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- From: gt080@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (David A. Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Frames Second (fps)
- Date: 13 Apr 1996 02:51:01 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- In a previous article, psheffield@earthlink.net (Patrick Sheffield) says:
- >>25 frames/sec. is fast enough to get a smooth motion (film uses 24fps) but
- >>NTSC has 100 lines less of resolution or so. I can always se when a TV-show
- >>has been converted from NTSC by the blurry image.
- >
- >Yes, there is less spatial resolution in NTSC, however the blurry image
- >probably results from frame averaging as a result of converting 30 fps to
- >25 fps.
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- Yeah, that's right. The same effect happens in the other direction, too:
- watch _Absolutely Fabulous_, _Are You Being Served?_, or any other British
- programme on US television (and hence in NTSC). They look worse (to me)
- than many American programmes look on British television (wrt picture
- quality, not necessarily content ;-).
-
- --
- Dave Harris
- gt080@cleveland.freenet.edu
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