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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.video
Subject: Re: Re: Videophiles
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Date: Sat, 11-May-85 15:54:36 EDT
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> I own both a laserdisk player and a VCR.  I used to buy movies on tape,
> but no more.  The sound on laserdisk is great, the picture is much
> better (laserdisk holds more scan lines per frame than does tape), and
> the movies are MUCH cheaper ... typically $30 versus $60.

Sorry to tell you this, but the number of scan lines of all NTSC format
machines is 525 (262.5/field).  What you are thinking of is the horizontal
resolution, which is the maximum number of vertical lines that could be drawn
on the tv screen and still be able to see them.
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              |------------|     VHS Hi-Fi (the only way to go)
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