In message , Volker Kerkhoff
writes
w4jle wrote:

If you go to Europe, you go nuts for the first few days getting used to the
flicker as they use a 50Hz refresh rate.

If a european ever goes to the US or far east he'll posibly go nuts
over one of the main features of the NTSC color system, AKA as "Not
Twice Same Colors"

;-)

73,

Volker



Not really true, surely?

There is 'something' about NTSC compared with PAL. However, I've never
seen bad colo(u)r on NTSC sets which was not mainly due to poor signal
quality anyway, and where PAL would probably been the same.

These days, don't they transmit the correct colours as a reference in
the vertical interval, and the set uses (or can use) this to correct the
phase errors?

Ian.

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Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , Volker Kerkhoff
writes

w4jle wrote:

If you go to Europe, you go nuts for the first few days getting used
to the
flicker as they use a 50Hz refresh rate.


If a european ever goes to the US or far east he'll posibly go nuts
over one of the main features of the NTSC color system, AKA as "Not
Twice Same Colors"

;-)

73,

Volker



Not really true, surely?

There is 'something' about NTSC compared with PAL. However, I've never
seen bad colo(u)r on NTSC sets which was not mainly due to poor signal
quality anyway, and where PAL would probably been the same.

These days, don't they transmit the correct colours as a reference in
the vertical interval, and the set uses (or can use) this to correct the
phase errors?

It is a source of great amusement to listen to people dissing one or
the other - NTSC or PAL, or even SECAM.

They all suck very much. Trying to decide which one sucks the most is a
waste of time.

- Mike KB3EIA -

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004 03:37:46 GMT, Mike Coslo
wrote:

It is a source of great amusement to listen to people dissing one or
the other - NTSC or PAL, or even SECAM.

They all suck very much. Trying to decide which one sucks the most is a
waste of time.

Most probably correct. And what disturbs me most is that nobody has
come up with something better available to the consumer "in general" I
mean, maybe I'm expecting too much from an industry that has not been
able to control "ghosting" effects in the end credits (white lettering
on black background) on a reasonably new TV set when fed with S-Video
from a digital source.

OTOH, SECAM is a bit more complex than NTSC or PAL. To the best of my
understanding, they actually send the chroma portion of the signal
*after* the luminance, so sets that are fit for SECAM gotta have a
delay line somewhere to brinc Chroma and Luminance back together,
IIRC?

And what about and adaption of "our" SSTV standards to "Fast Scan"
television? Would that work within reasonable parameters?


Volker