OT: discussion on TV frequency history, was RE: [MPlayer-users] R e: which deinterlace filter

[Joseph N. Hall]

Rich,

You can probably find the answers to any and all questions
you have ever had about the history of video as it pertains
to reasonably contemporary (if not the very newest) digital 
processes in Watkinson's classic Art of Digital Video:

  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/024051369X

The Art of Digital Audio is good, also, but there are a few
reasonably good alternatives.

  -joseph

p.s. Top-posting flames are rather 20th Century.  :-/