28 May
2010
28 May
'10
12:04 p.m.
Ah, here is where we get into muddyness.
In the US, we started with NTSC (later called RS-170). NTSC Television or
the NTSC System or simply NTSC is a television transmission scheme that
includes scan rates, lines, channels, etc. NTSC met again and created what
is sometimes referred to as NTSC-II (NTSC with color, RS170A) which includes
all of NTSC (modified as needed) as well as a color encoding system. Then
we got NTSC-III which is essentially the same thing as NTSC-II but adjusts
the color space and some minor details.
In Europe, they had System-[letter] to define the line rate, frame rate,
channels, etc. They simply added a PAL or SECAM (or no) color encoding
scheme but kept the system name. They refer to these systems as
PAL-[letter] or SECAM-[letter] so that you have PAL-B instead of "System B
with PAL colour encoding"
Japan decided to use the NTSC-II (or was it already III at that point?)
system but to change the black level to be 0 IRE instead of 7.5 IRE.
Someone decided to start referring to this as NTSC-J.
Later, someone decided that the US should have a letter too. Let's make it
M! Yes! NTSC-M works! (I have no clue whose idea this was, but it makes a
mess of the whole NTSC nomenclature)
Then we got digital recording. Recordings with NTSC-compatible D1 decks
(remember, the ins and outs were still analog and everything had to be in
tight tolerance to make this work) were referred to as NTSC-D1, recordings
with PAL-compatible 625-line-25-fps-system decks then started getting
referred to as "PAL-D1" (ugh... here we go with messy nomenclature again)
Then DV came along. Digital in, digital out, mangled formats ("NTSC-DV" and
"PAL-DV") that have absolutely no bearing on what color encoding comes out
of a deck and the "NTSC-DV" version of which didn't record all visible scan
lines...
Anyway, what you are looking for doesn't exist. Just call it "NTSC Color"
and you'll be better off than these and many, many, many other (don't get me
started on DVDs) misnomers.
Eric