Mike Raiford wrote:
> On 4/27/2010 4:12 PM, John VanSickle wrote:
> 
>> Government regulators, for whom being safe is generally more important
>> than being right, had a major role in the determination of the standard.
>> The standard had to allow for broadcast within a strictly-defined
>> frequency band, and this limit was chosen based on technology that is
>> now ready for deployment to your local museum, because these decisions
>> were made years ago.
>>
>> If I am remembering things correctly, there was even some insistence
>> that the signal be displayable by sets designed for the old broadcast
>> standard. If that sounds thinking-impaired, well, that's the FCC for you.
> 
> kind of like how NTSC color was kludged on top of the existing black and
> white broadcast signal in the name of backwards compatibility?

Isn't "NTSC color" like "ATM machine"?

Oh wait, "Never Twice Same Color" is not the official acronym meaning? :)

Post a reply to this message