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worker201:
Actually, according to my information, you're both wrong.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html
this says that NTSC is 704x480 @~30fps. Widescreen format is 720x480. Or, for lower resolution, cut each number in half: 352x240 or 360x240.
Lead Head:
ok, standard def TVs are 352x240. Thats why when you connect your computer upto a standared def TV it always looks crap even if you set it at 640x480.
Refalm:
--- Quote from: Lead Head ---ok, standard def TVs are 352x240. Thats why when you connect your computer upto a standared def TV it always looks crap even if you set it at 640x480.
--- End quote ---
Whenever I connect my PC to my tv, the maximum resolution is 1024x768 at 60 Hz. Maybe it's because I have PAL instead of NTSC?
Aloone_Jonez:
Yes, NTSC is shit, I think its limit is 640x480 and PAL is 800x600, I wonder how you got 1024x768?
Your PC always looks shit on a TV because the picture is much bigger and the tube is of a lower quality than most monitors.
skyman8081:
I study video engineering let me clear some stuff up.
NTSC is 720 x 480 interlaced frames at 60Hz, This framterate was picked because the AC power in the US cycles at 60Hz. The pixels on an NTSC TV are not square like the ones on your computer monitor. They are slightly skinny, widescreen TV is the same, but the pixels are simply wider than they are tall
PAL, on the other hand is 525 lines, but at 50Hz, a ower framerate, again, because the UK and Europe AC power cycles at 50 Hz. PAL uses a very interesting solution for widescreen broadcast. They use a system called PAL Plus, in which widescreen content is broadcasted letterboxed, BUT with extra data in the space that the letterboxes use, thus when a PAL Plus receiver is used, the box will take that data to fill in the information that would otherwise be lost in the cropping procedure. This system is not as widely used anymore as it once was, however.
I'm not going to go into SECAM, because nobody uses it anymore.
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