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   From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:26:39 -0600, Greg Goss   
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   rec.arts.sf.written,rec.arts.sf.movies,rec.arts.books:   
      
   > "Brian M. Scott"  wrote:   
      
   >>On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 07:50:08 -0600, Greg Goss   
      
   >>> There's also phase modulation, which carries the colour on   
   >>> non-digital TV.  I've always been amused by AM and PM as   
   >>> modulation technologies.   
      
   >>I probably read of that at some point, but it never   
   >>registered: my family didn’’t have TV until after I went off   
   >>to college, and I never acquired the habit.   
      
   > It's not really tied to watching TV.  Most people don't   
   > know (or care) how a TV decides what picture to show, any   
   > more than most drivers would have any idea how   
   > carburettion works.   
      
   But I’m not most people, and I almost certainly *would* have   
   picked up the term and abbreviation had we had color TV when   
   I was a kid.  In my case it *is* largely because I had   
   little exposure to the medium that I failed to pick up the   
   terminology.   
      
   Brian   
      
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