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Here's a little more info on SECAM, courtesy of that "Behind the Tube" book-. Sez SECAM was proposed by the French partly out of chauvinism-imagine that- & partly to minimise color errors produced by inferior intrcity microwave transmission & eaely VTRs. As those systems have improved, SECAM's "advantages" have become irrelevant, & it does have some disadvantages. SECAM receivers are more complex, it's not easy to convert to PAL or NTSC, doesn't lend itself to special effects such as fades or lap dissolves. Finally, in the absence of signal distortions, it doesn't have the picture quality of NTSC or PAL. Ze French strike again...-Sandy G.
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