[time-nuts] LightSquared gets at least some political attention

Charles P. Steinmetz charles_steinmetz at lavabit.com
Sat Apr 16 22:45:45 UTC 2011


John wrote:

>IMO, your crack about NTSC is unjustified.
>
>IMO, NTSC color was a very elegant engineering solution to backwards
>compatability. Without that, we could well be still watching B&W.

The other contemporary backward-compatible solutions -- PAL and SECAM 
-- did not suffer from the color drift that plagued color NTSC.  So, 
there were superior methods of backward-compatible color insertion 
available and the FCC still chose the NTSC method.  Bad decision, 
which saddled the US with inferior broadcast video for 60 years -- 
just as choosing 8VSB has done for digital video in the US.

Best regards,

Charles








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