The PAL video standard. Here is a link to an amusing page that describes the various standards, including the assertion that NTSC stands for Never Twice the Same Color. All I know is, NTSC is an abomination and gives me headaches.
The lower quality is kind of noticeable if you have to play video games all day as part of your job. And we've even noticed it with our satellite TV at home: especially on the late-night adverts for weird pharmaceuticals or home equity loans, the small print is beyond unreadable.
I shudder to think it could be even worse. Thanks for the perspective... I think...
I guess then you're up against the lower vertical resolution of NTSC. And perhaps the poor quality of the source material for the late night adverts.
But I find a massive difference with different connection types - I shudder to think that I used my early computers with an RF aerial-style connection to the TV. It was a massive improvement moving to composite video. Now with digiboxes and DVD players and consoles, composite is the poorest quality, and one can significantly gain picture quality by moving to RGB.
One thing I can't understand though is the 100Hz mode in high-end widescreen TVs - I know it helps to stop the frame/field flicker, but it makes all horizontal motion really nastily juddery.
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Date: 2004-08-05 11:05 am (UTC)I shudder to think it could be even worse. Thanks for the perspective... I think...
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Date: 2004-08-06 12:30 am (UTC)But I find a massive difference with different connection types - I shudder to think that I used my early computers with an RF aerial-style connection to the TV. It was a massive improvement moving to composite video. Now with digiboxes and DVD players and consoles, composite is the poorest quality, and one can significantly gain picture quality by moving to RGB.
One thing I can't understand though is the 100Hz mode in high-end widescreen TVs - I know it helps to stop the frame/field flicker, but it makes all horizontal motion really nastily juddery.