Re: NTSC Monitor Vs Apple IIgs' Monitor

[Knut Roll-Lund <kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> In article <pan.2005.10.19.20.58.14.862648@emeraldcity.gov>,
> The Wizard of Oz  <wizard@emeraldcity.gov> wrote:
>
>
> > Of course I have a monochrome NTSC monitor
>
>
> No you don't .... a "monochrome NTSC monitor" is an oxymoron.
>
> NTSC is a system for *color* television.  A monochrome monitor does not
> show any color and therefore lacks the circuitry needed to decode NTSC
> signals.

Paul,

NTSC started out as the b&w standard and got colors later. What you say 
would be correct for PAL because PAL is the color system, the addition 
to the b&w, whatever that is called. SECAM is also built on the same b&w 
standard as PAL.

Composite video might strictly speaking be neither NTSC nor PAL because 
these are defined as RF signals. But on the other hand they even stamp 
PAL or NTSC on DVD's while they are absolutely not that because they 
contain only digital MPEG information. For DVD it refers to number of 
lines and frame frequency only. I wonder if they would stamp SECAM on 
the DVD's in France...

Knut