Re: apple IIc color monitor

["Alex Freed" <alexf@mirrow.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message 
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> The AppleColor Composite monitor is a very special monitor.  When it
> senses the absence of the color burst signal, it not only ceases chroma
> processing, it also broadens the luminance bandwidth, so that characters
> are quite sharp.
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> I have never heard of another monitor that knows this trick.  ;-)
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I don't know about monitors, but most TVs in Europe new this trick
since the dawn of color TV. This is most important for SECAM where
the  chroma (color) component does not have a "comb like" spectrum.

In NTSC, the chroma signal can be placed right in the video band,
and all of the spikes of its spectrum fit between the luminance spikes.
Same is true for PAL, but to a lesser degree.

-Alex.