Re: [hylafax-users] Going through recent archives....

[An Intrepid HylaFax User <hylafax@xxxxxxxxx>]

> There's metric and inch-based resolutions.  For the metric resolutions 
> (normal, fine) you need to examine them with metric values for them to 
> make any sense.

Actually, that wouldn't make them any more rational... since converting
metric<->inches is just a constant factor, which comes out in the wash.  The
ratio of vres to hres would still be "strange".

Anyway, I'm sure the ITU had some bizarre "reasons" for it.

> Not recent at all (ten years old, maybe?)... but these standards take a 
> while to get into manufacture and usage.  And increasing resolution 
> increases time off-hook, and that increases phone bills, and such 
> things are hard to sell.

Fair enough.

=R=



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