And I hate to tell you that I was referring to the PAL system that went online in 1967 with 625 lines and ~8 mHz bandwidth, not the other later
NTSC look-a-like.I started working in commercial broadcasting in 1967. I know what NTSC looks like in the studio.
I was in London in 1982 and 1984 and my firsthand observations were that at that time the PAL television system displayed on sets in people's homes made better, more detailed, more deeply saturated color pictures than I have ever seen in any NTSC studio in the 40 years that have passed
since I started working in television.All I am saying is that FINALLY 40 years later, all we can see here in the U.S. are HDTV pictures that are just a few percent better looking than what the British
and Germans have had as standard fare in their homes since 1967. It has everything to do with the quality of pictures produced by PAL.If you don't think so, go somewhere that you can watch a PAL broadcast and the HDTV version of it side by side, and you might understand what I'm saying.
There is NOT much picture quality difference between them. Dale Kelly wrote:
flyback1 wrote:our wonderful, glorious 720p/1080i HDTV pictures have only a few percent more resolution and slightly bettercolor than PAL TV has had since it's inception in 1967.I hate to keep beating this dead horse but this excellent quality has nothing to do with the PAL system. It is all about using 625 lines per frame and 8 Meg system bandwidth. Where the PAL based color transmission system uses 525 line 6Mhz video, the video quality is no better than in the U.S. Dale
