How good was broadcast NTSC/PAL in practice?

[Electronic M]

Originally Posted by pgnl

I remember staying in a Motel in Nevada in 1983 and thinking how good the NTSC picture was, but it was the exception, it was quite common to see green tinted faces on US TV sets i watched.

If that was in the solid state era you either watched a lot of the Incredible Hulk or you encountered a lot of broken or badly misadjusted TVs.
It's not uncommon for sets here to look a little different from each other side by side, but most look fine on their own, unless broken or misadjusted.

[pgnl]

Originally Posted by Electronic M

If that was in the solid state era you either watched a lot of the Incredible Hulk or you encountered a lot of broken or badly misadjusted TVs.
It's not uncommon for sets here to look a little different from each other side by side, but most look fine on their own, unless broken or misadjusted.

Well I think its fair to say more care would be taken to adjust a TV at home, of course my experience was based on hotel TVs. Plus of course folk with an interest in technology will always take more care to adjust it properly. My sister can’t be bothered with HD - standard definition (via Satellite) seems fine to her.

Flesh tones looked as good on PAL as modern Mpeg encoding, so i didnt expect to see people with green tinted faces. It was just an observation..