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Old 06-22-2017, 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Adlershof View Post
Indeed:

The BFBS problem was well known in Berlin back then. How did this UK-only system with sound on +5.996 MHz (that's how literature defines it) arise, this oddball in between B/G and D/K?

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Read in a TV mag that the reason Englands 625 system I chose +5.996 (originally +6 MHz) was so they could extend the video bandwidth up to 5.5 MHz as they didn't think the B/G bandwidth of 5 MHz was enough, & they didn't choose the 6 MHz video bandwidth of D/K as they wanted a vestigial sideband of -1.25 MHz for some reason. (D/K uses 0.75 MHz) Of course there could be a bit of protectionism thrown in as well so people couldn't just import European system B/G TV sets into England & they'd work OK. So they made the system just a little bit different to mess things up for Mr & Mrs Public. Just my cynical 10 cents worth..
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