Re: uninstallation

["P.A. Petricone" <petrico@ixc.net>]

Once again, Mitch, where is there a reference to one single standard?

For consumers, NTSC is US, Japan Korea and some other rim countries, SECAM -
France and some of it's territories, PAL, elsewhere. There are a number of
studio standards and variants along with relatively simple ways to translate
from one to the other without fiddling with DLLs or INITS. Consumer systems
are available that utilize all three, if you need it.

Enough with this, what is your problem with standard setting?

-pap



-----Original Message-----
From: Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <am-info@essential.org>
Date: Monday, January 26, 1998 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: uninstallation


|In reply to P.A. Petricone's message sent 1/26/98 1:18 PM:
|
|>The way I read it, it looks to me as though you made the VCR analogy to
|>the PC
|>on your own. I am fairly familiar with their similarities and distinctions
|>and
|>was thinking of neither. The science of computers for consumers is still a
|>long way from the level of maturity where a "VCR Vhs Beta" war can happen.
|>That
|>conflict would not have even taken place when it did were there not global
|>analog video standards for them to rely on.
|
|Quite possibly. I hear this analogy frequently, and am perhaps too
|prepared to respond to it. For the record, no single global analog video
|standard exists. There are in fact three distinct standards: NTSC, PAL
|and SECAM.
|
|   Mitch Stone
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