> > BTW: NTSC is a colour encoding system and
has nothing to do with TV
> > channel frequencies.
> Indeed, though it is often used (somewhat coloquially, I guess) to
> refer to the various frequency allocations per country, a la
>
http://hamradio.arc.nasa.gov/ntscfreq.html. Perhaps that's incorrect
> usage.
On Thu, 15 Dec 2011, Chuck Guzis wrote:
NTSC = National Television Systems Committee,
established in 1940
with the purpose of codifying the US national television system.
Broadcast color TV was perhaps only a glimmer in some inventor's eye
back then.
What NTSC were you referring to?
Never Twice the Same Color
(as opposed to Picture Always Lousy, and what DOES SECAM stand for?)
I've been using "almost-NTSC" to refer to the not-quite-meeting-standards
entire TV encoding protocol used by USA "home" computers' output for
display by ordinary USA analog TV sets. Sometimes subdivided into
"almost-NTSC RF" and "almost-NTSC composite" (should be called
"baseband"?)
Such usage is presumably wrong, and probably almost as offensive to those
who know better as calling ST506/ST412 compatible drives, "MFM drives".
What SHOULD such be called? (any answer that calls for an appellation
using a complete description longer than a line of text will be
thoroughly ignored :-)
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