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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!mtu.edu!cmwolf
- From: cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf)
- Subject: Re: HDTV Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.192008.1528@mtu.edu>
- Organization: Michigan Technological University
- References: <1ikap0INNqbj@rave.larc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 19:20:08 GMT
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- kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
- >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
-
- I looked at it as an analog signal have an infinite number of divisions, every
- one just slightly different. I wasn't commenting about how it IS being
- used, but rather how it COULD.
-