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Posted by moviePig on 04/11/07 17:11
On Apr 11, 9:29 am, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8R...@cox.net> wrote:
> In article <1176293676.713623.327...@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
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> "moviePig" <pwall...@moviepig.com> wrote:
> > On Apr 10, 9:33 am, "SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > moviePig wrote:
> > > > On Apr 9, 2:01 pm, "SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_t...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > > Horizontal Resolution (per picture height)
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> > > > > Standard 4:3 ratio:
> > > > > -------------------
> > > > > 240 standard VHS or Betamax
> > > > > 330 cable tv
> > > > > 400 S-VHS or laserdisc
> > > > > 540 DVD
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> > > > > Widescreen 16:9
> > > > > ---------------
> > > > > 405 DVD
> > > > > 720 HD 720p
> > > > > 1080 HD 1080i
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> > > > Afaics, those are actually *vertical* resolutions...
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> > > No. If you project the various technologies on a 16:9 screen, and
> > > draw a square on the display, those numbers represent how many pixels
> > > would fit inside the square (horizontally):
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> > Well, I'm no expert, and I don't doubt that you're getting at
> > *something* here, but, e.g.,...
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> > "1080p is the shorthand name for a category of video modes. The
> > number 1080 represents 1,080 lines of vertical resolution..."
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> > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p)
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> And he's even wrong about the 'square' part
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> pwallace, allow me to introduce you to Troy Heagy, performance troll and
> the self styled "most annoying man on usenet"
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> Troy posts under at least half a dozen names (see below) and his game is
> to create a thread that might otherwise be interesting, and introduce a
> deliberate mistake into it, and watch it fall apart with people arguing
> about his mistake instead the actual topic.
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> He's been busted in rec.arts.tv so many times that he's expanding his
> net to other groups, mostly sci-fi like Farscape, and technical ones
> like these. But he sets the cross posts to rec.arts.tv to show that
> he's still managing to annoy us here.
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> He'll now scream that we're haters, and are stalking him, etc., etc.,
> etc., and probably threaten legal action, yadda yadda yadda.
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> Oh, and he sends death threats to people that expose him like this, and
> then will claim they've been sending HIM death threats, and writing his
> boss and trying to get him fired, blah blah blah.
(Ah... Usenet as border town...)
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