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Originally Posted by jdobbs
What good are standards if they aren't followed?
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Interesting that you say that. NTSC/PAL are old analog specs that so many are trying to apply to the digital world.
Interesting note for both NTSC and PAL is that both are
COLOR specs, added to the existing B&W broadcast standards. NTSC does modify the existing 30 fps B&W spec, to get 29.97 color to work (even though color would have worked @ 30 fps and we wouldn't have this 29.97/23.976 mess) and PAL added color to the existing B&W 25 fps. In other words, the broadcast specs for 30 fps and 25 fps came about long before NTSC or PAL. And none of the broadcast specs include 23.976/24 fps as broadcast frame rates. They include specs on how to handle said frame rates for broadcast (not part of NTSC or PAL).