[opendtv] Re: France bids farewell to SECAM
- From: Mark Schubin <tvmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:42:23 -0500
On 12/7/2011 5:00 PM, Olivier Houot wrote:
There were discussions on a french forum with a canadian guy that has
moved a lot and lived under the three standards at one time or
another. He experimented from the Montreal island (circa 2006, i
believe). He said that by playing with the settings, he could get a
nice picture from Radio-Canada, but when turning to american
broadcasts (all by air) from ABC, NBC, CBS, chromatic accuracy was
degraded, and it was not possible to compensate with the settings in a
completely satisfying way. Also, it was different from channel to channel.
Don't ascribe to technology that which can be explained by poor practice.
Post-WWII but pre-NTSC-color, a delegation of Americans evaluated
British television and found it consistently sharper. That was when the
U.S. was 525/30 in 6 MHz channels and the UK was 405/25 in 5 MHz channels.
TTFN,
Mark
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