Posted by Alpha on 10/15/05 02:43

"AZ Nomad" <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

This may be the stupidest attempt at an answer ever witnessed. Stupid.

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