Re: NTSC Monitor Vs Apple IIgs' Monitor

["TJ Edmister" <damage_x@hotmail.com>]

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:57:17 -0500, Ed Eastman <noone@nowhere.net> wrote:
> Definitions by webopedia:
> "NTSC -- is short for National Television System Committee. The NTSC is  
> responsible for setting television and video standards in the United  
> States (in Europe and the rest of the world, the dominant television  
> standards are PAL and SECAM). The NTSC standard for television defines a  
> composite video signal with a refresh rate of 60 half-frames  
> (interlaced) per second. Each frame contains 525 lines and can contain  
> 16 million different colors"

That last bit is not right. An analog signal doesn't really have a
specified (or limitted) number of colors. Besides that, how are you going
to have 16 million colors in one frame? ;)
> "Composite -- video is a type of video signal in which all information— 
> the red, blue, and green signals (and sometimes audio signals as well)— 
> are mixed together. This is the type of signal used by televisions in  
> the United States."

Composite is the luminance signal mixed with the color carrier. It's not
RGB and AFAIK audio is not included.