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NTSC, not NSTC.

Well also not really NTSC either. Did you see the part where he talks about them trying to get a recording of gameplay for the commercial?

> "We can't get it to play on the videotape recorder, why?” I say, "Well, it's not really video! There’s no interlace… Treat it as though it’s PAL, just run up through a standard converter.”

Exactly. Never The Same Color

Or "Never Twice The Same Color"

National Television System by Committee*

*Committee stands for National Television System Committee

Are you trying to say that it is a recursive name like GNU?

NTSC as the name of the committee is not, NTSC as the name of the system is.

The US digital television standard is called "ATSC".

Officially, this stands for "Advanced Television Systems Committee".

Unofficially, the "A" stands for "always".

If you're an insomniac, I recommend David Brinkley's book "Defining Vision : How Broadcasters Lured the Government into Inciting a Revolution in Television"

It's an account of the incredibly messy process that got us the ATSC standard in the USA. A little dry but a little interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/Defining-Vision-Broadcasters-Governme...

The upside is that the group took so long to define a standard that digital compression and broadcasting technologies matured enough so that HDTV in the US could be fully digital and not analog like the Japanese had pioneered and proposed as a world standard.

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