New Options And Considerations for Creating EnhancedViewing Experiences Theo Mayer Panoram Technologies The Day the Standards Died Once upon a time, life was simple. Electronic display meant television. OK, OK so even when life was simple there were two main standards - - NTSC (affectionately known as "Never The Same Color Twice" or better known as the U.S. standard) and PAL, the standard for much of Europe. With the entire user base and the whole broadcast infrastructure hanging on them, changing or improving the television standards was a far from trivial task.Attempts at doing so included such Herculean developments efforts as Sony's HDVS bid for the high definition television standard. Then along came the computer with its new user bases, self contained infrastructures and inherent capability to format its output to various standards.At first there seemed to be no correlation between the television formats and the endless and growing series of computer output standards. Only the display board, monitor and test equipment manufacturers needed to respond to the ever increasing variety of formats. But then it got worse! At the high end, workstations and engineering computers crept into higher and higher resolutions.At the low end, multimedia created an
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