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NTSC, not NSTC.
by masonic 6y ago
NTSC, not NSTC.
- dylan604 6y agoExactly. Never The Same Color
- rbanffy 6y agoOr "Never Twice The Same Color"
- anticensor 6y agoNational Television System by Committee* *Committee stands for National Television System Committee
- dylan604 6y agoAre you trying to say that it is a recursive name like GNU?
- anticensor 6y agoNTSC as the name of the committee is not, NTSC as the name of the system is.
- duskwuff 6y agoThe US digital television standard is called "ATSC". Officially, this stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee". Unofficially, the "A" stands for "always".
- joezydeco 6y agoIf you're an insomniac, I recommend David Brinkley's book "Defining Vision : How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television" It's an account of the incredibly messy process that got us the ATSC standard in the USA. A little dry but a little interesting. https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Government-Revolution/dp/0156005972 https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme... The upside is that the group took so long to define a standard that digital compression and broadcasting technologies matured enough so that HDTV in the US could be fully digital and not analog like the Japanese had pioneered and proposed as a world standard.
- szczys 6y agoWell also not really NTSC either. Did you see the part where he talks about them trying to get a recording of gameplay for the commercial? > "We can't get it to play on the videotape recorder, why?” I say, "Well, it's not really video! There’s no interlace… Treat it as though it’s PAL, just run up through a standard converter.”