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- From: kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:40:00 GMT
- Organization: NASA Langley Research Center and Reptile Farm
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- In article <1993Jan8.055618.24902@mtu.edu> cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf) writes:
- >If HDTV will be digital, what will be the number of available colors for
- >display?
-
- Depends on the format that is decided on.
-
- >Instead of the "infinite" we have with NTSC now, this will have to be reduced,
- >depending on the digitalization, but what are we talking about numbers-wise?
-
- Infinite colors? With NTSC? You have to be joking... the linearity of the
- chrominance signal is terrible on any NTSC systems. The number of discrete,
- distinguisable colors is far fewer than those that can be seen by the eye,
- or even recorded on a good film.
- --scott
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