From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jan 21 16:50:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1pub.verizon.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80ECE37B400; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from next (crtntx1-ar3-098-023.dsl.gtei.net [4.33.98.23]) by smtppop1pub.verizon.net with SMTP ; id SAA52050945 Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:44:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Jason Halbert" To: "Brad Knowles" , "Kris Kennaway" , "Jason Halbert" Cc: "Peter Wemm" , "Kris Kennaway" , "Daniel O'Connor" , "Rich Wales" , Subject: RE: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:49:59 -0000 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Err.. no. We did PAL production. Not conversion. I know what PAL looks like. I don't think it's any better looking then NTSC. --- ----------------------------------------------------------- | Jason P. Halbert | jason@jason-n3xt.org | | Transmitter Maintenance Engineer | DALnet: Push^Pop | | KC5WEG | ICQ#: 86637300 | | KDAF-TV/DT WB 33/32 | (214) 252-3300 | |---------------------------------------------------------| | Experts know more and more about less and less. | | http://jason-n3xt.org | ----------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brad Knowles Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 23:32 To: Kris Kennaway; 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) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message