In article lekom.at,
"Daniel Mandic" wrote:
wrote:
I do have a question though. What is the point of SECAM? All I know
about it is that the French use it (still?), that the picture is
stored in the same format as PAL but the colour in a different format.
I had missed the OP's original question, but IIRC SECAM exists for
political reasons. A wonderful little Canadian book "Weapons of Mass
Distraction" documents the history of the various television formats.
Hi!
Hungary uses PAL Secam.
My Lessons in PAL and PAL-Secam are far away, being more than satisfied
yet, but Video Recorder do need a Secam capable Tuner, otherwise you
receipt B/W, AFAIK.
Beside that, any TV here is capable of NTSC (NTSC-Tuner maybe not, but
it can snychronise 60HZ, so long as I know TV-Sets), PAL, PAL+ (even
the B/W from the seventies can receipt PAL+ ;-), with bars, of course)
and
Secam PAL.
Best regards,
Daniel Mandic