Jose,

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:25:06 -0800, Jose Da Silva wrote:

> Here's something else to ponder in terms of colourburst....
> Studio cameras are indeed accurate for the colour burst, if they get the 
> colourburst off of some atomic clock, but what would you make of 
> handycams and other portable cameras? They are portable, and therefore 
> not as accurate as you would like.

Yes, but I'm pretty sure they regenerate it for transmission, *because* they have so many incoming sources - 
studio cameras, handheld news cameras, telecine, handheld analogue and digital cameras and even phones from 
members of the public.  Otherwise how would they be able to cut-in video form other countries, which use 
completely different colour systems?  (BBC news often has US newsclips, for example).
 
Cheers,


Howard Winter
St.Albans, England


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