redshark: Goodbye NTSC: The last US transmitter has now been switched off

The thing we often call NTSC was among the first widely-deployed colour television system on the planet. It’s easy to forget, when we’re poking fun at it for its dubious hue and saturation stability, but improved systems like PAL and SECAM (and yes, they were slightly better) stood on the shoulders of giants to at least some extent. And now, at least in the USA, it’s over; there are no longer any analogue colour NTSC transmitters active, and they’re dwindling globally. more...