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Subj : Re: TNG vs TOS - anybody still think Next Generation sucks?
To   : rec.arts.sf.tv,rec.arts.startrek.current,alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From : electrictroy
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 08:19:11

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos


Mike wrote:
> electrictroy@gmail.com wrote:
> > I thought TV studios of the late 80s/early 90s had video machines
> > capable of recording the full 525 lines?  No loss.
> >
> Broadcast TV is limited by the bandwidth signal to around 330 lines of
> horizontal resolution. 80's era Analog broadcast video is around 400 and
> has more than enough quality for broadcast television. Technical
> equipment might be (and always might have been) capable of 525 lines but
> it doesn't mean stuff is broadcast that way.

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Yes, but if the TV studio's high-end recorders were capable of
recording (and mastering) in 525 horizontal, then the tapes should be
525.  How would the editors downgrade the equipment to record only 400?
 I don't see how that's possible.

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I'm curious to see what will be done with HD-DVD.  I would be really
annoyed if, in order to fill the full wide-screen monitor, they cut off
the top and bottom of the video.  The proper format would use black
bars on the left & rgiht.

troy

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