On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:24:06 +0000, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

Meat Plow wrote:
How did this devolve into a PAL/NTSC ****ing match? From what little TV
I watch in the evening, HD channels on TWC, I think the color rendering
is perfect. And NTSC DVD video is the same. So what's the problem here?
A lack of real things to argue about?

It got there because there had to be some justification over which
system was chosen other than the country next door did something else.
Then it devoloved from ignorance of existance of multisystem TVs and
VCRs into justification why they could not exist.

To summarize, by 1985 I had bought, in Philadelphia (USA) the following:
TV set, 19 inch, 25 inch and 14 inch and VHS and BETA VCRS which would
play and record NTSC/60 3.57, NTSC/60 4.43, PAL/50, PAL/60 (TV only)
and SECAM/50 video. Tuners for NTSC, European PAL, UK PAL and non
French SECAM (aka Middle East SECAM).

In 1987 I added a VCR that would record and play PAL/60 and French
SECAM.

In 1992 I added a VCR that would do digital conversions between any of
the above.

Geoff.

I've no experience in PAL or SECAM whatsoever. But to just unilaterally
claim the NTSC is inferior I just don't see it. So there must be more to
the story. Maybe politics in some wild manner? That tends to **** people
off.



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