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Chrominance

The hue and saturation of a colour. The chrominance signal is modulated onto a 4.43 MHz carrier in the PAL television system and a 3.58 MHz carrier in the NTSC television system.


The technical name for the TV signal that carries the color information (red, green, and blue) needed to produce a color picture; is often called chroma.

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