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- From: myers@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 21:00:11 GMT
- Subject: Re: HELP with COMPOSITE VIDEO signals
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- References: <1992Oct30.155410.505@cho006.cho.ge.com>
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- > OK, so I'm a finicky purist, but the black level is NOT 0.33V when the video
- > signal is inverted - it is 0.3V when the "right way up". In your inverted
- > world, the black level should be at about 0.7V.
-
- Sorry, Mike, but you're not a particularly exact purist! :-)
-
- Assuming RS-343A signal levels, black is nominally 54 mV above blank, which
- is the reference; if you insist on considering the sync tips as 0, then
- blank would *nominally* be at 0.286V + 0.054V, or 0.340V up from the sync
- tip - so the original answer was at least closer to correct.
-
- Actually, there's quite a large tolerance on the location of the "black"
- level with respect to "blank" - this difference usually being referred to
- as the "setup", and speced (as I recall) as 7.5 +/- 5 IRE. And the good ol'
- RS-170C standard - which is what many are using when talking about "NTSC"
- video, although the mapping between the two isn't that clean - uses a 1.4 V
- p-p signal, with 1.0V from blank to white and 0.4V from blank to sync.
-
- And, as always, your mileage in the PAL/SECAM world may vary. I'm not
- up on the current practices in non-NTSC consumer equipment.
-
-
- Bob Myers KC0EW Hewlett-Packard Co. |Opinions expressed here are not
- User Interface Tech. Div.|those of my employer or any other
- myers@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, Colorado |sentient life-form on this planet.
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