The British standard is much better than the North American one and gives a
much better picture. All you have to do is look at TV in England and
remember how poor it is in NA. I used to design cable TV networks for
thousands of users and it always amazed me how the Americans would accept
such poor quality. It took a decade for NA to develop a TV set to match
the Brit ones
At 10:46 PM 5/18/2004, Rocky Frisco wrote:
>James Nazarian wrote:
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>>Sorry, that is probably more than anyone wanted to know. But the moral of
>>the story is that they are recorded differently so not only do you need
>>different players and recorders but you need different displays as well
>>because the screen is redrawn at different intervals depending on the format
>>it is built for. The recording media, however, is the same, to a blank
>>tape, disc, or hard drive can be recorded anywhere in the world but will
>>need the same format gear in order to be watched.
>
>In England, they say NTSC stands for "Never The Same Colour."
>
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Barrie
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