Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!necntc!ames!amdahl!bnrmtv!perkins From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins) Newsgroups: rec.video,comp.graphics Subject: Re: Consumer-Grade Single-Frame VTR's Message-ID: <2115@bnrmtv.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Jul-87 17:58:24 EDT Article-I.D.: bnrmtv.2115 Posted: Tue Jul 7 17:58:24 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 11:47:35 EDT References: <846@ssc-bee.ssc-vax.UUCP> <180@cerebus.UUCP> <339@astroatc.UUCP> Organization: BNR Inc., Mountain View, California Lines: 12 Keywords: minor correction Xref: mnetor rec.video:1396 comp.graphics:908 In article <339@astroatc.UUCP>, philm@astroatc.UUCP (Phil Mason) writes: > If eight identical frames is the smallest unit you can write on the > tape, you get an effective 7.5 frames per second - not very impressive That should be 3.75 frames per second; NTSC provides 30 frames per second, as alternating (even/odd scan lines) half-frames each 1/60th of a second long. -- {hplabs,amdahl,3comvax}!bnrmtv!perkins --Henry Perkins It is better never to have been born. But who among us has such luck? One in a million, perhaps.