TTL RGB ==> PC

[Jim Leonard]

Chuck Guzis wrote:
> Parenthetically, through this exercise I did realize how much better 
> PAL was than NTSC.  The color balance was always excellent from the 
> tapes, particularly as compared to the way off-the-air NTSC looks.

Yes, but the flickering (50Hz) is annoying if you haven't been nursed on 
NTSC (60Hz).  It took me months of viewing PAL (I was mastering a PAL 
DVD) before I got used to it.

Resolution and color are indeed better than NTSC.

> A favorite game of mine was to walk into one of the big box 
> electronics stores such as Circuit City and say to  the guy flogging 
> big-screen sets from an acre of glowing boxes, "They all look 
> different.  Which one has the correct colors?"  

None of them.  Seriously.  One of the dirty little secrets of that 
industry is that the "default" or "standard" settings for 
color/tint/brightness/contrast/sharpness is that they are calibrated for 
the store show room, NOT a regular home setting.  All the colors are 
oversaturated, the sharpness is artificially high, etc.  Every friend I 
know who purchases a new TV find me knocking on their door a few days 
later with my Digital Video Essentials calibration DVD.
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