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- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 11:54:54 -0600
- From: martin@datacomm.ucc.okstate.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: AT&T's COLOR Videophone With Motion
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- In a previous posting, Wayne Geiser was quoted as saying:
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- > we are trying to eventually get to THIRTY frames per
- > second. Thirty frames per second is the same as the number of
- > animation stills they use in cartooning. Supposedly, one cannot tell
- > the difference between live video and thirty frames per second video.
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- Standard NTSC television is thirty frames per second. There may be a
- bit of confusion, here, because each video frame is divided into two
- fields. The odd-numbered lines make up one field and the even lines
- follow, next. This produces a frame rate of thirty, but a field rate
- of 60 per second. Each field contains half the 525 scan lines,
- scanned such that they interlace. This makes the picture flicker less
- than it would if the entire image was scanned straight through from
- top to bottom.
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- The video systems used in much of the rest of the world are
- based on a 50HZ standard and contain 25 frames per second, scanned
- just like the NTSC frames. Movie projectors which interface to film
- chains have to do some fancy optical framing with their shutters to
- match the 24-frame per second film speed with television frame rates.
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- Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK
- O.S.U. Computer Center Data Communications Group
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