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Digital Video and HD
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Digital Video and HD

by Charles Poynton
January 2003
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
736 pages
30h 54m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Consumer analog
NTSC and PAL
49
Consumer electronics manufacturers have taken great
liberties with video standards to achieve low-cost
consumer devices. In this chapter, I describe the
NTSC-4.43, PAL 60, and NTSC 50 schemes by which
foreign videotapes can be viewed. I describe degen-
erate NTSC and PAL signals that are obtained when the
color subcarrier is incoherent with scanning. I introduce
the SCART connector common in Europe. Finally,
I comment on the
heterodyne
(or
color-under)
tech-
nique used in consumer videotape recording.
Multistandard consumer equipment
The diversity of worldwide video ...
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ISBN: 9781558607927