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