Posted by Anim8rFSK on 04/24/07 03:30

In article <JGzD1D.xJL@wjv.com>, bv@wjv.com (Bill Vermillion) wrote:

> In article <1176212181.089168.277300@b75g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>,
> SFTVratings <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >Bill Vermillion wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Horizontal Resolution (per picture height)
> >> >> Standard 4:3 ratio:
> >> >> -------------------
> >> >> 240 - standard VHS or Betamax
> >> And about 300 - Super Beta.
> >>
> >> >> 330 - cable tv
> >> >> 400 - S-VHS or laserdisc
> >> And about 525 - Extended Defintion Beta.
> >
> >No 500. Super Beta and ED beta were failed standards (only on the
> >market for ~2 years), so that's why I did not include them.
> >
> >> >> 540 DVD
>
> A late followup. I have Super-Beta on my SL-1000s.
>
> I also just got a model 900 - from a friend who was tossing it
> because it ate tapes [sounds like a brake problem] and it too
> has Super-Beta. The Super-Beta-I was pretty much limited to the
> 1000s, but the Super-Beta mode was in earlier models. The
> introduction of the comb-filter to extend the chroma to pretty much
> the full bandwidth of broadcast did make a big difference.
>
> Super-Beta was just an extension while ED really was a failed
> standard - but wonderful to look at.
>
> I also searched and found the SL-750 also has Super-Beta. That was
> a neat machine with a tray-loading magazine.
>
> And thinking about this later my NEC 75 [or was it 70] also
> had Super-Beta I - a 'mahvelous' picture. In some respects it
> was better than the Sony in features - with the timer being
> able to use one of the two video inputs in addition to the
> standard TV channels, while the Sony only worked with the
> TV channels.
>
> Bill

As usual, in all things and in all ways, Troy is of course wrong.
Super-Beta was introduced in 1985, and lasted into the 1990s in the US
market. So at least 5 years, perhaps as many as 8.

Bill, 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 of 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, 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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