An interesting thing I didn't know until today

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

ha ha. Pure maths, to the extent I can actually manage to do it. Not applied maths, and certainly not engineering or comms tech.

[DCI Harry Batt]

NTSC is yankee-doodle-dandy telly, everyone knows that.

[ursus arctos]

One used to learn about such thing when one moved between North America (which used NTSC) and a country that used PAL or SECAM. Single system video equipment wouldn't work.

[WOM]

ha ha. Pure maths, to the extent I can actually manage to do it. Not applied maths, and certainly not engineering or comms tech.

Oh, sure...sure. I wasn't accusing you of anything.

[San Bernardhinault]

It’s mostly to do with the frame rate (30fps for NTSC, 25(ish) for PAL) and the number of lines transmitted (525 for NTSC, 625 for PAL). And the frame rate comes from the power grid, which runs at 50Hz in Europe and 60Hz in the US. PAL uses a bit more bandwidth which means fewer channels but a bit better picture quality (hence 625 vs 525 lines). SECAM is essentially the same as PAL but uses a different method for passing on colour info.

BTW, the actual pixel size is a bit smaller than 525/625. There’s other info broadcast in the lines that are out of shot (I think, for example, CEEFAX used to get broadcast in that part of the image). NTSC is at 640x480; PAL at 768x576.

[WOM]

Evariste Euler Gauss it's to do with picture quality.

[colchestersid]

Christopher Lee attended the last public guillotining in France and, later that same year, was briefly a volunteer in the Finnish army during the Winter War against the Soviet Union.

This was in 1939 when Lee was still only 17 years old

[Stumpy Pepys]

It’s mostly to do with the frame rate (30fps for NTSC, 25(ish) for PAL) and the number of lines transmitted (525 for NTSC, 625 for PAL). And the frame rate comes from the power grid, which runs at 50Hz in Europe and 60Hz in the US. PAL uses a bit more bandwidth which means fewer channels but a bit better picture quality (hence 625 vs 525 lines). SECAM is essentially the same as PAL but uses a different method for passing on colour info.

My issue with NTSC was always that every colour looked either muddy brown or dark green.

[Hot Pepsi]

My issue with NTSC was always that every colour looked either muddy brown or dark green.

I thought that was just because it was optimized for M.A.S.H., which was always on.

[jwdd27]

Notable designer and occasional TV face Wayne Hemingway is the son of professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers, who was something of a novelty act in the 1950s/60s with his Native American (Canadian) outfits and war dances etc.

I was researching Two Rivers based on his name appearing on an old Scunthorpe Baths playbill, and at first assumed that his parentage of Hemingway was an appealingly random bit of Wiki vandalism, but it's the truth.

[Nocturnal Submission]

Yes, I knew that he had some Native American ancestry but not the specifics.

[Amor de Cosmos]

Notable designer and occasional TV face Wayne Hemingway is the son of professional wrestler Billy Two Rivers, who was something of a novelty act in the 1950s/60s with his Native American (Canadian) outfits and war dances etc.

Billy Two Rivers was a Mohawk of the Kahnawà:ke reserve south of Montréal. He served ten consecutive terms on their council and was part of the negotiating committee during the Oka crisis in 1990. He died this past February at 87.

I remember him well when wrestling was featured on Saturday afternoon TV. He was my Dad's favourite, and he wasn't alone.

[Nocturnal Submission]

The UEFA Champions League anthem is based on Zadok the Priest.

Obvious now I think about it.

[Sits]

The UEFA Champions League anthem is based on Zadok the Priest.

Obvious now I think about it.

Yeah I only realised that yesterday too. I always thought Zadok sounded more a sci-fi name than an Old Testament one.

[ursus arctos]

[Satchmo Distel]

Handel produced four Coronation anthems in the space of 5 weeks, premiered in 1727.

However, there had been an earlier score for Zadok The Priest by Thomas Thompkins for the Coronation of Charles I (1626) but I can't find a recording of it.

[Nefertiti2]

It’s mostly to do with the frame rate (30fps for NTSC, 25(ish) for PAL) and the number of lines transmitted (525 for NTSC, 625 for PAL). And the frame rate comes from the power grid, which runs at 50Hz in Europe and 60Hz in the US. PAL uses a bit more bandwidth which means fewer channels but a bit better picture quality (hence 625 vs 525 lines). SECAM is essentially the same as PAL but uses a different method for passing on colour info.

BTW, the actual pixel size is a bit smaller than 525/625. There’s other info broadcast in the lines that are out of shot (I think, for example, CEEFAX used to get broadcast in that part of the image). NTSC is at 640x480; PAL at 768x576.

Secam developed in France handles red much better- (older readers might remember the way that red bled on video )

it was the ability to handle red, which meant that it was sold to the Soviet Union and China

[Patrick Thistle]

it was the ability to handle red, which meant that it was sold to the Soviet Union and China

Great factoid

[Satchmo Distel]

Britain's Ann Jones won Wimbledon the day after Brian Jones died in his swimming pool. A mixed 48 hours for Brits called Jones.

[Gangster Octopus]

I remember one at the time, but not the other.

[Hot Pepsi]

This wiki is a treasure trove of things I didn’t know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tive_reception

[Satchmo Distel]

Sitcoms get their own article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tive_reception

[3 Colours Red]

This wiki is a treasure trove of things I didn’t know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tive_reception

That's all you need to know about Naked Jungle, that's for sure. NOTHING ELSE.

[Hot Pepsi]

Sitcoms get their own article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tive_reception

Yes, I reviewed all of that. I can recall some of those shows in the early 80s/late 70s. I watched a lot of garbage on TV in the early 80s.

The one on sports is interesting. A very comprehensive and accurate overview of why people hate NBC's coverage of the Olympics, although that's subsided in the last few games for a few different reasons.

[Hot Pepsi]

That's all you need to know about Naked Jungle, that's for sure. NOTHING ELSE.

What else could there be?