User talk:SomeJoe7777

Spot on.

NTSC and PAL are analogue TV standards. (These were based on lines, NTSC =525 line, early PAL 405 lines and later PAL was 625 lines, with a 64 micro second line scan time for PAL625)

These later formed the basis (more accurately were considered) for a standard multimedia inteface standard for the merging of computer displays, and future desktop computer processing of TV pictures. At the time TV standards represented the state of the art and were transfered to pixel resolutions for the computer graphical standards we have today and lead on to high definition.

In the late 80's early 90's graphical resolution was limited by the cost of graphical memory, and early displays used TV's for home brew computing. Thus forming the roots of todays graphical standards through CGA and EGA.

NTSC DV & PAL DV are the modern digital equivelents which provide backwards compatibility.

In my view since the entry describes the VGA Computer standard and the historic linking of this format with earlier and more recent computer dispay formats, it just confuses the issue including NTSC in this diagram. If NTSC remains on the diagram it begs the question "Where is PAL on this diagram?".

With media convergence, it makes sense to include other display formats for comparison purposes. I agree that NTSC is misleading here and that NTSC-DV would be clearer (same argument for PAL and PAL-DV but PAL is unlikely to be included in this image). Cptnsense (talk) 15:43, 11 July 2008 (UTC)