"Dave Plowman (News)" wrote in message
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In article ,
George wrote:
Shouldn't that be...the scan lines rather than the image size? ie 420
lines will give a poor image as opposed to 625 lines will give you TV
quality

Not so - all the very worst quality early VHS camcorders do 625 lines.
Producing dreadful low res pictures. You need a good frequency response as
well if talking broadcast analogue - up to about 5.5 mHz.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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Yes well,you're talking Svhs there ie luminance carrier. :-)