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From: h112706@assari.tut.fi (Herranen Henrik)
Newsgroups: comp.ivideodisc
Subject: Re: British vs American VCRs
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.163019.25949@assari.tut.fi>
Date: 7 Nov 90 16:30:19 GMT
References: <4695@dogie.macc.wisc.edu>
Organization: Tampere University of Technology
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In article <4695@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> hamilton@vms.macc.wisc.edu (Doug Hamilton) writes:
> PAL video has 600 lines of vertical resolution as opposed to NTSC's 525 
>lines. In addition, the color encoding for PAL is supposedly superior.

To be exact, PAL has 625 vertical lines opposed to NTSC's 525 lines.
But, PAL displays only 50 fields/s oppsed to NTSC's 60.

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