From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 15:53:18 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 8B36437B404 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:53:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0LNtu475214; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:55:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 15:55:56 -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: <20010121155556.B75159@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> <20010121145018.A73989@citusc17.usc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from brad.knowles@skynet.be on Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:32:14AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:32:14AM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 2:50 PM -0800 2001/1/21, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > > 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 ;-). >=20 > Sure, any system that is displaying a converted format on a=20 > display device (such as NTSC on a native PAL TV) will always look=20 > worse than the native format on that same display device. 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) Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ 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 iD8DBQE6a3cLWry0BWjoQKURAgK5AKDz+PhhLlKS+uKcmTYYm08T0s7trQCeK3hH mETRhPdG7d5Hz/rxchU9U5I= =J1Yc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i0/AhcQY5QxfSsSZ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message