[Scott Dorsey]

Daniel Mandic wrote:

P.S.: Was it not the German Land, who presented PAL!? Philips?

Yes. PAL is a good design that corrects most of the more serious NTSC problems
with some ingenious phase-switching. It was in great part the result of German
engineering. SECAM... SECAM exists really only because the French want to be
different, and it's next to impossible to edit SECAM videotape so almost
everything gets edited in PAL and then translated to SECAM for broadcast.

But then, France kept broadcasting in that goofy 839 line B&W format well into
the eighties... and now high def is coming back!
--scott
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