Gregory david Stempel <fyrframe@centurytel.net> writes: > Ahhhh. Brings back memories of my school days sitting with the instructor at > night talking about all of this. Thanks Brian, I appreciate your response. > If memory serves me correctly, wasn't there a third system for a brief time? There still is - SECAM, which stands for something in French, but every book I have says something slightly different. Basically "Sequential memory", meaning that alternate lines only have one colour parameter (remember you need two to add to the B-W luminance signal to make 3D colour); the memory holds the other colour values from the scan line above. Obviously this is so trivial now, that any cubicle drone could do it, but it was quite a feat in the 1960s. Oh yeah, I collected a few SECAM spellings here: http://imaginatorium.org/books/photech.htm#imagdict Brian Chandler ---------------- geo://Sano.Japan.Planet_3 Jigsaw puzzles from Japan at: http://imaginatorium.org/shop/
