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Old 12-23-2013, 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by old_tv_nut View Post
Much too late to be a patent on basic combination of luminance and color subcarrier. . . . . . . similar to the way NTSC chroma and luma are interleaved.
Philips claims priority, with application in the Netherlands on May 1, 1952 and US patent applied for April 28, 1953 and this patent took 5 years to be approved in the US.

I suspect that there originally more claims and this potential interference patent could be the reason that RCA dropped their obviously superior I & Q system like a hot potato!

Jas.
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