Re: TV attached to PC?

In article <tF6sD+JOVUlEFAW3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Trevor Wright
wrote:
No it does not, that was a marketing term (in much the same way as
'PVR is), "Vertical Helical Scan" is the correct and original
meaning.

Strange. I've been working with the things for 30 years or more and
have *never* heard that one. A quick check reveals that Wikipedia seems
to agree with you, but I wonder where they get their information from?

What's suposed to be "vertical" about it that wouldn't also be vertical
in any other helical scan system?

What VHS stands for wasn't the point of my post. My point was about
language, not technology. Language is conventional; things mean what we
agree that they mean. Their literal meaning isn't the point.

Yes, words mean what everybody agrees that they mean, but in the case of
new technical language there's usually some attempt to be descriptive about
what the new technology does. Also, inventors or first marketers usually
get naming rights by default, so there's no need to wait for a consensus to
emerge - they just call the new thing what they want to call it and
everybody accepts that as the name of it.

So why would they call their invention "vertical" if there wasn't anything
vertical about it? There must be many other words that could be used if the
intention was to impress.

Rod.

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