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From: myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: "EIA Industrial Electronics Tentative Standard No. 1" aka RS-170-A
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Date: 8 Aug 89 18:25:34 GMT
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>>   RS-170A refers to an NTSC-encoded composite signal.  

>True.

>"RS-170-A" doesn't exist, but implies EIA No. 1 and therefore NTSC.


RS-170A may never have actually existed as a formal EIA standard, but I think
that you'll get more blank stares by saying "EIA No. 1" than you will by
referring to "RS-170A."  At least among the technical community in general -
certainly, you could get way with a reference to EIA No. 1 at SID, but 
even in the display community, "RS-170A" has been adopted as a very convenient,
though known to be etymologically inaccurate, way of referring to "y'know,
regallar ol' color TV-type signals.  Whatsamatta, you don't know nothin 'bout
video, er what?"

Bob "Charles is more accurate, but I have fun anyway!" M.