Re: HDTV Question

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From: Scott Dorsey
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 16:40

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In article <1993Jan8.055618.24902@mtu.edu> cmwolf@mtu.edu (christopher m. wolf) writes:
>If HDTV will be digital, what will be the number of available colors for
>display?

Depends on the format that is decided on.

>Instead of the "infinite" we have with NTSC now, this will have to be reduced,
>depending on the digitalization, but what are we talking about numbers-wise?

Infinite colors?  With NTSC?  You have to be joking... the linearity of the
chrominance signal is terrible on any NTSC systems.  The number of discrete,
distinguisable colors is far fewer than those that can be seen by the eye,
or even recorded on a good film.
--scott

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