[mythtv-users] Re: Re: Best video capture resolution for output to TV?

[Bruce Markey]

Mike Frisch wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 08:39:29AM -0700, Ray Olszewski wrote:
> 
>>Please forgive my confusion here ...but in what sense does NTSC even *have* 
>>a horizontal "resolution"?
> 
> 
> It must have a horizontal resolution when it's being stored in a digital
> medium.  Look at DVD, for example.

A DVD or MythTV file or any digital recording has to have
a horizontal sample resolution. However, television signals
are analog. The amplitude ramps up and down with no specific
digital rate. Ray is correct that *NTSC* does not have a
horizontal resolution.

--  bjm