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kludge@grissom.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Dorsey) writes:
>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

I looked at it as an analog signal have an infinite number of divisions, every
one just slightly different.  I wasn't commenting about how it IS being
used, but rather how it COULD.