Originally posted by: THX
Karyudo, I guess he's referring to the fact that the terms PAL & NTSC don't strictly refer to the resolution/frame rate, but rather the color system, even though everyone uses the terms that way for DVD.
Karyudo, I guess he's referring to the fact that the terms PAL & NTSC don't strictly refer to the resolution/frame rate, but rather the color system, even though everyone uses the terms that way for DVD.
NTSC existed before colour, did it not? It wasn't until colour was added that the framerate was dropped to 29.97 fps from 30 fps. Ergo, the resolution (i.e. 525 lines) must have been sorted out before colour (because the colour was added in such a way as to be compatible with B&W), and therefore there is some explicit reference to resolution/framerate in the term NTSC.
Isn't there?