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echo: aust_avtech
to: andrew clarke
from: Rod Gasson
date: 1996-08-28 11:36:00
subject: ntsc conversion

G'day andrew,



 ac> I understand picture quality degrades somewhat when an NTSC signal is

 ac> converted to PAL format.  Is this correct?  What causes the picture

 ac> quality to degrade?



A short, simple answer is:  PAL uses 625 lines per screen, NTSC only

uses 525 lines.



Cheers,

Rod



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