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Subject: Re: SONY XBR monitor/receivers discontinued
Message-ID: <21187105@macs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 00:29:23 EST
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Summary: Re: "Full spectrum tuner" > Read this month's High Fidelity

In article <1269@mhuxo.UUCP>, gjphw@mhuxo.UUCP (Patrick Wyant) writes:
>  It is purely speculative on my part but I would guess that SONY's next move
>  will be the introduction of a line of high resolution monitor/receivers,
>  comparable with the XBRs, that also have a "full spectrum" tuner.  First
>  introduced by RCA, these "full spectrum" TVs are capable of processing
>  the full broadcast chrominance channel of 1.5 MHz (rather than the usual 0.5
>  MHz bandwidth used in a television).  One person here who has a "full
>  spectrum" RCA set says that the colors, especially the reds, appear richer on
>  his set.  Whether or not these new sets will have RGB connectors is anyone's
>  guess.  Anyone with better SONY contacts care to comment?

In the March, '87, issue of High Fidelity, there is an excellent article
entitled, "True Colors", which describes the NTSC color spectrum spec versus
the modern implementation, or lack thereof, of it.  RCA's full-bandwidth
chroma demodulation is noted, but the lack of the proper phospors handicaps
the RCA set along with all the rest of the modern consumer direct-view sets.
The article explains that all of these sets are built intentionally out-of-spec
because the average buyer is more influenced by the brighter picture which
the chosen phospors can deliver than (s)he would be by truer greens and reds
on a dimmer set.  The article concludes by suggesting that this situation 
won't change until we all stand up and say, "I want my NTSC."

                                       Bob Breum
                                       Computer Fenestrations

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