrote: > (missing attribution to Peter Wemm) >> 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 :-) >> >> 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. :-( > > Err.. In what way is PAL better then NTSC? NTSC may have about 100 > lines less to scan, but it refreshes 10Hz faster then PAL. 5 Hz. 30 Hz vs. 25 Hz. > I used to work in a facility that had a lot of PAL dubbing... if I > watched the PAL monitors for too long I would get a headache. You > can actually watch PAL flicker. > > I must still be missing something even after working in Television. It's a thing called "resolution". Is 800x600 better than 640x480? 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