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NTSC
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Japanese Meaning
北米で採用されるアナログテレビの標準規格を指すが、この場合は規格の欠点(色再現の不均一さなど)を皮肉るスラング的な表現として使われる。 / 同じ色が二度現れない(never twice the same color)という意味のイニシャリズムから、規格がもたらす色表現の不一致を示唆している。
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(television, slang, humorous) Initialism of never twice the same color. (Variant of North American TV standard for analog television, drawing attention to the standard’s shortcomings)
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NTSC
We used to mock the unstable colors on old sets by calling them NTSC, joking that it stood for 'never twice the same color'.
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We used to mock the unstable colors on old sets by calling them NTSC, joking that it stood for 'never twice the same color'.
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