From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 6:47:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6D1B37B69E; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:47:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0LElEk04073; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200101211447.f0LElEk04073@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: "Daniel O'Connor" , Rich Wales , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) In-Reply-To: <20010121023752.B63679@citusc17.usc.edu> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:47:14 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 :-) > > Kris 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. :-( Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message