Re: Why Buy a Converter?

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> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:50:43 -0500 Bruce Tomlin
<bruce#fanboy.net@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> | In article <Xns9A8E82735395Fjyanikkuanet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> | Jim Yanik <jyanik@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> | 
> |> >> All the CSI shows.
> |> great shows,but short on real practices. they always show Florida
cars as 
> |> having TWO license plates[we have only ONE],get DNA results in less
than a 
> |> day,talk about Florida guns being "registered" to an owner;FL has no
gun 
> |> registration.
> | 
> | ...and even if you accept that they had registration, when you look up
a 
> | gun by its SERIAL NUMBER, the computer's flashy LCARS-style interface 
> | has to slowly flip through pages of data on unrelated people before 
> | finding a match.
> | 
> | Do they do that "infinitely zoomable videotape" cliche in CSI? I 
> | remember a cop show a while back where they zoomed in on a video to
look 
> | into the side mirror of a car to identify someone's face.
> 
> I've seen some worse.  Not only did they zoom in like that from video,
but
> they still had crystal clear high definition quality.  Yeah right.

It hadda be hi-def, we seen it rat cheer onna big screen teevee.


> 
> Potentially a LOT of similar frames of the same view can enhance the
definition
> and make zooming in deeper more feasible.  But they don't generally have
any of
> that advantage in what they really get in forensics.  Usually they get
cheap
> video from cheap lenses.  I have yet to see HD in the security camera
market.
> 


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jer
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