Re: NTSC Monitor Vs Apple IIgs' Monitor

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 07:43:15 GMT, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)
wrote:

>Since your monochrome monitor probably can accept b&w signals both according
>to the NTSC and CCIR standards (it's mostly a matter of adjusting the vertical
>sync when you switch from one to the other - the horizontal sync frequencies
>are so close to one another in the two cases that the monitor easily can
>sync to iether of them) I still think it's superfouous to call your monitor
>an "NTSC monocrhome monitor" since it might as well be a "CCIR monochrome
>monitor".

Just because a monitor that was designed to work with an NTSC signal
(colour or black and white) can display a CCIR monochrome signal does
not make calling the monitor an "NTSC monochrome monitor" or "NTSC
colour monitor" superfluous.  If it was designed to be an NTSC monitor
then it is an NTSC monitor regardless of whether it just might happen
to work with another signal.  Saying it is monochrome or colour just
lets people know what type of display you'll get.

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