Posted by Anim8rFSK on 04/11/07 13:29

In article <1176293676.713623.327350@d57g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
"moviePig" <pwallace@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)
> >
> > > > Standard 4:3 ratio:
> > > > -------------------
> > > > 240 standard VHS or Betamax
> > > > 330 cable tv
> > > > 400 S-VHS or laserdisc
> > > > 540 DVD
> >
> > > > Widescreen 16:9
> > > > ---------------
> > > > 405 DVD
> > > > 720 HD 720p
> > > > 1080 HD 1080i
> >
> > > Afaics, those are actually *vertical* resolutions...
> >
> > 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):
>
> Well, I'm no expert, and I don't doubt that you're getting at
> *something* here, but, e.g.,...
>
> "1080p is the shorthand name for a category of video modes. The
> number 1080 represents 1,080 lines of vertical resolution..."
>
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080p)

And he's even wrong about the 'square' part

pwallace, 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, 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

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