"Jim Lesurf" wrote in message
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In article , David Looser
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...and the way BBC badged commercial DVDs of music now tend also be to
converted into 'NTSC' sic format. Albeit better done than the cover
disc.
(Early discs were UK format.)

Are you saying that the BBC supplies UK customers with "NTSC" DVDs? That
seems absurd, bearing in mind that not all TV sets used in the UK will cope
with a 60Hz field rate. And since, AFAIK, all BBC DVDs supplied to the UK
have region 2 coding, they can't even claim that it's a matter of only
having to create one version.

As for "'NTSC'sic", that's a moot point. There were two NTSCs. The first,
which reported in 1941, specified the 525-line 60Hz monochrome standard. The
second, which reported in 1955, specified the colour system that we know as
"NTSC". So any 525-line 60Hz recording, regardless of whether it's B&W or
colour, or the colour system used, *could* be correctly called "NTSC", from
the 1941 NTSC. This is quite different from PAL and SECAM which are colour
coding systems only. A 625-line B&W recording is *not* "PAL", whatever the
DVD packaging might claim (actually, of course, neither is a colour DVD
since DVDs carry component signals).


David.