[mythtv-users] Electrical power in my cable line? Is that bad?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 07:21:24AM -0600, Brian Wood wrote:
> The reason 60 cycle AC hum moves up the screen is that the NTSC frame
> rate is not really 60/sec, but 59.something (sub-multiple of 3.579545
> color subcarrier which, if it were 3.600000 would result in a precise 60
> Hz. frame rate).

59.97.  It used to be 60, back in the days when black and white
programming actually moved with no chroma subcarrier.

Fun fact: the 3.58 oscillator in a TV used to be the most accurate
frequency source a general consumer could get their hands on -- *when
the TV was tuned to a network color program*.  The local affils used to
pass through the actual subcarrier from the network.

Clearly, they don't anymore.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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