The fully compatible NTSC system of colour television is undoubtedly one of the great achievements of telecommunication engineering. As Sir James Redmond, a former director of television, BBC, has observed, 'The end result of the NTSC's deliberations was one of the most spectacular conjuring tricks that has been performed on the telecommunication stage; one and a half quarts were successfully squeezed into a pint pot. And it seemed that little or nothing was spilt'.
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