From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 15:47:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574FC37B401; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:47:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (dialup1143.brussels.skynet.be [194.78.232.119]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49B2DEE8; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:47:13 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: bs663385@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:32:14 +0100 To: Kris Kennaway , Jason Halbert From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Cc: Peter Wemm , Kris Kennaway , "Daniel O'Connor" , Rich Wales , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2:50 PM -0800 2001/1/21, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I've never noticed the refresh rate, but the quality of picture is > *noticeably* higher for PAL. I've had two US friends express > unprompted amazement at seeing the resolution and picture quality of > stuff taped from australian TV, for example (on my large, multi-system > TV ;-). Sure, any system that is displaying a converted format on a display device (such as NTSC on a native PAL TV) will always look worse than the native format on that same display device. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message