17 Mar
2015
17 Mar
'15
9:24 a.m.
On Mar 17, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Mouse <mouse at
Rodents-Montreal.ORG> wrote:
Sounds right to me. NTSC is the standards body. When people refer to NTSC as a color
encoding scheme, that?s a shorthand for ?the color TV standard defined by the NTSC?.
> I'm trying to understand at a low level
how some early computers and
> game consoles generated a non-standard form of NTSC. [...]
This has absolutely *nothing* to do with NTSC or
PAL (or SECAM or
whatever). NTSC etc. are colour encoding standards and don't
describe in any way how a image signal is generated (fields, syncs,
timing). [...]
You might want to update Wikipedia, then; its article on NTSC begins
its second paragraph with
The first NTSC standard was developed in 1941 and had no provision for
color. The PAL article, though, _does_ say it's a colour
encoding scheme;
SECAM too.
And indeed those two acronyms name a particular color transmission mechanism.
paul