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- From: oddhs@sn.no (Odd H. Sandvik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 5 Mar 1996 18:04:46 +0100
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4hhs7e$p92@sinsen.sn.no>
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- Patrick Sheffield (psheffield@earthlink.net) wrote:
- : PM>> America has NTSC for video
- : PM>> Europe has the higher-resolution PAL
-
- : I'm not going to comment on the rest of your drivel, but being a video guy I
- : must point out that PAL is not technologically superior to NTSC, it uses the
- : same bandwidth, all it does is trade frame resolution for frame rate. Instead
- : of the /superior/ 30 fps (60 fields), it uses 25 fps (50 fields), thus
- : resulting in a noticable flicker in PAL monitors. This tradeoff allows a
- : higher resolution on individual frames...
-
- : no big whup...
-
- NTSC = Never Twice The Same Color ;-)
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