Re: Double hires mode color artifacts

[David Wilson <mcs6502@gmail.com>]

On Sep 15, 5:56 pm, Alex Freed <al...@mirrow.com> wrote:
> Just about every NTSC TV set ever made has a "tint" control that does
> exactly that - shifts the phase of the recovered color subcarrier.
> The reason is the the main weakness of NTSC was high sensitivity to
> phase errors. So you had a control to make faces green or purple :)
>
> PAL TVs don't have it, so a multisystem TV in a predominantly PAL
> country may not have it. Just guessing.

My Sony multi-standard CTV has the Tint control when in NTSC mode but
not in PAL mode. Ditto for my Sanyo CTV. Its manual states:

Tint - operative for NTSC4.43 and NTSC signal only.

I imagine this would be a common configuration.