On 18/03/06, Carlos E. R.
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The Saturday 2006-03-18 at 16:02 -0500, James Knott wrote:
The analog system is supposed to be gone in a few years. Also, that 525 line system dates back to ~1940, with colour added in the mid '50s. The 625 lines systems didn't come in until the '60s and could take advantage of the lessons learned with NTSC.
True. Also, there are also differences in the bandwidth available for colour encoding.
Unfortunately, there are also several new HD standards. I'm unsure how many, but there is at least one for Europe, another in the US, another in Japan, probably another in China...
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