mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/16/89)
>Well, not quite. A standard NTSC image does not contain the digital >equivalent of 24 bits per pixel. Very true. >The color coding scheme of NTSC provides >high spatial frequency image data only to the luminance component of the >picture. The color information is "smeared" atop this grayscale data >at a much lower spatial frequency. Also true. >The eye appears to notice little of >this psychophysical magic due to, <explanation was wrong> This is true in principle. But the NTSC system still has much too little color bandwidth. Color of half to two-thirds the luminance would be acceptable. And most of the world won't be looking at NTSC quality, or a little better, for much longer. Japan certainly won't. Doug McDonald
rick@hanauma.stanford.edu (Richard Ottolini) (11/17/89)
In article <46900048@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >And most of the world won't be looking at NTSC quality, or a little >better, for much longer. Japan certainly won't. > According to today's San Jose Mercury, Bush just killed DARPA HDTV funding. He also wanted to drastically cut back the rest of DARPA.