Posted by Anim8rFSK on 02/01/07 19:08

In article <CLpwh.846572$R63.601948@pd7urf1no>,
"Stuart Miller" <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:

> "Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:ANIM8Rfsk-A865A2.18345731012007@news.phx.highwinds-media.com...
> > In article <D_6wh.832427$5R2.679581@pd7urf3no>,
> > "Stuart Miller" <stuart_miller@shaw.ca> wrote:
> >
> >> <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >> news:1170274597.382084.36170@k78g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> >> > For comparison other standards are:
> >> > 240 - VHS (ditto Betamax)
> >> > 330 - NTSC broadcast
> >> > 425 - laserdisc (ditto S-VHS)
> >> > 540 - DVD
> >> >
> >> > I was a bit surprised, but apparently the Electronics Industry
> >> > Association measures the resolution differently than one might
> >> > expect. They put a giant circle in the middle of the screen, count
> >> > the number of visible pixels across, and arrive at a number like "425
> >> > for laserdisc" or "540 for dvd". It seems counterintuitive, but
> >> > that's how it's done.
> >> >
> >> > I imagine if the DVD is severely compressed, the quality would drop
> >> > much lower than 540 (just as a VHS tape recorded in super-slow mode is
> >> > only ~120 across). 540 is the ideal, not the norm.
> >> >
> >> Even in optimal situations, there are two resolutions to consider.
> >> First is the signal. I had understood NTSC to be 525 each way, (for a
> >> video
> >> camera)
> >> Second is the display - there are regions of the signal ( top & bottom)
> >> which are not displayed on the screen
> >>
> >>
> >> So what you actually see is less than what is recorded. The technical
> >> sections of sites like digitalfaq explainm this properly.
> >>
> >> Stuart
> >
> > Stuart, allow me to introduce you to Troy Heagy, performance troll and
> > the self styled "most annoying man on usenet"
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > He's been busted in rec.arts.tv so many times that he's expanding his
> > net to other groups, like 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.
> >
> > He'll now scream that we're haters, and are stalking him, etc., etc.,
> > etc., and probably threaten legal action, yadda yadda yadda.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Killfile Troy Heagy in all (s)he-its many incarnations now:
> > Troy.Heagy@gmail.com,videonovels@yahoo.com
> > videonovels2010@yahoo.com,telenovels@yahoo.com,fred_h_haddad@yahoo.com
> > **DON'T FORGET THE NEWEST ONE>>> SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com
>
> Thanks for the 'heads up' - I have read the rest of this thread now
>
> Stuart

Sure thing. :)

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