The analog TV standard in Japan was NTSC with a different black level. This is why the Famicom and NTSC NES use the same 2C02 PPU, while PAL regions need a different 2C07 PPU.

You're referring to the 7.16 MHz pixel clock of several early game consoles and home computers (Apple II, Atari 400/800, Atari 7800, IBM CGA, etc.), which was exactly twice the NTSC color burst frequency. This let the program synthesize the exact waveform going out the wire. The Genesis's pixel clock, on the other hand, was 15/8 times color burst. At that rate, patterns of thin vertical lines resulted in semi-transparent rainbow effects, which weren't quite as predictable as the but still fooled the TV into making more colors. The NES pixel clock of 3/2 color burst was coarser but had a diagonal bias, allowing games like Blaster Master to create more apparent colors than the four per 16x16 pixel area that an NES game usually has by using small dots of different colors adjacent to each other and to black.

Proper Zapper support relies on the 15.7 kHz flicker of the horizontal retrace. To play Duck Hunt, Operation Wolf, To the Earth, or ZapPing without an emulator, you will need either a CRT or another display that can flicker individual lines at that rate.

That'd be fine if more people had a PC in the living room.

Monster cables aren't always more expensive. When I first bought my Wii console, I wanted a component cable to go with it. At Best Buy, I could get the Nintendo cable for $35 or the Monster Game cable for only $25.

For Zapper games, you may need a PowerPak or EverDrive and an IPS patch that lets you use a mouse. I've developed an NES game that uses a Super NES Mouse through an easy-to-build adapter.

NESRGB: http://etim.net.au/nesrgb/

For one thing, many of these shows have music rights issues, as the article points out. For another, is this true even in countries that don't apply the "rule of the shorter term" to U.S. works?

How is that possible? Practical TV broadcasts didn't begin until years after the January 1, 1923, cutoff for the Copyright Term Extension Act. And U.S. copyright law allows state copyright in sound recordings to continue until 2067.

Nothing plays VP8 codec in MP4 container either.

A lot of geographic areas don't have a second provider other than satellite and cellular. In most cases,* switching from a provider with a 150 GB per month cap to a provider with a 10 GB per month cap (source: exede.com) isn't a good idea. Nor is moving to a different town.

* Watch someone come up with an edge case.

Privately recorded videos fall under the conditions of the ticket granting admission to said insignificant local games. If said conditions include an assignment of copyright in any privately recorded video to the league, it could produce the situation you describe. But such conditions would not apply to, say, recording your kids playing soccer at a public park because nobody owns the exclusive rights to the sport of soccer itself. A video game publisher's copyright is different because it affects your ability to broadcast game play even if you start your own league or even if the match is not associated with a league at all.

I don't know about Canada, but here in the States they have the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine that evidence from a constitutionally impermissible chain of investigation is inadmissible in court.

You probably already saw it, but Comcast is trying to weasel around it by calling them overages instead of caps.

That would require the head to be right over both tracks at the right moment. I'm not sure the heads are physically aligned that precisely. Or are you suggesting to separate the head assemblies for the top 3 and bottom 3 platters and do RAID 0 in a box?

But how would the host detect the redundancy if the guest operating systems use full disk encryption? The cipher modes they use are specifically designed to hide whether a sector is a duplicate of another sector.