Re: Who remembers how bad analogue television was?

"KevinJ93" <kevin_es@whitedigs.com> wrote in message news:vpqgb3$389ar$2@dont-email.me...

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.
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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.

They did that so that they didn't have to pay PAL license fees.
But no-one cared because the picture on their first set sold in the UK, although small screen, was superior to any other set on the
market.
https://www.google.com/search?q=kv1320-ub
They stopped doing it when all you needed for a PAL decoder was a chip, a crystal and a 64uS piece of glass (which had got much
smaller by then due to bouncing the signal around in the glass).

The history of Sony colour is interesting.
Trinitron came about because this had to be abandoned:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatron

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