Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 00:58:54 -0000 From: "Jason Halbert" <res02jw5@gte.net> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Brad Knowles" <brad.knowles@skynet.be> Cc: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) Message-ID: <KAECKEJJOLGHAFGGNIKMKEMICAAA.res02jw5@gte.net> In-Reply-To: <20010122104232.M93049@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Hmm... I'm thinking cheap is the reason I don't see a difference. I don't have any cheap equipment at my house or the station I work for. All my monitors are broadcast standard quality which is several cuts above consumer. I use a broadband demodulator thats used in broadcast. Maybe that's why I don't notice. --- ----------------------------------------------------------- | 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 Greg Lehey Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 00:13 To: Brad Knowles Cc: Kris Kennaway; freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VCD (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ata atapi-cd.c) On Monday, 22 January 2001 at 1:03:12 +0100, Brad Knowles wrote: > At 3:55 PM -0800 2001/1/21, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> 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) > > I've got a multi-system TV, too. Trust me, there's always a > "native" format, and a converted format. Since most multi-system > video devices seem to come from Europe, they would naturally be > "native" PAL or SECAM format, and NTSC would be the converted > format. Look at the circuitry of a TV. You have one or more decoders which convert the incoming composite stream into RGB and sync pulses. Beyond that point they're as system-dependent as the monitor in front of you. The decoders themselves are so cheap that you'd think it would be easier to build multisystem VCRs. > I'm quite certain that if I hooked up a splitter from the VCR > or the DVD player and put the same video signal on both TVs, it > would look better on the true native NTSC format television than > they would on the one that has its own built-in NTSC/PAL converter. Well, you could try, but even then it would be a comparison between individual devices. Greg -- 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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