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<blockquote data-quote="technologist" data-source="post: 181174" data-attributes="member: 4134"><p>That's exactly the problem. Ordinary, standard-definition TV <em>is</em> all grainy and pixellated. Numerically speaking, standard US NTSC televisions are capable of about 480 visible vertical lines of resolution. European PAL televisions show about 570 lines. (Which explains why <strong>timswim78</strong> dosn't mind it as much...he has 19% more to work with on his PAL TV)</p><p></p><p>Those 480-line cable TV signals look awful on a plasma TV with 768 lines of vertical resolution.</p><p></p><p>On the flipside, trying to squeeze a computer display into 480 lines makes for a poor experience. (It's actually much worse than the numbers show, because SD TVs aren't really built to show discrete horizontal "pixels" at all.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="technologist, post: 181174, member: 4134"] That's exactly the problem. Ordinary, standard-definition TV [i]is[/i] all grainy and pixellated. Numerically speaking, standard US NTSC televisions are capable of about 480 visible vertical lines of resolution. European PAL televisions show about 570 lines. (Which explains why [b]timswim78[/b] dosn't mind it as much...he has 19% more to work with on his PAL TV) Those 480-line cable TV signals look awful on a plasma TV with 768 lines of vertical resolution. On the flipside, trying to squeeze a computer display into 480 lines makes for a poor experience. (It's actually much worse than the numbers show, because SD TVs aren't really built to show discrete horizontal "pixels" at all.) [/QUOTE]
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