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   Scott Freeman to Peter Chant   
   Re: Red Dwarf on HD/Blu-Ray   
   12 Aug 08 23:57:35   
   
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   "Peter Chant"  wrote in message   
   news:v539n5x2ho.ln2@phoenix.fire...   
   > Scott Freeman wrote:   
   >   
   >>> It's quite likely that most of Red Dwarf was shot on 1-inch open-reel   
   >>> videotape, either Type B or Type C. These videotape reels certainly do   
   >>> have a horizontal scanline resolution. Type B recorded at 625   
   >>> scanlines for PAL output.   
   >>   
   >> Ah.  Yes that makes sense now you mention it.  It would have been   
   >> electromagnetically encoded for old CRTs.   
   >   
   > Or they could just have recorded it on video tape...   
      
   Hmm.. I sense we are swimming around like a seal missing a flipper.   
      
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