That was very quickly replied to and very helpful. Thank you.

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Thanks - Great answer!

Thank you alexander-ga!  A lot of what you say makes sense.  I'm still
having trouble with a few things, so if you could please
confirm/correct the following I would be grateful:

1) A DTV (480p) and a standard NTSC TV have the same number of visible
lines?  Given an analog signal, a DTV looks better only because
progressive looks better to the eye than interlaced?

2) Progressive scan is just basically reverse 3-2 pulldown, in essence
"un-interlacing" the images and reverted them back to 24fps?

3) If the above is correct, how is this displayed on a 30fps TV?

4) Is a progressive scan DVD player pointless on a NTSC Television?

5) I'm still most confused on this concept, so please bear with my
thought process...

A DVD is 480i, the same as a standard TV.  However, the entire image
on the DVD isn't displayed on a standard TV because of a different
aspect ratio- nothing to do with resolution, correct?

But if you pop this 480i DVD into a 720p widescreen HDTV, the entire
picture on the DVD will be shown because the aspect ratio is similar-
not really anything to do with the extra scan lines, correct?  The
HDTV will then automatically do reverse 3-2 pulldown and show the DVD
progressively- but it still then only becomes 480p, while the HDTV is
720p- there are 240 lines left over.  The original image on the DVD is
480 lines, so there's no more of the original image to display.

I see it as taking an existing picture and just placing it on a bigger
canvas.  There's just going to be more 'whitespace' around the
picture, unless you enlarge the picture to fill more of the screen. 
But by enlarging it, isn't that like enlarging an image on your
computer, thereby reducing resolution by pixelation?

Thank you again, alexander.  I'm just trying to put all of this together.

ed

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Very Quickk and accurate, with a little trivia on the top.Perfect

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Sorry it took me so long to give a rating.  Thanks a lot.

This is a great answer. I hope my letter gets action at yahoo.

thank you for the research as well as the links for back up. i have
enough amunition to responsibly present my concerns.

Your answer is mostly helpful , alexander-ga.
 Very probably I will add an animated (slide show) sequence. Hopefully
that will help. The web-page is only a draft.
Thank you very much for your answer, contribution.

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A lot of this confirms some of my suspicions, and I eventually got the
vcr to record tivo shows, by connecting from the tivo out to the vcr
in, and viewing the vcr.

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100 %.  The man is a genius.  I had missed some instances where yahoo
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freely.  Thanks som much. I have messed with this thing for six weeks
and have had some folks with real computer know-how stumped.

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I love authoritative answers ... thanks again!

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Accurate, and an excellent teacher too. Thank you.

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Yes, I agree, plus some of the poses she adopts in the other photos on
that site make her look much more American than the ones in the photos
I had seen.

Thanks!

The answer was a hypothesis based on the available information on the
web.  However, I was hoping for an informed answer based on more
innate knowledge.

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Alexander answered my question thoroughly, and I ended up selecting
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