Re: Adobe (Temporarily?) Kills 64-Bit Flash For Linux

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On Thursday 17 June 2010, Tim wrote:
>On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:47 -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote:
>> An inferior format, VHS, image qualitywise, yes
>
>No.  Have you actually compared them, or just repeating gossip?  I have.
>They were both as bad as each other, in general.  And when there was a
>difference, the Beta machines I've seen were worse.
>
And the ones I've seen (I am a retired broadcast engineer), the Betamax's 
made for the professional market, were far better than VHS in its wildest 
dreams if properly mechanically standardized so tape interchangeability was 
maintained.  That was a bit more difficult to maintain over time than some, 
so maintenance costs were maybe 10% higher.  Because the format was not the 
dominant format, sony wasn't so concerned with maintaining backwards 
compatibility, so the 'Beta' formats stds got tweaked several times with 
visible improvements each time.  The only time the vhs format was 'adjusted' 
was S-VHS, which was a decent improvement, but still had relatively poor 
noise levels.

No hands down better format than beta was done until dvc-pro, which was a 
fully digital format.  And I'll include the type C, and even the almost 
archeological 2" quadruplex machines in that group.  An optimized Ampex 
VR-1200 could make some very good (NTSC/PAL) video.

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