On Thu, 31 Aug 2023, Mike Katz wrote:
Composite will 99.999999% of the time be better than RF modulated due to the bandwidth of NTSC (American) Televisions. The NTSC television standard was not what I would exactly call high tech or high resolution. It was 525 scan lines interlaced at 30Hz meaning that there was only 262.5 lines every 60th
That is not NTSC. NTSC only defines how to encode colors in a composite signal. It does not define any resolution or so. What you mean is the CCIR norm, for the US it is norm M with the color carrier at about 3.58 MHz, 525 lines with a bandwidth of about 4 MHz (and *this* is the limiting factor for the horizontal resolution).
might get 640 x 480 with alot of flicker. If you want color the resolution went way down due to the way that the NTSC standard handled colors to be backwards compatible with black and white televisions.
No, not at all. The resolution of the luminance signal was absolutely the same.
Christian
