[opendtv] Re: News: CEA FORECASTS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS REVENUE WILL SURPASS $155 BILLION IN 2007
- From: "Dale Kelly" <dalekelly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 14:33:01 -0800
flyback1 wrote:
>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
Yes, I've also been there and done that and do agree that the video is
superior. My point is that PAL does not define the number of scan lines nor
the video bandwidth, which are responsible for much of the superior picture
that we both observed.
PAL only defines the 180 degree alternating color reference phase shift and
the bandwidth available for the color signal, otherwise PAL and NTSC are
identical. PAL design accomplished two things:
1. It resolved color phase error problems and also made the Hue control
unnecessary. That was of more value in the early days but later broadcast
and receiver equipment improvements minimized it's value.
2. PAL's two color subcarriers have equal bandwidth while NTSC has different
bandwidths for it's two color subcarriers ( I and Q). The Q subcarrier
transmits colors on the blue end of the visual spectrum where the human eye
perceives far less detail than it does at the Red/green end. Therefore NTSC
designers reduced the bandwidth available to the Q signal so as to its
reduce cross talk into the video signal, but they did provide full bandwidth
for the more detailed I signal . In reality, there should have been no
noticeable difference between the colors produced by the two systems (other
than the phase issues).
However, along came the receiver manufactures, who in their zeal to minimize
manufacturing costs, decided to filter both color signals at the lower Q
bandwidth and thereby saved the cost of a delay line (maybe a dollar, if
that). The receiver implementation is actually responsible for the superior
color detail seen in the PAL system.
I believe that the designers of PAL, who had the benefit of hind sight,
correctly made the decision to transmit equal color bandwidth to circumvent
the NTSC receiver manufacturing issue.
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Subject: [opendtv] Re: News: CEA FORECASTS CONSUMER ELECTRONICS REVENUE
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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 better
color 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
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