Panrock wrote:....Volker could bring his two 80-line discs over with him when he visits Britain, that is - if he finds it convenient. Steve
Hmm..interesting. I thought that Steve O (Panrock) was out there on his own going to 80 lines, but it appears that Volker is too. Is this slowly developing into a 'high-definition' version of NBTV I wonder?
If so, I'm all in favor of it and especially Steve's adoption of the 4:3 'widescreen' aspect ratio.
For some months now I have been considering going to 48 lines....no big deal one thinks...but with a 4:3 aspect ratio. *People start fidgeting.* ...and here's the crunch.... using left-to-right/top-to-bottom scanning as in conventional TV, similar to the German mechanical system. *An uproar starts.*
In monochrome this fits very neatly into the bandwidth of an audio CD or a .wav file sampled at 48kHz. However in view of the work done by the gents mentioned I'm getting very tempted to follow in their footsteps.
I know there will be those that say it's nothing like what Baird did, well not quite, I think he went on to far higher resolutions, I believe up to 240 lines. These were never transmitted (at least to the general public), but it shows he realised the shortcomings of 30-line TV.
This would be an adjuct to the existing 32-line system, not to surplant it.
Many years ago I remember reading about MDTV, (Medium Definition TV), not sure what happened to it.
Feedback gents.......
Steve A.