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William Sommerwerck
Guest
** Everyone knows that NTSC stands for:
"Never Twice the Same Color"
Though that might be the common opinion, it is, of course,
untrue. There is nothing inherently unstable or inaccurate
about NTSC.
** You have got to be the most ignorant wanker on the planet.
When was the last time you adjusted the Hue control on an NTSC receiver?
** Go fuck yourself - asshole.
NTSC inherently suffers from sensitivity to phase shift in the sub-
carrier during transmission and reception that cause color changes
on the screen -- particularly so when changing channels.
PAL does not.
Hence the famous acronym as quoted by me.
Go fuck yourself.
Wouldn't it be nice if you actually knew what were talking about?
Both NTSC and PAL use subcarrier phase to convey hue. (The amplitude is
roughly the saturation.) Both systems are sensitive to non-linear phase
errors.
Because PAL alternates phase between lines, the non-linear color errors are
in opposite directions, and the eye tends to average them out -- at the
expense of saturation. (Complementary colors sum to white.) High levels of
non-linear phase can produce visible "saturation banding" on a PAL set, just
as they can cause "color banding" on an NTSC set.
PAL was adopted in Europe because European distribution systems suffered
from relatively high levels of non-linear phase. The American distribution
system did not, so abandoning phase alternation was not a major loss.
The wildly inaccurate reverse acronym was based on sloppy engineering in the
studio -- nothing inherent in NTSC.
I doubt that any American member of this group has adjusted the Hue control
on their NTSC set for at least 30 years.