It looks razor-sharp on 4:3

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Post #64,340 by tseliot 11/21/02 5:01:53 PM Reply	It looks razor-sharp on 4:3 In contrast, the CGI portions look really-really bad(this includes any live action with CGI effects). This is a shame because the CGI looked sooo good when the series was aired. They took the 4:3 video source, cropped the top/bottom and then scaled the image to eliminate the black bars. On 4:3 the CGI is still letterboxed, but sharp. It's got the usual artifacts from being too sharp, sometimes :) Are you really running at 720p vertical or 480? Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #64,356 by SpiceWare 11/21/02 5:51:12 PM Reply	480p My set doesn't accept a 720p signal, my HD decoder converts ABC's 720p signal to 1080i. The conversion makes ABC shows softer looking than the other channels which use 1080i. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #64,365 by jb4 11/21/02 6:28:08 PM Reply	Waidaminnit... Spice, are you saying Babylon 5 is airing on ABC?!? When??? jb4 "They lead. They don't manage. The carrot always wins over the stick. Ask your horse. You can lead your horse to water, but you can't manage him to drink." Richard Kerr, United Technologies Corporation, 1990
Post #64,483 by tseliot 11/22/02 11:16:31 AM Reply	ahem [link\|http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00006HAZ4\|http://www.amazon.co...tail/-/B00006HAZ4] Some of us have been dozing, it seems... :) Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #64,484 by tseliot 11/22/02 11:19:52 AM Reply	So correct me but don't you have the lower vres? 480 < 525 That might explain the loss of letterboxing...? Many fears are born of stupidity and ignorance - Which you should be feeding with rumour and generalisation. BOfH, 2002 "Episode" 10
Post #64,666 by SpiceWare 11/23/02 8:48:13 PM Reply	NTSC's 525 isn't what's visible while NTSC has 525 "lines" of resolution, quite a few of those are not shown. [link\|http://www.udayton.edu/~cps/cps460/notes/displays/video_standards.html\|Video Standards] A standard American TV broadcast has 525 lines per frame, but only 480 lines or so are visible. About 10% or 45 lines are lost during vertical retrace. HDTV standards chose to use what's actually shown when specifying the format. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://home.houston.rr.com/spiceware/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore

How's Babylon 5 Season one on a normal TV? - (SpiceWare) - (7) - Nov. 21, 2002, 02:59:58 PM EST

It looks razor-sharp on 4:3 - (tseliot) - (5) - Nov. 21, 2002, 05:01:53 PM EST

480p - (SpiceWare) - (4) - Nov. 21, 2002, 05:51:12 PM EST

Waidaminnit... - (jb4) - (1) - Nov. 21, 2002, 06:28:08 PM EST

*ahem* - (tseliot) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:16:31 AM EST

So correct me but don't *you* have the lower vres? 480 < 525 - (tseliot) - (1) - Nov. 22, 2002, 11:19:52 AM EST

NTSC's 525 isn't what's visible - (SpiceWare) - Nov. 23, 2002, 08:48:13 PM EST

Getting the opposite effect now - (tseliot) - Nov. 28, 2002, 03:23:25 AM EST

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