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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 : Straker
Date : Sat Oct 01 2005 18:01:19

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

In article <1128176351.619715.6700@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
<electrictroy@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> .
> 
> 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.

I think he's confusing 525 scan lines with 525 lines of horizontal
resolution.

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