Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

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:

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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.

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