[mythtv-users] What is your video ouput card for your tv ?

[Cory Papenfuss]

> When I looked into this a while back, I found a description of how each
> developed out of the other - Potted summary is that NTSC came first, PAL
> was designed to overcome colour shift problems, and SECAM was
> invented by the french for political/economic reasons rather than
> technical.
>
> http://www.videointerchange.com/pal_secam_conversions.htm seems a pretty
> good view of the different standards.
>
 	The history of color tv is fascination from a technical 
standpoint.  VERY clever folks figured out how to get 3x the information 
into a forward AND backwards-compatible system, without using any more 
bandwidth.

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss                                                        *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student               *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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