Re: [Avid-L2] Rookie TC question

IIRC there reasoning had to do with backwards compatibility.

D(please don't make me dig out those manuals from the 70s)D

Dennis Degan wrote:
>
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:02 PM, Robert Lawson wrote:
>
> > You know, if we in the US hadn't switched to color TV, we wouldn't
> have all this confusion.
>
> I say:
>
> Color was the excuse. The FCC was the cause. They insisted that the
> color subcarrier not affect the intercarrier offset (video-to-audio
> carrier frequency separation). There WERE other options on how to
> handle the color subcarrier. One of those was to change the
> intercarrier offset. The FCC would not allow that so this is what we
> have now. Even in this the 21st Century and beyond, it seems we will
> be living with non-integer frame rates forever. One little seemingly
> inconspicuous choice in 1953 that will haunt us to the end of
> television.
>
> Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
> NBC Today Show, New York
>
>

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