These days, kids identify them by the aspect ratio.

  • Hypersapien@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    People always said that Betamax was better quality than VHS. What never gets mentioned is that regular consumer TVs at the time weren’t capable of displaying the difference in quality. To the average person they were the same.

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      1 year ago

      You kinda can tell though. CRTs didn’t really use pixels, so it’s not like watching on today’s video equipment though

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          What they’re referring to is that analogue CRTs don’t really have a fixed horizontal resolution. The screen has a finite number of horizontal lines (i.e. rows) which it moves down through on a regular-timed basis, but as the beam scans across horizontally it can basically be continuous (limited by the signal and the radius of the beam). This is why screen resolutions are referred to by their vertical resolutions alone (e.g. 360p = 360 lines, progressive scan [as opposed to interlaced]).

          I’m probably wrong on the specifics, but that gives the gist and enough keywords to find a better explanation.

          [EDIT: A word.]

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      VHS was capable of not bad quality, people just had a lot bad equipment.

      Some TV shows (if they were crazy) were shot on film so you could re digitize them now in 4 or 8k and they’d look amazing. But there was also a lot of junk that was out there.

      And as others have mentioned if you do an awful job of digitizing it then you could take something that looked good and throw all of that quality away. But if the tape wasn’t stored in good condition then it could just struggle to be digitized in the first place when done properly.