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Old 10-16-2009, 08:08 PM
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Originally Posted by amptramp View Post
I would be interested in finding an old Hoffman set.

They had a different scheme for preserving the higher bandwidth in the orange-cyan range. Rather that separate I-Q detectors followed by an amp and delay line for the I signal like the early RCA's, they used a full-bandwidth colour channel with the extended frequency portion of the subcarrier delayed so they could use R-Y, G-Y and B-Y detection.

It would be interesting to see if this actually worked.
Do you have a schematic of this arrangement? It would be interesting to figure out if it's even theoretically correct.
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