Re: Feb 2009 legal or not legal

The thing that will really boil your blood is when you sit down with the person who wrote the technical requirements, and you ask them how they decided what those requirements should be, they usually don't know. Usually it is plagiarism.

If you look at the actual reasons for some of these specs, namely luminance capped at 100IRE, you will find that this was necessary because analog 'birds' or satellites have an issue where if that luminance goes over 100IRE, it bleeds into the audio subcarrier, which then causes an audio buzz. Similarly, the same thing could happen with B & W TVs with tube electronics (not just the CRT).

Considering that I don't think there are any distributors using a bird with baseband analog video anymore, I challenge these same 'geniuses' to justify continuing with this stupidity.

Similarly, with chroma, there is nothing in a either a satellite or terrestrial transmitter that has issues with chroma all the way up to 133 IRE. These limits were originally put in place to deal with the limitations of 1" Type C and Color-Under tape formats in which either reds would sparkle, in the case of Type C (depending on the TBC, Zeus was the best), or the chroma would bleed, like you see most easily in the beauty of VHS and S-VHS.

So, don't get me started. I think Bob and I should start our own video militia. Oh no, now the NSA is tracking the Cow.


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