nitpick: discrete vs. digital

[Brett Porter]

At 04:20 PM 12-07-96 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, David L. Pelovitz wrote:
>
>> I can't help but think that the television/film division is reinforcing
>> a larger analog/digital division in Pynchon's work.  After all, film is
>> digital, operating at 24 fps with absolute demarcations.
>
>Just to nitpick a little more, video and TV signals are as discrete (or
>"digital") as film, the difference being in the number of frames (or
>half-frames) 25 or 30 depending on signal format.

Just to nitpick your nitpick, NTSC video is 29.97 frames per second (aka
"drop frame")

BgP
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