Re: C65 on Ebay

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2017 16:16:31 +0100
Message-Id: <F36D67F7-85D0-4694-9E3A-B765B033B06F@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2017-11-05, at 12:45, Mia Magnusson <mia@plea.se> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I mean composite video at all. Composite video inputs on TV's came
>> much later than NTSC and PAL (which was around the 1950's). Sure we
>> all talk about composite as being NTSC or PAL, but then we talked
>> about amiga's RGB output being NTSC or PAL as well.
> 
> I can assure you that composite video signals (baseband) were around in
> TV studios since day one of TV broadcasts.

Probably a matter of terminology. To me "composite" includes chroma. Luma with sync doesn't count for me as one ;-)

> It was not only to save money but also to actually give a better
> picture quality. We might bash the C64 and VIC-20 how much we want for
> poor composite color video quality, but compared to many other
> computers from the same days the picture was actually rather good.

Abolutely. It was terrible in terms of standard compliance[*] but when compared to what most of other 8bit machines of the time were able to produce, it was among the best. Especially if you happened to be lucky enough to have the better version of the modulator and not the dirty soap water producing one.

* - I still remember my first time with a 64 in a TV studio. We were supposed to do some live stuff on it. We were all in a "what's the problem, it's a PAL computer and works all good on all my PAL capable monitors and TVs" mood. We gave the output and I shall probably never forget the face expression of the technician there, trying to figure out what it actually is, before even thinking how to cope with it :-)

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