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From: val@netw23.uucp (Oberon Kenobi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Why don't European consider NTSC?
Message-ID: <176985@netw23.uucp>
Date: 15 Apr 91 23:13:51 GMT
References: <164@netw23.uucp> <4267@bnr-rsc.UUCP> <1318@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>
Organization: Weber State University, CS DEPT.
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In article <1318@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au>, pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks) writes:
> In article <4267@bnr-rsc.UUCP>, mascot@bnr.ca (Scott Mason) writes:
>>In article <164@netw23.uucp> val@netw23.uucp (Oberon Kenobi) writes:
>>>
>>>P.S.:There are other locations besides America where NTSC is used.  Japan for
>>>      instance.
>>
>>I thought that Japan is also PAL. Can someone else comment?
>> 
> Can't comment on Japan, but Australia is PAL. Since PAL is a superior
> system to NTSC, maybe the Americans should consider changing over to a
> global standard than their regional idiosyncracy :-) :-) :-) !!
> (oops - thermal underwear ON)

     Japan is NTSC (3 by 4 ratio).  Japan is also converting to a 9 by 16
(ratio) analog television "standard".  However, this "standard" is a contestant
in the new HDTV (9 by 16 ratio) standard (proposals now being accepted), but is
unlikely to win out against any of it's DIGITAL competitors.  (Did we see
DIGITAL?  Why, wouldn't that make it terribly easy to DIGITIZE?  Wouldn't it
make television a PERFECT media?)  HDTV will make Europeans obsolete; especially
the French.

     I agree that NTSC is a horrendous kludge that allow you to watch todays
broadcasts on a 1955 television.  It's full of creeping featurisms like color
(colour for you Brit's and Aussies who think that you know how to spell
English), double vertical resolution (causing interlace), and even stereo.  (I
know, how many people still have a 1955 television or even a B&W television?) 
I'm glad that HDTV is coming, but don't you think that the country which
INVENTED the technology has a certain inherant right (?) to develop the
standards by which others are judged?

     With tongue firmly in cheek, I give you (the previous poster) your own
medicine.  I also include some very pertinent FACTS.  I'll let you (the network
community) decide which are which.

P.S.: Thermal underwear is flammable at HIGH temperatures.  Wouldn't you prefer 
      asbestos?  No, that would give you cancer.
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