Sunday, June 25, 2006

Here is a question that has bothered me for some time and I have never really had a forum to ask it. It is brought upon my watching the soccer match between England and Ecuador. Why is video that originates in Europe so much hazier than video that originates in the US. Is it the metric system?

One other soccer question:
What is the highest scoring world cup game ever 5-4?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

1954 -- Austria 7, Switzerland 5

Anonymous said...

Europe uses a raster scanning system called PAL and the US uses one called NTSC. The conversion is require and done electronicly because the PAL system has more lines than the NTSC system. The process is not lossless, hence the degradation.