[sdiy] Combining two of my favorite hobbies

[Ken Stone]

>After much
>googling I discovered that there are apparently two standards for NTSC - one
>is "NTSC/3.58" and the other is "NTSC/4.43". The common standard for NTSC is
>a color burst frequency of 3.579Mhz and PAL is 4.43Mhz.

NTSC4.43 will appear black and white on an NTSC 3.57 monitor. It isn't
really a standard, rather than a bastardisation thought up for
"multistandard" VCRs and TVs that are sold in PAL based countries. For what
it's worth, NTSC video cassettes are neither - the color burst frequency
isn't stored.

Ken
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