"Noons" wrote in message
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Alan Browne wrote,on my timestamp of 28/02/2010 7:10 AM:

It's because you are applying the wrong definition that most people
won't agree with this.

At some point somebody used the term analog for film and it caught on
like wildfire. That doesn't make it "right".

You watch: next he's gonna tell us that film grain is the same as
pixels...
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Well, yes. Of course. Those little itsy bitsy bits of silver halide are
either fully developed or totally undeveloped. Not a single, solitary one
in any kind of between or betwixt state. A binary based imagery system film
is, it clearly not being an analog imagery system according to him.

hmmm...film is not digital? Well, what is the antonym - the opposite - of
digital? You know - if something is not digital, then it is..... Well,
son of a gun!!!

Antonyms of "digital":

from The Free Dictionary http://www.thefreedictionary.com/digital
analog, analogue, linear - of a circuit or device having an output that is
proportional to the input; "analogue device"; "linear amplifier"

from Synonym.com http://www.synonym.com/antonym/digital/
analogue (vs. digital), analog, linear

from Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/digital
Computing Dictionary entry -
digital data...A description of data which is stored or transmitted as a
sequence of discrete symbols from a finite set, most commonly this means
binary data represented using electronic or electromagnetic signals.
The opposite is analogue.
Science Dictionary entry -
digital...2. Computer Science Representing or operating on data or
information in numerical form. A digital clock uses a series of changing
digits to represent time at discrete intervals, for example, every second.
Modern computers rely on digital processing techniques, in which both data
and the instructions for manipulating data are represented as binary
numbers. Compare analog.

from WordWeb Online Lookup http://www.wordwebonline.com/search.pl?w=digital
analogue

from Big Huge Theraurus http://words.bighugelabs.com/digital
analogue

from hyperdictionary http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/digital
Wordnet entry -
Antonyms: analog, analogue, linear