Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: KevinJ93 <kevin_es@whitedigs.com>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 12:01:39 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 19
Message-ID: <vpqgb3$389ar$2@dont-email.me>
References: <m2a9coFaisuU1@mid.individual.net> <vpp6l0$319r5$1@dont-email.me>
 <vppcfb$3281d$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 21:01:40 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93be9a4ae6c34eaa3155855fc02279a0";
	logging-data="3417435"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19Jo9J5gSaJas/xd1ojtnvk"
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDWWCZLAd0NjnE1CoQF+YjWUumQ=
In-Reply-To: <vppcfb$3281d$1@dont-email.me>
Content-Language: en-US

On 2/27/25 1:49 AM, Martin Brown wrote:
> On 27/02/2025 08:10, Jeff Layman wrote:
>> On 27/02/2025 04:52, Sylvia Else wrote:
<...>
> I always believed that made it impossible for them not to have 
> newscasters with flesh that slowly shifted between ghastly green and 
> purple tones (or was clamped to unnatural pale orange like the 
> Donald's). NTSC was called Never Twice the Same Colour in the UK for 
> good reason. PAL was self correcting. My Japanese sets could do both.
> 
> However, when I was in Japan I saw US style NTSC TV implemented 
> correctly. It seems there was no reason that it could not be made to 
> work well only that US makers couldn't be bothered to do it right.
<...>

Sony was notorious for not implementing PAL decoding fully by omitting 
the delay line and effectively processing PAL as if it was NTSC.

kw