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- Subject: Re: TV resolution?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.171855.1@ualr.edu>
- From: djlewis@ualr.edu
- Date: 17 Nov 92 17:18:55 GMT
- References: <1992Nov12.190043.1@mars.slu.edu> <Bxn4Jt.K2p@rahul.net> <1992Nov17.113157.12225@waikato.ac.nz>
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- In article <1992Nov17.113157.12225@waikato.ac.nz>, ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
- > 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;
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Lawrence D'Oliveiro fone: +64-7-856-2889
- > Computer Services Dept fax: +64-7-838-4066
- > University of Waikato electric mail: ldo@waikato.ac.nz
- > Hamilton, New Zealand 37^ 47' 26" S, 175^ 19' 7" E, GMT+13:00
- Truevision with their TARGA series pretty much set a defact frame grabber
- standard early on. 512x480 is full screen and there is a lessor mode for a
- black box around the video. Even 512x480 offers more than NTSC resolution when
- the capture is in 24bit colour.
-
- Don
- djlewis@ualr.edu
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