Posted by Roy L. Fuchs on 02/06/06 03:38

On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 21:56:17 -0500, "Rich Clark"
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>"Roy L. Fuchs" <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote in message
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>> There are plenty of VERY GOOD video processors out there.
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>None of which can make NTSC video look like a computer display.

Bullshit. They are up to NS-5 now, and even my NS-2 puts out NTSC as
well as HDTV inputs to my PC monitor at 1280x1024 just fine.
Flawlessly in fact.
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>> Hahahaha... this makes no sense. Pixel shape? Sure.... OK.
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>Analog video has rectangular pixels. Computer displays have square pixels.
>"Pixel shape." Get it?

Yes, except it has nothing to do with signal content. The pixels
are fired by the electron gun and managed by the shadow mask, or
aperture grill(e).
Period.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_grille
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_mask

You are outside your realm of knowledge apparently, or you are making
something more complex than it is. Either way, your opinion seems to
be tainted by an experience with OLD technology.

Do you have a cite that describes anything about the signal managing
pixel shape? No, you cannot. Why? They manage scan lines and scan
line count... period. The signal content has NOTHING to do with pixel
shape.

You should refrain from making remarks based on a very old
technology with which you are familiar with, ie "scan converters". It
is not related to the modern version. Also, your knowledge of the
subject itself seems outdated. Reminds me of the old video cards that
could not put out to an HDTV monitor, despite having a DVI output.
You claim scan converters suck because you haven't even looked at one
since the crappy version you apparently experienced some years ago.
You need to look at them again, because they are fairly flawless these
days.

The viewsonic device I have here is MADE to put out to a VGA
monitor. It accepts several forms of input up to and including
progressive scan HDTV signaling. It converts them all just fine, and
does so quite precisely. It even has a cable tuner in it, so I think
it handles NTSC just fine.

Try again.

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