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Originally Posted by Robert Grant
Well, there are other reasons to consider before one comes to the conclusion that a few billion Cruzanandos changed under the table.
Brazil used and still uses 60Hz utility power, so they logically used the 525-line, 60-field USA system. Like all of the Americas*, channels had/have 6MHz total bandwidth each, hence SECAM or PAL B, D, G or K were off the table. Brazil went color far later than the USA did. Whether their decision was done to reject American dominance or simply to throw away that pesky hue knob may never be known.
Argentina and Uruguay were another matter. The had/have 50
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There is probably some elderly engineer there or some obscure tech publication where that info exists.