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Re: AppleColor Composite Monitors discussion



MdntTrain wrote:
Note, however, that a Y/C approach still leaves you with low-bandwidth
chroma, which means that single-pixel vertical details that have the
same luminance but differ only in chroma will not be well resolved.


Yes, I imagine so, but I'm not sure how this will play out in reality
yet.  In the worst case of IIgs 640x200, if the max Y bandwidth will
be 8mhz, I'm guessing that the max C bandwidth here will be 3.5mhz.
I'm easing up on the bandpass filtering quite a bit.  So depending on
the monitor, there might be either very fine vertical lines some with
color and some not, or with a lower res monitor, we might get
acceptable results.

With a 3.58MHz chroma subcarrier and amplitude modulation, it is
only a theoretical possibility to represent 3.5MHz information.
The practical limit is much closer to 2.5MHz or less.  In the NTSC
standard the limit is under 1.5MHz.

-michael

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