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Posted by AZ Nomad on 10/14/05 19:59
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 15:12:26 -0400, Jeff Rife <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote:
>I'm not sure where you learned to do math, but "old crappy NTSC" is about
>480x360 for a 16:9 picture. DVD (which is *good* NTSC) is 720x480 (with
>discs that are "enhanced for 16:9 TVs"). Both are interlaced.
>HDTV on disc can be 1920x1080 and progressive scan. That's 12 times as
>many pixels as "old crappy NTSC" and 6 times as many as DVD, plus you get
>progressive scan.
That's only true if you take those pixels and stretch them along a line.
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