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- From: ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University)
- Newsgroups: comp.multimedia
- Subject: Re: TV resolution?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.113157.12225@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 11:31:57 +1300
- References: <1992Nov12.190043.1@mars.slu.edu> <Bxn4Jt.K2p@rahul.net>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- In article <Bxn4Jt.K2p@rahul.net>, jonathan@rahul.net (Jonathan Heiliger) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov12.190043.1@mars.slu.edu> jesse@mars.slu.edu writes:
- >
- >>What is the resolution of normal NTSC TVs?
- >
- > NTSC is an analog format with a total of 525 lines. However only 485 lines
- > are active. The most universal is about 648x485 pixels;
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- Most video digitizers I've come across seem to prefer to give you 640*480
- resolution when grabbing frames from an NTSC source. I guess they're just
- rounding it to a more convenient number. Or perhaps there's some standard
- allowance in there for overscan.
-
- > and NTSC cycles at approximately 59.94Hz.
-
- I heard that the original black-and-white NTSC was 60Hz, and that the frame
- rate was lowered slightly to accommodate the colour signal--probably a question
- of avoiding interference between integer multiples of different frequencies.
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