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- From: D P Marshall <D.P.Marshall@durham.ac.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 6 Mar 1996 18:28:05 -0000
- Organization: University of Durham, Durham, UK
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- In article <577.6331T57T338@earthlink.net>,
- Patrick Sheffield <psheffield@earthlink.net> wrote:
- >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...
-
- And also PAL uses a better colour-encoding method meaning that your TVs
- need large amounts of signal processing logic to get what is still very
- poor colour reproduction.
-
- Dave
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